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Got the car almost tore down to parts today... Some bad surprises, it seems that the car was not stored properly and rust made some bad things... It started yesterday with the right front wheel. Today, I decided to retry differently, and it did not happen well. https://i.imgur.com/zELvGsh.jpg I gues...

So, I've always had this youtube idea to give a pro driver an outdated or "crappy" engineered car and see just how they would fare around a race track. Part of the test is to see their driving skills and their mechanical ability to improve an outdated design on a race track. Kind of like I...

Love the build and amazing what is lying around in your ‘parts bin’ :lol: like how big is that bin? Obviously, the last few items were bought new. And it's more like a bin and several boxes. Is it me or is this one starting to look almost too good to drive? It'll just be some decent paint (I hope) ...

Toaster wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 8:29 pm Have you ever receive a purchase and wondered what the heck some of the parts were, removed and sold them and then figured it out a while later? Lol

Nope. I just waste money buying stuff. I never try to recover any of it.

Yesterday morning, a friend told me he was said some people would love to see Big Bear tires on Thingiverse... Among my contacts, I have 2 friends wih Big Bear I can chat with when this was landing in my chat, and I contacted them... First one was not having the tires, as his Big Bear runs on Lunchb...

After some feedbacks and further checks on the pictures, I decided to review the model slightly to make the chevron profiles different... I also included some lettering (a plan under the surface, a text, an extrusion, shaved with a revolve at an offset of .5mm of the surface of the tire). https://i....

I think the point made about "how uncompetitive" results from this experiment is most interesting to me as well. Give Ryan Maifield, Masami Hirosaka, a top local racer, and myself a bone stock Tamiya Grasshopper with a transponder. How different will our times be? Five seconds, three or le...

What an awesome looking build, looks fantastic, Stephen from fibrelyte is seriously helpful, Deal with him occasionally.
Will keep watching with interest.

And it’s done.. The JRXTrugly! The ride height is set a little high for more ground clearance and the body set low…looks better than I thought it would. https://i.postimg.cc/QtNhxnDk/2-FF8-F4-A5-4-B75-42-DC-8-C95-B05207-D60-C1-E.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/s243zCkg/4-BDDF528-B633-4-B09-A336-0-E0-E76939...

Got my body back from the painter, so all I need now are for my tires to arrive and to find a clean sanyo 1700 SCE saddle pack so I can stick some electronics in it.

So far it is looking awesome. It is very similar to what I did with my yz10.

I had hope to find some MF106K bearings today thanks to a friend at the club, but it did not work... I've ordered some. In the meantime, i've taken bearings 6x15x5 for the rear axle carrier to continue this build... https://i.imgur.com/A3gsUGW.jpg The wobble is definitely present, and the MF106K bea...

All done.

A little more progress. I still need to decide on which rear axles to use. I see CVDs available for The Frog but I'm not sure how well they will work with the Associated gearbox outdrives. I really want to be able to use the Hornet rear wheels. I also need to determine if I want to stay with Hornet ...

You could give a pro driver a crappy car and me a B7, it still wouldn't matter.

The only chance I'd have is by wrecking him as he lapped me. It might happen without me even trying.