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It’s a lot different. The front bulkhead is wider on a bandit, front tower incompatible. Front caster blocks and steering is all different. The trans and arm mounts are one piece so you have no adjustability and it’s narrower. Trans internals are different as well as the ratio. The rear arms are the...

After some wet sanding and second coat of primer and more sanding...
A finish coat of 2k clear.
Looks pretty good.

Chuck

Doesn't proline or rpm have a pro-gearbox for these cars too?

'phase 4' - got the control rods done in traditional traxxas white rpm ends of course ... and got the top plate finished, drilling a perfect hole is a skill i dont possess even with a drill press .. so it was slow going, but turned out well. - made a battery hold down out of 3 pieces of 3mm cf stack...

Is that another pedestrian laying on the pavement? Damn, I keep hitting them...

Neighbor gave me some cucumbers. Reminded me of Hustler's porn movie rating system bitd...

Slow and steady wins the race - but maybe not at the pace I'm working! I've spent even more time trying to get my CF process down and I'm still struggling, though at this point I think I've exhausted all possible ways to do it wrong so hopefully my next attempt is a smashing success! I did manage to...

I'm calling this one good for now. Someday I'll pick up the correct body and decals and tidy up some odds and ends. Thanks again for all of the help!

got the body painted today and did the soldering, waiting on a longer sensor wire, went with bullets on the motor for now until i know what i want to run in it that will make things more simple at the track but adds some weight, main wiring is some old vintage 'stage III super 13' i had, me likes it...

JRX Pro

.. the truck is as done as its going to get for this thread, its been fun :) .. theres still lots of final touches and details to be addressed before putting it on a track for sure, but the basic truck is done except for a sensor wire which they screwed my order up and gave me a 90mm instead of a 20...

Big update today! As I predicted in my last post, I ran out of wrong ways to make carbon fiber! :lol: It's been a long and frustrating process, but I got it figured out now. Over the weekend I managed to make a ~3mm plate of carbon fiber with only minor cosmetic imperfections that was big enough for...

So now that I've got a handle on making carbon fiber I decided to take a quick detour and play around with suspension arms because for some reason I'm not happy unless I'm struggling to solve a problem. Anyway it's always bugged me that 1) the front arms are much shorter than the rear arms and 2) no...

That's like asking "Which of your children would you sacrifice?" The one I'd keep would be either CYANide or Barney, my first two custom-built Optimas...both took so much time to plan, re-engineer and build...probably I'd give the nod to Barney because you could drive that car anywhere. :m...

After two weeks I'm finally finished with what was originally intended to be a "short, quick project" that turned out to be anything but. Most everything else I do on my CNC is simple flat piece machining, like cutting out the shock towers from carbon fiber. Suspension arms are entirely di...