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Charlie don't surf
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by Charlie don't surf » Sat May 04, 2013 8:26 pm
soniccj5 wrote: JK Racing wrote: great looking build Sean, let us know how it performs on the track.
if you get a chance too, can you post a pic of how you cut the body for the wing mounts to pass through? i hacked a square hole in mine, but sure it could have been done cleaner.
I cut an uneven square on mine. Easier to remove the body.
Mine too, and dremel rounded the edges to reduce cracking.
Didn't work
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by Orange » Sat May 04, 2013 9:44 pm
Hmmm... I did my other car this way too. Was pretty easy. Body drops right on.
You can only stop the cracking around the top of shock tower by not crashing.
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by Orange » Sun May 05, 2013 1:10 am
I thought the big, not so square, dremel rounded edged hole was easy? It shouldn't create cracks,
Its from donkey flips... and that happens cus you use spark throwers!
I'll take 2 thin slits over a big odd shaped hole anyday!
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by slotcarrod » Mon May 06, 2013 11:25 am
Orange wrote: So I dug through some stuff and found a B3 tower... Still hoping for another, but I'm going to also make one.
I think it looks better,
Very neat and excellent painting skills!
Did you notice a performance gain with the reversed tower?
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by Orange » Mon May 06, 2013 10:04 pm
I don't know... The maiden voyage will be this week. Going to try it both ways and with the longer shocks. But I already know that the angle of the big bores is better in relation to the a-arm angle with the shock tower reversed.
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by Scott S. » Tue May 07, 2013 9:51 am
You have far too much time on your hands!! Hermit. It does look pretty bad ass though.
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by Orange » Tue May 07, 2013 10:40 am
Scott, didn't you run an RC10 with the front tower reversed at one time or another?
Ya, some serious hermitting going on with this car.
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by Scott S. » Tue May 07, 2013 3:31 pm
Yes I did....Won a big race in Amarillo TX with it in the stock class.
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by Y'ernat Al » Tue May 07, 2013 5:34 pm
This is a very cool car!
But I'm itching for a pic of the inner front camber link mounting setup with the flipped tower. Or is that top secret?
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by Orange » Tue May 07, 2013 10:41 pm
Its not top secret, I just need to take it off and do a little dremeling to it to make it better looking. Its still a little rough... Hoping to have that done tomorrow or the next and will get pics posted up here. It was really simple though,
I thought that question would have come up much sooner, you would think I would have had a faster response for it, LOL.
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by Orange » Tue May 07, 2013 10:49 pm
Scott S. wrote: Yes I did....Won a big race in Amarillo TX with it in the stock class.
I wasn't sure if that was you or Baldy. or did he have the same setup?
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by Orange » Thu May 09, 2013 9:39 am
So, I forgot about a planned trip to DC. Race report delayed, sorry.
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by Scott S. » Thu May 09, 2013 9:57 am
^^^^^^FAIL^^^^^^
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by Orange » Thu May 09, 2013 10:01 am
Scott S. wrote: ^^^^^^FAIL^^^^^^
Yep, huge fail!
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