Only 22 days to get it ready
The car and parts were relatively clean but I took it all apart and gave everything a good scrub the usable chassis had hard glue residue which needed sanding down this meant the anodizing was scrubbed of in places, inspired by past projects I have seen on this forum I had hoped to get the chassis to a mirror finish and after much sanding and cleaning and sanding and cleaning…… you get the picture, I gave up and left it with more of a brushed finish. I only have a month to get this done and I wanted to rock up to Dudley with a finished car not just a shiny chassis
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I plan on going the whole hog one day but for now I stand in awe at efforts of others.
Between the Cougar 2 works transmission and the Club 10 lot I ended up with three identical diffs, can anyone tell me which spec it is I don't think they are club 10 or works spec the diff washer carrier is plastic, I think the works ones are alloy?
The Slipper clutch needed a new race for one side of its thrust bearing, the pic shows original snapped in two
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but other than that it was just a case of cleaning and giving it fresh silicone grease and it was as good as new.
I had hoped to use the front shock tower that came with the car but when I fitted the red vari shocks found that the shocks were two short. I guess I need to keep an eye out for a set of rears to get it to work. Thankfully I have a Cougar mk1 one project which came with a home made shock tower, after much measuring I found only one set of holes to be evenly spaced so although it looks like I have lots of shock set up options any other position would leave the shocks at odd angles.
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Anyone recognise these purple alloy rear wishbones that came fitted to the car? When fitted with a single washer between chassis and pivot block it gives the wheels mad toe out, I would need to use lots of spacers to get 1 deg toe in which would probably leave the suspension with lots of unwanted flex. I guess they are for a different car, perhaps they would work better with a Cougar 2 works I figure it has a different chassis to the other early cougars, my works transmission certainly wouldn't fit on my chassis with out drilling new holes.
The shorty battery has been secured with a cut down Radshape battery holder and mission posts and strap I have added a little hole in the strap to get a balance lead and lipo low voltage sensor fitted. I will use foam to stop the battery from moving and shearing off the balance lead.
All I have left to do now is fit new tyres to the wheels, paint the body shell and learn how to use a comm lathe and prep my Schumacher motors for the big day.
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Chris
Loving all things RC