scr8p wrote: ↑Mon Sep 18, 2017 9:22 pm
I was texting back and forth with Brad this past Thursday morning. I mentioned that I was planning on taking the replica along for the concourse at the Vonats but that I wish I had the missing stickers to complete it. So he dug deep through his stash and managed to come up with what I was missing and overnighted them to the racetrack so they would be there the following afternoon.
So Friday night at the hotel I put the stickers on. I still have to cut the scoop open, but didn't want to get into that during the race weekend.
Brad's original
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And my replica
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The car also won "Most Authentic" at the concourse event at the Vonats which was pretty cool.
Very nice as usual. Your standards are only the best! So if you won concourse, I take it you had to race it?
Yeah, I put just as much time and energy into my 2wd entry (maybe even more since I had planned to actually race it). And I'm glad I ran an under tray on it. The suspension parts and body still look good, as does the chassis and ano.
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BradR wrote: ↑Thu Jul 24, 2014 8:07 pm
You pretty much nailed it. The servo was a Futaba 131SH. The only "special" parts were white Composite Craft bellcranks (I got those from Ruffy) and machined shock pistons.
went back a few pages...
folks were using machined shock pistons already back then?!?
when you know how much performance difference a properly dimensioned piston drives, why am I even surprised they were doing this almost 25 y.a. already...I should have known it!!!
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Lonestar wrote: ↑Wed Sep 20, 2017 10:20 am
folks were using machined shock pistons already back then?!?
Actually, machined pistons weren't a common thing back then. This just happened to be around the time Associated released the 1-2-3 piston trees, and these were prototype #1 pistons.
Lonestar wrote: ↑Wed Sep 20, 2017 10:20 am
folks were using machined shock pistons already back then?!?
Actually, machined pistons weren't a common thing back then. This just happened to be around the time Associated released the 1-2-3 piston trees, and these were prototype #1 pistons.
Cheers Brad - interesting... Once the design was finalized, were the top official pilots running pistons from the piston tree, or machined ones? Because (properly) machined ones would work have likely worked better anyway
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Lonestar wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2017 3:45 am
Cheers Brad - interesting... Once the design was finalized, were the top official pilots running pistons from the piston tree, or machined ones? Because (properly) machined ones would work have likely worked better anyway
As far as I know, everyone used the production pistons after they became available. In hindsight, maybe we should have kept using the machined versions.
Lonestar wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2017 3:45 am
Cheers Brad - interesting... Once the design was finalized, were the top official pilots running pistons from the piston tree, or machined ones? Because (properly) machined ones would work have likely worked better anyway
As far as I know, everyone used the production pistons after they became available. In hindsight, maybe we should have kept using the machined versions.
Appreciate the info...
indeed, machined would have been better looks like this didn't prevent the A team from winning anyway!
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I picked up an almost RTR Worlds car a few weeks before Christmas. This one is going to become a modernized replica of Masami's rc10 he used to win the '94 Florida Winterchamps.
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So this is what I started with....
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Just saw your YouTube video of this car and it was awesome! We’ll done, love to see the details up close. Thank you!
Thanks. The video I put up yesterday was actually of this car:
i've wanted one of these freakin' things since they came out. when i started racing in '91, i had to get a junior-t since that was what i could afford at that time. it worked out for the best though, since i mopped the floor with every 5 link jrxt i...
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Very cool to end up with that sticker, amazing how things do end up. Looks great on there.
This car came about as when i bought the Futaba sticker sheet for the 'power under pressure ' sticker (see roof) for my Yokomo project i received two so needed another project :wink: Anyways here it is never...
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Love it! When I built my replica, I came to appreciate all the details it takes to get it right.
Did you have the shock caps hard anodized? That was one part that I had to approximate, olive drab tamiya paint was the closest I could get.
Huge shoutout to Larry Doe for all of this help in making this replica as accurate as possible. Still need to add the IFMAR tech decals, number plate and chassis protector but she's 99% of the way there.