Rats to Ritches (ebay GT rescues)

[romulus22]

Even though I prefer the look of nitro cars, I would have liked to have bought one of those kits as well. They had a better overall look than the Dynotech plate.


Progress for the day. Mostly all aluminum hardware where the parts bolt to the chassis to clean up the bottom. I never was a fan of the blue chassis with black parts. I don’t mid the blue and white. Starting to look like a truck again.

[RC10th]

That looks much better than I thought. I was a little bit sceptical at first but looks good.

Is that a 3d printed throttle servo horn?

What are you going to do for a body as the blue pans are slightly longer?

[romulus22]

Standard servo horn, just aged.

Had this body laying around with no real plan in sight for it. This truck will get it out of the way. I have about 6 bodies I’ve been procrastinating to send out for paint, this one can go with them.

[juicedcoupe]

Even though I prefer the look of nitro cars, I would have liked to have bought one of those kits as well. They had a better overall look than the Dynotech plate.

With the milling and anodizing, the JConcepts plate is definitely nicer looking. The Dynotech V2 plate (for brushed motors) is a little better looking than the V1.

Other than the motor plate, I prefer the look of the flat chassis and transverse mounted battery (nickel batteries fit). The tub chassis and off-center shorty pack looks a little odd to me.

[romulus22]

Besides paint my I can consider this one wrapped up. Turned out one of my clunkers had a pretty decent set of tires on it so I stole them.

[mikea96]

That looks really cool with all the white parts and blue chassis!

[limestang]

Pretty fresh

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Sure someone could’ve ran it with some straightening. But it was pretty haggard and I’d never put it back on a rebuild.

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Clearly a manufacturing defect - Contact AE customer service for warranty support

[LoboNYC]

I really like the white parts on blue chassis and even more that the shock towers are light fiberglass.

[romulus22]

So I’ve had these wheels for a while, NIP. I finally decided they would go perfect with this blue splash body. All is going well until I go to put the bearings in the last wheel I try to mount. Somehow it appears RPM mismatched the wheels during packaging. I’m guessing maybe Losi? I don’t have any extra bearings on hand to try. Figures though that’s my typical luck. Pretty annoying, as ugly as they are the fit the look of this truck perfect.

[RogueIV]

Great looking GT!

Not sure what bearings that wheel uses. Losi uses the same bearings as AE as far as I know.

[klavy69]

So I’ve had these wheels for a while, NIP. Somehow it appears RPM mismatched the wheels during packaging. I’m guessing maybe Losi?

my guess as big as that hole is that its a traxxas rustler. Can't really tell but are the offsets the same?

Todd

[Faux4x4]

Even though I prefer the look of nitro cars, I would have liked to have bought one of those kits as well. They had a better overall look than the Dynotech plate.


Progress for the day. Mostly all aluminum hardware where the parts bolt to the chassis to clean up the bottom. I never was a fan of the blue chassis with black parts. I don’t mid the blue and white. Starting to look like a truck again.

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It would be great to know who is hoarding all those Jconcepts kits because I still have not seen one in the wild.

[scr8p]

It would be great to know who is hoarding all those Jconcepts kits because I still have not seen one in the wild.

[mikea96]

I would love it if they did another run of those!