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Chrominator wrote: If someone were to find a NIP original 4 hole shock tower , how much do you think it would be worth ?.

About one million dollars for a nib one... I have yet to see one in the bag. As the Brits would say, "rare as rocking horse poo".

Since it just going to be a shelf queen , I think I'm just going to use some thin clear servo tape to hold down the battery cups

Why not use the screws? I see the ends were hacked out, but that's pretty normal to actually be able to use a fully shrinked battery pack with end caps. Assuming you're going back to a transverse battery placement... As you said, it's a shelfer. Why not do it up with the msc? It's a CE, not a Team Car...

Just my two cents.

templeofspeed wrote:
About one million dollars for a nib one... I have yet to see one in the bag. As the Brits would say, "rare as rocking horse poo".

No serieosly how much would it be worth ?

templeofspeed wrote:
Assuming you're going back to a transverse battery placement... As you said, it's a shelfer. Why not do it up with the msc? It's a CE, not a Team Car...

Just my two cents.

I thought about doing that when I first got the car , Since I was not into RC cars back then, I'm going by what some of the old time racers that I talk to about this CE , and it seems that most say that they were using ESC by the time this car came out.

It came with A Novak T4 ESC, which came out in 1988, which is just a little befor the CE , I believe.

Chrominator wrote: About one million dollars for a nib one... I have yet to see one in the bag. As the Brits would say, "rare as rocking horse poo".
No serieosly how much would it be worth ?

I have no idea, never seen one nib... could be $50-60 or $1.00...

Chrominator wrote: It came with A Novak T4 ESC, which came out in 1998, which is just a little befor the CE , I believe.

1988... certainly a period hopup, as it was available until 1994, but also can be used without putting the battery north/south.

I guess I'm saying don't drill any holes...

Chrominator wrote: If someone were to find a NIP original 4 hole shock tower , how much do you think it would be worth ?.

templeofspeed wrote: About one million dollars for a nib one... I have yet to see one in the bag. As the Brits would say, "rare as rocking horse poo".

Is this what it looks like ?

Looks like I hit the Lottery.

I got the rest of the chassis and electronics done, check it out.

One more

Nice job! That thing is spotless

Chrominator wrote:
Is this what it looks like ?

Looks like I hit the Lottery.

You are truly gifted in the luck department if, in fact, you scored that! If I may ask, Ebay or LHS find?

Chrominator wrote:I got the rest of the chassis and electronics done, check it out.

Hmmm, had to rewire the esc huh?

Looks fantastic, but I'd ditch the red rear springs for silver or gold and personally go back to a crossways battery setup. Nice period Airtronics gear, got the XL2P Tx to match? Also a blue labeled 2nd generation Yokomo/AE stock motor would top it right off... Hint: the 2nd gen motors have the brush heatsinks and do not say "off-road stock" on the label (plus have the Cadillac address).

Maybe keep an eye out for the correct tires, PM me if you want 3-rib TQ71 fronts, I don't have the TQ21 rears though... and could use a set or two myself.

Very nice resto overall.

templeofspeed wrote:

Chrominator wrote:
Is this what it looks like ?

Looks like I hit the Lottery.

You are truly gifted in the luck department if, in fact, you scored that! If I may ask, Ebay or LHS find?

It was in the bottom of the box , that had all the spare parts and tires.

great job on the clean up. but, you gotta change those red springs and that motor.

Chrominator wrote:

templeofspeed wrote:

Chrominator wrote:
Is this what it looks like ?

Looks like I hit the Lottery.

You are truly gifted in the luck department if, in fact, you scored that! If I may ask, Ebay or LHS find?

It was in the bottom of the box , that had all the spare parts and tires.

If you need to find a home for the old one... maybe a trade for front tires is possible.

templeofspeed wrote: Hmmm, had to rewire the esc huh?

Yea I rerouted the Tx. wire out the back , I though it would look a little cleaner.

templeofspeed wrote:
Looks fantastic, but I'd ditch the red rear springs for silver or gold

Yea, I found some Sil/Gld ? fronts at my friends house, along with some other really nice misc white parts he had laying around . What color are the rears supposed to be ?
LHS did not have Silv. or Gold.

templeofspeed wrote:
and personally go back to a crossways battery setup.

Yea, I don't know if I want to go that way, I know that's how it was designed, maybe if I can get some nice new/used original uncut battery cups , I may set it back up that way.
I kind of like it with Electronics this way , like I said I wasn't into it back then, I guess I kinda want it to be old school with some new school flavor, to bridge the gap for me.

templeofspeed wrote:
Also a blue labeled 2nd generation Yokomo/AE stock motor would top it right off... Hint: the 2nd gen motors have the brush heatsinks and do not say "off-road stock" on the label (plus have the Cadillac address).

I don't know if I really want to make it perfectly period correct, right now.
It came with what looked like a pretty old LRP mod motor, and I decided to install an old Gold P2K, just cause it almost matches the chassis and it's the motor that I started racing with.

templeofspeed wrote:

Chrominator wrote:

templeofspeed wrote: You are truly gifted in the luck department if, in fact, you scored that! If I may ask, Ebay or LHS find?

It was in the bottom of the box , that had all the spare parts and tires.

If you need to find a home for the old one... maybe a trade for front tires is possible.

Actually the one that's on it right now is all most perfect, I really don't feel the need to replace it .

So the million dollar one is up for grabs.

Like I said earlier the three items I would like to replace are.
1 original turnbuckles & ball cups.
2 original white steering rack.
3 (2) original white battery cups.

So maybe If one of you guys has what I need maybe we can do some trading .

I also have quite a few extra used parts and tires and wheels .

I will take some pictures of every thing that I have, and post them if that's alright to do in this thread .

Or do I need to go the trading forum ? I don't have a Ebay account yet, I think I read some where that you need that to get into the buy/sale forum.

Chrominator wrote:

templeofspeed wrote: Hmmm, had to rewire the esc huh?

Yea I rerouted the Tx. wire out the back , I though it would look a little cleaner.

I meant the lack of a blue motor (-) wire... The T-4 had four wires out. Red and black to the battery, blue and black to the motor. All 16 gauge.

Silver rear springs are appropriate, gold were also included in the kit on a CE of that age.

It's yours, do what you want. We're just telling you what is correct for the era.