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Re: So, what did you do RC today?
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2025 6:43 pm
by Incredible_Serious
Charlie don't surf wrote: ↑Fri Jun 27, 2025 6:24 pm
R6cowboy wrote: ↑Fri Jun 27, 2025 4:15 pm
Charlie don't surf wrote: ↑Fri Jun 27, 2025 11:25 am
Tire surgery...still prepping for the VONATS. Good news is I only have 8 more sets to do
What's happening here? Non-racer, as obvious as that is.
Making a lower profile 2.2 Stadium Truck tire by removing 30mm of tire, then gluing back together to lower the tire profile and decreasing ride height by 2mm
See, I wouldn't have picked that... as I would have thought, for the same size rim, the tyre would no longer fit all the way around the rim bead.
Learn something new every day.... witchcraft!
Re: So, what did you do RC today?
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2025 7:35 pm
by Charlie don't surf
Off the rim, then mounted on the rim. Pretty crazy how much the tire and the closed cell foam conform
Re: So, what did you do RC today?
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2025 7:39 pm
by RC10th
Time to get out the paint pen and mark the tire with the "wrong" compound dot.
Re: So, what did you do RC today?
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2025 8:00 pm
by morrisey0
I have 4-5 open builds that I should be working on, but for some reason, this stupid B1 dragster is using up most of the partition space I have set aside for RC in my head. I think I have the front mocked up, but the rear is going to be a whole new ballgame. The front is kinda a printed Mcallister kit, but the outer arm/shock mounts are at a completely different angle due to running the arms at a completely different angle. I still need to work out trying to get a sway bar kit in there.
Re: So, what did you do RC today?
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2025 8:09 pm
by Dangeruss
Re: So, what did you do RC today?
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2025 8:22 pm
by Charlie don't surf
RC10th wrote: ↑Fri Jun 27, 2025 7:39 pm
Time to get out the paint pen and mark the tire with the "wrong" compound dot.
I've done that for years.
But I've always told someone what compound if they ask
Re: So, what did you do RC today?
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2025 8:24 pm
by morrisey0
Dangeruss wrote: ↑Fri Jun 27, 2025 8:09 pm
I think you secretly long for a Traxxas... Drag Bandit...
Not a secret at all! I 100% want an AE RC10 B1 version of a Drag Bandit!
This pic popped up on my FB a few weeks ago, and yep, in my head since!
For now, I don't want to swap to a pan car front, with "appropriate" tires. I want this to be more a buggy conversion. More along the lines of the Drag Slash movement, that lead us to the popularity of drag racing today.
Re: So, what did you do RC today?
Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2025 4:58 am
by YakkityYak
Won my first race today!
Wasn't even planning on running my own buggy. Went with a friend to borrow theirs, but ended up getting a deal on a DX5C ($25!!) and figured screw it, I'll throw mine together.
Got 2nd in qualifying in first heat, and then proceeded to win the main!
Pretty happy with a car that was built in the pits 30 minutes before the race began.
