The Official "What is it?" Thread

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Does this thread work in reverse...

Was reading the Sept. '88 & '89 issues of RCCA looking for info on Eddie Knoles's Turbo Scorpion dirt oval car and came across this blurb about the custom transmission he ran in it:

Eddie Knoles, of Del Mar, CA, is
a dirt-oval specialist. He chose a Cox
Turbo Scorpion, which is often called
the "Dinosaur Car." His own Fast
Eddie Transmission is used by some
other A-Main drivers and is expected
to be available soon from JG Manufacturing.

Looking at the race results it was run in a couple of RC10s (a LM & a sprint car) as well as the Scorpion.

Was a "Fast Eddie" transmission ever released by JG and if so does anyone have one they can post a pic of? If it wasn't released does anyone have any more info on it from other magazines that covered the 88 & 89 JG Dirt Oval Championship?

I remember that article, and I know somewhere like Competition plus or something had a bad b/w photo of the car itself. I saw the picture in a magazine collection a track owner had. As far as i know, it never came out. I would imagine with the Stealth trans coming out it would have been a bad business decision to go into production. Didn't Cliff Lett debut the Stealth at the '89 dirt oval nats in his 2wd Mod car?

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I remember that article, and I know somewhere like Competition plus or something had a bad b/w photo of the car itself. I saw the picture in a magazine collection a track owner had. As far as i know, it never came out. I would imagine with the Stealth trans coming out it would have been a bad business decision to go into production. Didn't Cliff Lett debut the Stealth at the '89 dirt oval nats in his 2wd Mod car?

Sept '88 RCCA has a pic of Knoles's Turbo Scorp and some details of the motor, electronics, tires, and body he ran on it. There's also a couple of other mentions of really cool prototype stuff in those two issues....like a MIP chain drive that's not the one ya'd obviously think of since it's running a 2wd sprint car. .....and in the Sept '89 issue an RC10 Houge car is listed in the sprint car rankings chart .

I'd love to find out more info on Knoles's Scorpion and the Fast Eddie transmission. It make a great build if it's something that can be replicated.



On another note I just now won this "RC10" chassis shaped like a Christmas Tree and could use an ID on it:

Rear end reminded me a little bit of the TPS Nova conversion but the rest of it is very different from the pics of the TPS chassis I've seen here on RC10Talk.

[Charlie don't surf]

Can't tell you what it is exactly, however I can tell you that the rear drillings look like a multiple setup for arm spacing and mid and rear motor configs for the 6 gear, it looks like an obscure sprint chassis to me-

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i have a chassis almost exactly like that that i got from nick deangelis years back. same basic shape, but it was custom made.

[GoMachV]

With the kickouts in the rear it looks sprint, but that shape is kinda funky for a sprint as well. Can't say I recall ever seeing one like it

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Here's the TPS Nova chassis posted earlier in this thread: http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=14461&start=1245#p277617


Rear holes aren't exactly the same but it looks like the same idea. What's got me stymied though is some of the holes look like they're out of place. i.e.: the inner most a-arm mounts holes, and the trailing arm holes seem like they're way too far inboard on the chassis. The middle hole, that might be for an RC10 kick-up also looks too far back....while the 3 holes at the very front might be for a Traxxas SRT front bulkhead?

i have a chassis almost exactly like that that i got from nick deangelis years back. same basic shape, but it was custom made.

This Nick DeAngelis?

http://www.ndrb.freeservers.com/pages/about.html

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yup

[Charlie don't surf]

yup

Nick D, Christ that's an old pic of Nick-

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ya, that one is atleast 10-12 years old.

[Charlie don't surf]

ya, that one is atleast 10-12 years old.

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I remember that article, and I know somewhere like Competition plus or something had a bad b/w photo of the car itself. I saw the picture in a magazine collection a track owner had. As far as i know, it never came out. I would imagine with the Stealth trans coming out it would have been a bad business decision to go into production. Didn't Cliff Lett debut the Stealth at the '89 dirt oval nats in his 2wd Mod car?

Sept '88 RCCA has a pic of Knoles's Turbo Scorp and some details of the motor, electronics, tires, and body he ran on it. There's also a couple of other mentions of really cool prototype stuff in those two issues....like a MIP chain drive that's not the one ya'd obviously think of since it's running a 2wd sprint car. .....and in the Sept '89 issue an RC10 Houge car is listed in the sprint car rankings chart .

I'd love to find out more info on Knoles's Scorpion and the Fast Eddie transmission. It make a great build if it's something that can be replicated.

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I know the issue you are talking about (I read the original till the cover was coming off, lol), and that is also a bad b/w photo but I'm pretty sure the other picture I saw was in Competition Plus. It was a little larger than what they showed in RCCA, and was more of an overhead shot. Maybe somebody out there has those mags from that time period....

BTW that was to me the "classic" period of dirt oval racing. Before all of the purpose built cars, people just trying out ideas based off of production stuff. Plus, crazy tires! A guy i know TQ'd sprint car in 89 with Tamiya Sand Blaster fronts...awesome...still races dirt oval today and is pretty good.

I like the beginnings of a class when everything is junk and people are trying all their ideas to improve things - like pre -RC10 offroad.

[Chris K]

For your daily challenge.....





Any ideas???

[GoMachV]

I had a 1/10 Delta on road car once and I'd swear that was the front end. Your missing shocks and the shock tower/bulkhead

[Phin]

Yup Delta Villan independent front suspension.

[Phin]

I know the issue you are talking about (I read the original till the cover was coming off, lol), and that is also a bad b/w photo but I'm pretty sure the other picture I saw was in Competition Plus. It was a little larger than what they showed in RCCA, and was more of an overhead shot. Maybe somebody out there has those mags from that time period....

BTW that was to me the "classic" period of dirt oval racing. Before all of the purpose built cars, people just trying out ideas based off of production stuff. Plus, crazy tires! A guy i know TQ'd sprint car in 89 with Tamiya Sand Blaster fronts...awesome...still races dirt oval today and is pretty good.

I like the beginnings of a class when everything is junk and people are trying all their ideas to improve things - like pre -RC10 offroad.

That would be awesome if someone had the article to scan.

And I agree things were more interesting back then. Hop-ups are just bland now a days as most aftermarket parts are about racing and manufacturers are reluctant to produce parts that can't be used at the club/stock level.