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gomachv wrote:You don't have 6 legged tigers in Belgium?!

Lol

We do: at the zoo near the atomic center. They're not blue though.

Mr. ED wrote:

gomachv wrote:You don't have 6 legged tigers in Belgium?!

Lol

We do: at the zoo near the atomic center. They're not blue though.

Not during the day, anyway..... at night they glow blue......

scr8p wrote:jg

Ok, I'm still believing the JG part, but this thing sits funny! I don't know that a .71 would reach the top but a .56 is way too long for the bottom kickouts.

Any other thoughts?

i don't remember it's exact application, just that it was made by jg. it might have been designed for use with a certain arm or something, like those white delrin M.T. conversion arms they made. i don't know.

.71's should reach the top ok though.

Were those holes for the front body mount used in the truck conversion?

I guess it is possible, the JG truck mount was just a bent piece of Kydex, maybe they wanted it to sit lower?

I do believe the lower holes are for the JG mount, and you used long shocks up front. Not sure if it was rears or truck fronts.

Here is the front tower in use:

http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3448

wild shot: could it be for oval racing: laid down shocks?

JG did have an oval truck chassis, and their wide truck arms did have holes further out than AE wide arms so I think it's a combo of scr8p's and Mr. Ed's ideas and that it's meant to lay down the shocks (both .56" or 1.02") for JG's oval truck using their wide truck arms.

JG's monster truck tower was this one so I don't believe those bottom holes are for the body mounts.

have to wait for a nip one to pop up on ebay and see what it says on the header card.

those lower holes could be used for those small delta shocks.......... who knows.

Trying to identify this brake unit. It was mounted to a late 70's 1/8 Serpent Super Pro powerpod, but I know for a fact it was not OEM. The original Serpent unit was either a blue or a black anodized aluminum unit, with a similar style cam as on the rc500 and Delta Eagle/P4 etc. The unit I have here has a plastic body.

Never have seen such brake unit before, my Super Pro also had the blue aluminium unit. I could ask someone here who was running Serpent for a longer time than me, otherwise you could ask Michael Salven of Serpent Factory office. Should have known before, just saw him on saturday at the International Toy Fair at Nuremberg.

V12 wrote:Never have seen such brake unit before, my Super Pro also had the blue aluminium unit. I could ask someone here who was running Serpent for a longer time than me, otherwise you could ask Michael Salven of Serpent Factory office. Should have known before, just saw him on saturday at the International Toy Fair at Nuremberg.

OK, thanks. But I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with Serpent. And Salven did not join Serpent until way after these 'pancars'.... So unless he's also into the vintage stuff I'm sure he would'nt know.
Thanks for your reply!

8valve wrote:Trying to identify this brake unit. It was mounted to a late 70's 1/8 Serpent Super Pro powerpod, but I know for a fact it was not OEM. The original Serpent unit was either a blue or a black anodized aluminum unit, with a similar style cam as on the rc500 and Delta Eagle/P4 etc. The unit I have here has a plastic body.

I have discovered what it is..it's a brake unit from the Graupner RC Car. That was actually the name of that car.

These are pics I found after a quick google search:

So who can tell me what aluminum chassis this is