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Me again.

In regards of the dirty arm holes: I normally use "Pipe Cleaners" soaked with motor or brake cleaner to wipe out the holes but I ran out of them. Will buy a new pack before I start the rebuild of the suspension.

Minicooper 35 wrote:Me again.

In regards of the dirty arm holes: I normally use "Pipe Cleaners" soaked with motor or brake cleaner to wipe out the holes but I ran out of them. Will buy a new pack before I start the rebuild of the suspension.

Oops sorry for preaching to the choir

No worries.

Ok guys,

time for a litte update. After cleaning the parts and soaking them in chlorine I started to reasemble the chassis. The rear bulkhead is stil in horrible condition as there is some "stuff" in the batterie opening that is very hard to get rid off. It seems that the pre-owner had a batterie "blow" while it was attached in the chassis. Maybe that's where the colourings are from. Anyway. Since this one will become a runner I do not care to much about it . That's also why I opted to re-use most of the screws that came with the car.

Two changes I did so far is mounting a rear RC10T shocktower from Fibre-Lyte (thanks Siebelelch!) and changing the steering bushings for 3/8" x 1/4" flanged bearings. To eliminate the axial slop I attached two thin washers between the steering arms and the chassis plate.

Cheers

Seb

That's coming along nicely Seb!

Thx Temple.

Here's a quick update. I attached a pair of Andy's arms (only hardly used) on the rear along with RC10T rear zero degrees rear hubs and some stronger turnbuckles (Losi, to be honest ... )

I used AE ball cups but I think I will go for RPM's as the AE's are way too sloppy even when new ...

Seb

The last one for today - have to clean up the workshop and pick up my better half.

Unfortunately although I thought it was different I did not have "long" Andy's arms for the front. I only found the short ones. Because of that I mounted the used black ones that came with the Worlds Car. I will have to swap them and the arm/damperstay holder for new ones as the current ones are veeery sloppy ...

Cheers

Seb

Minicooper 35 wrote:]The rear bulkhead is stil in horrible condition as there is some "stuff" in the batterie opening that is very hard to get rid off. It seems that the pre-owner had a batterie "blow" while it was attached in the chassis.

Try acetone Oh and looking good btw

Dr R's right, a soak in the acetone will get any stubborn adhesive residue off.

Hi guys,

bit of a progress today. In order to try and get some paint into the body next week I 'siebenelch-ed' (lowered) a Protech today (thx for the bodies Jay!) on this rainy Sunday. I started with a rough cut along the original lines and then adapted to the new (RC10T) shock tower which needs some additional cutting of the rear part of the body. The front is only a rough cut too as I did not mount the tubes yet. I am not sure if I will cut the front down radicaly or leave it as stock as possilble .. I will see how it will turn out after painting. The backside of the Protech has still to be finished too but that will be done after assembling to see how much material has do be removed to make sure the upper arms move freely.

Mmh this will be a very nice siebelworldcar.

The official term should be 'siebenelched'. Damn, the slammed Protech looks is so killer. I'm on it with the technicolor vomit racer... Now where did I put that white 10T rear shock tower..?

coming along nicely. i dig the slammed look as well.

Hey Sebastian!

Good job!

Can´t wait to see our cars on the track.

I will drive my RC10 with 5 cell battery and 8-turns Ceckpoint-motor. The weight is arround 1550 gramms total.

Michael

Hi guys,

I needed a break from planning the next issue of Racer so I roughly mounted some old gold shocks and a random tyre/wheel combo beside setting up the studio properly. I am not 100% happy with the result but is still in progress (the photo studio).

Cheers

Seb