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SFC K wrote:These are really cool looking! I was wondering about the rear body posts. Do they actually move up and down with the suspension in the rear? It sure looks as though it is set-up that way...

Yup, the body mounts connect to the top of the rear hub carriers with bolts that ride in slots, and there's a little "panhard rod" between the body mount and one of the rear bulkheads that keeps it all centered. You can see it in one of the pics Jeff posted of the Pro.

markbt73 wrote:

SFC K wrote:These are really cool looking! I was wondering about the rear body posts. Do they actually move up and down with the suspension in the rear? It sure looks as though it is set-up that way...

Yup, the body mounts connect to the top of the rear hub carriers with bolts that ride in slots, and there's a little "panhard rod" between the body mount and one of the rear bulkheads that keeps it all centered. You can see it in one of the pics Jeff posted of the Pro.

Oh yeah, I saw it that is why I asked about it moving at all. I don't think I ever seen that before in the world of RC. It must not travel much or their would be some serious body rub...

1/8 and 1/10 nitro like the bmt, serpent etc all use it. The body pushes on the rear suspension directly which is great for traction, and you can run your body super close to the tires as the body floats with them. The body never gets closer to the ground or tire.

Ah, that makes it much clearer now.

Ok my good friend got the nitro version built up, awaiting an engine

Sneak peek

Hello Guys sorry for the delay. Here are pictures of the FSR's that I used to race. as you will see that there was a significant amount of modification that was required to make this thing work. The empty one is the team drivers version with all of the prototype parts. The second one with the electronics in it still was mine with the parts that the mortals would have been able to get.

As a side note you will notice that the rear suspension does not have the stock set up. Well there is a very good reason for that. The stock set up simply does not work at all. That was one of the major problems with this car. Put the Protoform Stratus body on and try to drive the rear suspension would bind even at slow speed and make it impossible to drive.

I also have a nitro bullet and a engine that was modified by James himself. I will put up photos of that if you would like.

Here is my car that I used to race. It has a super el cheapo FMA servo for steering. A great deal of people used to tease me about this car and the cheap out dated equipment that I had. Much to my good fortune I ended up getting on the podium most of the time and they did not despite my "garbage" that I was running.


If anyone wants to see an individual part from a FSR. For example the rear shock tower. Just let me know.

Hello.

I just bought one of these FSR bullet cars.
It has some cool design features.
Now i just need to find the missing front driveshaft and maybe batterymounts.
This will be added to my collection of 1/10 scale touringcars.

Nice thread resurrection

This car still gives me chills in the spine, even 20 years or so after... I just love it. Despite all the badmouthing in the above posts

Nice find!

Somehow I got a hold of one of these cars when they were actually in production. I raced it for a while, and I didn't have the durability issues that were mentioned previously. I think the only big problem I had as far as breakage was a shock tower. On the other hand, getting everything setup without a setup station was pretty hard. The 3 belt setup probably was better for mod than stock.

I do remember talking to a friend of mine who knew Andrew Gray (Grey??...pretty successful driver in the early 2000s) who did say similar things about needing to modify the car to make it work. What I remember was about getting the drive train more efficient, and getting the suspension to work right. Overall, a lot of interesting ideas, but execution could have been better.