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naushad wrote:On the issue of fitting lipos (saddle or stick)

Good ole Demon Power Products do carbon fibre bars which you can
stick under your lipo to fit in the slots. They are cheap and a good solution.

Thank you that's exactly the sort of thing I was thinking about.

RedScampi wrote:I like it Mark! Beautiful craftsmanship. I have a couple of those Fastrax bodies too. Love the look.
I believe the company name is simply Strate Racing. I have some parts from them for an Optima Mid.

Thanks Gary and yes Jake does top class work.

stickboy007 wrote:A 7.5 with no slipper? Good luck

I'm thinking it should be interesting, it's a slippy sports hall, we run the modern 4WDs on 5.5s with the slippers fully locked up.

I've got the week off work so I thought I'd take the opportunity to pop down to see Stephen at Fibre-Lyte and have a set of shock towers cut. Stephen's a whizz on the old CAD and had these designed and cut in the blink of an eye.







They're based pretty closely on the Works 93 versions with just a couple of subtly changes, they bring the ride height down perfectly.

Picked a one way spur up, just waiting for some bearings to make it fit and then I think it's pretty much done all but the electrics, wing wire and painting.

I also cleared them out of these while I was there

Took the plunge today and ordered a couple of sets of Voltz 4500 Saddles to run in this.

http://www.jemodels.com/electric-models?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=14036&category_id=1168

A number of the local guys are running these with good results, I like the double side connector thing that's going on and the price seems good.

I also ordered a Savox 1251 low profile servo, after talking to Daryl he mentioned that they ran low profile servos with the A&L steering set up as the orientation changes and the short bodied servos gave a little more room.

http://www.jemodels.com/electric-models?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=14230&category_id=503

I sensed interest was waning in this project so I thought I would just bash on and get it done.

All electrics in including 2.4 gear, LRP Sphere 7.5 brushless set up, personal transponder, Savox 1251 short servo and Voltz 4500 lipos fitted. Schumacher yellow mini spikes on with tubby medium inserts, the shell will be off this weekend to Jon Miller for paint so hopefully I should be racing in only a few weeks.

All finished and ready to race, the paint was completed by Jon Miller and I found an old Yokomo wing laid in the garage that cleaned up nicely.

I hope you all like it.

looks good, mark!

Thanks Jason, I'm pretty happy with it, looking forward to seeing how it goes.

Very nice build Mark, who made the upper deck? Probably said it somewhere in the posts but didn't see it. Altogether a really great build.

I think that's one of those strate, strade pieces the dw911 used to sell.

That's right Jason, Strate from DW911.

Ok, I remember now. Sometimes it takes a while to jog the memory.

The car turned out great and I love the paint.

A great job you've done on this and the paint looks awesome

Beautiful! Quick Q, can the 870c arms be used on the 91 model? i can get those, getting 91 arms is proving tricky!

lee

Thank you for the nice comments.

ralphee wrote:Beautiful! Quick Q, can the 870c arms be used on the 91 model? i can get those, getting 91 arms is proving tricky!

lee

The 870C arms are much shorter than the 91s they wont work. If you have access to 870C arms I could really make use of them if you feel like helping me out, pm on it's way.