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Made it to the race today 101* out there and let me tell you what a blast it was met a bunch of great people, took both the Dragster and Mid mount DS.

The Dragster made one okay pass on and off the throttle with some issues and the rest of the day I fought it pulling to the right like crazy and gave up before I killed it, needs lots of attention and that needs to be done at home.

The track was awesome very professional set up and the prep was like glue, I dont have any videos of the passes of my own cars unfortunately I cant do both......


2.867 @ 45.3mph This thing should be in the 2.2-2.5 range @ 52-54mph theoretically






The Track:

Now my Mid Mount DS surprised the F**K out of me and a few there.........................Will be entering the bracket class in 3 weeks with this thing

2.740 @ 48.0 mph


Left Lane


Some pics from the track:



























And a lipo fire 1/7 scale Arma monster

Well I think I figured out the problem with the dragster, looks like the spur/diff assembly got hot enough probably from slipping and the great traction on track that it melted where the carbide balls go and basically turned itself into a spool.

Are metal spurs available where you can still put the carbide balls in or do I need to just put in a Stealth trans and be done with it since one did so well in my mid mount DS?..............................

Pulled the J-Car DD trans out and put the stealth in not a direct swap, had to put the stock bulkhead that I had to modify back on along with camber links and so on. Another issue I’m not happy with is I added more weight to the car it seems significantly heavier in her ass end now , did install titanium dogbones though











I’ll do a short test tomorrow see how the stealth likes a light car with good traction.

Time to work on the body for this thing, it’s going to take 2 new bodies to make this so I decided on a truck so the rear fender swap can look as good or relatively seamless as possible.

Here’s a preliminary fitment of an Andy’s Dodge Ram NASCAR body, once finalized I will cut up a brand new SC10 body for the rear fenders which work pretty good so we will see stay tuned.

The rear fenders off one of my beater SC10 bodies I do have a new one to cut up for the final job

What do you guys think

Both fenders mocked up:






Starting to cut up and fit new fenders




I was board had some solid stock aluminum and made this, still going to machine down to clean it up and machine grooves along the face like a heat sink. I have 20 some motors so gonna make a few..........

One fender done

I dig the fender flares, and they should help with aerodynamics too, I'd imagine.

And we’re off

This is what I came up with using what I have in stock for decals no reproductions used

Got out and did a couple of slow mo test hits, this thing makes lots of power



https://youtu.be/zuFHhRlbp2s