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flipwils11 wrote:Where did you get the clear gear cover from?

Not sure if that cover is going to do much good with the little hole just above the slipper. You can see the blue wire lead pointing to it.

There is not a hole in it there... Looks like it, but its not. The new B4 covers have 4 of those circle marks in the plastic. You can't see the other 3 marks because of the lighting.

Orange wrote:There is not a hole in it there... Looks like it, but its not. The new B4 covers have 4 of those circle marks in the plastic. You can't see the other 3 marks because of the lighting.

Wow! That sure played a trick on me...

LOL... The plastic is thick too, so if that was a hole, the plastic would not look so thin.

I spent a good part of Sunday trimming the Viper body to fit the chassis. I've got it mounted an looking pretty clean. I'm planning an airbrush paint job now... no spoilers yet, but it will be vintage inspired...

So I picked up a 19 tooth pinion gear at the hobby shop close by however the motor is too big I think. The pinion is about 1/8" away from meshing with the spur gear and it's as close as it can go.

I have a 72 tooth spur gear... Do I need to go bigger pinion and spur gear? Or is my motor the wrong one? I have a Reedy 3300kv.

I'd appreciate input here...

I'm a little bummed about the gearing dilemma. Hopefully I just need to get a larger pinion gear and spur gear and not a new motor.

It's an exciting time with all the RC10 re-re talk going on so I thought I'd forge ahead with the paint. It was my first airbrushing attempt (well second... my first was about 25 years ago on my original purple RC10, but that doesn't count!).

I'm pretty happy with the results, it's not perfect but it looks good from a distance I think. And it's a racer, so it will be used I hope! I have to track down some decals to put on it. I might order a set for the B4 and use those.

Looks good!

A 72 tooth spur gear is tiny! I think they came with either 81 or 87 tooth. You should definitely get a new spur.

Well, I'm getting painfully close to being able to run this thing. Exciting! I've got an 87 tooth spur gear and some decals on order.

I picked out my mintage unused battery cup from my old RC10 and decided to use that for this car. I also got my banana connectors in the post this week so I soldered on battery and motor connectors. Now I just need to figure out what the heck I need to do to set all the electronics up. I write software for a living so if I can't figure it out I should be ashamed! Pretty happy with the results so far, I'm sure it will look better once I have the decals on... although I wish the orange had a little more red in it...

That looks great! Good job

Nice build!

Great build, well done!

Thanks for the compliments guys... I'm really looking forward to getting it on the track. Hopefully within the next couple of weeks.

If all goes well i should have everything I need this week.

Great job - a good mix of old and modern.

So this weekend I managed to pick up my spur gear as well as a sheet of B4.1 decals. I spent a little bit of time getting the electronics sorted out. Got my batteries taking a charge so I'm all set for a shakedown run at the track. Not sure when this will happen... hopefully within the next few weeks.