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by Charlie don't surf » Tue Jun 23, 2009 12:58 am
Start pics soon--teaser
Will be a box art car from the hinge side of the Graphite box,
Building this to give the Funky Bunch something else to talk about
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by Daddeo » Tue Jun 23, 2009 1:07 am
Looking forward to this one, I really like the graphite versions of the RC10!
"Good vibrations" come on ,come on.........
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by scr8p » Tue Jun 23, 2009 1:16 am
Charlie don't surf wrote: Will be a box art car from the hinge side of the Graphite box
tq10 knock-off.
just kidding. looking forward to it. i wanted to do one like that also, but i never could aquire a 6 gear graphite chassis.
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by scr8p » Tue Jun 23, 2009 1:21 am
i guess you'll be putting those tq-76's to good use then, huh?
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by Charlie don't surf » Tue Jun 23, 2009 1:27 am
Funny, i've had this chassis for a year, almost cut it up for another upcomming build--then
the TQ76's, later the same day (you know where) some NIP 2.0 TQ rims, turnbuckles and
it hit me! Thats how most of my builds are, some other tires that a really cool guy with bad musical taste gave me set me on a renewed virility for some boxed projects!
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by Charlie don't surf » Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:07 am
Well, the build is finished, just need a protech II body. Sorry about the poor pics--my son
made our Nikon D take a dive off the table-and it's taken me this long to find all the junk for the old digi--anyway here she is
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by templeofspeed » Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:57 am
I was under the impression you were going to square-off the chassis like the one pictured on the box.
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by scr8p » Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:35 am
that's what i kinda thought, too.
still looks good, reg.
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by Charlie don't surf » Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:51 am
Well, I thought i'd get some feedback here--I have the raw steel turnbuckles and universals like the box art--just a little leary of squaring off an unrun chassis.
Any body else think she needs to be squared?
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by scr8p » Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:56 am
it hip to be square. atleast.... that's what huey lewis and the news said.
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by civilguy » Wed Jul 22, 2009 9:20 am
He also wanted a new drug.... and if this is it, please let him know...
If it was me I would look for a decent used chassis and square it. I would have a difficult time hacking away.
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by gregm » Wed Jul 22, 2009 9:35 am
civilguy wrote: If it was me I would look for a decent used chassis and square it. I would have a difficult time hacking away.
+1. Cut up a used chassis and if you
really, really like it then do it to the new one. Better that then do all the cutting to the new chassis wish you hadn't.
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by scr8p » Wed Jul 22, 2009 9:41 am
just cut the new one. right now, it doesn't look any different than any other 6 gear graphite. get the saw out.
first thing i'd do is lay a tq10 chassis over it to see it can even be cut correctly. if not, then i wouldn't do it.
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