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Hot Trick RC10?

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Grabbed a Hot Trick RC10 off of the bay with some nice parts on it (and some horrible ones as well) :
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Spent last night getting that beautiful steering set up cleaned and polished. Every time I had bid on a steering system like this, I would lose, but I got the car for right around the what I had seen the steering for in other auctions, so I am pretty happy. It had brass sleeves for it (the steering) but I ordered bearings for it last night.

Also ripped the car down to see what else could be salvaged on it, and it looks like the chassis itself, minus a few shallow scratches is in really good condition. A little bit of glue to take off of it, but I will give it an acetone bath tomorrow (school tonight). The front 3 piece wheels are in really awesome condition, and I am going to whiten them over the next couple of days and sell them to subsidize the steering.

The front shock tower is in awesome shape, but the nose plate and rear plate are pretty rough, going to see what I can do about that as well. Rear tower does not look like Hot Trick at all. Motor plate looks ok.

Can anyone tell me if this was what a hot trick rc10 was supposed to look like?

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Re: Hot Trick RC10?

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I see that you bought it for the steering setup cause that is about that's salvagable

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I found through a little research that:

the front end is from a Hot Trick RC10 Sprint Car (wide foot)
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The rear shock tower should be this:
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but I can't seem to figure out what chassis it is, or if it was supposed to have the rear motor guard.

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shodog wrote:I see that you bought it for the steering setup cause that is about that's salvagable
yeah, but the front shock tower and red chassis cleaned up really nice, scratching isn't that bad at all.

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so you got that car......i was watching that thing to see much is was gonna go for....

it's a shame someone bored the crap out of the nose plate.

whoever had that car before you sure got their money's worth......

glad some of the stuff cleaned up for you....

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jwscab wrote:so you got that car......i was watching that thing to see much is was gonna go for....

it's a shame someone bored the crap out of the nose plate.

whoever had that car before you sure got their money's worth......

glad some of the stuff cleaned up for you....
Yeah, the steering looks awesome after the cleaning. The chassis has no nicks, and only the regular use scratches. Looks like there is some glue on there, and I will use a little more elbow with the acetone to get it off.

I have some really nice aluminum cleaner (alumibrite) and am going to see what I can do with the shock bodies. Looks like they had the anodizing sanded off.

I'd like to do this build, but it is going to have to wait until I can get a few parts together, and clear some other stuff out.

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the bodies should clean up with some scotchbrite, as long as there aren't big oxidized gouges.....and the threads are OK. When you are done, wipe them over with either car wax, or just some regular old mineral oil(motor oil), any type of oil/wax to prevent oxidation.

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jwscab wrote:the bodies should clean up with some scotchbrite, as long as there aren't big oxidized gouges.....and the threads are OK. When you are done, wipe them over with either car wax, or just some regular old mineral oil(motor oil), any type of oil/wax to prevent oxidation.
Yeah, I'm not completely worried about the shocks, I'm more thinking about the big stuff (rear tower, the G** D*** 6 gear transmissions I sold on eBay and a front plate in better condition)

The steering I am putting on the red powder coated chassis I am doing right now.

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Re: Hot Trick RC10?

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a "full" hot trick chassis is in this thread...

http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=17027
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Toasted Coastie wrote:I found through a little research that:

the front end is from a Hot Trick RC10 Sprint Car (wide foot)
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but I can't seem to figure out what chassis it is, or if it was supposed to have the rear motor guard.
Just as an FYI - the nose plate on your car is a standard Hot Trick piece that probably started out life either red or gold anodized. The one in your reference photo has the same overall dimensions as the one on your car, but it's one of their Race-Lite parts. These parts are just raw aluminum and drilled. All of their RC10 nose plates that I've seen are wide like those and were made to fit any of the RC10 chassis.

That chassis may be a whittled down HT buggy chassis, but it's hard to tell.

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I'll post up cleaner pictures of the chassis pictures parts tomorrow, but you are probably right. If whoever had it, if they did widdle it, it is the only thing on it that was widdled with skill....

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Hey TC I have a hot trick steering assembly. PM me for info

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Here are some closer shots (front and back) of the chassis and front tower. I took a much closer look at the chassis, and yes, it definitely was modified.

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The steering from it:
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Motor plate:
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The front nose plate is pretty beat up, and I was still cleaning it when I was taking pictures last night. I think I could probably salvage it, try to smooth out the awful milling job, but I'm not entirely sure what, if anything, I want to do with this.

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I definitely looks like Hot Trick material. Here's what their chassis look like out of the box:
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Very nice, thank you! Looks like this will just be a bastard build....

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