I believe the gull wing shock tower were on some of the early versions of the SWB CAT and also the XL. Besides the upper arm brace is slightly narrower than the shock tower (well it is on my Corally XL anyway).
uzzi wrote:I believe the gull wing shock tower were on some of the early versions of the SWB CAT and also the XL. Besides the upper arm brace is slightly narrower than the shock tower (well it is on my Corally XL anyway).
Chris - my understanding is in line with yours. The rear shock towers were definitely gull wing on the early CATS (SWB and early XLs). Also, the shock tower is wider than the upper arm brace in the middle section (the pictures in the original SWB manual and box that I have confirm this).
So, I think the carbon fibre version in the picture at the top of this thread is in line with the original. I had the SWB fibre glass parts repro'd by Fibre Lite quite some time back and my parts look exactly the same as the ones in the picture above.
Having seen previous examples of carbon fibre CATs, I thought I would go down the same route with my second CAT SWB. I arranged for Fibre Lyte to copy my spare set of SWB fibre-glass components. These included the top deck, chassis, steering rack,...
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Very impressive build! Good luck with further tuning... perhaps a higher turn motor will make it easier to control? No??? Is there such thing as TOO MUCH POWER??? I don't know... :shock: :twisted: :lol:
I paused my restore projects for awhile and worked on my Optima Mid runner project. I have chosen to build my runner based on the SWB platform. I want a shorter car because of the layout of our local track.
So far I have been working on...
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I understand your concern, Coelacanth . Although I don't think it will be a problem as I will run it on astro turf.
Here's a fish-eye photo from last outdoor season showing the track at our local club. Only problem right now is that it's still...
I am trying to find out the difference in length between the MX-4 and MR-4BC. Specifically from the lower gearbox/bulkhead mounting holes. I dont have a MX-4 chassis on hand.
I am going to have a longer MR-4TC Special chassis cut to...
When I went to my lhs back in November. one of the employees showed me this in the back. $75 was the mark down tag on it (new price tag on side said $219.99) been wanting to grab it just to build a new 20 year old kit, was open, made it through a...
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I am still waiting for one to pop up on ebay for a decent price. Would like to do the stickboy electric conversion to the buggy version with the PRO-x body. aperently no one in europe is selling one, and the ones in US are like $300 whilst beaten.
This is my first time posting pics and would like to present my SWB cat. A friend of mine had one of these BITD and to me it was the most awesome 4wd racer then. It took me about 2 years to find my XLS this SWB took me around 3 years of searching. I...
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Mate,
That is a really clean looking swb CAT, they are really rare and simply deserves a new shell. Save yourself a lot of grief...just get a body from Mr Lexan and be done with it. I removed the paint on mine as I did not have that option at the...
Finally have finished what I bought about 8 years ago :D This is an original swb cat that was converted to an xl but the owner kept the original chassis plates and middle belt also has the original grey bumper (not pictured) in one piece :shock:...
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That looks like it came from the factory yesterday :shock: stunning simply stunning !