After gathering a ton of info and parts over the last couple weeks and relearning all this 20+ year old technology (and some of the new stuff) I was ready to start my build (thanks to some help from highwayracer!).
Started with a junior 2 chassis, LRM tranny with a slipper, pro shock tower and shocks in the front, h-arms and a jrx2 shock tower in the back, and a 1 degree anti-squat spacer. I wanted to install the pro rear shock tower, but I'm waiting on a spacer to show up in the mail so I just threw the jrx2 tower in there to get it running.
Slipper installed
Finished car...I've yet to buy a lipo charger for the batteries I'm going to run, so just for fun I threw a Shark 1500mah nicad in there and a stock B&R motor that was freshly rebuilt. Traxxas XL5 esc and servo that came from a slash, and paired em' with a FlySky GT3B transmitter/receiver. New wheel bearings from Boca, and I haven't bought 2.2" rubber yet so I threw some old tires/rims on there.
Old Jrx2 body fits, but it's a little tight...
And then...I drove the hell out of it and it's MUCH faster than I thought it was going to be. I was missing the top brace and bumper, but figured I wouldn't hurt much just driving around the street. The first night I had it running I took it over to a buddy's house to drag race against his bone stock Kyosho Ultima. First run he beat the crap out of me, so I changed shocks, adjusted the shock positions, changed my camber/toe/etc...and I beat him pretty good. It was late and he thought he was keeping up, so I gave him a rematch last night. After beating him badly 3 or 4 times, we decided to set up a little oval course in the street in front of his house...beer can at one end of the oval and a jump at the other end. Start, 3 times around the beer can and jump, and on your last lap you have to hit the jump to win.
I was beating him pretty easily, but after 6 PBR tall boys, a couple shots of whiskey, and a ton of smack talk out of him, I wanted to make a statement. So...I'm about half a lap ahead and floored it towards the jump for the win. I missed the jump by about a foot and just past the jump was a patch of gravel on the side of the road...so when I tried to stop/turn, the car just skidded across the gravel...straight into the base of a basketball goal filled with concrete. I hit it perfectly on the corner with the dead center of my bulkhead.
Remember my other post where I was asking why you shouldn't run without a chassis brace and front bumper? This is why my friends. The crazy thing is absolutely nothing else broke...just the chassis.
I had fun for a few days, but now I'm down and out until I track down another chassis, and this time it's not hitting the road until I have a top brace and bumper on it!
