My "very late" RC10 CE
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 7:40 pm
This is the car from this thread- "25 YEARS OF THE RC10 (updated 9/6/10)"
http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=13059&start=105#p170577
These are old pics, but I'll get some new ones with better cam up soon.. And I'll use this thread to show any upgrades or restoration I do in the future.
This is the only hobby grade RC car I have ever owned. I bought it around 1998-1999 or so at a local pawn shop, and it was in really good condition except for the body. It had a really nasty old "viper" body that I threw away. I got an RC10 B2 body and modded it to fit and have been using that ever since. I don't run it much anymore, but I get it out and run through the NiMH 3400 mAh Tenergy pack a few times to keep it alive once in a while. Most of the time I run my micro helis for RC fun lately.
I raced it in a small local club for a couple years right after I got it, and did pretty good. I was running against a few gold pans, B2 and B3 buggies and an assortment of other stuff. It wasn't anything official but it was fun and it had a few indoor tracks. One was a dirt oval, one an "off road" track, and in the really cold winter we ran on a small plywood oval.. I ended up moving out of town and ever since have just run the thing for fun.
It has all bearings everywhere including Stealth trans, MIP CVDs, a pretty fast servo with metal gears, titanium turnbuckles, and runs pretty good with it's original Novak Rooster that it came with. I think there's a 15 turn triple in there.. a "Speed Gems" brand I think. Its pretty fast for a brushed motor on NiMh. The front looks different because I was experimenting with a custom made front bumper/ different suspension geometry when I was running it on hard surfaces (10+ years ago) and just left it like that. I always planned on returning it to stock someday but never got around to it. I have some dirt tires on there now on stock one piece wheels that hook up nice on gravel and dirt. I have these (shown) for running on blacktop, etc. It's actually extremely tough and durable with that bumper on there. It's extremely tough plastic that came from some sort of barrel that was cut up for guard rails that were used at the track I used to run at. I just cut it out and used it one day after breaking multiple bumpers that I bought at hobby shops. This thing never breaks, ever. Even in extremely cold weather, and it saves all the front suspension parts from any damage 99% of the time.
It's in pretty good condition for all that it's been through, and runs perfectly still. I may get another viper or proline body and paint it up nice, and maybe get a new gold pan or black pan, and maybe go brushless, but I'll probably just leave the old motor in it. As much as I use it, it works fine for that. I can always just get some new cheap NiMh packs if I want to run it more often and they're cheaper than li-polys.
Old pics..
Some low res pics of original box (I will take better pics of this soon too).
I'll get more/ better/ more up-to-date pics up sometime soon.. And also pics of any updates and restoration.
http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=13059&start=105#p170577
These are old pics, but I'll get some new ones with better cam up soon.. And I'll use this thread to show any upgrades or restoration I do in the future.
This is the only hobby grade RC car I have ever owned. I bought it around 1998-1999 or so at a local pawn shop, and it was in really good condition except for the body. It had a really nasty old "viper" body that I threw away. I got an RC10 B2 body and modded it to fit and have been using that ever since. I don't run it much anymore, but I get it out and run through the NiMH 3400 mAh Tenergy pack a few times to keep it alive once in a while. Most of the time I run my micro helis for RC fun lately.
I raced it in a small local club for a couple years right after I got it, and did pretty good. I was running against a few gold pans, B2 and B3 buggies and an assortment of other stuff. It wasn't anything official but it was fun and it had a few indoor tracks. One was a dirt oval, one an "off road" track, and in the really cold winter we ran on a small plywood oval.. I ended up moving out of town and ever since have just run the thing for fun.
It has all bearings everywhere including Stealth trans, MIP CVDs, a pretty fast servo with metal gears, titanium turnbuckles, and runs pretty good with it's original Novak Rooster that it came with. I think there's a 15 turn triple in there.. a "Speed Gems" brand I think. Its pretty fast for a brushed motor on NiMh. The front looks different because I was experimenting with a custom made front bumper/ different suspension geometry when I was running it on hard surfaces (10+ years ago) and just left it like that. I always planned on returning it to stock someday but never got around to it. I have some dirt tires on there now on stock one piece wheels that hook up nice on gravel and dirt. I have these (shown) for running on blacktop, etc. It's actually extremely tough and durable with that bumper on there. It's extremely tough plastic that came from some sort of barrel that was cut up for guard rails that were used at the track I used to run at. I just cut it out and used it one day after breaking multiple bumpers that I bought at hobby shops. This thing never breaks, ever. Even in extremely cold weather, and it saves all the front suspension parts from any damage 99% of the time.
It's in pretty good condition for all that it's been through, and runs perfectly still. I may get another viper or proline body and paint it up nice, and maybe get a new gold pan or black pan, and maybe go brushless, but I'll probably just leave the old motor in it. As much as I use it, it works fine for that. I can always just get some new cheap NiMh packs if I want to run it more often and they're cheaper than li-polys.
Old pics..
Some low res pics of original box (I will take better pics of this soon too).
I'll get more/ better/ more up-to-date pics up sometime soon.. And also pics of any updates and restoration.
If so maybe I can still run 3S and just limit throttle? Not sure if that will damage ESC or motor to run it say, 1/2 throttle all the time. 
