Meteor axles & restomod
Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2023 6:47 am
Hi all, I am rebuilding my SWB meteor that I last raced in the early 90s (at clydebank radio controlled car club in Scotland).
I collected it from my in laws attic when I visited a month ago. I'm building the car for grass and dirt outdoor racing in NZ.
I do have a couple of problems I don't know how to solve though... 1 is that the new 2.2" rear wheels I got from mardave don't fit the car as it is and I have no idea what stub acles or cvds(?) I could replace them with. I managed to order some shaft spacers and get the bearing front wheels to rin nice on the circlip front axles, but the rears are not going to work (I remember reading some sort of tamiya cvds fitted a meteor somewhere sometime in the last 4 years I think??).
Thanks for reading and let me know if you want a youtube vid or more pics of the build.
PS. So far...I switched all the hardware to button head Stainless steel, polished the chassis, bought new wheels and tyres, cleaned everything, got a rounded hard case lipo with tamiya connector that looks like a nicad, got a brushed esc that works with lipo from a maverick quantum, built a motor plate from 2mm aluminum, added a bangood heat sync, kept my old alloy servo mount, rebuilt the diff with new cog, rebuilt the shocks with 650 and 450 cst oil and some other stuff..
I collected it from my in laws attic when I visited a month ago. I'm building the car for grass and dirt outdoor racing in NZ.
I do have a couple of problems I don't know how to solve though... 1 is that the new 2.2" rear wheels I got from mardave don't fit the car as it is and I have no idea what stub acles or cvds(?) I could replace them with. I managed to order some shaft spacers and get the bearing front wheels to rin nice on the circlip front axles, but the rears are not going to work (I remember reading some sort of tamiya cvds fitted a meteor somewhere sometime in the last 4 years I think??).
Thanks for reading and let me know if you want a youtube vid or more pics of the build.
PS. So far...I switched all the hardware to button head Stainless steel, polished the chassis, bought new wheels and tyres, cleaned everything, got a rounded hard case lipo with tamiya connector that looks like a nicad, got a brushed esc that works with lipo from a maverick quantum, built a motor plate from 2mm aluminum, added a bangood heat sync, kept my old alloy servo mount, rebuilt the diff with new cog, rebuilt the shocks with 650 and 450 cst oil and some other stuff..