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Inspiration for the thread title.

I actually have a jr2 chassis with the sides cut in my pile of spares. Kinda wish i caught tou before you shaved the sides on yours lol.

RogueIV wrote: ↑Wed Apr 16, 2025 1:00 pm I actually have a jr2 chassis with the sides cut in my pile of spares. Kinda wish i caught tou before you shaved the sides on yours lol.

Thanks for the offer. I have a few more Jr2s including a NIP in the stash, so it was a bit relaxing to cut on this one. The bottom is pretty nice, however, so not too relaxing.

Had a few minutes at the bench to start to bolt things together.

I tried the Dragonpunch Ti shock shafts. They are a bit rough compered to OEM Losis (on the right).



They look good assembled with the MIP bodies- but would not use them on a serious runner. They'd chew up the o-rings with a quickness.



The 4-40 ballstuds are quite nice, though.



The ballstuds fit well with RPM ends.


Mix in some Tecnacraft Ti turnbuckles. Gonna perform so well on the shelf.

Rear coming together with XX retro in 2.6 ratio mocked up to check dogbone lengths.

Even though this will be a shelfer, I had to tweak the axle placement with shims to shift the bones inboard a bit.

I have a set of Trinity Point Blank wheels and tires from way back. The rear tires are in good shape, but the fronts were dry rotted. While searching for replacement front tires, I stumbled upon some Amark wheels and tires that looked very similar to the Point Blanks. It turns out, they are the same.

Original rear



Original front after removing dead tire. You can see the unique beadlock design, similar to an 1/8th scale buggy.


Front wheels polished..looking good.


Beadlock design

I used an Ultrahive decal to create a replica Jr's Choice motor from a 16x2 motor of unknown origin. It looks decent next to the real deal in my Jrx Pro.

Trimmed and painted a rough motor plate. Added a hydradrive. Color combo is a bit Ronald McDonald.



Getting close!

That looks really good!

DSaw78 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 22, 2025 4:34 pm That looks really good!

Thanks!


Now with a XX CR body I painted back in the day (a bit poorly - I must have touched up some spots after removing the window masks and dusted the windows a bit).

The XX body sides are a bit short for the Pro SE chassis, so I may decide to swap to an SE body.

Anyway, it makes for a decent looking race buggy as-is, I think.

Looks great can’t wait to see further progress

Looking very clean. I really like the look of those Trinity rear tires. Looking forward to see what electronics you add.