MIP RC10 4WD PROJECT

Post by **InetRC** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 6:14 pm

Have a few little things to replace and wrap up (like powdercoating the engine mount). I've had the powdercoated chassis sitting around for ages and finally decided to put it to good use. Haven't decided on the wheels yet. Don't like the plastic MIP wheels so I have to rummage around for a set of aluminum wheels and a body. This is what I've built so far though.

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Post by **scr8p** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 6:33 pm

looking great alex!! are those rear a-arm mount a custom piece you made?

Post by **badhoopty** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 6:58 pm

super sweet as usual dude.

Post by **justinspeed79** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 8:08 pm

Nice!

Post by **badhoopty** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 8:21 pm

btw,
polished wheels and those blue buggy tires would be interesting.
i think the mip wheels dyed blue with white tires would be cool too. or white wheels with blue tires...
i dont even know if they make those colored tires for 10th scale.

Post by **scr8p** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 8:35 pm

hmm..................blue tires. that would be different.

i don't know how hard it would be to find some of those blue losi spec tires, but i'm sure they're out there.

Post by **noony** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 8:45 pm

I just seen a set of the losi blue spec tires at the hobby shop. and yes thats a sweet car i like that blue alot. Some day ill get one.

Post by **InetRC** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 11:55 pm

Good ideas guys. I'll look into the Losi blue dirt spec tires. My bigger issue there woud be finding aluminum rims that fit them. I have yellow and red troll tires and I was thinking maybe tossing one of those colors on Tamiya rims and machining some wheel adapters. Another thing I was looking at was fitting Tamiya TLT-1 aluminum rims and tires on it. I'm going to see what aluminum rims I have stored and see where that leads me. I have another set of MRP tires on aluminum Advantage sprint wheels but I already have the sprint rims and tires on the other 4WD Legends so I didn't want to do it again here (what a problem to have, eh?). Hmmm... maybe another set of Technacrafts! It'd be easy to machine the slot for the front pins. But then, I don't want to hack up the technacrafts.... I dunno... I'll figure this out in the next few days. If all our problems were like this, eh?!

Post by **coxy-ben** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 4:15 am

hi !

a question about the MIP 4x4....

the front and the rear dogbone are the same ?
or they are different ? (lenght ?)

thanks !

Benoit.

Post by **shodog** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:20 am

coxy-ben wrote:hi !

a question about the MIP 4x4....

the front and the rear dogbone are the same ?
or they are different ? (lenght ?)

thanks !

Benoit.

On my conversion they are shorter in length. I found I had to use the shorter orignal 6010 front arms. In addition the hub carriers use a metric 5X11 bearing.

Post by **Asso_man!** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:38 am

almost every mip component uses metric bearings, I have always wondered why because almost none of the US rc companies use the metric system, the same for allen wrench and screws...

Post by **Dr. Robotnik** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 12:03 pm

coxy-ben wrote:hi !

a question about the MIP 4x4....

the front and the rear dogbone are the same ?
or they are different ? (lenght ?)

thanks !

Benoit.

I agree with shodog, on the pre-legend kits (like the one used on shodog's excellent RC10 graphite) the front axle system is shorter than the rear necessitating the use of the short front arms.

However, I believe (I don't have one in front of me) that the Legend kit which is the one in this thread uses the same axle widths front and rear and allows the use of the wide front ends (wide in comparision to the original RC10).

Hope that helps

Cheers

Ed

Post by **Dr. Robotnik** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 12:04 pm

I almost forgot to heap some more praise on another fantastic build by Alex the thread starter.

As usual you are turning out an amazing piece of kit, fantastic work and thanks for sharing.

Cheers

Ed

Post by **coxy-ben** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 4:43 pm

ok..

so front dogbones are specific ?

when I say dogbone>>>

Benoit

Post by **joeyskates** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:50 pm

Alex, could you tell me what spindles and bearing carries are on your car? I've seen the same setup on another conversion (pic attached) but wasn't sure what it was. If anyone knows of a set of spindles and bearing carries from some other car that could be used for an MIP 4wd kit, please let me know and thanks in advance.

Giuseppe

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