RC-10 Chain Drive Transmission ??

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RC-10 Chain Drive Transmission ??

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I THOUGHT THIS WAS AN INTERESTING ITEM, I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF THIS AFTERMARKET MOD...

I HAVE BOUGHT FROM THE SELLER IN THE PAST, AS HAVE A FEW OTHERS ON OUR SITE, A GOOD SELLER.

CHECK IT OUT!!


http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-TEAM-ASSOCIATED-RC10-CHAIN-DRIVE_W0QQitemZ280257224338QQihZ018QQcategoryZ19167QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

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Re: RC-10 Chain Drive Transmission ??

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no chain drive in this link???

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Mr. ED wrote:no chain drive in this link???
The ad says the tranny is chain driven, if Im looking at the manual correct. I've never heard/seen that mod before either, but then again, Im a dog with a wig on so what do I know :lol:
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The ad says the tranny is chain driven, if Im looking at the manual correct. I've never heard/seen that mod before either, but then again, Im a dog with a wig on so what do I know :lol:
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I have a team pit stop chain drive tranny in my A&L RC10.Popular mod back in the day
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Re: RC-10 Chain Drive Transmission ??

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I spoke too fast: read the part saying robinson 48 ptich gears and didn't see a mip 4wd chain.
But your're right it's in the description and you can tell in some pics too.
The price is well over the top in my opinion though.

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That is the strangest transmission I have ever seen in my life.

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The team pit stop wasn't too bad for back in the day. I remember that it was rather loud...like other chain driven cars. It's not ideal for today's market, but a nice period piece.

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I have a couple of them in various states of completion, as we used to run those back in the day on oval cars. They were fast, even if the diff unit itself wasn't all that precise. They were about as common as Trackmasters or Lethal Weapons, so they aren't totally ghosts today. They were a novel tranny because they included multiple top gears so that you could change the final drive of the diff with a simple swap of the internal pinion sprocket.

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Just curious...do you remember what the final drive ratio on those were?

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IIRC, there were 2 different top gears and and 2 different center gears to make 4 different FDRs... 1.87, 2.00, 2.14 and 2.28 to 1.

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Surprisingly mine is very quite but it is running a hyperdrive belt system for the primary drive.I still have to swap the motor plate to the other side as pointed out by Highway racer in a previous thread as the belt drive system drives the spur the same way as the pinion.The motor has to run in reverse to compensate so its not all that fast at the moment.I love weird and wacky systems like these.

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highwayracer wrote: Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:05 pm The team pit stop wasn't too bad for back in the day. I remember that it was rather loud...like other chain driven cars. It's not ideal for today's market, but a nice period piece.

Chain drives are loud. We have the quietest cars at the track.
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