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well i took the truck out for its first run since the rebuild and wow, what a difference. the RPM tranny is night and day. before i had no pickup whats so ever now i can pull donuts on my concrete driveway with road tires on it and a stock motor. I had bought a bigger spur to gear it down but now i ...

just noticed the rears are green. thought they looked blue like how i painted mine. anyway, awesome ride. looks beautiful

were your shock springs blue like that originally or did you paint them? nice white parts.

so whats the body going to look like? camo something as well? what made you go for the green camo on the chassis? overall it looks great. nice job

hey thanks for the tip in the rear tower. i will make sure to do that. I was wondering how to clean those edges up nice.

are you saying its over kill as in its to much work? i guess to me it seems the easiest way. i guess i could have it water jet or laser cut too. I'm going to knock one out of poly carb first as a proto and see how it turns out. who knows maybe i wont get around to it but i can dream right? I just re...

no need to be sorry. I'll probably keep that drawing and modify it for my 10T and cut one out for each and see how they go.

JUSS10 wrote:the image is a rough solid sketch originally drawn to the RC10 buggy chassis

so yes it does have a buggy kick up and is longer, but that's because i originally drew it to make a chassis for my original RC10. i need to shorten and hack off the kick up for the 10T

I used solidworks to make the model. I'm in college going for a degree in industrial design. I'll soon start using rhino which does a much better job for modeling.

well the rebuild for my runner has begun. I started by tearing the whole truck down and oxy cleaning everything thoroughly. i was debating to dye or not to dye and still am not sure if i made the right decision but the remaining original parts i dyed black. front bulkhead (i think thats what you cal...

its sounds like oven cleaner leaves a nasty finish after it strips the anodizing, is that true?

so thats black anodizing? interesting. thanks

thanks for the tip. i have some nice paint stripper that I'll use then I'll sand it out like you said. we'll see how it turns out. oh and I think i'm just going to dye the parts. they aren't the nicest. lots of scraps and what not.

dont care enough to powder coat. to much work. trying to keep it cheap.

alright, so i have my 10t torn all apart for clean up and I'm trying to decide what to do with the chassis. its pretty chewed up on the bottom. I'm trying to decide between: strip it and leave it bare aluminum, strip it and repaint black, or strip it and shoot it with duplicolor metalcast to make it...