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1911Colt wrote: ↑Fri Apr 11, 2025 7:56 pm Me deciding:

Like the line of those CAT drawings - classical literature!

My Hot Trick Hot Shot finally got to stretch it's legs at a vintage meet after a couple of dormant years in a box.

Recycled a plastic bottle cap as carpet protectors over the shock struts. Long-awaited excuse to buy a Fanta..

Two happy days in day light at a brisk pace

Just a little update on this build after the first real run. Had hardly shared any run time with this CAT before a vintage meet at the end of March. Put on a set of fresh tyres (Schumacher Cactus at the rear end, and Fusion slim up front). Car was like glued to the carpet with heavy roll and very tw...

This is my recently built Schumacher CAT XL 2wd.
A runner for vintage racing, true to original XL specs.
Build thread: https://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?t=50034

Congratulations again on this jewel of a kit! Do you have "blank" 3 mm steering rods and rear track rods turnbuckles or are they hex ones? Would be interesting to know. I bought my XLS kit as soon as it was available spring '88, and it had the blank ones. From the price tag, the code can b...

I had a Fox in the mid eighties (mkI) and rebuilt it soon with the Hot Trick conversion. Still have a few Foxes but never done this one - Very cool build! I'm driving both the original gear diff and the Thorp ball diff. Interesting with the diff grease, and will be good the hear an evaluation. Will ...

Very well done, and an exquisite project for a prototype build!
I mean to say...

Excellent build!

Lavigna wrote: ↑Mon Feb 10, 2025 9:26 pm The Traxxas esc is a bit too new, but being sealed I figured it may be good to have for a future Traxxas build.

The aluminum end Trinity motor is an actual new (with box, container, paperwork) beauty. I've been after a pink label for awhile.

What a jewel of a motor!

Such a pleasure to follow this build - thank you!

Just to back the statement on the suspension arms (T213 and T214, left and right). They were upgraded with extra support. Like 1911Colt describes, the dimples were there to indicate where to drill holes for down stop screws. As seen, this is even written in the original manual under "Track sett...

this is a great thread, I have a SWB, XL,XLS and a Pro Cat that were all in various states of disassembly when I acquired them and all in the same box. I may have to move some parts around now Good to hear this thread can be useful. Moving around parts is great fun. Would be very interesting to get...

Here is a little update on the XL. Gave up using the original battery clamps. Ended up with the short lipo posts (U7046) to accommodate low profile shorties. Straps are the U7234 for XLS and Procat. Just had a very brief trial run on carpet, but enough to give a very good impression and put a smile ...

Here is another setup with captured ball joints where cone spacers are used on the ones with vertical articulation.
The bell crank link joints are only fitted on a small washer.

If you opt for captured ball joints, make sure you also get the cone spacers depicted by JosephS. Along with juicedcoupe I also have very good experience with Schumacher ball cups - I use them on several platforms. Here are some grey Schumacher ball cups on a Hotshot. They replaced the ae ones I use...