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Need to hurry up on this thing, the race I'm building it for is in a couple weeks. First I made these ball stud lands for the front, vertical adjustment and 3 holes to adjust length and the blocks can turn around to use 2 holes in between. The middle hole is directly above the inner lower hinge pin....

this is a cool project. I like the welds on the chassis

Is that the way the front end was setup originally - 10 degrees of castor?

did you remove the anno off the shocks? They look custom

I milled the chassis and nose plate today, I used this piece of aluminum tube to hold the chassis in the vice. http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx221/dhoff71/Mobile%20Uploads/20140614_142907.jpg http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx221/dhoff71/Mobile%20Uploads/20140614_182437.jpg side note: automo...

I like the way the rear of the chassis is cut. the new anno looks cool - pretty close to the green chassis on the real car.

thanks, your right about not tightening anything until all the parts are there. I just mocked it up for a pic and noticed how far off it was.

I've been getting parts together to get this car finished, the event I want to take it to is the 3rd weekend of July. I got a set of gold rere shocks because I like the color. I machined the top of the body smooth like I've seen a couple kinwald cars and made the shock collars and spring retainer fr...

What did you use to strip the anno? I've used oven cleaner but it seemed dangerously corrosive

Thanks for that pic, one row looks really clean. Two rows seems to limit electronic placement and I'd hate to wind up with something like these... http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=2329

and trimming the sides was for looks or flex?

Ok thanks. I have no intentions of building a specific replica, I just want it too look like a team drivers car of that era.

I think that the holes look cool but their purpose(s) are cooling, weight, flex - or all of the above? haha

I've seen that pic in a couple threads. Is there a specific car that they're replicating? why have a template for holes that are somewhat random

Thanks!

Right, I found the pic going throught this thread http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=186&start=45

I'm guessing that the outboard row of holes are just drilling through the originals and the inboard row, closer to the battery, are just indexed off of the outer row.

I cleaned up all the parts and removed the flashing, I was thinking about soaking the white parts in peroxide but I think they look good now. http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx221/dhoff71/Mobile%20Uploads/20140525_173702.jpg I am really happy with how the chassis turned out, there are a couple of...

I got this car off eBay last week. From what I can tell its an early Cadillac car. For now all I want to do is clean it up but I have plans to build an era correct racer. http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx221/dhoff71/Mobile%20Uploads/20140524_171942.jpg http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx221/dh...