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Christchurch, I will need to figure out what pinion to use to get that drive ratio. The 12 tooth pinion is way too slow & I've been told 16t is the normal racing choice with brushed motors. Painted the shell yesterday and took it for a wee drive today, need to glue the tyres on and make sure eve...

Just got a 2nd older SWB meteor for my son + some parts from mardave while I'm in the UK.

This one has a bust shell, a bust rear shock and a bit of corrosion.

Will be replacing all the hardware, swapping to an ESC & tidying everything up.

Pulled it all to bits now.

got the 4x8x3 bearings ready for the gearbox, the ball raced idler gear, a 16t 32dp pinion and a spare 20 mins every few days to start the build.

Started on this car again. Bought some... 5x10x4 bearings (no 3mm wide ones easily available today). Maverick ion(?) Dogbones (1mm ish diffrent to the meteor OG axles). Some dogbones from aliexpress 56mm long. Going to try some diffrent set ups with the bearing rear hubs and see what works and what ...

Are you going to run this out at the Mrc track at Rolleston? I'm planning to. My son (5) is just getting the hang of driving mardave meteor #1 (my car) and I'm building his one (meteor #2) at the moment. We might get a 2wd SCT for him at Xmas because when I went out for a look last yr there was at ...