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Back then, an RC10 with a bunch of Kyosho stickers all over it :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: And a Trinity motor :lol: :lol: :lol: Chuck Actually, it might more accurately be the opposite. Back then, RWD and 4WD cars competed together as few 4WD's could outrun the RC10...the Optima changed all that, and ...

I just used a 4-40 screw to create the rest of the thread. :roll: I've made my own 3mm thread taps from 3mm screws. I carefully cut notches on opposite ends of the screw tip with a Dremel cut-off disk. Kinda hard to describe, but it ends up looking like a tap and works pretty well. I've used it to ...

Kyosho Golds by a large margin. The ease of rebuilding, the consistently excellent damping action, the oil retention...I've opened several decades-old beat-up-looking Golds to find them still full of clean oil. I've rebuilt Platinums and I concur with Jeff on those. I was fortunate enough to get a s...

If you're concerned about overheating, putting larger diameter tires on AND going with a bigger pinion gear will increase the chances of overheating...just saying. You're already pulling wheelies, so try reducing the punch a notch or two, and lessen the drag brake setting. I wouldn't mess around wit...

True, but that would be no different for an open ball-end.

I guess that's why some cars went with those screw-in captured-ball-type ball-ends (pictured above) because even if they popped off, the screw would be there to retain them...until that ripped out instead.

XLR8 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 12, 2021 2:14 pm Ah, I recognize that news print packing.
I bet it came from Marwan.

FWIW, I've think that decal set looks nice on a white body as well.

I'd love to see that on a pearl silver or grey body. Nobody's done that yet, as far as I can tell.

That's pretty cool, shaking flour down to make a dirt track to get the cars to slide around...with old AFX MagnaTraction cars, you certainly don't even need that, they slide around like crazy already. :lol: It would be a hoot to race the bigger scales too, you definitely need a big area for a nice e...

No need for a poll, or rigged voting for that matter...box-art would likely win. But, every herd needs a shepherd or two...

The Optima Pro is such a nice, sleek design. I acquired a used, painted Pro body years ago but never had the appropriate chassis for it, it's nice to see how it looks built up.

At some point, they just end up being ordinary grails.

I restored an AYK Buffalo that, if built according to the manual, had a bad bump-steer issue just like your Rocky. It was easily remedied on that car by reversing the installation of the outer tie-rod ball-studs on the steering knuckles, so the balls were pointing down instead of up, which brought t...

I'll be honest, I'm not digging it. It seems to defeat the purpose of carbon fiber. CF is mainly to save weight, but the webbed part you cut out probably weighs less than the CF part that filled it in. I think it looks nice, but without cutting some webbing in the CF part, it just doesn't seem logic...

https://youtu.be/Y1ccB7yPsUk?t=443

7:40, specifically.

Damn, that's gorgeous. Where did you source all the red aluminum-nums? I see they're from GPM, but find it unlikely that they made aftermarket alloy parts for such a niche brand as Tomy...were they for another car but luckily a close enough fit? It's very pretty!

There's no shame in being wrong, and it's easy to overlook a detail like the Thorp overdrive gearing...I have to blame you for motivating me to buy a cheap digital tach and setting up a brushed motor RPM station as you had me second-guessing myself with my own motors! :lol: The results all seemed to...