Well, had a friend that told me he had an 'RC10' for me. I was all amped up and excited about building an old school vintage buggy like I had always wanted in the mid 80's. Turns out it's a T3. I was initially bummed out a bit as a little research tells me this is a real bastard-child of a truck. There is very little aftermarket - T2 stuff doesn't fit - T4 stuff doesn't fit.. so I was sort of stuck wondering what the heck I was going to do with it. Came here and browsed around a bit again and ran into Vintage AE's 'RC10T Buggy Thingy' thread and remembered how much I liked it. That immediately turned the little light on in my head about that JConcepts J82 kit. Sooo, long story short - ordered up a J82 (Yeah, it's for a T4) that I'm going to throw on it and hopefully run it out at the local track (not sure what class they'll throw me in, but I'm sure they'll let me run somewhere) while I'm waiting for 4x4 Short Course rounds.
there's still quite a bit of parts available for your t3. you could upgrade the shock towers to graphite, you could also upgrade the shocks, and various other parts on the truck. even the body is still available. you could get the original associated wheels or goto the more modern proline veloctiy wheels. like i said, parts are still available. no need to upgrade to the joncepts j82. i don't know if you're going to run it in a club race, or other. but i don't know what the current rules are for stadium trucks and skinny tires up front. the t3 was quite competitive in it's heyday.
just take it apart, clean or replace anything that needs replacing. you'll be surprised how the truck runs.
I'm sure it would run good, but I've always liked the J82 look Got the truck stripped last night and found out the chassis was cracked up front. Also found out the transmission had bushings in it... ugh. Tranny bearings, new chassis, T4.1 top-shaft and slipper all on it's way. I have a Castle system for it already - an SV2 I built a while ago with a fan on it. I'll be scrubbing nylon and cleaning rust today.. post up some new pics when shiney new stuff starts arriving.
Been a busy week so I didn't get as much done as I normally do on this stuff (A bit OCD) - but it's coming back together pretty nicely. Most of the parts cleaned up really well. I'm definitely going to have to mod the T3 rear arms to inboard the shock mount a bit - but otherwise haven't run into any real problems with reassembly.
Armorall wipes for the shine - find my cars usually come clean pretty easy after being wiped down too. Update on this - waiting for my SV2 to come back from Castle - had a bit of a meltdown on the soccer fields first run out. It was running great before the meltdown though!
I tried Jconcepts J82 wheels on my T2 with a few shims, shock spacers. and a trick on rear shock mounts
not bad to me :D
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I got the CVD bones from my friend. but he didn't know where it was from. it could be from T4 or GT2
those bones are 4mm longer than T2 CVD bones.
we need someone who has T2 and T4 both :D
the parts what I got for this setup are
T4 front C hubs and...
i just found the j82 . been waiting for this to happen since the rc10t came out..i wanted to get a super buggy class at my local track years ago (rc10t with buggy body, wheels, and tires)but it never caught on ... i have b4 front wheels ..has anyone...
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J82 is just a t4 with narrow, truck outer diameter front tires. It uses truck rear wheels and tires. Also comes with a longer buggy body. the j82 fronts are probably too wide for buggy wheels. Just pick up a t4 cheap off ebay and get the $82 j82...
well my wife was wanting a truck so i picked a rc10t up for her a couple weeks ago. well it included the original skinny front 3 piece wheels and tires with it. so i showed he pics of cds's rc10t with the skinny fronts and she really liked the way...
The idea was a 1/8th scale RC10 according to RC car action. An RC10T4 chassis with skinny wheels in front and the improved aerodynamics of a B4. Seems more of a 1/9th scale buggy.
JConcepts have introduced a revolutionary new vehicle concept, the...
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Found my Egressified RC10 pics from 2017 inspired by the J82. OCRC. I should have gone way more when it was around.