This is my first post here. I thought you might like to see the my JRX2 build. This car was definitely raced in it's past but was found second hand by my brother and I in the early 90's. It ended up in the loft until a couple of weeks ago when I came across it and decided to rebuild it. This is how I found it. I also had a box of spares which has helped. The car itself has few nice upgrades since before my time. RPM front arms and an RPM front bulkhead with more castor. The shock absorbers are Schumacher I think and never fit properly. The shocks are in great condition so I will be keeping them and mounting them properly.
I decided I wanted to build the car mid motor and keep the 5 link. I rotated the gearbox 180 degrees and began to work out how to make it work. I needed to allow for some inboard toe with the inner hinge pins. I ended up cutting what was the rear hinge pin block in half and removed enough material to narrow it sufficiently to angle the pins in. I then used a piece of aluminium to set the width and used the original screw holes to secure it. The second set of holes that line up with the gearbox mounting screws were elongated slightly so everything can screw together. The picture will make more sense.
The lower rear shock mounting was a bit tricky. I used the original shock tower spacer I had to move the tower back slightly. I found some second hand Schumacher shock standoffs which worked perfectly on the top. I used the original Losi standoff/ball joint on the lower shock and mounted to an RPM rear arm. This is the best solution I could think of and seems to work pretty well. The back end of this car always had a lot of play. I wanted to reduce this as much as possible so I decided to replace the forward rear arms and the 5 link arms with ball joints and titanium turnbuckles. I could only get M3 ball joints so these had to be drilled out to 1/8". This has worked perfectly. I now have a totally adjustable rear end with virtually no play what so ever. And it looks cool.
For wheels I have chosen to go with Associated B4. The fronts are fitted with the standard spacer from the rear axle and narrow nyloc wheel nuts. This brings the width to a maximum of 247mm. The rear uses the same spacers plus a set of 7mm hex adapters. The maximum rear width is 246mm with the setup. I've added a front bumper from eBay and replaced all of the ball joints with new balls and new RPM cups. I am waiting for one last pair of turnbuckles for the rear castor links to arrive. I have ordered a Power Clutch from A&L and a JRX-Pro body set. Both of which are coming from the states.
Keep up the good work!
