The Official "What is it?" Thread

[R Cane]

A general ID question here:

Note the flat spot on the caps of these shocks are different - one goes all the way to the edge of the cap, the other doesn't.
The left shock presents itself as a Kyosho Gold, the other I'm not so sure. All of the Duraleak shocks I've got have the cap like the one on the right. But, the shock body on the right has no bevel on the end of the shaft like all my Duraleaks, and is exactly the same length as the KG shaft.
Is this a Duraleak cap on a KG shaft, or were not all Duraleak caps the same?

[scr8p]

I got a 2nd cc rc10 chassis from my LHS and noticed that it's about 1/2" shorter than the original. Anyone know anything about a short version ?

Never knew of such an animal.

[Phin]

I got a 2nd cc rc10 chassis from my LHS and noticed that it's about 1/2" shorter than the original. Anyone know anything about a short version ?

Does the short one have a shorter wheelbase than a stock RC10 buggy or is the longer chassis a longer wheelbase?

Also, on the long chassis, are the bellcrank holes further back from the kick up than on the short chassis?


Wondering if one Friday afternoon, or Monday morning, someone at CC mistakenly cut a Worlds rear end on a truck chassis.

[R Cane]

From the red line back, they look identical. You can see different spacing easier above the line, and the holes above the line are in different configurations too...

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[R Cane]

The bellcrank holes do look to be the same distance back from the kick, but neither of the two holes by the blue arrow on the right seem to line up with either of the two on the left, in relation to the bellcrank holes.

[scr8p]

Wondering if one Friday afternoon, or Monday morning, someone at CC mistakenly cut a Worlds rear end on a truck chassis.

That was my though too. The front is like a buggy as well.

[Phin]

The bellcrank holes do look to be the same distance back from the kick, but neither of the two holes by the blue arrow on the right seem to line up with either of the two on the left, in relation to the bellcrank holes.

It is odd that the short one only has 3 holes lined up straight in a row for the servo. I am looking at pics of CC cars and the short chassis does look more like a buggy length car but they all have 4 holes for the steering servo like the long chassis.

I've found pics of two different versions of the 10T chassis (different upper decks) so it could be these two were different versions of the buggy.

Spoon, did these chassis come in packages and if so were there different labels/part numbers on the header card? I hope they came with the correct upper decks.

[Spoon]

Okay to answer some questions, the longer of the 2 chassis is the same length as a rc10.

The bellcrank mounting holes to the kick plate are the same, measuring in at 1 1/2".

I do have both the upper decks and they are both different sizes, unfortunately I do not have any of the documents that came with these chassis. I've included another picture with the 2 cc rc10 chassis along with a graphite chassis and a cc rc10t chassis.

[Coelacanth]

The drill holes for the gearbox on those two plates on the right almost makes me think they're for some flavor of Kyosho Ultima.

[Phin]

Hmm. Well then...

Never knew of such an animal.

+1.

[scr8p]

Having the top deck for the shorter chassis answers that question. They obviously made the worlds chassis in 2 different lengths.

[jwscab]

Wow, that's new news. Very interesting indeed.

[Phin]

I'd look at building a rally car with it. Find an Andy's Pro Race front bulkhead, and put team length arms on it to keep the track narrow. The short wheelbase should fit under a 200mm touring car body.

[JK Racing]

Okay, this is driving me nuts. Out of a XXT, and I KNOW I had one when I raced my XXT. I cannot remember who made it or anything.

[GoMachV]

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