Just another World's car (had a few speedbumps)

[jeepy2013]

OK, so here is yet another one of my projects, I bought this one when they first were re-released, started building it, ran into issue after issue, got disgusted, packed it up and stuffed it into the closet. Since then it's been through 2 moves and has done nothing but collect dust.

My first issue was I was missing one of the 1/4" aluminum screws for the front suspension, on top of that, the screws that came with the kit are of such poor quality, they have mis-matched head diameters. I called associated and told them I was missing the screw, I had to fax them a copy of my sales receipt from Stormer Hobbies, to get them to send me one missing screw. So I did all that, when I received the screw in the mail, guess what? They sent me a blue one....

Anyways, while I was waiting on that, I built the transmission, to find it was so tight it would barely turn, worked on that, got it so it is sorta acceptable to run, then I go to put on the slipper clutch and find out that I have the defective top shaft. It's machined to far in, so when you put on the slipper hub it just bottoms out on the motor mount.

I again called associated, told them about my concerns about the tight tranny and they said the fix is to just run it. Next I tell them about the top shaft, so they ended up sending me out a new B4 top shaft. At that point, once I go the new part, I just stuck it in the box and tried to forget about the whole thing....lol....as I never have a shortage of projects to work on.

So....rainy day today here in central Florida, so I decided to dig it out, I'm gonna finish this car and run it.

BTW....what's up with the glow in the dark ballcups and bellcranks? I forgot all about those until today.

[tamiyadan]

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[jeepy2013]

I originally thought about that as well, I originally bought 2 of these, one to run, 1 to keep sealed. But almost 2 years later , the car is still available. I don't expect to see the value of this car going anywhere anytime soon, so I'm gonna run it and enjoy it. I sold the other kit to a buddy and he is building it as well.

I do have a sealed RC10 classic kit however and I see the value went sky high on that one.

[SnoopMaxx]

I bought 2 Classic kits, one for a buddy and one for me

So now I have 3 gold tub's a T2, a T2 buggy and a 10T as well as a completely wacky 10T cf tub hybrid made from AE & Traxxas parts

Oh and I'm building a 5th scale RC10

[alien3t]

Cant wait to see more of the 5th scale build Snoop

[jeepy2013]

Yeah, same here, sounds crazy!

[SnoopMaxx]

I'll just give you one photo now
When I get more parts there will be a full write-up in a septate tread

Click on the photo to see the full album

[jeepy2013]

Now that, is COOL!

[SnoopMaxx]

Now that, is COOL!

Thanks

[jeepy2013]

OK, here is what I was talking about with the kit supplied screws, the heads are not round and some are different sizes, so I bought the FT blue screw kit.



I get the FT blue screw kit that is supposed to be for this car and what's this I see in the package? A yellow/gold screw, just 1.

So I open it up, come to find out it is also short 3 of the 8-32 x 1/2" flathead screws that you actually need to attach everything on the car....seriously? You need 16 of the 8-32 screws, the kit comes with 13, or at least mine did. I called AE and they are sending me a couple blue screws....lol



In the meantime, I got the shocks all built and a few other things put together. Also, ditched the dayglow ballcups that don't seem to fit right in favor of some RPM ones.





This is the motor / esc that will be going into this car, Tekin RS Gen 2 ESC w/ Redline 17.5 Gen 3 motor.

[Nobby Sideways]

I had that single long yellow screw in my blue screw pack too. It didn't really bother me as I was only buying it for the screws; mine are missing or scuffed away to nothing...

[jeepy2013]

It's just odd, don't even know what it goes to.

Is anybody making precut chassis protectors for these still? Jconcepts did for awhile or atleast was going to, but I can't find any anywhere. The local track I'm going to run this car on is outside and can be pretty rough on cars at times.

[Nobby Sideways]

It's just odd, don't even know what it goes to.

Is it not the front body screw? The one that goes up through the front shell mount?

[jeepy2013]

No, that's what I thought at first too, but the WC kit calls for a 1/2" long one for the body post and all the rest of the 8-32 FH screws are 1/2" long as well.

[jwscab]

if it's a real 'worlds car' kit, it would have been for the right hand side bellcrank for the body post. Worlds cars used that location for the front body mount.