I see an unused, new SC10 transmission complete with engine guard and bumper stays going cheap on eBay and after a bit of comparing decide it might worth trying a swap to protect the vintage 6-gear transmissions I'm using with the brushless/lipo power options I'm playing with at the moment. The width of the output shafts is the same as the 6-gear, but they sit a little higher.
I use my beat-up, heavily drilled SWB gold-pan as a test bed for the first try as a few more cuts and holes won't matter.
As the SC10 tranny does not fix directly to the chassis I got hold of the SC10 engine plate and cut a few corners off it to get the transmission to align with the stock RC10 rear arms and hubs. After drilling six extra holes and digging into the parts bin for suitable nuts and screws, the bottom fixings were done.
I then decided to buy the SC10 shock tower and fixing bracket to provide the suspension mounting and turnbuckle points as the stock RC10 bulkhead was not looking usable due to conflict with the rear of the SC10 tranmission..... However, to get this to fit there was a bit of relieving to be done to the fixing bracket and the removal of the two side tangs of the pan which normally tie into the RC10 bulkhead.
So first try got it to fit reasonably well with stock rear arms, mounts, hub, turnbuckles and dog-bones. (I used RPM arms and B4 shocks, but stock should work). My unresolved problem at the moment is that there is nothing to stop the flex of the whole of the rear section and I need to somehow add a brace between the shock tower and the rest of the pan. I may go back to looking at modifying the stock bulkhead/rear tower as this would fix the problem to an extent.
That will be try 2.
