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Meh, it's a toy so it's ok if kids are building the parts in China lmfao!

love to see the old cars with the new electronics.. i really like the extra room for the battery.. anyone know the details with how they got more space for the lipos? just new holes in chassis? i know they changed the bulkhead but did they change the battery hold down? if they changed the battery hold downs to make more room i will get a few. if they are the same as the old ones and they just moved the holes in the chassis i will pass on buying that part.

I do not know if to run such a car with a brushless set up. I think i would go old school with a brushed Reedy and Novak or LRP esc.

I read that they moved the holes forward a bit and removed the bottom on the rear bulkhead

I picked up a Mr. T motor for this. I'll pity the fool that loses to the 30 year old car.

sandkil wrote:I do not know if to run such a car with a brushless set up. I think i would go old school with a brushed Reedy and Novak or LRP esc.

Agree with the vintage set-up. There will be a lot of both come this fall so it'll be very interesting to see what everybody does with it. I'm considering either a brushed Kinwald Dirtinator (to the chagrin of quite a few here ) or a Stock Reedy motor.

Found this on AE's website

just a few questions it answered for me.

4-40 rods, not adjustable once installed :/
top load shocks
Pictures and part numbers for everything I think.

http://www.teamassociated.com/pdf/cars_and_trucks/RC10_Classic/RC10_Classic_Kit/manual_RC10Classic_2013.pdf

DMAT wrote:Found this on AE's website

just a few questions it answered for me.

4-40 rods, not adjustable once installed :/
top load shocks

Those had been answered long ago! The rods are now stainless steel with full hex ball joints and the shocks are top load to make assembly easier/less leaking than the bottom loaders.

gomachv wrote:

DMAT wrote:Found this on AE's website

just a few questions it answered for me.

4-40 rods, not adjustable once installed :/
top load shocks

Those had been answered long ago! The rods are now stainless steel with full hex ball joints and the shocks are top load to make assembly easier/less leaking than the bottom loaders.

well, we cant all memorize 99 pages of posts lol

I'm not seeing any changes to the transmission to accomodate brushless motors. Maybe the original design is sufficient - Am I missing something?

- Limestang

Iam going 17.5 brushless . And black AE turnbuckels.

limestang wrote:I'm not seeing any changes to the transmission to accomodate brushless motors. Maybe the original design is sufficient - Am I missing something?

- Limestang

I think the original 6 gear is quite capable of running brushless already.

I ran the same electronics from my rustler in my rc10 except for the gearing.

3500Kv motor
11.1V 3s battery

rustler gearing was 31 & 72
rc10 gearing was 21 & 83 or close to. I'll be doing the same again here soon. Ive got 4 sets of steel idlers to run
I had a 5th but I broked it trying to force a bearing in. I can probably fix it though, I crushed the opening a retaining ring sits in.

So far all I see is that the idlers have a slightly different look to them, and a 48 pitch spur (you'd think they would have kept 32p).

If nothing else just chop up some outdrives and then your all steel internals. Not my cup of tea but strong

I would definitely recommend bearings on the outdrives. I've yet to build a modernized RC10, so I am looking forward to it.

- Limestang