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Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 12:31 pm
by FlyinGN
Im with you too Michael.. :) us chassis cut down guys should unite!!

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Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 12:56 pm
by Tadracket
Well, you guys make it look easy. I don't mind chopping one in half but cutting down the sides looks like more work than I want to take on. I have one the previous owner cut down and swiss cheesed and it looks good but I would not do it myself.

Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 1:15 pm
by siebenelch
OH SHOOT!!! THEY ARE HARDCORE RC10-PURISTS!!!

Haha!

Okay, not everybody likes the cutted down chassis. But I like it very much. The RC10 (cutted down chassis, or not) is the most beautiful RC-Car ever!

The chassis have now a little more flex and grip on slippery tracks. I also took a RC10T rear-shock-tower and a longer front-shock-tower (I don´t know, what company made this) to fit the RC10B4 shocks.

Cool RC10 community here!

Thanks, guys!

Michael

edited by scr8p: i know all of us use foul language, but try to keep it off the forum. :wink:

Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 3:34 pm
by Bikerbob
FlyinGN wrote:Im with you too Michael.. :) us chassis cut down guys should unite!!
Nice, but those arms are HUGE wide.. this thing cannot be race legal anymore is it??

Not saying you are even racing it, just a question.

James

Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 7:07 am
by FlyinGN
never raced it in an organized race yet.. So we shall seee:). The wide aluminum arms made it REAL stable too:)

Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 2:03 pm
by siebenelch
Hello there!

This day was track-day.

My RC10 was driving very good and fast. That was fun!

And, that´s funny, nobody from the track knows this car.

Here are some impressions from this day.

Next week I will be on a race here in Austria with this car.

Michael

Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 4:16 am
by carloco8
Track pics............ sweet!

You must have had lots of fun putting it through its paces!

Welcome

Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 4:46 pm
by Chewbacca
Hey siebenelch wilkommen in DEM RC10 Forum...

Kann es sein Daß mir der Name von offroad cult bekannt vor kommt?

Anyway welcome aboard!

Chewie.

Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 10:09 pm
by badhoopty
hey dude whats that 'drift control' thing?

Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 1:05 pm
by siebenelch
Hi,

some germans here on the board! Nice!

Ja, ist schon möglich, dass Du schon etwas von mir gehört hast;)

This "drift-thing" is the HPI Drift Assist. It´s a gyro connected to the steering-servo. It helps to drive on slippery tracks. And it´s forbidden for races, because it works so good.

I will make a report of the race in the next weekend. That is very exciting. I drove my last 2WD-race 15 years ago. Haha!

Michael

Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 1:22 pm
by badhoopty
wild. i am absolutely getting one of those drift doohickies...

Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 1:31 pm
by wyldbill
somewhere on dirtoval.com there was an entire thread about drift controlers and mini gyros. i think tower had a futaba micro gryo that is the same identical thing for like 80 or 90 bucks.

Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 10:14 pm
by Mr. ED
Look out what you get: the original stuff (from late 90ies?) was to stop drifting I believe, the new stuff is made to get you drifting (in a controlled way).
Every RC-car magazine in Japan has a big part of its attention focused on drift races now.
I like the cut down chassis too.
I did the same with my boomerang when I was something like 16.
Yep lots of flex and grip on the street tracks, but then they put an artificial bumpy section , and whoop there went my central axle :)
Finally I replaced the cut down version by a bigwig tub.

For the german guys: Conrad rules! :lol:

Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 4:27 pm
by siebenelch
Yeah, Conrad Electronic. Good place to buy electronic-stuff. Right!

I am back from the first race with my car.

It was a great race! 12th place after qualifying. And later 2nd place in the B-Final. Good result for me and my RC10. The car was great to handle! I could not believe it. So fast!

But I learned some lessons: Look at the pictures


Michael

Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 11:45 am
by PBR Allstar
Looks good Michael! Any action pics of the car? I'm thinking I might have to build a copy of that car, it's the best looking tub car I've ever seen!