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Nice repair -
That nose is now good for another 20 years of use.
Why is it, that Your "daily" runner is not a graphite chassis? Too flexible?

No real reason for it. I just always seemed to acquire tub cars.

All of my dirt oval cars had graphite chassis though. My graphite team car, then my RC10 with a Raborn chassis, Kranzel's 2.25 Terminator....

The Graphite is a very cool car and always grabs my attention when I see anything posted about it.
I recall reading somewhere that many of AE's team drivers didn't like to race them off road. Was this due to flexibility or weight or some other reason?
I have a graphite runner (although it has an aftermarket chassis plate) and I find it harder to dial in than my tub car but I just assumed this was related to my limited tuning abilities. When track conditions are right, it's fast - the tub car seems to be more forgiving when track conditions are not as good. I can't explain why but it can be frustrating so I'll return to the tub car.
That chassis nose repair turned out great scr8p.

This car has cleaned up pretty well. Gonna try to get the shock rebuilt tomorrow.

$20? Crikey, what a great find dude. Pretty good shape and good repair on the nose.

Chassis resto complete. Still up in the air about the wheels. We'll see...

That is the BUSINESS my friend wow, keep the pink wheels very nostalgic.

Ya know, was just thinking that that chassis would be a good candidate for a replica of one of Masami's '89 graphite cars:

https://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?t=39500&start=30#p444462

He seemed to have liked to cut the front end down to the body mount.

scr8p wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2019 8:57 am

DennisM wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2019 8:25 am Nice catch.
Is it going to end up with a truck front bulkhead?

I thought about narrowing the kick-up for a truck bulkhead. But Worlds or Dynotech arms with a 6 gear doesn't seem right to me.

Gotta figure out exactly what I want to do with it first. I'll tear it down, clean everything, and go from there. I should be able to CA an clamp the nose and it look alright from the top. Put a bumper on it and you wouldn't see the bottom. But we'll see.

I dug out an old Futaba magnum jr. radio and got the electronics all set up. Charged up a nicad pack and took it outside to rip around a bit. Runs pretty good.

Always wondered why the guys never used a small bumper on the graphite cars! Crazy to me.