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Re: Rats to Ritches
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2022 1:09 pm
by romulus22
Even though I prefer the look of nitro cars, I would have liked to have bought one of those kits as well. They had a better overall look than the Dynotech plate.
Progress for the day. Mostly all aluminum hardware where the parts bolt to the chassis to clean up the bottom. I never was a fan of the blue chassis with black parts. I don’t mid the blue and white. Starting to look like a truck again.
Re: Rats to Ritches
Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2022 3:52 am
by RC10th
That looks much better than I thought. I was a little bit sceptical at first but looks good.
Is that a 3d printed throttle servo horn?
What are you going to do for a body as the blue pans are slightly longer?
Re: Rats to Ritches
Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2022 5:12 am
by romulus22
Standard servo horn, just aged.
Had this body laying around with no real plan in sight for it. This truck will get it out of the way. I have about 6 bodies I’ve been procrastinating to send out for paint, this one can go with them.
Re: Rats to Ritches
Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2022 7:45 am
by juicedcoupe
romulus22 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 19, 2022 1:09 pm
Even though I prefer the look of nitro cars, I would have liked to have bought one of those kits as well. They had a better overall look than the Dynotech plate.
With the milling and anodizing, the JConcepts plate is definitely nicer looking. The Dynotech V2 plate (for brushed motors) is a little better looking than the V1.
Other than the motor plate, I prefer the look of the flat chassis and transverse mounted battery (nickel batteries fit). The tub chassis and off-center shorty pack looks a little odd to me.
Re: Rats to Ritches
Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2022 8:56 am
by romulus22
Besides paint my I can consider this one wrapped up. Turned out one of my clunkers had a pretty decent set of tires on it so I stole them.
Re: Rats to Ritches
Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2022 9:18 am
by mikea96
That looks really cool with all the white parts and blue chassis!
Re: Rats to Ritches
Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2022 10:44 am
by limestang
romulus22 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 5:53 am
Pretty fresh
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Sure someone could’ve ran it with some straightening. But it was pretty haggard and I’d never put it back on a rebuild.
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Clearly a manufacturing defect - Contact AE customer service for warranty support
Re: Rats to Ritches
Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2022 11:19 am
by LoboNYC
I really like the white parts on blue chassis and even more that the shock towers are light fiberglass.
Re: Rats to Ritches (ebay GT rescues)
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2022 4:24 pm
by romulus22
So I’ve had these wheels for a while, NIP. I finally decided they would go perfect with this blue splash body. All is going well until I go to put the bearings in the last wheel I try to mount. Somehow it appears RPM mismatched the wheels during packaging. I’m guessing maybe Losi? I don’t have any extra bearings on hand to try. Figures though that’s my typical luck. Pretty annoying, as ugly as they are the fit the look of this truck perfect.
Re: Rats to Ritches (ebay GT rescues)
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2022 6:50 pm
by RogueIV
Great looking GT!
Not sure what bearings that wheel uses. Losi uses the same bearings as AE as far as I know.
Re: Rats to Ritches (ebay GT rescues)
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2022 8:38 pm
by klavy69
romulus22 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 03, 2022 4:24 pm
So I’ve had these wheels for a while, NIP. Somehow it appears RPM mismatched the wheels during packaging. I’m guessing maybe Losi?
my guess as big as that hole is that its a traxxas rustler. Can't really tell but are the offsets the same?
Todd
Re: Rats to Ritches
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2022 10:10 pm
by Faux4x4
romulus22 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 19, 2022 1:09 pm
Even though I prefer the look of nitro cars, I would have liked to have bought one of those kits as well. They had a better overall look than the Dynotech plate.
Progress for the day. Mostly all aluminum hardware where the parts bolt to the chassis to clean up the bottom. I never was a fan of the blue chassis with black parts. I don’t mid the blue and white. Starting to look like a truck again.
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It would be great to know who is hoarding all those Jconcepts kits because I still have not seen one in the wild.
Re: Rats to Ritches
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2022 12:48 am
by scr8p
Faux4x4 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 11, 2022 10:10 pm
It would be great to know who is hoarding all those Jconcepts kits because I still have not seen one in the wild.
Re: Rats to Ritches (ebay GT rescues)
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2022 3:04 pm
by mikea96
I would love it if they did another run of those!
