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Many many thanks to Chris (1300GT) again for making another set of these.

Those spring adapters look great!
I'm curious; which spring rate you are using. Are they 3.15 and 2.00

Thanks, I ended up going back to the 3.00 front and 1.90 rear which is the standard kit set up spring. Reading a bunch of set up sheets that I could find the standard green spring (2.99lb) was used 90% of the time.

Good to see you got the collars. The truck's looking spiffy.
I'll be watching out for it on the Bash Livestream.
Or the Traxosho.

Traxosho we'll see... that project could fail or it could be a freak of a truck on the track....

Shocks mounted and body cut out. The shocks are butter smooth with a touch of green slime and the big springs, Fabio can't believe it either.

it's good to see it finally coming together. I've still got a few little bits coming to shave a few more grams off it. The rolling chassis will be over 100g lighter than my lightweight SRT which isn't heaps. I never weighed the electronics but being the SRT was on the weighty side leads me to believe the XR10 Pro and big power cap are quite heavy.

Finally received one of the parts I was waiting for.....


Remember, the stock standard AE top shaft and slipper assembly was 24 grams without a spur gear.


I also had a Schelle B4 slipper assembly that was doing nothing so I ordered a Dhawk B4 style top shaft so I could use it if I wanted. It hasn't arrived yet so I weighed it with the standard style 7075 topshaft. Pretty impressive at 15 grams with a gear.



I wanted a Dynotech slipper eliminator but shipping to Aus isn't in their postage options, so I used what I had and cross drilled a new pin hole in the top shaft. A whole 9 grams with a spur gear can't complain about that! Looks like I forgot the spur gear screws so it's likely closer to 10 grams, but still....

Last piece came today, I could still go further but I've had enough with tracking down parts overseas.

Titanium hinge pins, nothing special but they are about half the weight of the stock steel pins.


SRT Race Roller for comparison


T3 Race Roller - only thing missing is paint.


114 gram weight savings on a geometrically better car


If it were cocain that would be a savings of about $13,680

This has taken a left turn as I turned this truck into a box stock shelfer...

I bought a new rear chassis plate and a few other goodies plus used some of my T3 stuff that I've been hoarding for the right occasion. It's not perfect but still pretty clean. If I come across better parts I'll swap em out, ie chassis, front arms, front bulkhead and possibly nose plate. All of which should be fairly easy to find with the exception of the chassis..





It will sit on the shelf next to its younger brother



A race truck is still in the works as I pulled another T3 out of storage which wasn't as nice.