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Thanks! ...like so many trinkets. RC after market is 90% gimmick, 10% sound engineering.
So, is it a one-way, slipper, or centrifugal? I think this car has that odd Astro Flight motor as well (with the giant round brush holders). Just a whole lot of weirdness.

Three shoe centrifugal with lead shot balls and orings for tuning

Also goes by the name of Torque Limiting Clutch. It was an Option House part.

Those Astro Flight motors can be good performers if used in the right application and the proper gearing. I have a couple that have good torque and work great in my old monster trucks. They were not cheap motors. I have thought about using one in a crawler.

The turbo 05 worked very well for me. No sanctioned racing but great power.

I have a pair in a clod right now and they work great!

Picked this up a few years ago to go under a body I had. Always assumed it was an Associated RC12 of some kind, but as a shelfer it wasn't to high on my radar. My son convinced me to pull it down and give it a good cleaning and to be honest, I have no idea what it is.

Bolink Renegade. Based on RC12i components

and the body is the best part - a MK1 VW Scirocco

I was hoping someone would chime in about the body. I could not figure out what it was from that angle. I kept looking at it and thinking "chevy citation?" Sciroccos were cool bitd----sorta like a poor man's lotus esprit

Lonestar wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2018 5:12 am

vwjuice wrote: ↑Tue Jan 02, 2018 1:56 am These shocks came on my rc10gt I just got and I thought they were basic duratrax gold shocks. I just noticed they have a bleeder in the cap. Can anyone identify these?

Me says home-drilled...

I wondered that myself, but the holes are threaded. I guess someone could have drilled and tapped them, but it looks factory.

Thank you for the information on the renegade. The body is indeed a scirocco, one of 2 I bought when a member of the scirocco group I used to belong to had Bolink repop some from the original mold. The other is safely tucked away uncut and unpainted.

RC10resto wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2018 10:10 pm and the body is the best part - a MK1 VW Scirocco

Who made the body? I use to road race an mk1 scirocco. I would love to do an Rc version.

gcurl wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2018 10:39 pm Thank you for the information on the renegade. The body is indeed a scirocco, one of 2 I bought when a member of the scirocco group I used to belong to had Bolink repop some from the original mold. The other is safely tucked away uncut and unpainted.

Is there any still available?

vwjuice wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2018 10:39 pm
I wondered that myself, but the holes are threaded. I guess someone could have drilled and tapped them, but it looks factory.

all it takes is a tap. I've done it myself in the past, although in plastic shock caps, but not much difference

Sorting my stuff for making room. Have a bunch of different wheels but not sure for some of them which cars they go for. I think there are Tamiya, Kyosho and Losi but for which car? No idea for the #11 aluminium wheels, maybe for Yokomo?