Daryl's question & answer thread on Team A&L Cars and Trucks

[Synergy]

Hello Daryl,

Just a couple of questions on your Astute LW transmission.

Do I need to use any of the original Astute transmission parts ?

What type of spur gear can I use on the power clutch system, I'm hoping to get away from Tamya's hopless pitch?

Sorry for these questions but I am unable to view your online instructions on any of my current devices

Thank you.

[EvolutionRevolution]

Sorry for these questions but I am unable to view your online instructions on any of my current devices

Thank you.

The images (jpeg's) work fine here.

[Synergy]

Sorry for these questions but I am unable to view your online instructions on any of my current devices

Thank you.

The images (jpeg's) work fine here.

Cool , can I pop over to yours and take a look

I think it probably has something to do with Android comparability.

[harvey]

Hey Daryl,
I've got an A&L chassis that I like to pull out when the track (backyard, old school loam) gets rough. I noticed that the arms position the axles a bit further back than my other RC10's which I run in short wheelbase position. I have started a project with the transmission mounted further back in order to get the drive shafts straight with each other, and i wondered if you had done any testing with this back in the day and what your impressions were.
Thanks!

[Daryl Lane]

We have and you do not want the dog bones straight/inline or going from the wheels back to the tranny. They need to go from the wheels forward to the tranny, this is part of the anti squat in a trailing arm suspension. You will loss forward bite and straight forward motion under power, rear of car will slide to one side or the other. We worked a lot on this building and racing before releasing any of the kits. May look odd but it is needed.

[harvey]

Well... oops. I should have asked before I drilled for the stealth. When I drive it finally and it sucks, maybe I'll look at the lethal weapon upgrade. It looks from the instructions like it won't interfere with my stealth holes. Thanks for the insight Daryl!

[jbmeyer13]

Hey Daryl,

You guys ran a hand built prototype car at the '91 ROAR Nats which had a double decker carbon fiber chassis, LW tranny and a serious suspension set up. Whatever happened with this car and why didn't it make it to production?

Regards,

Justin

[Daryl Lane]

Hi Justin
Chris has that car and I have a box of spare parts to make another one with. It never made it to production because of $$$$$. We just did not have enough to do it.

Chris and I were both racers that liked to make our own parts - I do not think either of us ever raced box stock car or modified cars with just off the shelf hop-ups. Making our own parts in the garage was our commune thread and why we got together to start A&L.

[GoMachV]

Hi Justin
Chris has that car and I have a box of spare parts to make another one with. It never made it to production because of $$$$$. We just did not have enough to do it.

If you have the recipe, we can come up with the ingredients! Let's do it!

[Daryl Lane]

I have the recipe - for four hand built cars including one raced by local team drivers based on Losi XX front suspension and A&L rear trailing arms.

[alien3t]

JUst looked at the page. Seams a ton of the g-10 black fiberglass parts coming back in stock. All re release, or old inventory, IE gold pan chassis brace. Great still has normal price. Not an Ebay price. shocks towers and other parts that i didnt see there before.

[Daryl Lane]

The Chassis stiffener brace is a re-release from about two years ago now. You can till between the original and re-released on by the chassis rails, new ones only have three slots in them and the original ones have four.


I re-did the web site two weeks or so ago, I have had lots of old stock that I never posted. I am going through the boxes and adding parts and pictures as I find them and instructions. I have parts in boxes that I forgot what they fit, but I found another catalog filed away that lists a lot of them.

Some of the towers are old school Graphite, unwoven mate black parts.

[hugger19]

i see u have graphite rc10 front shock towers do u have or ever make any in green fiberglass??

[Daryl Lane]

I believe we made green fiberglass towers the first year or so, but changed to black fairly soon in our business.

I could make some again but I would need to have at least 20 to 25 preorders to make it worth while. Cannot afford to sit on money spent that long.