RC10Talk - The Net's Largest Vintage R/C Community

Yesterday I received a chassis stiffener/lipo holder kit from Factory Works. Very cool kit, solved my battery holder thoughts on what to do/what holders to use. I'm having a great time building the truck. Next up will be some body mounting action.

@GoMachV

Is that a GPM nose plate or AE FT nose plate?

This is looking good

It's going to be interesting to set the damping/wheelrates properly on this car as the design is soooo different from AE had built their shocks/springs for. There is a lot less shock compression it seems than on the stock rear geometry...

I'm watching this thread closely as I have an A&L trailing arm RC10 (buggy) in the pipeline from the Pre-Jeff A&L days... The whole set is still NiB but I'm beginning to wonder whether I have the parts to attach the shocks to the tower in the bag

Good to know that Jeff will support the build anyway

RC10th wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2018 9:53 pm Is that a GPM nose plate or AE FT nose plate?

GoMachV pointed me to this nose plate on eBay. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Alloy-Nose-Plate-Bumper-Fit-Team-Associated-RC10-GT-New/190570587772?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649

It was a very good deal, seeing as the AE nose plate is near unobtanium.

That's the one I was thinking of. Does the quality/rigidity seem as good as an AE plate?

70 plates sold through them alone add in all the plates from RC Damper and other ebay sellers and I'm surprised AE doesn't find it viable.

I'd say the quality of the nose plate is excellent. The countersinking for 8-32 screws is spot on. Over all, two thumbs up.

I'm not on the market for any - but are 10GT and 10T plates similar, and in which case, what has made their value skyrocket? I probably have a couple of NIP's at home... am I rich?!?

Lonestar wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:15 am am I rich?!?

Probably they are asking stoopid money for new truck plates if you can find one, 10T/T2/GT all use the same noseplate

RC10th wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:22 am

Lonestar wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:15 am am I rich?!?

Probably they are asking stoopid money for new truck plates if you can find one, 10T/T2/GT all use the same noseplate

thanks.

the hoarder in me wants one of these blue ones now... Oh, crap, I just go an idea about a project car...

@Lonestar

An idea for a project car? Sh*#.... I got one that's going to involve aluminum rod and a whole lot of bending

NomadRacer wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:44 am @Lonestar

An idea for a project car? Sh*#.... I got one that's going to involve aluminum rod and a whole lot of bending

we love tubers at rc10talk, you know

I wasn't going to talk about it yet, but since you brought it up------I invested in a tig welder recently and have been working on some custom jigs to bend up something special out of aluminum tubing.

@Basher67

Working towards the same goal, got a bag of steel dowel pins from McMaster-Carr. A buddy of mine is sourcing an aluminum plate for the jig.

I'm sort of stuck on the body mounting right now. As you can see in the pictures, there's an extreme rake from front to rear. I've added some spacers under the rear body posts (4.5mm total) to bring them up the the bed, bed is resting on the shock tower now.

So, what do you guys think... Do some precision cutting around the tower and shock mounts points to allow the bed to drop down? I'm not digging the extreme rake look.

Back in the day we would have cut the area out that was interfering. A lexan cover could be precision cut and bent to bridge the area over the tower between the two existing humps. Use a couple small BRP plastic rivets to hold it. Just my .02