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Guys

Finally finished my Works Yokomo project. It has some 93 parts namely rear tower and steering. A white nylon front bulkhead and black plastic rear one. A new alloy motor mount with tensioners for both front and rear belts and a new slipper and hard one way assembly. It also had lightened Diffs, new blets and associated shocks and springs all round.

Not sure about the chassis, I think it is a fibrelyte one and is a lot narrower than a 91. The chassis was in poor condition when i recieved it so its been painted matt black.

All it needs now for me to get someone to give the shell a good paint job

I've run it a few times outside and it handles really well, after I got the slipper set up!!

Anyhow here's a few pics

Thats a cool buils there just scored me an early yz10 today from a buddy. complete needs some TLC and a better body. anyone knows where ican gets a body. ITS GOOD TO HAVE FRIENDS

I was extremely happy with the performance of my works on its first time out. Hope you will take it racing and have a lot of fun as I did.

Bodies can be had from mrlexan.
I ran mine indoors and used a tamiya baldre body. It doesn't have a belly pan , but that's no problem on an artificial grass track

I like Nice build!

Thanks

It will defo be run

Alex,

What is the main chassis made of? Be interested to see whether it was carbon fibre or glass fibre etc.

Ian

Glad to see another swell car taken out and run in anger. Ive run mine and its a weapon! Lately Ive been debating which of my two vintage 4WD racers are the better car. The Dogfighter or the Procat???

bormac wrote:Glad to see another swell car taken out and run in anger. Ive run mine and its a weapon! Lately Ive been debating which of my two vintage 4WD racers are the better car. The Dogfighter or the Procat???

Was hoping you'd tell us that I'd guess the Dogfighter was as good as the Procat (but much easier to maintain & build), judging from the race results back in the 80's/90's, but it's hard to tell in the UK as Yokomo had top guys like Drescher running the Yoke, and he could win with anything....

minichamps11 wrote:Alex,

What is the main chassis made of? Be interested to see whether it was carbon fibre or glass fibre etc.

Ian

The chassis is carbon fibre, with an internal structure that appears to be fibreglass. The weave looks like it could be a fibrelyte effort, although I can't be sure.

bormac wrote:Glad to see another swell car taken out and run in anger. Ive run mine and its a weapon! Lately Ive been debating which of my two vintage 4WD racers are the better car. The Dogfighter or the Procat???

Back in the day, the Cat XLS/Procat was the most popular 4 wheel drive at both club and regional level in the U.K. I got the yoke over the cat, as at the time I perferred the look of it and ofcourse it was the world champ!!.

I was the only racer to run it at the club so setup was hit and miss, especially as I was only 13!! thats where the cat had the advantage as so many more racers and Dads were familiar on set up.

At the time parts were also hard to come by and a broken sus arm could set you back weeks (a problem still today in the U.K on the newer Yokes)

I can also remember that there was a general concencous that the yoke ran better on rough tracks that the cat (providing the rubbish shocks were changed ). I think that was partly down to Yokes very low centre of gravity compared to a Cat and perhaps Optima mid.

As Ian points out, the top drivers running Yokes were always there or there abouts, so in all probabillity there was/is not much between to the two.