My old RC10L Graphite

[romulus22]

Found this site looking for some pictures. I'll mainly be here for the offroad part of the site but I thought some of you on road guys might like whats been sitting on my shelf for what seems like forever. I bought this new I think in '98 or so. I wanted to get into road racing but it never really hit me. It does have an aftermarket shock and some blue screws I had leftover from other kits but it is pretty much box stock as new as it was 12 years ago.

Any ways onto a few pictures.

[MIKE VALENTINE]

What's the Ti-rod from the top pod plate to the cross brace for? I would think it will make the car undrivable.

[Lowgear]

Stops the axle from twisting? Either that or it allows you to adjust it. I've noticed the newer pan cars have them on either side.

[bearrickster]

Stops the axle from twisting? Either that or it allows you to adjust it. I've noticed the newer pan cars have them on either side.

but they are shocks, they move not lock it down so it cant?

[Lowgear]

Some have shocks some have something similar to the above.

New Speedmerchant cars. Taken from eBay

The only form of R/C I ever raced were pan cars (RC10L) but that was before all this fancy stuff.

[SmallScaleSmitty]

The above pic shows damper tubes. Just another way of dampening roll. The op's 10L, the tie rod virtually eliminates roll. Associated also made roll stop inserts for the top pod plate that go in between the the damper disks to limit roll.

[romulus22]

hey guys, sorry i forgot i had this thread in here.
i had put that tie rod on there to stop the twist. again i was pretty young when i purchased this car and i have yet to drive it. i'll be the first to admit. i know nothing about on road stuff, then or now.

[drbelleville]

It looks like an RC10L2 with a TRC shock and TRC shock mount

[romulus22]

just a later year RC10L. looking at pictures the L2 looks to have a much narrower chassis

[drbelleville]

Yeah true, it has the 10L2 nerf bars.

[romulus22]

or you could say the L2 has late model L nerf bars

[RCveteran]

I raced one of those back in the day. I did not know anyone was into pan cars these days. No scene around here, it's all touring car. I love the simplicity of pan cars.

[romulus22]

i wish i could say i raced back in the day. there has been almost zero R/C racing where i live since ive been into it. i drive two hours one way just to compete with my R/C crawlers. quite a pain sometimes

[RCveteran]

not a lot of options here either. i was big in late 80's and early 90's when you could throw a dart and hit an offroad or onroad track. the golden era of RC perhaps.

[romulus22]

yeah i came into the RC world right after that