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Just wondered if anyone had any idea who manufactured this part? Its the rear-most hinge pivot bracket off a Jrx2 that was given to me by a good friend who I raced with Bitd (we still do) He can't remember & thought it might be handmade but I think it looks rather too good for that?



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You know what makes me agree with your buddy about it being home made is that the part is not annodized with at least a clear. That would be easier than you think to make on a mill. I made this cover for my old katana brake reservoir on my lunch hour

Nice cover Shodog .... Yes I know what you mean about it being home made its just that 'lightening' groove in one side & the rounded ends although are all within the scope of a skilled machinist - I just wonder if you'd bother if you were making it by hand?

Having said that - on the same chassis there is a white nylon/delrin front link support/body mount (the side parts that always broke).... and that my friend said was definately home made... yet the quality is suburb!

Eventually I'd like to build up a runner Jrx2 using all the modified parts from my friend's car as an 'ode' to him & his dad

Hammad Ghuman possibly? I have an old HG catalog somewhere...

that piece might be little too early for HG. if it was an aftermarket part, not home made, i'd have to go with dialed racing.......... or whatever company it was that made those aluminum front end piece on one of mrlexan's jrx2's. i'd have to check out that thread......

scr8p wrote:that piece might be little too early for HG. if it was an aftermarket part, not home made, i'd have to go with dialed racing.......... or whatever company it was that made those aluminum front end piece on one of mrlexan's jrx2's. i'd have to check out that thread......

Mr Lex's were Dialed Racing I sold them to him.

nice looking part, I've never seen a rear carrier in anything other than black plastic/nylon before. Post up some pics of the other custom parts too!

Thanks guys for your input... I suppose unless someone definately has a catalogue with the part shown... we'll never really know.

Ascosola; i'll get a pic of the side mount, there is also a trans housing with all the ribs taken off & a cut-down & drilled super slim Pro Chassis, he also gave me a set of adaptors to fit Yokomo wheels... for the front aswell as for the back (I've seen rears but not fronts before) & an adaptor to fit RW Tuffnel spur gears

Can you post pics of this stuff as I have never heard of any of these

slapshot1979 wrote:Can you post pics of this stuff as I have never heard of any of these

The cut-down trans & narrowed chassis are just standard items that have been hacked about, the side mount is hand-made, I'll take some pics over the weekend.. & post them next week

a cut-down & drilled super slim Pro Chassis,
This sounded way more rare when I read it fast the first time LOL

if you hold it up to a stock plastic rear pivot do the pin holes line up or if you hold up against the pin holes in the rear bulkhead do they line up with those? i only ask because it looks like it dosen't have any anti-squat built into it meaning the pin holes should be slightly below center on the block . if you were to run them on a mid motored converted chassis it is very hard to get zero toe when the rear pivot is now being used as a front pivot and the toe and anit-squat is reversed. my solution for my oval racers was to take an old broken bulkhead i had and cut the entire lower suspension arm mounting portion of the bulkhead off with a dremel so it matched the dimensions of a standard pivot block. once it was on the car i slid washers between the chassis and the block for anti-squat. i know when Hugger was making their oval chassis they had made some kind of aluminum block under the tranny that used graphite plates for the rear pivot setup.

I think I know what you mean Wyldbill... the ali & the plastic parts are the same - so give the same amount of anti-squat

Heres some pictures of the other 'interesting' parts I was given;

Smoothed gearbox housing


Homemade trailing arm mount




Adaptors to fit Yokomo wheels, also matching adaptor for Tuffnel type spur gears.


Cut-down Pro chassis (shame as the u/side is in good condition) Note; the different steering pivot holes for different ackerman effect.

neat stuff.
The red wheel adapters and spur adapters were made by RW racing. They made 2 different spur adapters, one for standard spurs and one for their own brand of gears.

aconsola wrote:neat stuff.
The red wheel adapters and spur adapters were made by RW racing. They made 2 different spur adapters, one for standard spurs and one for their own brand of gears.

I guessed those parts were by RW racing, since they made the tuffnel spurs Bitd... I still use their spur & pinion gears now on my touring car racer