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So after selling off my team car racer that I've had since new to Jamie K a handful of months ago I've missed having one around. So starting over from scratch is kind of nice, the stuff is less sentimental now which is a good thing as far as going racing is concerned.

I picked up this C.E. recently and decided I want to take it to the track, I had to have a gold pan car a'la Ruffy/Reggie/J.Harris, just so people at the track knew it was an old '10.

The build is really straight forward, fresh shocks, one of the silkiest diffs ever, basic B4 wheel conversion for now (I had a ton of B4 wheel/tire sets so that's what I'm gonna use for now), and RCP bell cranks that I massaged a bit to get the clearance and bumpsteer where I wanted it.

I have a 10.5 mocked up in the car right now but I'll probably run it with a mildly ramp'd 13.5. I still need a few small parts, waiting on B4 slipper plates and trying to think up a creative body mount for the viper shell.

Wow that looks great! I will get some pics of mine up shortly as well..

So what did you use for running the B4 wheels front and rear?

looks like the wide gt front axles, and b4 rear hubs.

I thought that the front looked like the wide gt axles but want sure about the rear.

Ford is going to soooooo hate that

How do they handle with that setup?

Charlie don't surf wrote:Ford is going to soooooo hate that

Hate what? How it's gonna handle?

mikea96 wrote:How do they handle with that setup?

I hear great turn in, and then they lose the nose mid corner? This is what I read from I think JHarris and Reg and I talked about it. I think it will be fine to go shake the car out though, I'm sure I'll want to change a few things afterwards.

scr8p wrote:looks like the wide gt front axles, and b4 rear hubs.

ding ding ding~!

PBR Allstar wrote:

Charlie don't surf wrote:Ford is going to soooooo hate that

Hate what? How it's gonna handle?

You know how oval guys want handling everywhere

So do they handle good in this configuration?

In my opinion, not as well as when you use the stock geometry and TT rear rims and the Duratrash or Proline front rims. On an car that has has the what's old is new treatment it's fine (since you are at B4 width and geometry anyway) but with the short arm config with the B4 rims and especially the wide GT front axles, it looses a lot of grip in the center of the corner all the sudden-

I ran mine back to stock trim and it's twitchy compaired, but way faster in the corners-

Cool! Maybe i will try mine both ways and see which i like better.

mikea96 wrote:Cool! Maybe i will try mine both ways and see which i like better.

I think that is Ford's plan as well- as he mentioned, Jeff and Ruffy and myself went through both too