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Here it is, finally. After about a year of gathering parts, tinkering around, waiting for certain parts to show up, scouring the Earth of certain pieces, etc, it's finally done! And I couldn't be happier. I started out a Losi guy, I never had an RC10 bitd. It would not have been possible to build this car without this board. So many parts came from the members here. This car started life out as a busted old Jrx2. The car would have made a fine runner/beater, but I wanted a shelf queen. So, I replaced about 95% of the parts. The idea wasn't to make a box-art-stocker, I'm not really in to those. Instead, I wanted to make a slighly hopped up car, one that would have had the kind of stuff people would have upgraded bitd to take racing at the local club. It's set up for stock class racing, as those are the electronics I had available, and I ran in the stock class myself back then. I would have liked to put some zero-loss connectors on the ESC, I have them, but I couldn't bring myself to chopping off the stock Tamiya connectors on a vintage Novak that is in nearly mint condition.

Here's a rundown of parts. A&L bb bell crank steering, Technacraft titaninum turnbuckles, Litespeed Litesink, Revtech stock motor, Novak T4 ESC, Novak reciever, Losi tires, RPM (I think, can't remeber this morning) front bumper, RPM gear cover, CRP shock clamps.

I'm very happy with the way this car turned out, it's going to look great sitting beside my RC10's and the Fox. I looked at my old RCCA's for vintage paint inspiration, and I'm happy with the way it turned out as well. There are some flaws in it of course, but I don't mind, that's how it would have been if I had painted it 18 years ago too. Thanks to everybody who helped me in my search for parts for this baby.

Looks awesome Mel. Nice job!

Congrats Mel!

Are you actually going to run it ?

Here it comes at last! I LOVE it, great job!! Have you dyed the steering rack? I guess so. Also, have you used the body I sold you back then? Thumbs up!

Wow, that is flipping awesome. I could only wish my JRX2 would turn out as nice.

Thanks guys.

saucisse, nope not going to run this one.

Asso, yep I died the steering rack as well as the shock collars, they were all yellow. I ended up using a new, uncut body I got off of ebay.

Nice build, Scott.

A big "atta'boy" for this one. Can't go wrong with full-build ,race-ready Losis.






A "10" for sure.

Fantastic job all around with some Great paint. I need to get up the courage to paint mine up.

Mel, if you need any extra "zero loss" connectors, just let me know. I have a ton of them NIP. Just send me your addy and I will send out a set. But it you can't bring yourself to cut the wires, I understand.

Jay

WOW! That car is like my favorite porn. I just can't stop lookin at it.

great job on the build-up scott. the car looks awesome.

really sweet car. i can only hope mine turns out half that good!

nice job, looks sweet!

i'd hit it.

They are still such a good looking bodyshell, even now.

Wish i could find a NIP one!!

Great job on the car dude.