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offroad is dieing at the local RC track so i picked up a tc4 club racer off a local racer










first thing i had to do is a new body for it so i found an Acura TL body and did it up

after i installed my electronics into the car its a heavy pig so i had to put it on a diet .. the car is 110 grams over weight so out come the scales

i took the steel diff out of the fron and installed the plastic one and saved 7 grams

changed the rear alum cvd to the plastic cvd and saved 3 grams

changed the front cvd from steel to alum and saved 4 grams

found a team carbon fiber chassis on ebay and saved 59 grams





but found out i needed a diffrent motor mount

i had a tc5 motor plate that i thought i could make it work







after mocking it up it just had to many problems so i ended up haveing to make a motor mount .. not the easest thing to do with no template .. just a set of calapers, drill press, hand file and the old parts





after i had it installed i found that the 50t 64p pinion hit the motor screws so back at it and milled 2 mm off the 4mm plate

so i was able to mount the motor .. and it looked good .. now on to other problems like the top plate stand offs, upper camber plates, screws, battery mounts







also whent ahead and installed an alum screw kit



and seeing that my eyesight isnt what it use to be i installed a lighting system on the new body





looks cool running at the track

I could use the lighting system, What and where and how? I have the same car.

Yours looks great. How does it handle, speed, corner?

this is the led kit i used http://www.ebay.ca/itm/New-12-LED-4-8-6V-RC-Car-Flashing-Light-Lamp-System-Kit-Set-HFUS-/390658437944?hash=item5af50eb338:g:DigAAMXQJK1SMAtf

as for handling .. im not sure .. i just got the chassis installed for a race but the servo took a crap so i was never able to know

the car was 110 grams over weight but now is at weight so im hopeing to tell next weeks race ill get a pict of the inner body shot