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RC10DS - 1970 Chevy Chevelle
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2020 1:17 am
by LoboNYC
Re: RC10DS - 1970 Chevy Chevelle
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2020 3:51 am
by RC10th
Huh? That's news to me if the blue anno tub is longer then the black tub.....
Re: RC10DS - 1970 Chevy Chevelle
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2020 5:27 am
by Incredible_Serious
RC10th wrote: ↑Fri Jun 19, 2020 3:51 am
Huh? That's news to me if the blue anno tub is longer then the black tub.....
Looks longer in the nose area, to my untrained eye.... but then again, what do I know about 10GT's?
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Re: RC10DS - 1970 Chevy Chevelle
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2020 7:13 am
by RC10th
My guess is the DS has a cut down tub......
Fascinating
Re: RC10DS - 1970 Chevy Chevelle
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2020 8:35 am
by GoMachV
RC10th wrote: ↑Fri Jun 19, 2020 3:51 am
Huh? That's news to me if the blue anno tub is longer then the black tub.....
It’s not that that blue was longer than normal- it was the same as a regular GT. The NDS was however a shorter chassis than the GT and carried a different part number- 8815
Re: RC10DS - 1970 Chevy Chevelle
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2020 8:50 am
by KidAgain
Sweet your back bud cant wait to see the progress...................................
I will have wheels available soon for us DS guys and plenty of slicks available on the market for said wheels...............
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Re: RC10DS - 1970 Chevy Chevelle
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2020 6:21 pm
by LoboNYC
Incredible_Serious wrote: ↑Fri Jun 19, 2020 5:27 am
RC10th wrote: ↑Fri Jun 19, 2020 3:51 am
Huh? That's news to me if the blue anno tub is longer then the black tub.....
Looks longer in the nose area, to my untrained eye.... but then again, what do I know about 10GT's?
YOU ARE CORRECT, the extra length is in the front end (nose area) of the GT chassis.
As GoMachV stated, the GT chassis whether stock black or anodized blue is longer in length than the DS chassis.
the GT chassis also has two holes for the nose tubes where the DS has only one.
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Re: RC10DS - 1970 Chevy Chevelle
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2020 6:23 pm
by LoboNYC
KidAgain wrote: ↑Fri Jun 19, 2020 8:50 am
Sweet your back bud cant wait to see the progress...................................
I will have wheels available soon for us DS guys and plenty of slicks available on the market for said wheels...............
Thanks KidAgain! glad to be back and building a new DS. kind of nicer to build a new kit than restoring a wreck, lol.
cant wait to see them slicks!
Re: RC10DS - 1970 Chevy Chevelle
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2020 6:27 pm
by LoboNYC
GoMachV wrote: ↑Fri Jun 19, 2020 8:35 am
RC10th wrote: ↑Fri Jun 19, 2020 3:51 am
Huh? That's news to me if the blue anno tub is longer then the black tub.....
It’s not that that blue was longer than normal- it was the same as a regular GT. The NDS was however a shorter chassis than the GT and carried a different part number- 8815
That's why i love this forum...thank you GoMachV for dropping knowledge!
Re: RC10DS - 1970 Chevy Chevelle
Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2020 5:47 pm
by romulus22
That body fits that chassis and wheel setup really well. Has that “stockish” wheels sunk under the fenders look, which I think looks “correct” for a car of that era.
Re: RC10DS - 1970 Chevy Chevelle
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2020 11:27 pm
by LoboNYC
romulus22 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 20, 2020 5:47 pm
That body fits that chassis and wheel setup really well. Has that “stockish” wheels sunk under the fenders look, which I think looks “correct” for a car of that era.
Thanks Todd, I was trying my best to match a DS car to that the body. Using the GT chassis allowed the match.
I lucked out with the wheel style and their offest. They're geared towards the crawler and scale truck market. I like their look with the HPI tires.
“stockish” wheels sunk under the fenders look
photos of actual chevys not mine...
Re: RC10DS - 1970 Chevy Chevelle
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2020 10:41 am
by Coelacanth
I'm just not digging those grey wheels...the style is too high positive offset for my tastes, for a muscle car. I think HPI nailed it with their vintage VTA wheel series:
https://www.hpiracing.com/en/part/3822
Kyosho's wheels are so-so, but could be made to look pretty close if you painted the wheel insides black and left the 5-spokes chromed...but I'm not a fan of how muscle cars looked back in the day, with their skinny little pinwheels and bias-ply tires. If you look at a stock 1970 Charger with the original P195 75R14 size tires on it, it looks like crap, especially from behind, because the tires are sucked in so far inside the rear wheel-wells. It just looks so much better with 255's or 275's, to just fill the wheel-wells. I'm not a fan of the "fat tires sticking out 2 inches past the wheel-wells" trash look, either. They need to properly fill the wheel-wells but not go beyond them.
Re: RC10DS - 1970 Chevy Chevelle
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2020 5:05 pm
by XLR8
Re: RC10DS - 1970 Chevy Chevelle
Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2020 11:07 am
by Coelacanth
Those look good, Doug, I also dig a little chrome. The first set of wheels fit your body quite nicely and look great.
When I look at those Kyosho muscle car models, the stock wheels and tires all look too skinny to my liking. When I see those chassis' with no body mounted, the rears especially don't look right to me. I suppose that look is close to how the cars looked when they rolled off the production line, with the more mainstream performance options (i.e. not the Hemi R/T's, 440 6-Packs, 396 SS's, etc.), but I just feel the wheels & tires should be wider.
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Re: RC10DS - 1970 Chevy Chevelle
Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2020 3:09 pm
by XLR8
Coelacanth wrote: ↑Wed Jun 24, 2020 11:07 am
Those look good, Doug, I also dig a little chrome. The first set of wheels fit your body quite nicely and look great.
When I look at those Kyosho muscle car models, the stock wheels and tires all look too skinny to my liking. When I see those chassis' with no body mounted, the rears especially don't look right to me. I suppose that look is close to how the cars looked when they rolled off the production line, with the more mainstream performance options (i.e. not the Hemi R/T's, 440 6-Packs, 396 SS's, etc.), but I just feel the wheels & tires should be wider.
Thanks, I really like the chrome wheels as well.
I want to be careful here as I don't want to hijack this thread and steer it off-topic. Maybe this is a good place to discuss availability of wheels and tires for these cars -- or maybe not. LoboNYC, please tell us to to take this discussion elsewhere and we will. No worries, I promise!
I agree that the tires supplied with Kyosho and other models would look better if they were wider, but 26mm has become the industry standard width for these cars. I think this goes all the way back to the touring car era and perhaps some time before that. Contributing to the skinny tire appearance is the car's width. The Kyosho Chevelle body for instance is 8-5/16" wide. If it were true to scale, it would be only 7-1/2" wide.
Vaterra supplies 30mm wide tires for the rear of their cars and similar width tires are also supplied with certain Tamiya models (mostly for Porsche models). But those non-standard width wheels and tires tend to be a bit exclusive and more expensive so, with the Camaro, I save them for shelf duty.
... and fit the cheaper stuff on track days.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to LoboNYC's next update.
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