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The new ones are much better than the old ones. I deal with caddy's all day...

finally got the body mounted and the new wheels on. I think it turned out pretty good for my first attempt.

 

http://www.columbusracing.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=434&pictureid=3388

Oh trust me, I'm getting really good at putting this thing back together. I like the truggy, seems like it would take a hit, but with a low center of gravity would be easy to drive. The only thing that concerns me is the long and unprotected control arms. The guy at the hobby store warned me that they tend to break. Oh well, if I can find one for a good price I'll get one. I need something to mess around with off road.

I've been trying to find a nitro truck recentally. I got a feeling I'll be able to learn a little easier with a big truck that can take a hit once and a while.

eh, i see tons of CTS's. I haven't been impressed. Kinda interested to see how these new gens hold up.

Might have to check them out. So far I've only been to the 2 hobbytown stores (gahanna & hilliard) and hurricane hobbies (polaris). I saw a how-to the other day to turn a 4-tec into a rally car. Something about changing the control arms to a stadum truck and putting some larger wheels on. It is susposed to give that car a slightly higher stance and the ability to go slightly off road.

 

Apparently there is an RC shop on Gender Rd that just opened a new offroad track, and they are working on an indoor carpet track for on-road cars.

http://www.enhobbies.com/

They (Sears @ Polaris) had small bags of powder for $1.99 a bag. not bad since each bag is susposed to cover 7 sq/ft.

sorry, I got this from my Benz buddy in an e-mail today. we had a few slr's in the shop a few months ago. amazing cars...drool....

It's a Mercedes Benz owned by an Abu Dhabi

oil billionaire (naturally).

 

Featuring the newly developed V10 quad turbo

with 1,600 horsepower and 2800nm of torque

0-100km/h in less than 2secs, 1/4 mile in 6.89 secs

running on biofuel.

 

That is NOT stainless steel, people; it is WHITE GOLD!

 

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wow, 33 views and nothin...

I worked for Advance Auto parts. Drove from Marysville to Marion for class and then went to London to work at the new store we opened. 134 miles a day.

Anybody have a hookup? I found some powder at Sears today on clearance. Just need somebody that has the machine.

It would be the 2.5R motor then. It has the blue anodized head.

It's either a 2.5 or a 2.5R. I can't figure out how to tell them apart.

yep, 4-tec w/.25 motor. I guess that makes sense. Break the cheep and easy to get to parts. At least I'm getting really good at taking it apart and rebuilding it. ha ha ha

 

That's the 4Tec, right? Just remember that when you replace plastic with aluminum, the force just gets transferred to the next part. Better to bust an arm than a bulkhead. It's a bigger concern for larger offroad cars, I guess.

Well, the little car is back in one piece. Now I just gotta cut the holes in the body so I can mount it on the car. That front diff was a PITA to get put back together. I'll try and get a pic of it this weekend.

Well, I got mine back together to find out that another piece is broke. At least it runs again. Stupid plastic pieces. Gonna start looking for metal suspension pieces.

ah, no biggie. You guys had more than the other hobby stores. Just need a battery pack and gas tank to get it back up and running.

 

Sorry we did not have that tank tonight lol.

 

I have my "hurd" down to 3 now just racing stuff I don't have any bashing stuff.

 

For 3 years I raced nitro off-road every weekend somewhere in ohio and got very burnt out.

my buddy has a few trucks and tried to get me to start with them. I just prefer the nitro cars. Might look into getting something off road for the winter.

 

i got 2 trucks....spent to much money fixing them....they just sit in my garage taking space...only thing sweet is when they are running and launching them off ramps

I found one on craigslist for $100. it ran, just needed cleaned up. then I started breaking parts. ha ha ha.

 

i played around with them last year but they started to add up in costs and decided to sell most of them off

 

i had a cen ct5, tmaxx 3.3 and i still have my electric 4tec

interesting... there was a guy working at the hobby store in Gahanna that looks familiar from cars and coffee.

 

no lol brian "wagner" works at some hobby shop. an also races rc cars

WTF? did I start something?

 

*INB4BRIANWAGNERBLOWSTHISTHREADUP*

so far it's just nickel and dime stuff. nothing crazy expensive.

 

That'll change. They're money pits.

Yeah, I'm learning. I had to replace both servos, the gas tank, battery pack, front bumper and rear shock tower. My car wants to be a airplane. It launched off a driveway and over a mailbox...

Anybody get into R/C cars? I got a Traxxas 4-Tec that I've been messing around with. So far I've only broke it once.