View Poll Results: what's your tire choice?
Protoform
46
30.67%
HPI
104
69.33%
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4318LikesU.S. Vintage Trans-Am Racing Part 2
11-06-2012, 03:26 PM
#2476
Positively nessesary! You will pull the tire off the rim without a good glue job. Be sure to get the tire seated on the bead of the rim good before glueing. Get a toothpick, hold the sidewall away from the rim and put a drop on it, letting it chase down one side. Wherever it stops, repeat, til you've made it all the way around. I use thin because it flows better
11-06-2012, 05:06 PM
#2477
Tech Addict
Positively nessesary! You will pull the tire off the rim without a good glue job. Be sure to get the tire seated on the bead of the rim good before glueing. Get a toothpick, hold the sidewall away from the rim and put a drop on it, letting it chase down one side. Wherever it stops, repeat, til you've made it all the way around. I use thin because it flows better
11-06-2012, 05:10 PM
#2478
Tech Addict
new question on novak edge esc
just finished programming radio to esc should i leave the esc at factory default settings?
11-06-2012, 07:35 PM
#2482
This is that new Vaughn Gittin Jr body for his drifter from HPI. Its on their website now. 69 Mustang with a sweet custom spoiler rear end. Assume it will be VTA legal? I imagine they will offer the body clear. If not, at least the RTR version.
11-06-2012, 07:38 PM
#2483
Tech Addict
thanks. i also notice that if cut off the radio before i esc the car takes off the reason i ask my 1/12 scales don't do that. just wondering is this normal i know that you cut off car first then radio.
11-06-2012, 07:41 PM
#2484
Tech Addict
mustang
yea nice mustang body. but wondering how would you get that flat black
11-06-2012, 07:45 PM
#2485
Tech Addict
rims om mustang
would be nice if those rims would be vta legal
11-06-2012, 07:50 PM
#2486
That body comes that way in their new RTR-X drifter package. I'd have to think you can buy a replacement body just like it. Don't know if they will offer it in clear or not. Tamiya makes a "flat" spray that you can coat any body with on the outside to dull it. But, this looks different than that somehow. It looks like its almost got a texture.
http://www.hpiracing.com/kitinfo/109299/
http://www.hpiracing.com/kitinfo/109299/
11-06-2012, 08:19 PM
#2488
I dont see HPI putting in all that money into the tooling for the mold and not releasing the shell independently of the car. They would lose out on Drifter and VTA racers.
The other thing that would be very dissapointing would be failure to make the USVTA accepted list. So everybody look at Robk and say pleeeeeeeeeeaaase.....
Last thing is that Im thinking the hood is actually smooth and that trumpet intake is molded plastic. Which isnt very VTAish. Certanly don't care for the green lights for my purposes.
The other thing that would be very dissapointing would be failure to make the USVTA accepted list. So everybody look at Robk and say pleeeeeeeeeeaaase.....
Last thing is that Im thinking the hood is actually smooth and that trumpet intake is molded plastic. Which isnt very VTAish. Certanly don't care for the green lights for my purposes.
