As I said before we are getting parts in all the time. Pretty sure we have been receiving shipments almost every week. Most part shipments come by air not sea, by the way.

I believe they are the same but everywhere was sold out so I went through Lunsford website and they have a set labeled b5. I saw a lot of ppl saying ball cups where hard to thread I just did mine with Lunsford and went on easy but I use Chapstick on threads also.

Anyone..? Or is it the onroad genes in me thinking crazy stuff like this :sweat:

More wire = more weight

Worth the risk!

Ill use some Vaseline or something

Got my kit built, painting the body and gluing tires now.

A few notes from my build:
Ballcups are a flipping nightmare, SO tight on the turnbuckles.
Is it just my kit, or is the body pathetically flimsy?
I was missing one of the 3 hole hub inserts, I got 1 3 hole, and 3 2 holes. Not major, but annoying.
My gearcover has a big melted hole in it, looks like a soldering iron touched it, but more likely wasn't molded properly.

All in all an OK build, hopefully they'll get the problems worked out. Going to email about the messed up parts tomorrow.

Also, I noticed some typos in the manual, usually parts being labled with the wrong color.

Can't wait to hit the track!

Didn't notice anything being the wrong color in the manual.
Sucks about the bad parts and inserts as you really need the 3 hole ones. The 2 hole ones will work, just pick the hole that is slightly longer than the 3 hole middle. Sigh.
Yes, the ball cups are horribly tight. Reaming the ends a bit and grease is your friend. I drilled mine out, but others didn't fare so well with that.
My body was crazy thin as well. It's nice, light weight, but won't hold up to weeks of club racing in some circles. Also, makes cutting masking a pita. I run a C4.2 finnisher body trimmed at the rear.

Call me crazy but I pick up my B5 kit this morning and hope to be driving it Saturday afternoon! Gonna try it out in Mod buggy with a very tame motor. But my LHS does have a VERY light supply of spare parts. The buggies are tough and I have no worries going out there... Thanks AE for getting the kits out there!

:lol:

If it would be a possibility, I'd do it! Would make things a lot cleaner and easier to swap batteries!

I will give it a try when I get mine at the end of the month when my track gets the rest of their order in.

The manual would say "blue locknut", and it'd be black. "Gold washer", it'd be silver. Nothing serious.

I ended up cutting about 4mm off the end of each turnbuckle, makes them much easier to adjust. We'll see if it affects durability at all.

Anyone running an 8.5t with stock timing? I am looking for a starting point for pinion gear selection. I am going to be using a 78 spur on a small track. I just ordered the B5 after talking myself out of the Serpent, I hope I made a good choice.

New Jconcepts silencer body. Redrc.net
Proline looks better, but jconcepts looks to have better airflow.

Nikon D7100