Originally Posted by
Bubonic-X
We used the clear plastic ballcup that dubro made with a pen spring. Associated also came out with a chassis stiffener that was made of kydex that u glued to the chassis front to back.
Last the motor plate hole needs to be reemed top a bigger diameter and the rear chassis slots need to be extended forward from where they are about a half inch. If your looking to be vintage the only body u can run is a TOJ that's all we ran in socal"
Jake Gutierrez
Thanks for the tips, I have the ball cup/spring setup from the rollers, just about the the last thing I did, I have it on the car now. And thanks for the tip about opening up the motor plate hole, I can see where it would bind up. Your last comment about the TOJ made me open up a NIB TOJ w/paint. I could not resist. I am still in the process of painting the other bodies...will post up soon. Not sure about the tires though, I have a few different compounds to try...
As far as running it...We have a great indoor carpet program in the winter here in Seattle, so I'll be gettting a few runs this winter with other club members who want to try thier hand with the old futaba radio.
And a some runs this summer at the local tracks to try it out on the asphalt.
I have a modern car for racing, but can't wait to play with this in practice from time to time, and to let others who may have run old 12ths to try a resistor car again. Truthfully, at this point I still don't know how the radio will behave. "On throttle" glitching, hanging throttle, random glitching, low voltage were the car starts runnning circles on its own...those where the days.
I have a big, semi clean, fairly new asphalt parking lot, already picked out for the "check it out with nothing else around" run.
Tracy