Was down at the track breaking in the engine on Wednesday and started tear down and prep for the last round of JBRL yesterday and found this. Didnt have any big tumbles since I was running really rich and slow so I suspect it had actually cracked the last time I was out and came apart at the end of the day, Wednesday. Could see that I had a lot of extra camber when I came off the track from the last tank but figured I had bent a turnbuckle when I clipped a pipe. Hingepins and turnbuckles were in perfect shape, not a mark on them somehow. Need new diff case and the new pivot block and of course, no shops had one in the area (a few shops stock the SC parts but nothing for buggy).

The Tekno will sit on the shelf this weekend (and maybe far longer) while I finish up the build on an MBX7R I started yesterday. Always sucks going into a race with a brand new car but I wanted to find something with better parts support for the time being and there are tons of Mugens out here.

I had just sprayed down the front bulkhead with Trackpower, it isnt bleeding (on the outside anyways ).


On a positive note, I ran into a younger driver by the name of Rudy (team driver) and his father, John last night. They had a used pivot block they were willing to give me but no diff cases unfortunately. They were happy to help out and man, that kid is fast (15 I believe)! I helped them out with the tuning of their engine as it was super lean and we talked for much of the evening (I was building the new buggy at the track).