Originally Posted by
ScottKelly911
Have a couple of questions for you guys:
1. You guys seemed to back off on your support of the Shortcourse classes and haven't come out with any new bodies in quite some time (scale bodies don't count in my book since those are geared towards bashers and nobody uses them to race with). Are you planning on any new bodies? That Ford Atlas body would be super cool if it were made into an SC body, love that front end! I'd think you guys would want to support SC since they go through bodies and tires fairly quickly compared to buggies. Last I checked, you guys are in the Body and tire business, so I'd think you'd want to support the class since it's a money maker. It's simple business 101 right there lol I'm hoping with JC's close relationship with AE, that once the B5/B5m based SC's come out, hopefully you guys will come out with some new bodies as well and help reinvigorate the class
2. I ask this question periodically and it still hasn't happened, but I have my hopes...are you guys planning to finally give us Pre-cut bodies? I haven't run a JC body in years on my Shortcourse trucks simply because it's easier to mount my Pre-cut Proline bodies (and TLR Pre-cuts before I switched brands). I know I'm not alone in this, because I talk to people about it all the time at the track.
Unfortunately SCT is on a huge downswing while other race classes, scalers, etc are exploding. This means all time and resources are focused towards manufacturing product to meet demands. The distributors dictate a lot and I can assure you the manufactures have a good feel for what they should be producing.
As a racer, it's really easy to feel like whatever we're most interested in and see doing well locally is strong nationwide, but that's not always the case
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That being said; if the addition of new SCT kits helps revitalize the class nationwide, we will certainly produce new bodies.
Pre-cut SCT bodies are really nice and we would love to offer them, but unfortunately the class isn't strong enough currently for the huge cost involved.
Need to glue up 2 sets of 2.4's with dirt tech inserts. Any updates on results regarding cutting/punching dirt tech inserts?
I'm still just cutting the inner ribs off the inserts with good results
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