I did not finish the race. It was 97F and we were racing with four to Five Nitro heats which overly extended my health. Anyway. I did run two heats. The first heat with GRP's I did not have enough traction. I had not prepped the track myself so it was a little different. I was actually spinning the back tires on corner exit. Once in a while I would roll the throttle on right and the car would scoot forward more rapidly than usual. I was using the small rotor geared lower in the 13.5. I had a bad crash where I spun and then a car hit me head on. It sheared the three aluminum bumper screws. These are now steel. This also damaged my spur which went unoticed so I thermalled in the second heat followed by thermalling myself. The new top plate sans hole held up well.
Here is Ricks Car with his electronics ready for a return trip. I thought you might want to see the electronics install which ended up fairly neat.
Also note the JR servo with a small servo saver. My medium Kimbrough servo saver had the incorrect spline. It is better suited. I did reinforce this servo saver with a nice graphite piece that CRC sells for the arm. Also I found some nice Blue decorative washers as this servo needed some washers. The holes were larger than the other two servos that had been on the car.
Here is a list of upgrades we made to the car. Most of these are to increase the ruggedness outdoors.
3344 Titanium Pivot Ball
3317 Ti Steering Tie Rod Gen X
1251 steering block front end (I think these are the little graphite arms)
Servo Saver reinforcement
Carbide diff balls
lightweight diff washers
Blue Aluminum Diff Nylock nut
Steel Center pivot ball from RC10L2 Tplate pivots
1/4 inch red Aluminum Axle Spacer from a KSG set
https://www.ssl-stormerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/seekpart.pl?src=ns&pn=LOSA3078
thin Belleville washers
https://www.ssl-stormerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/seekpart.pl?src=ns&pn=LOSA6009
Steel ball nuts
https://www.ssl-stormerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/seekpart.pl?src=ns&pn=ASC3858
Steel ball studs
Rick-Thanks a lot. I appreciated the loan. I'll send you a PM with details. Very nice car!
John