My name is Keith Morency and I come to you from the northeast US. Please join me as I put together my vintage rc collection display. Over 200 vintage rc’s from all manufactures. Both restorations and nib builds are featured. I can be reached at keithmorency8@gmail.com
Very cool man. I think your idea of putting the front tire with that ridge on it is a good one for that track. I'd think of something for the rear tires as well if possible. If possible with your transmitter, you could fool around a bit with the steering rate and the profile for acceleration. Just a few thoughts. I'm still a bit surprised about how much better your RC10 handled than most of the buggies you've run on here.
Nice test run, Chris sent me photos of the build also. Big project. I think the diff might need to be tighter and maybe a smaller pinion and timing adjustment...should be good. That gearbox is great...but it needs a tight diff. Maybe I should send you my Losi JRXT to RIP around the track 😊
The great thing with using the BBX gear box is the selection of parts. You can use an open gear diff from yeah racing or Tamiya. Tamiya's diff is oil filled with metal parts. The original Astute has a ball diff no slipper clutch and a 70t spur. The Super Astute has the slipper clutch (82 tooth spur) with the open gear diff. I have combined the two thinking it would make the car more "tune-able".
It was rolling around the track with some spunk! Hopefully the motor is not wrecked and can be brought back. I wish I had a recommendation other than gearing down a couple teeth on the pinion. I go by feel and temps usually and suck at the whole gear ratio business!
Once you put a motor in a new car, or change the gearing, it is a MUST to put your finger on the motor for 10 seconds after running it for 2 minutes full speed ! If you must remove the finger because of too much pain => WRONG gearing.
For a new build untested car I feel it did pretty well. Now it fast with that motor that's for sure. Front tires are wrong for the track and the diff maybe tight but it looked good LOL So happy you were able to run the car.
Thanks everyone for the kind words. To add to Keith's excellent presentation: The body is from Penguin, decals are MCI, shock towers are Yeah racing stock replacement in carbon. The chassis was drawn up in AutoCAD as a 2D layout. I had Send Cut Send make the chassis in alloy. It was not very time and cost effect to keep making alloy chassis as the design changed. So Wade Skelton help me with my 2D Cad files and made them 3D. Once the design was in 3D it could be converted to and STL file for 3D printing. My son then printed test chassis so I could test fit the design. This was a lot faster and cheaper especially when I had to move something 1 or 2mm. Once I had the finial design in plastic I had it made in alloy to test. Once the testing phase was complete I had Bezerk make the final product which was awesome.
Yeah thats a nice build for sure. Haha the pink acto power is exactly what i wanted to see it run with!! I had typed it then you got one out haha. Cant wait for the Super Astute to come out and I cant get over how its actually well bloody priced!! Nice to not have a car come out thats gonna cost us $800 here in Aus!!
Hi Keith all the way from Yorkshire England nice custom car looks cool should run good have spoken to Glenn at tamiya legends hope he is doing OK miss his content please tell him we miss him keep making your content 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
My dad did a killer job. He modeled the chassis in autocad and I 3d printed the prototypes. He then got those files made into carbon fiber. He’s been telling me about ur track for months. So awesome that you were able to run it
Chris is a one of a kind dude with an insane level of passion for RC - I’m so glad he was able to pull this off and that you’ll be sending it on your track this is so awesome!!! He must have freaked out when he saw this video 😄
