i have dropped off my wife’s rc10t chassis at the shop to be powder coated. now i can sit and wait for them to call and tell me it’s ready. hopefully it gets here soon.

the color chosen for the chassis is white.

i finished the storage drawer units in the  shop now. man do i have enough room to last me a little while at least. i also cleaned up the shop a little and sat out all of the rc fleet so everyone can see how it has grown. now to delays in posting the rc500 you see in the pics has been sold and is no longer in my possession. it has a new home with another collector.

a lot of people have said that the durango chassis is not worth using due to weight. well with lipo batteries and everybody  adding weight to their cars how is the few extra grams going to be a problem? i would much rather run a heavy buggy than a light weight one for the simple fact that a heavy buggy will feel more planted due to that extra weight.

anyway here are the different weights. carbon b4 chassis 119 grams, alloy durango chassis 169 grams. so there you have it. 50 grams. people are putting alot more than 50 grams of lead weight in their buggies so i just see it as saving myself a step.

ok the rc10t i picked up for my wife is an early version with the skinny front wheels. now i could just go with the wide fronts that are communally used today but i wanted to keep the vintage skinny front look. now look at this. i also want to be able to use a modern compound tire so the truck will be worth driving on the track. now seeing that the stock skinny front wheels are a 3 piece wheel that is suppose to work like a bead lock rim i come across another problem. the modern tires are so soft they would never stay on the rim without gluing them. now i do not want to glue than. the old skinny wheels are too hard to come by to do that.  so now i am needing skinny front wheels and tires of a modern style and compound.

me and my bright   ideas huh? am i really asking for too much? never!

i found the jconcepts site to have something that may just work for me. they make a rc10t4 to 1/8 scale buggy conversion. in this conversion you get skinny front wheels and tires. i took the chance and bought rims and tires in the hopes that the offsets would work out for me. well i have got them in and every measurement is exact. the with, diameter, backspacing, is all the same. what is different is that they are a modern looking wheel that is one piece and lets not forget how much lighter they are than the 3 piece stockers. as for the tires. other than the fact that the jconcepts skinny front tires are softer and require foam inserts unlike the original rc10t tires they appear nearly so identical they could have came from the same mold except for the lettering on the sidewalls.

well here are the pics so you can see for yourself.

the wife has always been a truck kind of gal so i picked this one up for her. as you can tell it will be a project but it will be ready to race with style once i get it cleaned up. more updated pics will be coming soon so keep your eyes open!