What did you do today?

[K.O.M.]

if ya dont leave clearance for the motor its gonna get wide on ya just sayin

Thanks for the reminder! I'm using the stock width trans skid, so lots of room with any 540/550 jammed all the way to the stops. Definitely a check if I was designing another comp crawler--I remember the original Bender AX10 chassis was open on the motor side for a reason.

 

[Goro Majima]

The ToF VRD Carbon I won is getting a bobbed LC80.

 

[Goro Majima]

Used the portion I trimmed off for the bob to glue underneath to hold both body parts together. The paint will remain underneath as a conventional lexan job. The cut line will be pretty visible on top, and I'm totally ok with it. The bob amount is about 1.5". I'd love to finish this build by Sunday's monthly meet but with this glue drying tonight I won't be able to mask moldings tonight. This build is also going to be fitted with the VRD Carbon decals. Should be a pretty rad big tire 80 series.

 

[Gula]

Get some pinstripe tape for the gap/cut. It could help break up the hard line

 

[Goro Majima]

Unfortunately the body gets narrower on the corners of the roof, so there's a slight width difference which will be the most noticable. I'll take a pic when I get home.

 

[Goro Majima]

Not bad from this angle.




Pretty fat gap.




Here's the gap difference. The other cut line along the window molding, my intention was to trim out a faint V to bring the front side down more but unfortunately decided against it after I cut part of it. Masking for the black window molding is next so it'll hide that cut at least.




This one ain't gonna make Sunday's meet anyway since I decided I want to add decals that come with the Stance body (the blue set). Should look sweet on this Coral Gray color.

 

[Gula]

Removes the broken lip today.
PO made it so........., it required the removal of the front end, as there were nuts behind the fascia/splitter/bumper. Arrrrrrr, what a pain to keep from getting scuffed. Out came the blankets and tape. i did some of the old 3M adhesive removal in the grass, (lazy me used a pin stripe removal rubber wheel and I still didn't finish. But that shit works awesome on low speed! Ask me why low speed, lol.
Ran out of sunshine/warmth for the evening and had to get some of the 3M double sided tape to hold the new one.
Finish in the AM

 

[Gula]

Eh?

 

[Timmahh]

Raked the front yard track and other areas. Removed 1/2 the leaves/sticks. Other 1/2 tomorrow some pics, and hopefully sum runtime.

 

[Sherman]

Not really today, but over the last week I installed 12mm hub extenders on the Element Bronco, put a new motor in the Element Zuul, put the wheels back on the Zuul. Today I've been finally making some progress getting my next adventure campaign ready for my D&D party. I have to populate like 20 maps with enemies and commoners with all their stats and then run through the campaign in my head. I've had the group on break for the last month so I need to kick it in gear so we can get playing again.

 

[Timmahh]

 

[Mopar man]

You need some chicken crossing signs. Great looking track and your deck looks like the perfect place to drink beer and do some racing

 

[Deerhurst]

Moved some poop. Cubic yard for moved from the trailer to raised garden beds for the wife. Also fixed the misfire on the neighbor's e250 van.

 

[cul8tr]

Well went to run the trail with my Origin and that went great. Back off the trail and playing on the track. While adjusting the rear spring preload. The sock cap came unscrewed and lost the oil. I started to just go home that just bumped me out. I didn't have any shock oil with me. Got to looking around in my yota truck and I found some trans fluid decided to pass on that. Then I found an old bottle of sae 30wt motor oil. So I put that in the shocks and it worked great. Saved the day kept playing.

 

[Timmahh]

You need some chicken crossing signs. Great looking track and your deck looks like the perfect place to drink beer and do some racing

Ha. thats a good idea on the signs. May need to give Tony the Sign Guy a ringa ding. lol

My Thoughts exactly but fog the spliff over drink the beer is more my speed.

 

[high plains drifter]

My wife don't allow me to do either so I'd probably want to do a little of each lol.

Track looks incredibly fun and really well thought-out and constructed. You're gonna be having some fun out there.

Chicken crossing signs for sure... even if homemade.

 

[Goro Majima]

Here's footage from the show n shine part of the meet today. Couldn't load the whole line up of rigs so just trimmed the clip to show ones I brought. And ran my 10.2 Tacoma through the gates.



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Also afterwards, some of us stuck around for a comp run, more of a practice run for class 2. I don't do comps but since I was familiar with the dudes running it I decided to run the same rig in, which consists of 1.55 wheels and no sliders lol. We did 2 runs, which I was last in both.
The 2nd run was a DNF, as half way through the gates a rear wheel came off due to no thread lock at the hub. That was super fun to do though even though I was kinda handicapped and not set up for comping (120mm shocks with no springs and 50wt oil, hops like a MF). I'm going to put a functional set of shocks on it and test it on the same set of rocks in the future. Once I test it and it's performance is as suspected, I'll leave the 1100kv in. Otherwise I could've utilized a bit more wheel speed.