I finished the car up, adding the weight with the alloy, heavy front bumper. I did get to test the car last weekend, and it was extremely fast, but had to be very careful with the throttle. I can imagine on a hot day this thing will rip.
Shame they never made much of these. I think the guy who made it will make them if you request him personally. It's very well done, IMO, other than I really didn't like the massive front spoiler.
I replaced the rear shocks with these interesting ones I found from Integy (to this day I will...
Got the new wheels and tires mounted and painted. Looks like potentially some warmer weather Sunday so maybe even take it for a test hit or two. The car only weighs 4.2 lbs. I need to add weight, by rule it needs to be 4.54 or higher, and also it has no chance of hooking up at 4.2, especially...
That's all most monster truck racing is any more, electric. It's crazy, when I first got into nitro, the most popular thing around was nitro monster truck racing, mostly TMaxxes. When I first got into drag racing, which was later on, it was all electric too, or so I thought anyway. There was...
I'm pretty much strictly nitro drag racing and nitro monster truck racing, and the monster truck thing is pretty far back these days, even considered selling them but I knew I'd never get what I put into them.
I had a car sort of "fall into my hands" last week. It was a teammate's car (Rustler) that I sold him an alloy Slash transmission to a couple of years ago. I regretted that recently after trying to find another one of those things. So, I asked him to buy it back, and he offered to sell me the...