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S-PCS

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  1. Inspiration for that propane tank... Seattle Boeing bomber plant during WWII, in "harmless residential area" disguise. Urban camo, if you will.
  2. It's impossible not to be a fan of something that fires a 152mm shotgun shell.
  3. I would have sworn it couldn't be done, but... that is one good-looking Manta Ray!
  4. Well, you know where you can get the Direct Connection decals from, so that's a start
  5. One reason for high fuel consumption in the TBIs, at least in my expeerience, are bad O2 sensors. If you can get the old one out without stripping the threads in the manifold, it almost never hurts to replace the sensor.
  6. Oh yes. This is it. Wow. Haven't seen it in more than 30 years. Thank you very much.
  7. Very good, thanks a lot. That explains where the plate came from and indirectly proves the existence of the picture I described.
  8. Maybe I'm making this up, maybe not, it's getting increasingly harder to tell. I very clearly remember a picture that must have been a Tamiya promo photo, an action shot, one that I most likely saw in some sort of Tamiya sales literature, decades back, in the late 80s probably. It showed a pickup truck going thru a puddle at speed. At least that's how I remember it. I also remember very clearly that the pic was black and white, while at the same time I'm 100% sure the truck was red. But what I really remember is the truck's front plate, a California blue plate, a vanity plate to be exact, that read STOLEN. Every other detail might be just my mind trying to fill in the gaps, but it WAS a (Tamiya) truck and it HAD that plate. I've been leafing thru the period's guide books and catalogs, but to no avail. I can't find the picture. Is my mind playing tricks on me, or does anybody else remember this picture?
  9. This. NIB, my first-ever purchase thru the TC trades section. Thanks to the careful seller's packaging skills, it arrived unscathed despite DHL's best efforts to the contrary. Very happy with this transaction.
  10. I owned quite a few 4.3 powered trucks and vans, and I still have a '93 Chevy Caprice with a factory LB4 4.3 V6. (Yes, they made those, in 92-93 only, and only available to fleet account buyers). While the 4.3 V6 works well in light trucks in my opinion, the version that came in the passenger cars was a mid-80's, 130 hp econo version reactivated in '92, mostly for taxi fleet buyers that didn't want the 305... but backed by the same 4L60 transmission and 3.08 rear end... yeah... one of the less exciting GM powertrain options of the time, to put it politely.
  11. Thank you. All credit belongs to @Grastens, I just shamelessly copied the idea.
  12. Painted yet another Nissan Titan body, this time trying out something along the lines of the famous Grastens' Theme. I'm pretty impressed. Now I'll just have to assemble a chassis for it. One with black wheels.
  13. Unpainted, but don't ask me how I know, because I can't remember. When I built my first Boomerang, this question bothered me to no end, and I went looking thru all sorts of material to find an answer, and I did. Somewhere. Just can't remember where. But I'm positive on the "unpainted".
  14. A-we-so-me color. I'm going to commit some more paint job piracy and try some of your translucent orange mixing after I'm done with the Grastens' Theme.
  15. Bumpsteer fix, ball is non removable, simply swap left and right knuckles. File off a fraction of the control arms upper outer edge for steering rod clearance.
  16. Oh yes, those two. Thank you very much, I'll make sure to post whatever I'm going to paint.
  17. Finally got around to building the Super Hotshot. Amazing to see how they rigged up those substantial improvements without making even the slightest changes to the basic design.
  18. Technically, the standard AR-15 isn't high caliber, but I think there's a 50 cal version of it out there somewhere.
  19. Nothing really, but I stopped by at my LHS and picked up one can each of PS-1, PS-2 and PS-22. I think the green might be too bright and the red not dark enough, but it's a start. Now all I need to do is find the pics of that awesome buggy paint job that I've seen around here again.
  20. Medium-Higher grip concrete track, no traction issues, on the contrary, front end lifts coming out of the corners, that's part of the problem. I'm rather enjoying this, first serious attempt at racing anything. So many theories to try out, too bad I'll have to wait til Sunday. I'll have a look at your Shapeways store right now.
  21. It's getting out of corners that the car has trouble with... Right now, it turns in perfectly, and then loses it coming out of the turn under power. Not nearly as bad as in stock form, but far worse than I would expect with these upgrades.
  22. Front makes a remarkable difference in tight turns, rear (in this particular setup) makes no real difference at all. High speed straight line stability increased, as was to be expected. So far that is, I've only run it once, and the setup has yet to be refined. I went for a tighter rearend, softer frontend guesstimate as a starting point. Caster especially was pretty much near kit settings, and that didn't seem to work too well. The DF-03 shocks, set up according to the manual, were no improvement at all. They turned out rather bouncy on the DT-02, definitely no improvement over the kit shocks, not with the "medium" setup and the yellow kit oil. I guess once the rest is dialed in, the swaybars will make more of a difference.
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