GTodd

Have they shown anything in the way of supporting it and/developing it?

That looks very good, and will likely ease your tuning. Maybe take a look at some TRF201 set up sheets as a base line. I was positive that Tamiya would come out with another buggy or option kit to do as you did, I'm very surprised that they have not yet. How's it look with the body on?

The fact Tamiya brought out the rere astute with a metric spur gear while the 201 and 5xxs had standard pitch 48 pinions is goofy . Either get a Tamiya standard spur gear for the 201 or an AE spur gear and you are all set.

Ive never broken either on my 89 Avante or rere Egress. Just get a few spares of each.

Welp, this is why the differential didnt have any kind of differential action. The spring washers and thrust beaing are missing. Luckily Tamiya USA had them althoguh the thrust bearing is the kind you have to assemble....

Hahahah yes, Ive got some parts on order from Mr Collins.

Parts have been ordered, tear down begins. This wont be a complete nut and bolt tear down but a rebuild as needed. Its in pretty good shape. Starting from the front. Here you can see the Infamous E4, and D5 pieces in which the shock towers and arms are hung from. A metal D5 and 3D print E4 are on order. Mmmmm press nut for the shocks, nope that wont work. Bottom of E4, looks to have some use, surprised its still in one piece! The Chassis has zero marks on it, likely going to order a Fibrelyte graphite one in order to preserve this now rare chassis piece. Lastly the rear suspension D parts, surprised they arent cracked, replacements ordered. The DS is in pretty good shape but the non press nuts in the D parts (probably why they aren't cracked) and press nuts on the shocks point to it having some use. Trans already removed as the differential has no differential action, and Im sure that will be good news.....

What do you do when you vow to not buy anymore RC, havent finished your other two builds, and have plans to buy property in Italy? Well you buy a Dynastorm at 2AM!!! I had wanted a Dyna Storm (DS) since 92ish when they first came out. Girls, real cars, and adult hood quickly stole my attention and that was that. Fast forward 2003ish and Tamiya brings the DS back out, war on terror is about to start and before you know it its 2009 and after a deployment I finally get a DS. There is a build thread in here but most the pics are broken. The First track outing the infamous E4 broke as well as one of the D rear suspension bulk heads,SMH. The DS ran well before it broke. Dont meet your heroes and all that stuff, it became a shelf Queen. Summer of 2014 I sold it to fund aftermarket parts for my full size car. So here we go again, im going to rebuild this as OEM+. Im going to try and use as many Tamiya parts as possible from latter cars, and Metal/3D print for parts that can't be sourced. My goal is to have a runner that I can use on track when I take the 511 out and the yard to play with my son and the other rides. If I fail, she shall be back for sale!! Here she is, she is beautiful! Here we go.

Need to build that graphite! That's very iconic!

Looks like some of my links are wonky, I'll fix. Yeah I never liked the gold, too blingy and NJ for me, and I'm from NJ! I didn't just want to do another worlds either. The team car has a nice contrast and I love it!!

Back where she belongs….. https://i.postimg.cc/W12NCQZd/IMG-20240209-185559848.jpg[/img][/url] I love the look of the Jconcepts chassis brace, serves a purpose as well. https://i.postimg.cc/k5GnXKf9/IMG-20240209-185954592.jpg[/img][/url] Looking good!!

Very nice build! Thank you for the share!

NEW EVO and New Egress are not fragile as the plastics are new. 10 years from now, sure. Right now, no. Both would be fun. EVO would be more competitive DBO1 would be the best and is still modern enough to fight for wins at the club level.

Oh for sure, no autos! I am looking into the feasibility of using the Porsche Boxster trans. Apparently some have used it in their GT40s.

I think Super lite and RCR which make very high quality cars. I REALY want to build a GT40 type car, BUT the mid engine special trans make the builds very pricey.

Yep, I'm in America! Currently looking at FFR FIA 289, 65 Coupe, and ERAs 289. The ERA has higher resale, but the FFRs are easier to work on and both are near 1:1 replicas of the real deal. The ERA gets the nod for authentism due to its Jag rear, but the FFRs S550 independent rear is good too ....hmmmmmm

With life, an amaizng family, and work I find that I build and drive RC less and less. My son and I will drive the cars a few time out of the year but not enough to justify the size of my collection. Im thinking about jumping in with two feet into the world of kit cars. Ive got Ford 289 in the garage torn down and IM right now looking into 289 FIA Cobra or Daytona kits. I really want to go a GT40 but the mid engine trans adds huge cost to the kits. Anyway, have any of you gone the first size kit car route?

Fun but the build goes too quickly! Very simple car. Ill be order (2) Just stock Brushless systems. One for this and one for my Astute. I plan on running a comparison series of the RC10 against some Tamiya stuff! Anyway back to the build. First up lets split that Stealth open and see how it looks.... Looks brand new. Case and spare motor plate I had on, as well as the modern slipper. And some Jconcepts goodies. A graphite trans brace as the stock one was known to flex ALOT, and a nice set of turbuckles.

It was a great weekend, I hope you all had a good one too. I spent some time on the team car, man its looking good!!! The foundation is a left over C marked team chassis from my worlds car build a few years ago. Im still waiting for some hardware, I hate building shocks, and because of that shocks are up first. I'm building this as how I think it would look if AE did a rere of the team car. These NOS World Car rere shocks will contribute to that flavor. Green slime, and seals assembled similarly to Tamiya shocks. ....and shocks ready to go The white parts have turned out very nice, here is a rear arm ready to go onto the chassis upload and share your photos Some goodies have arrived!!! Im pleased with the whitening result, espescially those wide white front arms that are pretty rare. These days the only thing that I can find are over priced RPM arms, 3d prints, or black arms. The car is looking very good already, black chassis, white arms, and white shock towers look very good. The Jconcepts stuff is so nice, I love this steering. Thank you Jconcepts for supporting the vintage hobby!

I couldn't save the majority of the ball studs, build will start with the shocks, mounting of the suspension arms etc that don't require the ball studs. Update shortly!

I was out of RC by time the world's came out originally. Girls and real cars had stolen my attention. The graphite was the last RC10 that I remember from my childhood. A graphite rere would be amazing.

Ive soaked the "white" parts for three days now in 6% peroxide. I think they came out pretty good. In the mason Jar Comparing the untreated battery box, with the parts treated for three days.

Id just do it, they are getting harded and harder to find, BUT theres a strong chance that AE is bringing out some kind of Gen1 this year other then the Clear one.

I have a mint chassis and nose plate that Im debating on using for the build as I want to run this. Ive got a rere stealth and Worlds shock kit. Going to build it as what if AE rere'd this.

She's going to be a chore. OJ worked ok for lightly rusted CVs and cap head screws. I'll try CLP next. The peroxide parts are coming along. It should be warm and sunny today. Today will be the day for it to work