As it has turned out, I still have my original car almost completely intact. I started out intending to completely overhaul it, but in hunting down a LWB chassis car (to source the long front wishbones) I inadvertently ended up with almost a complete spares car.

As this project has moved forwards I kind of decided to leave my originàl car as I last raced it, so this new car is using mainly the parts off the LWB spares car; gearbox, rear wishbones, steering set up and so on. Everything else has been sourced elsewhere or scratch built by us with very little being borrowed from my original car.

At the end of this I will certainly end up with two cars.

Damn ,don't you just hate it when you aim to build one car but end up with two instead ;):thumbsup:

Theres a mardave cobra on ebay for 28 quid. May be of interest

Hope to have it up and running later on today :)

Got the car on track on Friday in the end. Once we got our heads around the new electronics we even managed to out in a few laps. Considering we had never even charged a Lipo before we got to the track or turned the transmitter on we actually made fairly swift progress. Set up was a low profile shortly, Hobbywing brushed (860?) WSC, Futaba stick tranny, old school Futaba 131SH servoo and a TMS Tornado 13Double motor.

The motor was a mistake. Way too quick for my first test run. Like a missile in fact. I will replace it with a standard motor for my next test session and out some serious and steady laps in I think.

First for for the body went ok though- just got to paìnt it now :)

Love those wheels ding:drool:.

I have a TMS Challenger 17x2 that goes well in the "Cobrat",also have
a 19 turn Komodo Dragon that is a good motor too on a 21 tooth pinion
and a 7.4v LiPo.

I don't remember 'em back in the day(I always ran Parma's in my Optima Mid),
but TMS's don't seem to be bad motors at all.

It's looking great martin, it'll look killer when you get your body's at last

Yes the rims certainly do finish the car off nicely - really chuffed with the whole thing.

I have two TMS Tornado motors of the same wind - both very swift, so I may let one go at some point. I think the 13 double was their hottest option at the time.

The new shells are en route Peakey ;)

For the time being i am using a Garbage Pail Kids themed shell, although it doesn't have any paint yet. Just something to get me out on track but you get the idea of how it is going to look.

Sure does look a cutie.

Shell finally finished.