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Many parts from the XTR are interchangeble , wishbones , front+rear hubs , kickup plate. All shocktowers are available at Fibrelyte.
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I'd like to hear more of this, but first some background: After a gush of nostalgy it now seems I have an cat pack back at my place. I raced Cougar in the mid 90ies but sold it later. I recently got little carried away and bought few nearly complete Cougars (~2.5 cars in total):
I have one Top Cat that was never run (new bulit)! Too bad the original owner "borrowed" some parts fronm the rear end to his Cougars, so some parts are missing. I'm planning to more or less restore this one by searching the missing bits and pieces as soon as I get a list done of what is missing. I have painted but unused body and wing for this fine specimen.
Then there is one Cougar 2 with Club 10 gearbox. Carbon fibre front shock mount, but glass fiber back shock mount. It also has an alloy colored chassis with weird hole placement. This car was in pretty bad shape when it arrived but now it is in great running condition save the left front wishbone T1209 (currently I'm using Traxxas Bandit arms, but they are tad too wide, so my plan is to repro some front wishbones myself by moulding them from epoxy resin). I will put 12 T brushless motor and lipos as soon as parts to fit Traxxas slipper arrive. I have tools available to make an custom body for this using vacuum forming. The mould needs some work before first body prototype tough.
Finally there is one half of an Cougar mk1. Lots of pieces missing and almost all of those still there are broken in some way. This will probably become an mid motored Frankenstain monster of an car with all mix-and-match pieces I can get my furry little hands on (I'm thinking Traxxas Bandit front arms, custom steering levers, top deck etc.). So the goal is to build sort of an basher from this that I can drive, crash and try some crazy modifications with without worrying too much.
Perhaps I will post some pictures of these later to Tamiya Club when the projects are a little bit more complete.
I would be really interested in knowing which cars are "Cougar compatible". The parts I'm especially interested in are:
U322 Lower suspension plate
T1209 Left side front wishbone
U195 Belt
U215 Gear cover (for TopCat)
U254 Nicad holder and strap (for TopCat)
U255L motor guard (for TopCat)T260 body and wing mount (for TopCat)
T237 rear bulkhead (for TopCat)
U555 Shock Absorbers (rear ones are missing)
Phew. Quite a long list I know. However the missing parts are no showstoppers. In runner and basher cougars I can use my imagination replacing the missing parts and with TopCat I'm not in hurry to hunt those parts down.
BUT... It would be great knowing which ones of these parts are still available as spares of newer car models. It is quite difficult to find pictures of the spare parts offered by Schymacher. For example spare part bag U2330 "Wishbone; Yoke and Strg Block; Big 6 (pr)" sounds something I could use because from what I could gather these could be Cougar compatible BUT without pictures there is no way of knowing.
ps. One of the diffs I have has alloy extrtuders (right word? the things the diff plates are connected to). Is this some kind of "pro" diff or what?
Do you have any information on this jeroen?