Quote:
Originally Posted by tahustvedt
Nice find.
It's an absurd design. Toy grade almost. Incredible to think this was the best 4WD in 1985.
|
Some of the design ideas in 1985 were odd , they were just leaving the mono shock for everything phase but trailing arms at the rear were very popular , there was even an "upgrade" trailing arm system for the rear of the RC10 so it persisted for some time .
I have an 834b in original mono front and rear and it's not at all supprising from the way it drives that it won races ,I raced a highly modified Hot Shot back in the 80s and the dogfighter would eat it alive , I love driving mine, it's such a joy to use but with spares so sparse I have to restrain myself .
Hope you enjoy yours as much as I do .
Just one thing I'd say about all the alloy parts from PG , I use them on mine and found that the genuine front drive shafts are a little short using the alloy suspension parts , not sure where the difference is as I've never had a genuine set to compare them to , I made a new set up using Scorpion ReRe shafts extended , the ends of the scorpion shafts are perfect but they again are shorter but I was happier cutting sleeving and silver soldering a set of easily replaced ReRe shafts than ruining the genuine but slightly too short for the alloy upgrades ones .hope you have better luck but it would be a shame to loose a shaft that's so hard to replace .