Losi JRX2 rescued from the shed!

[sancho]

After many many years out of the game I've just had my interest rekindled by a few sessions of Mardave banger racing with my nephew... Which led me to dig out some old kit from my brother-in-laws shed! I had forgotten that when I packed up and sold my Procat, my 40mhz gear and all my decent motors and cells, I kept one choice item... My Losi JRX2 and a few other choice items, Shinwa Motor Dresser and MPS Slope charger.




Back in the late 80s early 90s I was a regular at the Holbeach club (great to see it's still going and the track at EastTraxs looks great), my home village is Walpole St Andrew, so it all conspiring to make me think about getting into the game again.

Also used to do a lot of the nationals and the indoor champs at Mansfield.

I've got the losi running again, with few new bits... the amazing thing is that the one set of old Sanyo 1700s that have been in the shed for 15+ years still charge and the old Parma motor still goes like stink.

THinking of selling it or running in a few vintange races.

[/tobys]

Takes me back....I used to have a Shinwa dresser and (Tekomo?) Slope charger too!

Loving the Yokomo rear wheels and tyres - the lengths we'd go to to get 2.2" wheels/tyres!

[DCM]

Tekomo Pro Slope, then made by Mike Barton of Fabiix fame...

Loving the Tufnell spur!

[GRIFF55]

rw spur that i think. Its got the pro rear end too as the trailing arms are gone. Loved my jrx2

[DCM]

RW, or was it MG Racing??

[sancho]

Originally Posted by GRIFF55

rw spur that i think. Its got the pro rear end too as the trailing arms are gone. Loved my jrx2

I've still got the trailing arm parts, but havn't check that everything is there, I got the spur a couple of weeks ago on ebay. I've got yokomo fronts as well, will post photos of the other bits and bobs and a vid of it running in my garden soon.

[phil c]

The front shocks remind me of tamiya hicaps off the egress era

[sancho]

Originally Posted by sancho

I've still got the trailing arm parts, but havn't check that everything is there, I got the spur a couple of weeks ago on ebay. I've got yokomo fronts as well, will post photos of the other bits and bobs and a vid of it running in my garden soon.

As promised here's the video of it running with 15 year old motor and nicads...

http://vimeo.com/12495313

[sancho]

Originally Posted by /tobys

Takes me back....I used to have a Shinwa dresser and (Tekomo?) Slope charger too!

Loving the Yokomo rear wheels and tyres - the lengths we'd go to to get 2.2" wheels/tyres!

Just found something interesting about the Tekomo on the schumacher forum, looks like mine is a very early Slope Charger, by a bloke with a tash... http://forum.racing-cars.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=5873

[Nick Goodall]

Originally Posted by /tobys

Takes me back....I used to have a Shinwa dresser and (Tekomo?) Slope charger too!

Loving the Yokomo rear wheels and tyres - the lengths we'd go to to get 2.2" wheels/tyres!

Hahaha exactly the same here, we had that Dresser and Charger in the early days!!!! The dresser was really handy for running in freshly skimmed & brushed motors if not just setting up the timing - i remember my Dad using it everytime seeing how much current each motor was drawing, then adjusting it until it was perfect

[Cobra]

Tekomo Pro Slope, then made by Mike Barton of Fabiix fame

Would that be the same guy that did the inboard (mid) motor conversion for the cougar?

[peetbee]

That's the one, he traded as FABIIX and also did the Yuasa cells.

And I used to run similar Yokomo wheel adapters on the back of my RC10.

Nice car Sancho, get it up and running! Hopefully your local club will do a vintage series. We've done one and it's been a blast!