Everyone meet Silvia

[uni-racing]

Apparently, blue aluminum parts are going to take a while to be manufactured and well, coppers I don't like. So Scott at Vancouver Hobbies taught me a trick and I was able to create, my one of a kind MT5.....colour: Silvia~!

 

[Sprint 77]

You make a carbon fiber gear cover or you vent screen your old one and paint it black? Hard to tel in the pic


Looks good though "Naked" when you gonna put a pipe on it get the HP up on it.

 

[uni-racing]

Gear Cover is called "Pete's Special." It the old one shoeglued with drywall tape and the painted. I'm gonna wait on engine ups until I get all the glitches out and she's a tank. What are HP ups?

 

[Sprint 77]

Gear Cover is called "Pete's Special." It the old one shoeglued with drywall tape and the painted. I'm gonna wait on engine ups until I get all the glitches out and she's a tank. What are HP ups?

HP = horsepower meaning when you get the "can" off of it and put a pipe on it the Horsepower will come up.

 

[Ron E]

looks great... I really like the chassis stripped also.


how did you strip the ano off? drano or ez off ???

 

[kryptonite5b]

oh mann. it looks great! my rig is multible diffrent colors with all the alum i have on it. are you gona get it powder coated or anodized? would look killer with a custom color

 

[uni-racing]

thanx sprint77...as u can see, i'm just getting into the hobby but rolling into it like thunder! soaking up a lot of info reading you guys in this forum

 

[uni-racing]

Ron-E,


-4L water and 1/2 of drano crystals in warm water in preferably stainless steel kitchen bowl.


-Soak in solution constantly swashing and dipping in and out until you see the color fading off


-Take a brush a brush off the excess coloring


-In cold running water, take a sos pad and scrub


-Gather all de anotized pieces and swash them in vinegar to stop the chemical reaction of the aluminum and drano


-Dry thoroughly with towel.


There you have it...the process I used to de-anotize my aluminum pieces. Hope it works out...Post pix when your done...

 

[uni-racing]

Kryptonite,


I haven't thought of re-anotizing or powder coating..I'm thinking of buffing it to give her a bit more shine. She gonna get mighty muddy and probably scrathed up and dented anyways!!!

 

[kryptonite5b]

polishing looks awsome. it comes out to mirror finish. but holly hell is it alot of work. i found a guy by me that will do all my stuff for $50 plus another $20 for stripping. i know its gona get scratched up, but there is no way im polishing all that alum!! i have ALOT of alum. are you going to do the shock caps? everything looks so nice but the blue caps are killing me..LOL..

 

[uni-racing]

kryptonite,


i'm debating whether or not to do them... deanoitzing seems to take off just that microscopic amount of surface area making things a tad sloppy and the threads a bit course...maybe if I tape off the inside or take a glue gun to coat the inside of the threads first?

 

[kryptonite5b]

kryptonite,
i'm debating whether or not to do them... deanoitzing seems to take off just that microscopic amount of surface area making things a tad sloppy and the threads a bit course...maybe if I tape off the inside or take a glue gun to coat the inside of the threads first?

no man, i wouldnt do the glue thing. ive found thats asking for problems. the last thing you want to do is have all kinds of oils shooting out. i didnt have a problem when i did my 5b shocks, but this is a little diffrent might want to just leav'em, ya know..did you get the alum for the rear yet?

 

[uni-racing]

HP = horsepower meaning when you get the "can" off of it and put a pipe on it the Horsepower will come up.

I just finished installing ddm dominator pipe. Can't wait to go for a test run and see what this baby can do...

 

[killermolly]

did that truck look like this?



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