It's finally fixed! The nightmare is over! Well...mostly:
I've replaced...probably 60% of the car. It used to be a Sportline 04 with a few alloy upgrades (i.e. Elcon rear upper control arms, alloy uprights front & rear, alloy front bulkheads and an upgraded alloy diff). I've since turned it into a "Comportline":
I had to completely replace the cabling for the brake system, someone had tortured the stock plastic radio tray into a shadow of its former self so that necessitated the replacement, found a good deal for an aluminum variant on eBay, fits great and looks good, too:
My HS805BB Hitec steering servo no longer fit in this radio tray (major bummer), so I ended up getting a Multiplex M65384 to replace the Hitec. I'm not sure if it's better, but I sure like the color.
Rear suspension also got an overhaul, replaced the last of the plastic control arms with alloy counterparts:
This allowed me to fix some of the last broken, warped, or worn portions of the suspension system. The added rigidity and shiny both make this an upgrade worth the money. Nothing changed much on the front suspension, though:
Notice the not-quite-right cabling nipples and makeshift plastic bracket, remnants from the original car. I can't be certain, but the wiring for the brake servos seems a little more than just casually messy to me. I took it by Pacific Coast Hobbies today, to see if they could give me some advice on wether or not having the brake servos spliced together on the same channel was really the way it was supposed to be.
They seemed confidant it was. I was not convinced.
However, all I have is an Airtronics MX-3S, and while technically a three-channel it's really not. Having a third channel that could be integrated into one of the other controls (such as brake servos) would really help in fine-tuning individual servo behavior. I was really hoping I'd be able to adjust the servos to produce various levels of brake bias, but with this setup there is no way to adjust that (for the possible exception of cabling trickery). Overall, it's a relief to finally have it back together, even if it's a completely different car, now:
What radio systems do you guys use? How do you adjust your cable brakes?
I've replaced...probably 60% of the car. It used to be a Sportline 04 with a few alloy upgrades (i.e. Elcon rear upper control arms, alloy uprights front & rear, alloy front bulkheads and an upgraded alloy diff). I've since turned it into a "Comportline":
I had to completely replace the cabling for the brake system, someone had tortured the stock plastic radio tray into a shadow of its former self so that necessitated the replacement, found a good deal for an aluminum variant on eBay, fits great and looks good, too:
My HS805BB Hitec steering servo no longer fit in this radio tray (major bummer), so I ended up getting a Multiplex M65384 to replace the Hitec. I'm not sure if it's better, but I sure like the color.
Rear suspension also got an overhaul, replaced the last of the plastic control arms with alloy counterparts:
This allowed me to fix some of the last broken, warped, or worn portions of the suspension system. The added rigidity and shiny both make this an upgrade worth the money. Nothing changed much on the front suspension, though:
Notice the not-quite-right cabling nipples and makeshift plastic bracket, remnants from the original car. I can't be certain, but the wiring for the brake servos seems a little more than just casually messy to me. I took it by Pacific Coast Hobbies today, to see if they could give me some advice on wether or not having the brake servos spliced together on the same channel was really the way it was supposed to be.
They seemed confidant it was. I was not convinced.
However, all I have is an Airtronics MX-3S, and while technically a three-channel it's really not. Having a third channel that could be integrated into one of the other controls (such as brake servos) would really help in fine-tuning individual servo behavior. I was really hoping I'd be able to adjust the servos to produce various levels of brake bias, but with this setup there is no way to adjust that (for the possible exception of cabling trickery). Overall, it's a relief to finally have it back together, even if it's a completely different car, now:
What radio systems do you guys use? How do you adjust your cable brakes?
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