I've just been overhauled

[crazydave]

What you're about to see might look like a subtle make over, but this car had issues, and it needed work from the ground up. This is the subject:


Can you believe this car is just about 2 years old already? I can't. (That's like 128 bit years. ) This car was a couple first for me, my first FET mod, my first Tomy pullback conversion. I thought it was perfect at the time, little did I know it was to become what I considered a failed experiment.

What issues did it have? Where do I start? Just sit back and I'll try not to be too long winded.

First off the major problem was that the FETs, combined with a Perfection 4.2 Pro, and the stock 9.86:1 gears is way too torquey for driving on a track. With the traction from the pullback tires, this car doen't steer very well for the first foot or two, until the front tires start to make contact with the ground again. Then when the front wheels were on the ground they had trouble centering from too much traction. So the pullback wheels were not the set up for me. I do have plans for them though. I just couldn't part them from this body, because I loved the way they looked together. Now I got some new 5-spoke wheels (Thanks Finks ), that were the inspiration of this make over.

Now after 2 years of shoving clone and Zip Zap motors in the car, at some time or another, recently, the whole back half of the chassis split. This is a picture of it glued. I should have took a picture of the split before I glued it, to show how dramatic it really was.


Here's the part I'm embarrassed to show you. See at the time I hadn't figured out to tab lower the rear of a bit, and I wasn't very good at slot lowering. I thought it was pretty neato how the stock tabs would fit in up above the slots on this body. I thought it just needed a little shimming. Then over the months, the body would settle, and I'd shim some more. Everytime I picked it up to play with it, I'd end up having to shim it more to keep the tires from rubbing. It got to the point where I'd crack the front wheel wells everytime I took the body off. So here it is, a serious case of overshimming.


Everytime I cracked the wheel wells, I'd sand off the excess glue, and rub it out with rubbing compound. I eventually went through the paint, so the body needed to be repainted too.


That's why I'm saying this car was completely overhauled.

So first thing to do was get the chassis back in order. Here we see a nice proper tab lowering. You also get a glimpse of the new shoes wrapped in Thunder Charger rubbers.



I set the new wheels up with a teal MS gear, and its just running a Tomy 2.6 for now. My preferred short track set up for FET modded cars. I can always throw the 4.2 back in if I want to get nutty.

The rear end got braced with a piece of plastic, to make sure it don't crack again.



Since I was having to repaint it anyways, I thought I might remove the wing. Then I thought everyone else has done that, do I really wanna copy cat, but after seeing it off then on, there was no question. It had to go. It hinders the classic 911 lines.

While a single color paint job is usually short work for me, it didn't get any easier. Monday morning this car was light gray metallic, but there was surface imperfections. I tried sanding them down, but they weren't really surface imperfections, they went all the way through. Had no more of that paint, so I dug around, and found some aqua. So by Monday night, this car had been three different colors.

Ok, finally, here we are all done.

[sessiz]

Love that ride.

[ynad]

Pretty looks good without wing. but i like the other rims more.
on the other hand, looks more of the real ride.

[frizzen]

Man that looks sweet! Really does look more like a 911 without that spoiler. Was that an MS or a ZZ?

[Tuner1989]

Very Very nice cd i totally and i agree that it looks better with the wing off.

Also nice write up and pics.

[SuperFly]

Nice overhaul, now it's my kinda car. That Porsche wing sucks ass. It's like the car is 1/64 but the wing is still 1/48 or something. Nice job filling the holes.

Those rear tabs are a bitch.

I could almost see that thing done up like a SCCA track car.

[crazydave]

Yeah the wing was just all wrong. I wish I was feeling ballsy enough to pull off a whale tale though.

And yeah, I was seeing it a racer too. I was kinda picturing it silver on the bottom with a swooshy black stripe separating it, but I don't have all the paints around right now, so...

That's alright, I'm satisfied.

[CaboWabo]

Man that looks sweet! Really does look more like a 911 without that spoiler.

Agreed, that's kick ass crazydave. Love the new wheels on there too.

[PimpIke]

whats also kick ass is that not only the car is way better, the photos are way better as well. Great job.

[Jeep]

Looks alot better without the wing, and the rims are better too, looks like a whole different car.

[crazydave]

whats also kick ass is that not only the car is way better, the photos are way better as well. Great job.

Yeah, I still suck... but I got a better camera, and took a few tips from Hue.

But when you show those 2 pics together, I get frustrated because, the Aqua is way too blue. That's not the way it look sin person. Thes couldn't be 2 different colors, and they look almost the same in pictures.



I forgot to mention. This was one my chassis that tracked dead straight with the steering adjuster centered. I've had a few cars like that, so I always think that's cool. With the new wheels on, it once again centers perfect like that again, and it handles perfect.