Marty.H

Thanks for the welcome nice to see some local members

I have the one pictured below with everything needed to run including fuel, spare plug , glow stick ,radio gear, fuel filler bottle ect. Run in and only used once was to fast for my boy and I run electric. The car is only 2 weeks old looking for

Im a car mechanic for a living all be it not on 2 strokes. But I would agree that threadlock will be absolutely useless on headbolts due to the thermal cycles they endure. Thing is engine harmonics ( vibrations) are funny things and can soon shake an engine to pieces. For example even changing engine mounts to harder ones will alter things a lot if the mounts no longer damper some of the vibrations it loads every thing else up and bits will start to fall apart. Is there stretch bolts available for the heads or like we have on cars you get what you call a set of arp bolts/studs that allows the head to be pulled down tighter. Like I have said not up on 2 strokes but surely you can get uprated head fixings

If you get a nice smooth finish you should have no need to wet flatten it. If you do decide to flatten don't go to mad as you will soon bust through the colour.

Go to a local car paint supplier they will mix the correct colour for you and will supply all you need. Dont go to halfords to have the colour mixed every colour they have tried to mix for me has been out by a mile so I use a local company. You dont want to be painting it in cold conditions outside or the paint will bloom. Dont go heating the paint up as you will then more then likely get runs as will be to thin paint them in a warm room and allow base coat to flash of before applying lacquer then leave to dry. Paint in light coats and build it up slowly Hope that helps

Thanks for the replies. Mine is used indoors on carpet only. It could be used outside if the suspension geometry was altered fot it. But for what a good spec chassis and car costs I would advise not using it outside as will get scrapes and that. As for what chassis to get that all depends how deep your pockets are. Cheers Marty

Chassis...Schumacher Mi4CX Motor ... Novak Havoc Pro SC/Ballistic 540 Short Course System with X Drive 13.5T alturn low profile servo alloy servo horn sorex 28 tyres carbon fibre lipo battery strap protoform Mazda body gens ace 5000mah 65c lipo. The wires are more tidy then that when all complete but was working on it Cheers Marty

Thought I would join up. My names Marty and have recently got back into 1/10 touring cars. Use to run a nitro around 10 years ago so now trying to find my feet in the world of electric cars ill post some pics and current spec up in the gallery Cheers Marty