Fiddling with the Acsent 32

[RLB454]

First off, I blame Doom! for this little project
So last month I went back and forth on the Redcat or the Axial, and went with the Redcat. Pros and cons with both, as I have already mentioned, but for what I wanted to do the Redcat won. I dont plan to drop a bunch of money into this, so prob wont go much farther than where I'm at now. It is a lot better now than straight out of the box, but I figure this is enough.....or is it

Stock body is kinda ugly...

First up is to ditch the stock boingers and fit some Injora oil filled shocks. And whilst I'm at it, might as well put on the Injora brass c hubs and diff covers. Doom! gave me the idea for a 1/24th scale plastic model kit with his Izuzu Vehicross project. Since I am a Miata guy, what better than a Miata body for this little guy?

I think I have a plan to mount the body that will work. Ordered up a set of the stock body mounting brackets, this way I can swap the Miata body and the stock body without taking anything apart.
Just adding the shocks and a couple brass goodies, it performs much better.

I could not find any brass hex adapters, but I did find these little brass patties on Amazon. Made by LRFHL, and are $16.99

One issue with them though, is that the fronts bound up against the Injora c hubs. I am sure they fit just fine with the plastic stock ones. No worries, I just surfaced the little lip off the inside. Did it the same way I take off material on a Ducati desmo cup style valve shims to make perfect tollerance..its a secret

Easy peasy.

And the front to back weight bias after all this labor intensive work?

I will update with the Miata body mounting as I get to that. Oh, forgot to mention that Mazda did a special edition color in 1991, British racing green. It is also the most collectable Miata (they also did BRG on a special edition 2001 as well, but not near as collectable). So its only proper for me to paint the little bugger BRG
Stay tuned.....

 

[RC MODS]

Cool project, I'll be following along! Doom is always spending other people's money in here without even knowing it!

 

[RLB454]

Oh, forgot to mention I vented the wheels. Not much difference since I am not gluing the tires, but they do squish a little better. Just used a 3/32" drill bit, and drilled in between the spoke location.

 

[RLB454]

Updtae on the Miata body:
Spent a lot of time figuring out the body mounting so I could swap out both the stock body and the Miata with no alterations. It totally worked. The stock front mount fit perfectly in the nose of the Miata with wheel wells lining up perfect. For the rear mount, I used a rubber stopper with a magnet on top, and a magnet glued to the Miata body. Everything just barely cleared the stock body, so nothing in the way to keep the stock body from from dropping right back on. A big success, and had to pat myself on the back a little.
So whats the bad news? I got the body painted up in BRG, hard top in flat black, looked great. But then I had to assemble it. The windsheild did not fit real well, nor the hard top, glue got smudged on the edges of the windsheild, as well as dissolving paint along with the smears. Side windows didnt line up with the hard top, windshield wipers didnt fit tight againts the glass, blah blah blah. I am so critical of details like these, and my OCD just wont accept it. So here is a quick pick before it went into the trash
Well, now I can get back to my boat build.

I'll just keep the stocker on..

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[RLB454]

Hang on, so here is a thought...
The Losi Micro T wheelsbase looks to be about 1mm longer than the baby Redcat, soooooooooo:
Anyone put the Proline bug body for the Micro T on one of these Acsent 32's???

 

[CertifiedMike]

Updtae on the Miata body:
Spent a lot of time figuring out the body mounting so I could swap out both the stock body and the Miata with no alterations. It totally worked. The stock front mount fit perfectly in the nose of the Miata with wheel wells lining up perfect. For the rear mount, I used a rubber stopper with a magnet on top, and a magnet glued to the Miata body. Everything just barely cleared the stock body, so nothing in the way to keep the stock body from from dropping right back on. A big success, and had to pat myself on the back a little.
So whats the bad news? I got the body painted up in BRG, hard top in flat black, looked great. But then I had to assemble it. The windsheild did not fit real well, nor the hard top, glue got smudged on the edges of the windsheild, as well as dissolving paint along with the smears. Side windows didnt line up with the hard top, windshield wipers didnt fit tight againts the glass, blah blah blah. I am so critical of details like these, and my OCD just wont accept it. So here is a quick pick before it went into the trash
Well, now I can get back to my boat build.

I'll just keep the stocker on..
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I think the Miata looks pretty good! If nothing else, you could keep the body and use it to bang up.
My ocd thinks your ocd may be mistaken on this one!

 

[Doom!]

@RLB454 Awww man, I know how much you wanted this to work. Maybe pop out the glass bits and replace them with a screen mesh like some of the old school racecars.

Hope the bug body idea pans out, that would also be cool.