Fully Upgraded Vintage MP 7.5 Kanai arrived today, cleaned it up and staged it with the DX!

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I found a Vintage Picco .21 coming in and a this Italian Tuned Pipe from Massimo Fantini (Max Power) also vintage and NOS in box - with header!

 

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Have a Picco .21 NOS coming with this MaxPower header/tunedpipe, and this thing has been upgraded (JT front and shock towers/JT top plate/MIP CVDs) then not ran!

Have a vintage body coming for it too and going to paint it box art like this:

 

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Picco:

 

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Have you been able to run either Inferno yet?

I've been able to clean up, and test run one of the 7.5's that I recently picked up and it has me looking forward to running it in earnest this season...

 

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Have you been able to run either Inferno yet?

I've been able to clean up, and test run one of the 7.5's that I recently picked up and it has me looking forward to running it in earnest this season...

I just got in the new fuel lines, going to be pulling the tank, cleaning it and installing the new lines and filter this weekend, and getting the 2.4ghz TX/RX setup for it too, so hopefully soon. I am super excited, been damn cold though too. How did it go for your runs?

 

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This is the 7.5 that came with a green head Novarossi SBK (with a boost tube) - same vintage as the (made by Novarossi) Crono in the pic below.
The test was a success although I needed to shut it down multiple times to lower the idle speed.
Easy access to the idle screw is impeded by the pipe and it needed around 3 full turns before it settled down.
After that, it held a good idle allowing me to focus on temp.
It was running around 160 after a few minutes of hard running, so I was able to lean it out and it just got past 200 before the tank emptied out.

Overall, I only went over the 7.5 enough to clean it up and make it runnable (replacing missing screws and pipe stay - replace the clutch-bell bearings - cleaning gunk out of the fuel tank + new lines), but I felt it had some slop that would need to be addressed, and the run confirmed that observation.

Going over it after the run, I noticed that a lot of the steering slop was being introduced by the servo.
You can wiggle the front wheels and see the steering servos post move back and forth - so a replacement is in order.
I'm also needing to add some shims to further tighten things up but need to buy them first.
I plan on rebuilding the shocks before it gets run in earnest this year.
I'll replace the wheel bearings at some point- but need to order them too.

Vintage Nitro rocks!

 

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This is the 7.5 that came with a green head Novarossi SBK (with a boost tube) - same vintage as the (made by Novarossi) Crono in the pic below.
The test was a success although I needed to shut it down multiple times to lower the idle speed.
Easy access to the idle screw is impeded by the pipe and it needed around 3 full turns before it settled down.
After that, it held a good idle allowing me to focus on temp.
It was running around 160 after a few minutes of hard running, so I was able to lean it out and it just got past 200 before the tank emptied out.

Overall, I only went over the 7.5 enough to clean it up and make it runnable (replacing missing screws and pipe stay - replace the clutch-bell bearings - cleaning gunk out of the fuel tank + new lines), but I felt it had some slop that would need to be addressed, and the run confirmed that observation.

Going over it after the run, I noticed that a lot of the steering slop was being introduced by the servo.
You can wiggle the front wheels and see the steering servos post move back and forth - so a replacement is in order.
I'm also needing to add some shims to further tighten things up but need to buy them first.
I plan on rebuilding the shocks before it gets run in earnest this year.
I'll replace the wheel bearings at some point- but need to order them too.

Vintage Nitro rocks!

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Vintage Nitro does rock! I have more work to do on the DX (getting close though) before I can fire it up for the first time, hopefully this week. That's some solid work already on your 7.5, so very nice, maybe you can post a video once it's all dialed in for us.