truggy83
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I just got my first nitro r/c last weekend. It is and unknown year Traxxas Nitro Stampede with the .15 engine in it. I got it for a pretty good price as it needs lots of work. When I bought it, it was missing the body, muffler, rear body mount, body pins, throttle collar and spring, rubber pins that go in the spur gear for the slipper clutch and the slipper clutch was worn out. The idle was also way too high and the car would take off unless the brake was held.
The body was very dirty and someone did a half butt job of painting the frame. They did take the time to take the car apart to paint the frame but it almost looked as if they painted the frame with white out and the nitro fuel that was spilled around the gas tank area over the years had eaten most of the white out paint off revealing the neat looking blue frame. Here is a picture of what condition it was in when I got it last weekend.
Since then I have adjusted the idle to the correct spot, removed the ugly white out type paint from the frame with brake cleaner and some elbow grease, cleaned up the entire car with a soft brush on a dremel tool and some degreaser.
Tomorrow I will be going to the hobby shop and getting lots of goodies so I will update this thread then. I am also looking at buying an HPI 18 racing engine to see if I can get to work in the pede. My plans for the pede are to have it somewhat customized with paint to set it apart from the stock pedes. I will also see if I can put the hpi racing engine in just to be different as I havent seen any with that in yet. Lots of cosmetic paint upgrades will be done however it will not be babied. I will jump the car and run it in the dirt and beat the heck out of it. I am off to bed and will update this thread more tomorrow.
The body was very dirty and someone did a half butt job of painting the frame. They did take the time to take the car apart to paint the frame but it almost looked as if they painted the frame with white out and the nitro fuel that was spilled around the gas tank area over the years had eaten most of the white out paint off revealing the neat looking blue frame. Here is a picture of what condition it was in when I got it last weekend.
Since then I have adjusted the idle to the correct spot, removed the ugly white out type paint from the frame with brake cleaner and some elbow grease, cleaned up the entire car with a soft brush on a dremel tool and some degreaser.
Tomorrow I will be going to the hobby shop and getting lots of goodies so I will update this thread then. I am also looking at buying an HPI 18 racing engine to see if I can get to work in the pede. My plans for the pede are to have it somewhat customized with paint to set it apart from the stock pedes. I will also see if I can put the hpi racing engine in just to be different as I havent seen any with that in yet. Lots of cosmetic paint upgrades will be done however it will not be babied. I will jump the car and run it in the dirt and beat the heck out of it. I am off to bed and will update this thread more tomorrow.