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Old 05-24-2018, 11:57 AM
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Great updates. How in the world did you wrap the turbine housing??
Old 05-24-2018, 12:16 PM
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looks good man! What was the process on getting rid of the red stripe on the wheels?
Old 05-24-2018, 01:12 PM
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Nice round of updates!

For the line lock, I suggest putting a blindgly bright activation light pointed right at your face when its activated so you cant ignore it. Ive forgotten to return it to normal after the burnout before and nearly crashed at the end of the strip because I couldnt slow down fast enough with just the front brakes
Old 05-24-2018, 01:43 PM
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i was worried about that as well! i swapped the light bulb in the switch for an LED and its super bright. I was also wondering how well it would hold in the beams with just the front brakes if i forget to switch it off, guess we will see and if i need to put in another LED i will.

The stripe on the wheels came off with some acetone and about 1700 hours worth of scrubbing with Q-Tips

I don't know how the others wrapped their housings but i ended up making two stainless rings out of 308 fill rod, weaved the wrap between the rings and then pulled both rings tight to the housing. if that makes sense, kind of a hard process, took me about 2 hours to get it the way i wanted.
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Awesome truck! The attention to detail is impressive and makes me want to improve my own work
Old 02-27-2019, 04:42 PM
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Any updates on this since you just popped up in one of my threads?
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Old 02-27-2019, 05:18 PM
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Really nice work. The pride shows!
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I have a bunch of updates, just need to find sometime and get all the pictures together for you guys, stay tuned!



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