Ok, not dirt oval, but...

[Doug Carter]

A couple of months in the making, I'm about 90% done on the JRX2 project. I found this car ear;y this summer on eBay sold by a guy who had built the car when he was 12 (20 years ago) and could never get it to work right. It was new, poorly built, had a few broken parts but overall relatively complete. When I got it, it was found to need a lot to be really perfect. It has an original body, but 12-year old hands and 20 years have not been kind to it. Between a new/repro body and a V-wing, it's all that remains to complete this car in the state that I raced in in 1987 (I found pics of my original, I will scan them later and post here).


Here's the car:

Original, first run Team Losi JRX2
Novak T1 speed control
Race Prep "orange" stock motor
Novak NER-2x 27mhz receiver
Futaba S132 steering servo
Kimbrough servo saver
Thorp turnbuckle steering rod
Losi mini front bumper
Team Brood 1400mah SCR 7-cell "Team" pack
Trinity silver battery braid

Built and ready to run, as complete as it would have been taken to the track in 1987--but built with a lot more skill than my 17-year old hands would have ever done.


http://www.apexspeed.com/doug/rc/vintage/jrx2/jrx2_005.jpg (http://www.apexspeed.com/doug/rc/vintage/jrx2/jrx2_005.jpg)

http://www.apexspeed.com/doug/rc/vintage/jrx2/jrx2_004.jpg (http://www.apexspeed.com/doug/rc/vintage/jrx2/jrx2_004.jpg)

http://www.apexspeed.com/doug/rc/vintage/jrx2/jrx2_003.jpg (http://www.apexspeed.com/doug/rc/vintage/jrx2/jrx2_003.jpg)

http://www.apexspeed.com/doug/rc/vintage/jrx2/jrx2_002.jpg (http://www.apexspeed.com/doug/rc/vintage/jrx2/jrx2_002.jpg)

http://www.apexspeed.com/doug/rc/vintage/jrx2/jrx2_001.jpg (http://www.apexspeed.com/doug/rc/vintage/jrx2/jrx2_001.jpg)

http://www.apexspeed.com/doug/rc/vintage/jrx2/jrx2_007.jpg (http://www.apexspeed.com/doug/rc/vintage/jrx2/jrx2_007.jpg)

[Doug Carter]

BTW, I found a couple original photos from the previous owner... for bing a new car, it had a lot of fixable issues. The diff was essentially glued together. The screws were almost all stripped out and non-original, the right rear drive axle was missing a pin drive, all of the shock collars were either broken or missing and the shocks were all completely built incorrectly. It's not surprising why the car sat in a box for 20 years.

http://www.apexspeed.com/doug/rc/vintage/jrx2/2bd2_1.JPG

http://www.apexspeed.com/doug/rc/vintage/jrx2/2734_1.JPG

[TomC]

Boy, memories!! I had one too, raced mine mostly on the indoor high bank concrete oval at Round Rock, Tx. Remember the very first shock cartridges, Horrible!

[Doug Carter]

Found photos of my original race rig, too...

http://www.apexspeed.com/doug/rc/vintage/jrx2_vintage_002.jpg

http://www.apexspeed.com/doug/rc/vintage/jrx2_vintage_001.jpg

[jenzorace]

Seems like yesterday. Cool pics doug.

[hitman1965]

You know Doug looking at your pictures I see the Revtech stickers and think back to the old motors we had. I saw on ebay the other day an old checkpoint (by Greenmyer) with the alum. can and solid end bell and super small brushes. I ran several of these old checkpoints and would to have loved to have gotten hold of one of the Revtech motors. I was in Japan at the time and we were kicking everyones butts with the brand new RC10 with Checkpoint motors. It was such a great time. This would have been from 86-87. I traveled from Japan to Korea and to the Phillpines. Raced in all three countries. It was such a great time. We americans had the very best and the Asians companies were really struggling to catchup. After that I went to Europe and ran in Germany. WOW what a change. I got schooled while in Germany. Those guys took things so much more serious than I was used to. Every guy in the club would show up with an trailer full of stuff like he was a factory sponsored guy. It was crazy there were no weak cars in Germany I got beat down to say the least.

I will see if I can dig some old stuff up from when I was in Japan and Germany. I have so techincal photos of cars of the time.

All buggies of course cause for some reason not everyone knows how great dirt oval is!!!

Thanks for sharing.

Hitman

[glgraphix]

Wow, Doug. That thing is as nice as it was way back then.
I was the first to get the New Truck at my LHS. The Losi JRX-T. I bought a JG body and a set of 5 spoke HPI teal green wheels. Boy, the old 5link rear susp. really was bad compaired to todays standards, but Hey, I was the first to have the Truck. LOL. The next year, I got the LXT. I raced it for years with the RETO fitted XX tranny. Worked really good.
Thanks for the memories Doug. :thumbsup:
Kevin

[FULLT1LT]

doug youre an awesome restoration guy

[qb08]

Doug, Not to bust you... but you posted this comment to someone in the readers rides section: "Let's try to keep the cars on this forum DIRT OVAL, please. :confused:"

and yet you name your discussion forum "Not Dirt Oval But....." ?

I enjoy your pics and write up,, but lets keep it consistant please. I also enjoyed pics of the rock crawler too... either only dirt oval or open it up to all forms including your losi off road buggy.

JMO

[Doug Carter]

Hmmm, I would say you are correct!

However...














...as my grandfather used to say, "do as I say, not as I do." When you own the forum, then you can break the rules whenever you wish, too. ;) :p :kiss:

[jeff@vinyltrix]

Doug, Not to bust you... but you posted this comment to someone in the readers rides section: "Let's try to keep the cars on this forum DIRT OVAL, please. :confused:"

and yet you name your discussion forum "Not Dirt Oval But....." ?

I enjoy your pics and write up,, but lets keep it consistant please. I also enjoyed pics of the rock crawler too... either only dirt oval or open it up to all forms including your losi off road buggy.

JMO

have you ever seen doug drive everything is an oval to doug!:trophy_bronze:

[qb08]

I just liked the irony in the situation. Thought it was funny to see those comments and then the name of your fourm.

Jeff... I would like to see Doug run the rock crawler on an oval so that guy can show us his pics:)

ps: my grandfather would say.. Monkey see Monkey do... so be a good leader :)

[jeff@vinyltrix]

I just liked the irony in the situation. Thought it was funny to see those comments and then the name of your fourm.

Jeff... I would like to see Doug run the rock crawler on an oval so that guy can show us his pics:)

ps: my grandfather would say.. Monkey see Monkey do... so be a good leader :)

he would be a major back marker thats for sure!:checkeredflag:

[marzzz23]

nice car doug, brings back a lot of memories..i use to race against those with my composite craft chassied rc10. we ran indoors on a carpet offroad track with jumps ,a tabletop jump, plow discs for whoops........revtech stickers ...wow! i rememer those motors they were fast, anyone remember quarterflash motors?

[mrtallguy]

i remember the quarter flash motors they were strong and powerful. i also remember the procell, chu, cam, twister, and my favorite was lightspeed. all were fast and had there strengths and weeknesses.

[latemod29]

I hate necroposting, but I just saw this and this car is why I got into r/c 16 years ago. I loved how complex the rear suspension looked. And later on I found out that on a carpet oval, you could get some major foward bite out of it.