Saturday, 26 June 2010

Bluetruck is reborn...!

Bluetruck has had its second makeover. Another New Bright Motorsports truck turned up on eBay and so I couldn't resist it because it looked pretty immaculate. Mine for a tenner. So the shell's off it already and straight back on to one of my pair of TL-01B Baja chassis (Ram Truck is no more!), with all the original Bluetruck running gear re-fitted. I bought a new set of Carson wheels and F-350 tyres for it just to make it as mint as possible, at least for as long it lasts looking like this...

Oh - and its now got a carbon propshaft too. Surprisingly light at only 6 grammes. It has three main advantages - lighter truck overall - lower center of gravity - and less rotational mass in the drive train, the acceleration of which steals available power from the motor (or the wheels depending on which way you look at things!).