SNR RC8 parts

[slimthelineman]

Ran the buggy today after rebuilding it a couple weeks ago with the new geometry graphite towers and chassis from SNR graphite. Shaved quite a bit of weight off the buggy, around 120g, but the tekin motor I installed pretty much ate up all the weight savings compared to my 1512. Oh well, the front tower is 5mm and super beefy, rear is 4mm I think. Chassis is 3.7mm thick and has the same front kickup as stock. Only thing I could gripe about is the sides of the chassis are flat so the mudguards fit funky as hell. So I took them off, problem solved. Car weighs just over 3300g ready to hit the track battery and all. Not too shabby, the towers really woke the buggy up as well. kept the same setup ive been running and the car is dialed. very ballanced, great power, and I love the tekin motor on the mmpro. super smooth and runs cool. no issues with brownouts or any of that even with my brushless digital futaba servo. Overall very impressed with the graphite products and their performance at the track.

Oh yeah got a couple bodies done recently, really like the way they turned out. what do you guys think?

On the SNR site I could only see the front tower (5mm one). I couldn't see the rear one at all. Not sure if I looked properly but I couldn't find it. Slim did you get the kit from SNR directly?

[JoFreak]

Looks good!
Regarding the mud guards, could you measure the distance between the mounting holes?
IIRC he made the holes to fit the Tekno V4 guards on the SCRT10 chassis.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if he did the same thing on the RC8 chassis.

[slimthelineman]

Yup I picked the stuff up from steve on the way home from work one day at wcrc. Don't remember where on the associated page the rear tower was but just called him and asked for all three. The holes are the same as the stock mudguards but I will be using the tekno v3-4 ones since they are made for a flat chassis like this one. Ran it a while Saturday and all I can say is wow! Always ran the battery all the way to the rear for super stability but always lacked a bit of steering. Went to battery forward and gained all the steering in the world but lost all the stability I loved so much. When I put this kit together I kinda split the differance and it works very well. The tekin 1400 also is a bit heavier than the 1512 so that helped out a bit with the rear weight. The new geometry really works well for my driving style, super easy to drive hard and the buggy stays very stable. Was a bit pricey to do but when I look at all that cf I forget all about the money.