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This is so cool Jim. We are lucky to have you share this with us. Thank you so much. You are really talented!

Hoss rarely gets things wrong but he sure messed this one up. It was moonshine, not ballast....well, maybe he's not wrong. Moonshine can be used as ballast. It's a pretty sickening sound when you land and hear glass breaking though.

yeah, the suspensions on these are adjustable to an extent. Unlike a real charger that has torsion springs up front, this uses a more basic coil-over shock design. I replaced the springs with stiffer units and replaced the shock oil with a thicker oil. This is mostly to offset the extra weight of the upgrades, and it's not perfect, but once I get some more jumps in I can see how it looks. I think a thicker fluid would help more, but no matter what I do the suspension is going to bottom, so it's probably not going to gain me much.

That is excellent! Great job!!

For those who just want to see it running, I uploaded a video for that: As you can see from the jump at the end, it didn't fly very far and landed nose-down. I had the esc plugged into the wrong port on the receiver, so I was at half speed. As for the nose down landing, I'd hoped that sliding the battery back would fix it, but it didn't, so I had to resort to more drastic measures. I reinforced the rear panel behind the axle so it could hold the battery. That did the trick and now it lands flat, so I should be able to adjust how it lands with different size batteries. In other news, I got back to work on Rosco's car today and currently have it in primer. Hopefully this week I'll be able to glue it together and get it painted soon after. Lastly, I decided to take some pics of the Kyosho with some scale road barriers that I printed.