Someone mentioned it might have been borrowed from an AYK setup but honestly I have no idea 🤷‍♂️ the only car I ever had with a 2-speed was a mini mustang but it looked different than this…

Pretty certain it's ayk. Used to own a boost with factory 2 speed

Thank you T I’m still hoping the creator of this car will happen upon this video and chime in - this guy is my hero!!!!

I had no idea that was a thing but it makes total sense!!

I remember this

Then you’re as old as we are 😃

Hey thanks Adam I was so stressed out 😄 Merry Christmas brother!!

Thank you Jason man I hope you’re not mad at me when you see that Maxima you’re gonna rebuild for Keith 😆

I certainly didn’t either back in the day!

Thank you James Merry Christmas brother!!!

I think I used crappy tape, gotta take it off & try again 👍

Never too late to get back into RC brother but you’re not lying this crap is getting ridiculously expensive 😂

Hey Gary hope you’re doing well brother merry Christmas!!!!!!

Miss ya bro so happy to see your new clips and get blown away every time! Very nice t shirt on you bro! So much good memories in all of our 80 and 90’s.

Rich, look for the torpedo Optima, as run at the 87 world's. It was a way to get more weight forwards on the chassis. It originated in the original Lectricar and Slot cars Mirage 1/12 chassis.

@@techspeedrc i’ll do some digging, kyosho is totally new to me, but going to be running kyosho mostly this year 😁

I was so bummed out when I got my first sg Coyote which needs a battery setup like this only to find you can’t really buy them already made up. I had never made my own pack before that - something you guys probably did all the time back in the day!!

@@wadeskelton7585 i never made up my own batterys, the model shop where i lived could do all that 😁 used to buy the loose cells then they would do them as either stick or saddle packs 👍

Thank you brother 👍👍👍

I think they could scrape actually you’d prolly need an undertray of some sort to keep those batteries protected not to mention the zip ties from getting sheared off. I totally thought those kids were gonna be more persistent but the bugged out before I left - they showed me a secret way in/out so my fat ass doesn’t kill myself climbing that fence 😁

@@wadeskelton7585 yeah I am for sure less and less graceful doing stuff like that!

Dude that’s exactly what I was trying to say in the video except that I didn’t understand how any of it worked 😂 So is there also a one-way bearing on the double pinion as well? I guess I still don’t fully understand 🤣

@@wadeskelton7585 in the two speed gearbox, the faster gear is loose on the layshaft and is only connected to it when the clutch is engaged at high speed. The low gear is only attached to the layshaft by the one way bearing, so when you pull the throttle the one way bearing let's the low speed gear drive the layshaft. Both gears are constantly driven by the pinion, the high speed spur gear is always driven faster than the low speed spur by the pinion, the speed change by the gearbox happens when the clutch opens and grabs onto the high speed gear, making the layshaft spin faster than the low speed gear and the one way bearing let's the layshaft spin faster than the low speed gear.