RC10B5M!!!

I was able to pick up a B5M from Tower when it showed up in stock awhile ago.  I wanted to get it from Tower so that I could use their "Easy Pay" program and pay for it over the course of 3 months.  I've also been slowing collecting parts for it during the month of May.  I picked up a Silencer body for my painter to finish, and various lighter and upgrade parts.

I also started reducing the weight of certain plastic parts, since the M is a pig out of the box, along with adding titanium and aluminum parts, to reduce the weight as much as possible.

Cut motor brace = 1g
Drilled front brace = 1g
Cut up center brace = 6g
Shorter ball cups and titanium turnbuckles = 6g
Graphite battery brace = 2g
Aluminum top shaft = 9g (un-modified 5g)
Titanium front axles = 4g
Nova slipper = 3 pad: 10g
Aluminum screws = 10g

Titanium screws = 17g
Aluminum puck cva driveshafts = 4g
Aluminum puck diff outdrives = 14g!
Titanium ball studs = 7g
Carbon idler shafts =
Narrow transmission gear set = (un-modified 7g)
Aluminum wheel nuts = 5g

Aluminum shock nuts = 2g
Machined aluminum chassis = 28g!
Factory Team aluminum motor plate = 6g

Total weight savings = 132g

                                 Stock center brace

                                 Modified center brace

                                     Removed material

                                     Steel wheel nuts

                                  Aluminum wheel nuts