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The Dark Knights 3Racing Sakura XI Sport


The Dark Knight

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Well that's my Schumacher Mi5 and Team Associated TC4 both sold. The Team Durango has still not been released yet so this has left me without a touring car. So far at the local club I have been racing my touring and GT12 but finding myself enjoying the touring car indoors more and more so I just had to get another one whilst waiting for the Team Durango.

 

I looked at all the latest kits but eventually settled on the 3Racing Sakura XI Sport, mainly due the price of it but I have also had a go of one of my mates Sakura Zero S which I was impressed with. 

 

The stock tyres actually feel like a nice usable compound but are on the heavy side at 32g per wheel compared to my Sorex 28's which are only 22g per wheel.

 

I've assembled most of the kit already, just the shocks to build and fit a different spur gear. I assemble the kit using a Yeah Racing titanium bolt kit and the optional floating servo mount. I need to tidy up the wiring a bit and find somewhere to stick the cap. I'm also running a Wild Turbo Fan.  

 

For the money, it is a great bit of kit and went together very nicely.

 

First race should be this Sunday.

 

Here's some photos of it so far:

 

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For the money it is what it is, and its been popular, plus when you do get your team durango it will feel even better since the quality jump will be rather massive lol

 

The only parts I'm no impressed with is the body mount posts, the plastic feels soft and looks cheap but the rest of the kit I'm very happy with. I'll see how it drives, might not bother with the Team Durango if I'm happy with this. I was really surprised how nice the kit is.

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lol you say that but you will get the durango, i was the same with the bd7, amazing car..but i want others 

 

No decision will be made until I've driven it, that's all I'm saying. If it drives anything like the Zero S, I'll be happy  :thumbsup:

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haha a wise man indeed

 

fair play to ya keep us updated with pics too

 

Will do dude  :thumbsup:

 

More photos for you already, before I sold my Mi5 I had already painted a body shell, bad thing is the body mount holes for the front are in different places so I have two sets of holes at the front. But saves me buying and painting another body shell though. Also tried on the kit wheels, I might try them out just out of interest.

 

I tried to be more minimalistic with the stickers on this one, "less is more" and all that :thumbsup:  

 

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What shell is that? Those wheela look.good

 

It's a Bitty Design Striker-SR 2.0. The wheels are growing on me but as I've already said, they're 10g heavier per wheel than my Sorex wheels, so that's 40g of un-needed weight plus it is rotating weight so will have a big effect on performance.

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The shell looks great! I found some build tips for this model on 3racing Facebook page so will use those along with the manual! Going to order the same extras as you also

 

Thanks  :thumbsup: Cool, care to share any of the build tips?

 

It goes together great, can't wait for racing this Sunday  :xd:

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you dont have much room to play with do you. 

 

if you can tie wrap it to the edge of your top deck then can do that or well, on top of the top deck anyway as it wont effect flex

 

or as you said tie it to the motor/sensor wires so it sits on top

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Thanks for the advice guys, I've tie wrapped the cap to two of the motor wires and the sensor wire, I'm reasonably happy with the set-up just now.

 

I'm after another bit of advice please regarding the WTF (Wild Turbo Fan), should it be sucking or blowing air? I presume blowing air towards the motor?

 

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You need the fan to be blowing air onto the motor not sucking it away

 

id usually have mine between the ESC and motor like Richard as it works along side natural airflow, but space does not allow! 

 

however it does also work just fine with the fan positioned at the rear, just not as efficiently.

 

Also my WTF fan worked fine either plugged in to the RX or soldered directly to the pos n neg of my ESC 

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