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TA05 (ver1) what's it best for?


LeeMutz

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Just bought myself a Tamiya TA05. 

It has a carbon chassis, and a few alloy upgrades, and an EZrun/Speedpassion 120A ESC with Speedpassion 10.5t sensored motor.

I'm torn between having a touring car and a drift car...

 

1/ Can anyone with a bit more experience tell me what this set up would suit best? 

 

2/ Also, how do I know what LiPo's to use? I have 2s which I assume would be OK, how do I find out whether it can take 3s? 

 

3/ what size body shell? I want to buy one or two :)

 

Here are some photo's of the actual car I've just bought

Any help would be greatly appreciated.. 

Thanks in advance

 

Lee

 

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The Ta05 is still a very good racer at club level and in the right hands it can battle with the best. It's better on tight indoor circuits than larger ones though (Although most clubs are pretty tight)

 

You can still buy all the parts for them, including gear diffs which mean you have a lot less maintenance. 

 

The TA05 also is a great drifter, its easy to counter steer with the pulleys on that car.

 

so in all it's a top chassis, and its good at what ever you want to do with it :) 

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1) I raced mine well on carpet with foam tyres.  Drifting should be good but you'll need a spool in the back, probably.  Outdoors it won't feel quite as good as the chassis is thick and not very responsive compared to thinner chassis.

 

2) Stick to using 2s, it will be plenty. Make sure you use weights and balance the car left to right.

 

3) 190mm wide shells are what you need, (200mm are for nitro cars, and won't look right without fitting bigger hex offset spacers between the wheels and the driveshaft).

 

They are great cars, very durable!  It's one of the cars Tamiya over engineered - look at the wishbones, you won't break them easily LOL :whistling::thumbsup:

 

It's a tank, I'd let my 9 year old son "race" it any time without any fear of it breaking.  (The TT01/E and TT02 are also good cars but not as competitive).

 

Give my son a trf car though and that's a different story. :yes:

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