Popular Post Yrkoon Posted May 14 Popular Post Share Posted May 14 (edited) https://www.modelsport.co.uk/product/tamiya-the-grasshopper-ii-black-edition-1335178 new hoppy arrived earlier and been building it all night, not finished yet but the chassis is done and all the electrics are working as they should 🙂 i thought only the back shocks were oil filled but turns out so are the front ones 😄 let there be gear box. think i used the servo that came with my vse and is slightly dodgy but should be more than enough for this and got a 21turn brushed 540 motor in it with a rw steel pinion lol spectrum receivers are so tiny and thats a hobby wing 1060 in it 🙂 hot shock action 😛 hmm a bit close literally touching, should be okay under power and sitting on ground...... go 540 size motor, oh it uses the same gearbox mount as the lunchie/pumpkin and i broke one of the bits that holds one of the evil leafsprings by screwing into the wrong hole lol, so far it should be fine as these shocks should take up any slack , deffo a lot better than the hoppy 1 shocks and on my lunch box i snapped a leaf spring on its second run, should not need a 5th shock mod on this though lmao let there be glued tyres, i found em a lot easier than hoppy 1 wheels to get in the tyres, they are however 1 piece wheels rather than the old ones beadlocks. i thought for some reason that it only came with oil shocks on the back and was pleasantly surprised to find it has oil ones on the front too 🙂 the battery tray is an improvement as well over hoppy 1, it uses 2 pins to hold it on which means my battery should stay nice and snug instead of some times popping out the bottom lol edit: also noticed the battery tray seems slightly longer, i think lol ball raced it as well, screw the plastic bushings it comes with 😛 front wheels need shimmed, i noticed a bit movement on the shaft, if only the wheel nuts would screw in slightly more, none of that on the back wheels. all in all a enjoyable build as usual for tamiya, just need some tweaks etc appears that the shell uses body clips while hoppy 1 has it screwed down, should get its first test run in a day or 2. oh bonus old pic of hoppy 1, running a stock 380 motor and on its second pair of back tyres lmao 😄 edit: i just broke it lol, took it out for a test run with no shell on and snapped of the front suspension mount on one side, ordered a new chassis for a tenner but i think i can make use of left over alloy and a drill and dremell to make this one stronger and usable again, i dont fancy replacing chassis every time i break a front suspension mount 🙂 21turn 540 size motor may or may not be too fast for it and i only used a 6 cell nimh 😛# what i tried with it snapped my suspension tower on a dt-02 😛 Edited May 14 by Yrkoon 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kpowell911 Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 As much as I respect (and adore) what Tamiya have done for the hobby, I find them great for nostalgia purposes and building, but theyre just not built to be used in 2022 IMO haha. Looks like you had fun though! 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Yrkoon Posted May 15 Author Popular Post Share Posted May 15 hehe, aye deffo not the most robust model, got it sorted and ill go easier on it next time 😛 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Yrkoon Posted May 15 Author Popular Post Share Posted May 15 all stickered up now and body on, just had a much better test drive as well and it also lives up to the hopper name with its bouncing about and understeer, it is a bit of a handful but fun lol 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bert_w164 Posted May 15 Popular Post Share Posted May 15 What a journey bud - I'm with @Kpowell911on this they look bloody awesome, but a part of me wonders if they're literally designed to be "functional" shelf items. Whatever is going on you appear to be having fun so seems like a really good buy for you 🙂 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yrkoon Posted May 15 Author Share Posted May 15 (edited) 34 minutes ago, Bert_w164 said: What a journey bud - I'm with @Kpowell911on this they look bloody awesome, but a part of me wonders if they're literally designed to be "functional" shelf items. Whatever is going on you appear to be having fun so seems like a really good buy for you 🙂 yeh its is really good fun with the bouncing and under steer and over powered 21turn 540 motor i might tone down the motor lol it came with a i believe a 27turn 380 size motor lmao remember it originally came out in 1988, i get bored with high performance ones some times and just want something thats slower and a laugh due to its handling like this and the lunchi/pumpkin 🙂 Edited May 15 by Yrkoon 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
froggy8 Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 that car looks good mate 🙂 reminds me when i had the porsche 959, that handled awesome, took it to a gravel yard. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yrkoon Posted May 15 Author Share Posted May 15 (edited) 3 hours ago, froggy8 said: that car looks good mate 🙂 reminds me when i had the porsche 959, that handled awesome, took it to a gravel yard. cheers bud, i toppeled it and it rolled side ways up a curb all on concrete earlier, no damage, it really does have insane handling, i dont think the oil shocks are doing any thing and the understeer is something else plus the almost like plastic hard rubber tyres make for a interesting ride where the slightest pebble can really set it off course, basically its a good laugh and fun 🙂 and im glad i bought it as it complements my grasshopper 1 which runs a 380 very well and i might go a comical grass hopper next just for lolz and to complete the set 🙂 edit: good thing i bodged it stronger than original one as i ordered the wrong chassis, i should of ordered the grasshopper2/super hornet chassis, i ordered the normal hornet chassis oh well spare chassis for hoppy 1 coming soon and it needs it 😛 i think it shares a chassis with the rising fighter as well which is even more prone to rolling lol https://www.modelsport.co.uk/product/tamiya-rising-fighter-no-esc-1335425 edit i just stuck on its masive ariel tube, just for super retro astheitc drunken resaons, thinking of putting a litle flag on it 😛 Edited May 16 by Yrkoon 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert_w164 Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 Hey I'm all for big antenna tube, for me it puts the bug into buggy! Until you land it upside down on a track and it eventually snaps off 😔 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yrkoon Posted May 16 Author Share Posted May 16 1 hour ago, Bert_w164 said: Hey I'm all for big antenna tube, for me it puts the bug into buggy! Until you land it upside down on a track and it eventually snaps off 😔 Thats what a little bit of nitro fuel tubing is for, when it snaps just use a little fuel tubing and you have a flexible joint where it snapped 🙂 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yrkoon Posted May 20 Author Share Posted May 20 (edited) i locked the 2 pivot parts where the gearbox connected to stop the gearbox slapping about, not enough room for a 5th shock and the back suspension is pretty stiff any way so it would be pointless 🙂 saves buying a ampro brace or faffing about nice and simple, might see about softer springs now and ordered some gold wheel nuts that look orange in the picture but they say gold, either colour would suit it, and ordered the frog 2005 hex adapters so that i can whack on 12 hex wheels 🙂 edit: i have lost count the amount of times it has rolled or skidded upside down on concrete and nothing has broke cept for the initial test drive and there is wear on the wee skid plate i put on the other side woot its working, i snapped a part of a lunchbox u bracket i had spare and that fits over the undamaged shock mount perfect to protect it and the rest of the ubracket is what my damaged shock mount has over it as a new mount 🙂 Edited May 20 by Yrkoon 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertberr Posted June 1 Share Posted June 1 Nice hopper 👍 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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