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xmaxx with some other rigs bashing for some comparison... good fun was had by all!

So 15.5t tamiya motor fitted along with ESC fan, arb's and harder springs. Should be a nice reliable easy to use car for messing around with. I still may build another one just for dad Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

so I finished my lunchie in standard form!! As wanted to see how it ran an see if upgrades made any difference!! So the 1st thing i tried was the shapways bracket an bearings!! Bearings were great wheels just spin for ages on a tiny turn!! The shapeways bracket just didn't seem right not sure if limiting that point that is designed to move is right!!! So its been removed an i have fitted a 5th shock mod!!! Which seems to work loads better!! So next was shocks got some nice shiny absima shocks 75mm at front an 85mm at rear!! But when compressed made loads of noise so stripped them down emptied out the creamy white gunk that was inside cleaned an filled with some nice new shock oil!! Also changed springs too yellow soft ones!!!there fitted now an have made a immediate difference to my truck it handles so much better an doesn't make any nasty bang noises when i manage to land a little jump!!! SO I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP AND ADVICE AND FOR TAKING TIME TO HELP ME next upgarade is new motor an some tyre foam!!! An then a new car to play with!!! Cheers guys

I saw a few of these built in the states and had to have one,it`s great for more bumpy ground and with the added Baja 5b wing flys much better than the standard C1. The chassis is about 5mm shorter than a D8 truggy,so i used D8 truggy wishbones and CVD driveshafts,the wheels with off road tyres are Agressors from the Lightning Truggy and i think the road ones were from the Savage options list,so it`s a bit of a parts bin special. Motor combo is the Mamber Monster Max with a Castle 2650kv running on only 4 cells,13T pinion from a Savage.

Why do some people have to be so lazy with their for sale posts. I can't stand it when people leave a link to the eBay page or their photo bucket library. Put a bit of work into the add for goodness sake. Rant over.

I have the kit that AJ posted and am very happy with it and it more than held its own against various other modified engines when I was racing and helped me get a couple of A final podium finishes in the nationals last year.

Carpmart - the turbine's now Wren's flagship engine - the DC100 iKero. It puts out 10.2kg of thrust, idles at 45,000rpm, & maxes out at 160,000rpm. It's starter motor is brushless (in that little aluminium cap you can see), as is its fuel pump. The electronic gubbins is called FADEC - Full Authority Digital Engine Control - & manages everything from start-up to shut-down. All running gear has been removed, & has no brakes. It runs on normal paraffin, dosed with helicopter turbine oil (5%).

My 1:9 Scale Land Rover 101" FC at Burton Dassett Country Park.

Perhaps the most powerful monster truck ever built, with almost more power than you can control ... almost. The specially designed ARRMA NERO 'Diff Brain' is fitted with three separate, lockable metal differentials, helping you to truly harness all the crazy 6S speed and torque. The 'Diff Brain' also means that the NERO is essentially four awesome vehicles in one: Blast, Wheelie, Drift and Climb. Don't be afraid.... Source View full news article

Hi Collective!! [Note - I have since this post, now added pics - thanks Tamiya dude! I hope they're not too big, I did opt for Autosizing down to 800px] Having been the continuously proud owner of a Maverick Blackout V2 with the requisite servo upgrades and a Zenoah GC290 4-bolt - I thought I'd out-do even that power unit... So the thing is now sporting a Wren iKero 100 jet turbine - (10kg thrust). It idles at 50,000 RPM, and spins happily up to 160,000 RPM. I was stressing about how botched the fit was going to look, but it almost looks as though designed out of the factory with it in! Everything else is still in-situ - apart only from the exhaust muffler from the Zenoah. I'm figuring that I'd like the added momentum for now, over the losses in terms of inertia. The curve of the engine fits perfectly atop the suspension-plate - then nestled laterally by the two posts which normally held the bodywork up/on. It's screwed-down using it's own engine strap - screwed into the top of the two posts (obviously cut). The back of it is simply then sitting on the roll-cage frame member - perfectly positioned for this role. It's not sitting directly on the beam, as the beam os lower than the suspension member, making for the engine pointing upwards - so the perfect spacer has proven to be the rubber strip that comes with a new petrol tank. I've laser-thermometered the whole set-up, and nothing should be heat-stressed - and esp not for the relatively short runs one would do. I haven't been able to run it out in a field yet - but in garage tests it managed to shove forwards two six-packs of 1.5litre Evian bottles, on very rough grippy floor, too. That wasn't of course the objective at the time, but is what happened. I've managed to get it to talk to the Spektrum (DX3, iirc) transmitter, thankfully. Thanks for all of your help and support over the years - esp Hebby & Nitroholic - it's kept me interested in the whole game, and has led me to what must clearly be a major watershed in my RC vehicle ownership experience! P.s. And none of this propane/separate source of blown-air cr@p to get it started - you can just walk up to the vehicle, switch on the receiver on it, pull the trigger - and it commences all procedures! Arif

Looks really good. If you want bombproof, a rollcage is a good idea. My 3.3 tmaxx buggered off at full belt. It hit a18 inch tall ant hill. Rolled end over end for about 100 + yards. It only knocked the wing mounts off the proline beetle body.

Well, that's the last time I offer advice about posting images.

I was think bout sport tuned Tamiya motor!!!!

Hobbywing Quicrun Sensored Brushless motor will pep your Lunchie up nicely

Yes - & you're going to be doing it's very first video running in anger!!

Anything with a tt-02 base. Tt-02. Tt-02d. Tt-02s. Tt-02r. Are all on road cars. TT-02B if you fancy a buggy Sent from my Galaxy S5 Neo

Bump...for those interested in 2016!

A lucky fly tipping find (bastards) down the road netted me some bridge surface material! The red line is a proposed adjustment... Too dry and dusty to do much to it right now though.

Sorted, don't forget the "DDM" discount code to save another 5%

Maybe have a word with Nige and see if he could fit the head kit to a new long block for you? If he can't, I'm sure he will know someone who would. But if that's too much messing about, I would just get a Scotty Pro MX, either way you are going to get a great engine

Well I think this tyre and wheel combo is a bit too much....Tell me what you think fellas?

Build pics shortly Sent from my Galaxy S5 Neo

Took the boy out to start working on his scaler course.

My LHS has it ordered, just waiting for it to come in. Pics and vids once it's installed.

No surprises there. Remember I bought a not so nice condition first generation model so I would hope that any subsequent releases are better! I've got mine as reliable as I can now, the only things km on it are the fuel tank, shocks and engine lol. Just need a s9010 or s9020 for the steering now to stop my run of savox failures.

I think Norco forgot to mention the slightly seismic role he's played in getting my car into said great working condition! I'd almost given up on two-strokes (having indeed been spoilt by the simplicity of turbines) - but he brought me & my engine back from the brink!

Chassis plates? Looks like 38mm

Yes buy from uk if poss...i only linked that one as it was first one i came too. ...mine cane from far east and is fine. ....

DX4S is a nice radio, though I've heard of people saying they'd had trouble with spektrum with gassers - makes little sense to me as Losi supply spektrum's with there RTR's. Flysky gt3b is a good system, I've had a few and keep going back to them. Be careful ordering from China though as shipping can be a long time, DOA will be a pain and you could get customs. This one is in the UK, in stock and only a few £ more (cheaper than RCModelz still) http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FS-GT3B-2-4G-3CH-Radio-Remote-Control-LCD-Transmitter-Receiver-fr-RC-Car-UK-M5O3-/131819335247?hash=item1eb10b6e4f:g:f1EAAOSw41xXOpT9

Tamiya madbull, very easy to build and extremely tough.

Lunchbox or Pumpkin. At a recent race meeting loaded down with high performance 1/10th buggies the thing all the kids got excited about was a stock Midnight Pumpkin. Kids love monster trucks. I let a few use my Hpi Wheely King (better than the Lunchbox but not available as a kit) and they were laughing their heads off. Sure they roll over ALL the time, but the kids seemed to enjoy running over to right it as much as anything else.

The LRP32 is a beast!! Loved it in my LST2 spec Raminator. Don't forget the truck's as fast as the finger pulls on the trigger!! Nice to have a reserve I always thought. Al.

Full length - 2S hardcased packs fit great.

On board head on?

Was good to have you along Clive.. The X2 actually impressed me on a few fronts. 8s and your config goes better than I expected it would... The X2 is soooo much better quality than the one Andy K has. Better all round TBH (sorry Andy) The combo and motor stayed so low temp wise How bloody heavy it is, probably the same or more than a gasser How many big crashes you can have in 20 mins of running Now you've popped your cherry, are you coming again? You could come a little earlier next time...

Found some inspiration for a build:

I've used SDI arches on mine, it looks loads better than having sticky out wheels (scx10 chassis) I tried to make mine look like this, not too bling with a bit off-road: And my version... (the paint is supposed to be the same colour though mine went dark when I laquered it;

for the model rather than to it... got another section of track made. just need to get some surface for the bridge and nail it all together, then chuck some gravel down.

I've asked Axial and apparently the new axles bolt straight on in place of the old scx ones, need new cvds though. I fancy a set for my D90....

Pm carpmart on here as he has a vast stock of servos and will sort u out ..here ya go http://www.msuk-forum.co.uk/forums/topic/217274-15-servo/

Just been out with my toys with the MRs and now she wants us to get matching R/Cs.... Im thinking of a pair of these... Only problem is, Id want to go brushless, do these have a combined ESC/RX? So id have to change radio systems if I changed the ESC? Also what Lipos from Hobbyking fit? Thanks

This years may BHBF was its first run out since and the tranny problems have gone and the belt drive system is working great. Did snap a hub pin and lost a dog bone pin but was nothing that I couldn't sort there. The obr is performing great, not only was this heavy lump keeping up with the 5ive's, dbxl's ect. It was also overtaking them too

My D-90

My army Landy, bit more battered now

My favourite photos of mine so far.

Here is my SXC10 Hilux

Taken during a London Scale Trail Runners (LSTR) G6 style event on 31st March 2014: The Mutated Minions have some fun with Project Lighting