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Cuiken last won the day on June 27 2022

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  1. The Golf body I picture on the first page of the topic is ~260mm and worked great. I picked it up pre-painted from craggy designs on FB but I htink you can get the unpainted shell from DMS Racing.
  2. Nice work on both those. The Strada video looks great too.
  3. Looking for a clean blackfoot re-re. Ideally a roller. No need for electronics. Cheers.
  4. I hadn't realised that. Seems likely.
  5. Nice find! Yeah, the HPI bodies are fractionally wider. I have one on my XV01 and had to go with fairly extreme offset wheels to fill the wheel arches.
  6. Quick update for anyone considering a TA02 build. My own TA02 is not 'in class' but it's still been an interesting car to run. It's a surprisingly decent chassis (given its age), the shocks are easily extended (I removed the V3 spacer and added a shock o-ring with the remaining V1 spacer) and the Calibra shell can be cut back (fairly dramatically) to work with a rally car. Leaves you with this: Only issue I had with it was that the front bumper provides hee-haw protection, especially for the shell. Clearly nobody at Tamiya had embraced urethane bumpers back in the early '90s. So, I bodged in a urethane bumper as below and it fits great. Required a bit of dremmeling of the existing bumper but only took a few minutes.
  7. I have a wee fan on the smaller of the two caps on mine. No idea if it helps 🙂 More importantly though, congrats and hope all is well mate!
  8. Well, donning my cap as the Bernie Ecclestone of this particular racing class, I'd say this: The original rules stipulated a total £200 or less with the following guidance: 1. Money spent on the car or any parts for the car must be deducted from the budget 2. Any components that come with a purchased car or kit that are not being used (a brushless motor/ESC or receiver/transmitter for example) can be sold on with revenue from sale added back onto available budget 3. You can raid your own spares box. My thinking on this would be things like wheels/tyres, receiver, brushed motor and/or ESC, servo etc I think an area of ambiguity is the sale of things from your spares box to fund the car. This could get tricky as I probably have a couple of hundred quid's worth of stuff in my spares box that I could sell if I include wheels, motors etc. That said, Bernie has never been averse to a bit of creative accounting so who am I to judge?
  9. Loving the look of the HPI under that Audi shell. Looking forward to hearing how that runs. Nice job on the XV-01 too. It's a great build and great fun to drive when you're done too. Are you using the stock pinion? I'm still having heat issues on mine. Keen to hear how you get on. The Traxxas rally is just too big to be in class but it is a really appealing car. I've nearly bought a used one several times. Never quite gone for it. As an aside, I was away at the weekend and found this spot just outside Aviemore. I hade no RC cars with me but it looked like the ideal spot to mark out a rally course: Lastly, I got the TA03F all serviced and reassembled. I even managed to salvage the battered shell with some shoo goo and tape: Total spend on this car remains very low. £70 purchase - sales of radio and ESC bring it in at ~£30! I've had to ball race the car and splashed out on a torque splitter (£25) but even then it's only £70 and drives superbly.
  10. Agreed. Really interested in this one. It looks like a nice chassis.
  11. Being an obsessive sort of chump I now have three possible entries. Initial observations below: 1. XV01 - Such a great chassis. Beautiful handling and definitely among the smoothest of 1/10th cars on bumpy surfaces. Only issue I'm having is getting any speed out of it on a silver can. The torque tuned motor motor ran super hot with a 24T pinion (and then melted). No obvious friction in the drive train but the belt may have been too tight. Dropping back to the stock 22T pinion and running a slacker belt seems to improve things but the stock silver can motor still got very warm. It's a puzzler. 2. TA03F - I'm pretty besotted with this one and it's worked out super cheap. After selling the unwanted radio etc the car has only cost me £35! I've raised it a little by removing the internal spacers from the shocks, aded fresh ball races and added a front bumper, otherwise it's just as it arrived with me. Total spend £60. Even with a silver can it's way faster than my XV01 and the motor doesn't seem to get warm at all.I'm puzzled but delighted. Handling wise, it's like a road oriented XV01 (no surprise there). Corners beautifully but a bit less composed on bumpy surfaces. I have high hopes that this can be tuned out though. 3. TA02 - I went for the used TA02 on ebay (just got too curious). After selling the RX, I think it will end up costing me ~£110. I've not actually run it yet (only turned up last night) but the chassis looks simple and robust. Shocks are weirdly set up though. Really limited travel because they include both the V1 and V3 spacers in the build. The oil in them also seems far to light. I'll rebuild with fewer spacers and thicker oil and report back. It's relative simplicity makes me suspect it's handling may not be quite on par with the TA03 but, mid/rear motor will still be interesting and the shaft drive can only be more reliable. Happy rallying this weekend if your cars are sorted.
  12. For brushed use, I'd recommend using non-sticky grease in the gearboxes (probably the ceramic grease ship ship in the kit). Like I say, my brushed motor melted and the only source of friction I can identify is the sticky/heavy grease I used on the gears. Looking forward to re-stripping/cleaning/greasing the car 🙂
  13. It's a really good chassis. You'll be pleased with it I'm sure.
  14. Well, that's a teaser. Come one, what have you gone for? 😀
  15. Okay, update on the car(s). In a dry spell over the weekend me and my mate actually got out and did some racing. Recent torential rain mena the ususal woodland spots were too waterlogged so we opted for a road stage in a large carpark. Got some spray chalk, marked out a circuit (about 16mx8m) and got underway. It was great fun. Even better than I'd expected. My mate's TA04 was a good match against the XV01. Not as easy in the corners but way faster on the straights. It made for some great racing with both cars running at speeds where you could actually choose racing lines and overtake without wiping eachother out. The XV01 is a great chassis, freshly built shocks with long eyelets gave a bit of extra ground clearance and made it lean really nicely into the corners. All good scale driving stuff. Only issue was that, after one pack, the torque tuned motor died on me. Now, IIRC the stock piniopn on the XV01 is a 22T which is to be used with the stock silver can motor. Conventional wisdom says you can up the tooth count on tour pinion with a torque tuned (or maybe I've got that wrong?). So, I put 24T pinion on the torque tuned and went racing. The motor is absolutely toast (I should hae noticed the reducing power) and it may also have taken the ESC with it Bit surprised it was running so hot is all. The drive train seems to be running freely enough. The only issue I can think of is that I used a fairly heavy (sticky) grease on the gears. I've used it on all my other cars without issue but maybe the extra drag is just too much for a brushed setup? I'll need to find a bit of time to take a look and see if there are any other sources of friction going on. Focussing on the positives though, the concept is sound. I mean, it's hardly original, any club will limit motor power for racing but that combined with a budget limit made for really interesting cars and racing. Also, just taking the 5 minutes to chalk out a proper circuit made all the difference compared to just blasting around a basic oval. Can't believe I've not done that before.
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