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Must be the buggy please. Roller would be great, but with electrics is fine too. Needs to be cheap and postable to Cheltenham please! PM me 👍

My pink set arrived yesterday - they look lush, Nick!

Hi all, If anyone has any of the above cars, either the standard width versions (see photo), or the longer arm ST versions in as near mint condition as possible please let me know. Have to be as close to mint condition as possible - thanks!

It will 100% take a micro scale brushless set-up.

The ESC page of the Outlaw manual talks about the ability to switch between "normal" and "crawler" mode: https://www.cmldistribution.co.uk/diagrams/FTX/FTX Outlaw Brushed Manual.pdf Might be worth reading through there, and resetting your end-points/mode to suit your needs? Hope that helps

I recently did some research into costings to get my young nephew into cheap club level touring car racing based on starting from nothing and adding the following to my total: Premounted tires to match a local clubs requirements: £24 - https://www.modelsport.co.uk/wheels-tyres-sets/rc-car-categories/9960/996020&MSAttributeID[58]=973&ManufacturerID=1144 Brushless sensored ESC: £40 - https://www.modelsport.co.uk/hobbywing-quicrun-10bl120-sensored/rc-car-products/425021 Brushless sensored motor: £40 - https://www.modelsport.co.uk/electric-motors/rc-car-categories/9920/992015&MSAttributeID[25]=576&MSAttributeID[114]=1277&MSAttributeID[26]=589&ManufacturerID=1157 Servo: £27 - http://speedrc.co.uk/trackstar-ts-d99x-digital-1-10-scale-touring-drift-buggy-steering-servo-25t/ LiPo: £40 - https://www.modelsport.co.uk/intellect-lihv-battery-5200mah-50c-7-6v/rc-car-products/408107 LiPo charger: £40 - https://www.modelsport.co.uk/skyrc-e680-ac-dc-80w-charger/rc-car-products/440716 LiPo bag: £7 - https://www.modelsport.co.uk/overlander-lipo-safe-sack/rc-car-products/38313 At this point I am ignoring tools, pinions, etc etc - just focusing on the more essential items. We're currently at £218. I came up with 3 chassis options in the end: Convert an FTX Banzai The FTX Banzai comes as a RTR 32DP brushed drift car out the box: £120 - https://www.modelsport.co.uk/ftx-banzai-1-10th-scale-4wd-rtr-rc-car-brushed-electric-street-drift-car/rc-car-products/380699 CML list a 48DP spur conversion for about £3. RW also list one: £10 - https://www.modelsport.co.uk/rw-hardened-acetal-ftx-74t-48dp-spur-gear-vantage-carnage-banzai-hooligan-bugsta/rc-car-products/436585 The car comes RTR with a really good transmittor/reciever - certainly good enough for one person with one car wanting to race at a club. I would replace the stock servo with the servo I listed above. Total = £218 + £120 + £10 = £348 Tamiya TT-02S The S comes with oil shocks and bearings so you dont have to worry about upgrading those: £140 - https://www.modelsport.co.uk/rc-electric-models/rc-car-categories/9900/990010&ManufacturerID=53&ChassisID=1297 You will need a transmittor and reciever: £50 - https://www.modelsport.co.uk/rc-systems/rc-car-categories/9910/991010 You will need a shell: £25 Total = £218 + £140 + £50 + £25 = £433 Xpress XQ1S The XQ1S is a pure racer. It will allow you to move into club racing with longevity, rather than getting to the end of the cars limits like you might do with the Banzai and the TT-02S: £120 - http://speedrc.co.uk/xpress-execute-xq1s-1-10th-scale-sport-competition-touring-car-kit/ You will need a transmittor and reciever: £50 - https://www.modelsport.co.uk/rc-systems/rc-car-categories/9910/991010 You will need a shell: £25 Total = £218 + £120 + £50 + £25 = £413 Hope that helps a little.

Isn't this quite a close copy of the LC Racing EMB-1? i'd be interested to see more photos of it id you ever strip it down at all!

Ordered some pink ones - they look great, Nick!

Re: MSUK - having such a wide catch net for a target audience (bashers, racers, across all scales) probably means that as one class/scene dies the others take up the slack. You'll be running this in your retirement! Re: FB Groups - I am an old school forum lover - I cant easily navigate a FB group, cant easily find information, and to ensure I am aware of all goings on I have to follow like 30 different groups! *shudder* - long life forums. Re: Jimmy. RIP - sad sad sad times. He was such a huge influence to me, across how to run a niche forum, how to promote events and publish race reports - will forever miss that guy

No, the BRCA Micro events died off for various reasons, one main reason being the introduction of the BRCA hard cased lipo rule. I totally understand the rule, but it kinda priced micros out of the LiPo market then - paying £30+ for a LiPo, needing a few to handle a National meeting, on a car worth £150 or so just meant that Micros lost their cost effectiveness. Sad times, but all good things come to a close. Glad to see MSUK thriving through - RCRaceChat died, oOple is a lot lot quieter now, and FB Groups (which I hate) just sucked the life blood out of forums. Glad that MSUK has weathered the storm mate

Hey mate!! Rather than post here I thought I owned you a better explaination as to where Ive been so I posted in the intros section: Hope you are well mate? Glad to see MSUK still thriving and growing!

Hey all (especially Nick!), A few of you might remember me, back in the very early days of the forum, when the micro RC scene was growing with things like the Mini-T and the AE RC18T. I vanished for about 7 years and A LOT has happened since then, so by way of an introduction this is my story I found this forum very early in 2005 - probably when it was in its infancy. Nick was one of the first people to ever welcome me here, I had no RC knowledge at all and a lot of questions, and MSUK became my spiritual first online home! I bashed nitro 8th buggies and stadium trucks a lot, met a group of lads in Middlesborough (driving from Gloucester, long before the days of sat-navs and smartphones, with just some printed directions from the AA to get me to Gainsborough. Cant remember the name of the crew, but they were an awesome bunch of lads!) I started racing 8th nitro rallycross at Swindon because of the help and support I got from this forum, I turned to 10th TC indoor racing with an AE TC3 with help and support from this forum - mainly MTH, remember him? Then not too many months later Associated released the RC18T. Id never seen anything like it in my life, bought one and was hooked. It was small, fast, fun, cute(?!), but also there wasnt really anywhere online where I could talk about it and ask questions, so I decided to start my own forum dedicated to micro RC chat. From there things just grew and grew. Local clubs to my region (Gloucestershire) became more welcoming of micro's on their carpet, I started travelling further afield to race club evenings (Leominster, Weston-Super-Mare, Caldicot) and from making contact with some of the distributors here in the UK I organised a 3 event series in Tamworth with the help of the Tamworth Club crew called UK Micro Challenge 1, 2 and 3. The 3rd event, UK Micro Challenge 3 was the biggest to that date - had some of the biggest names in 10th offroad, 10th onroad and over classes race alongside us. Dez Chand at RRCI organised all the promotion of the event, and even published a DVD of the race meeting afterwards! Dez was a HUGE influence and inspiration to me in the early days, and he will be forever missed - RIP Dez. After the UK Micro Challenge events had finished we approached the BRCA and started the BRCA Micro National section. Myself as Chairman, alongside a team of a few dedicated micro racers including some of the Tamworth Club crew who offered tonnes of really valuable support and advice to me as I went along my journey as BRCA Micro Chairman. The Micro Nationals started in 2007, and I managed to win the Modified Class championship! We learnt a lot about running a series, enforcing rules, petty racer egos (lol), how desperate some people will be to find loop holes, how people will absolutely try and cheat if they can - I also learnt a lot about the BRCA too. The BRCA at the time was run by Chris Hardisty - he was again one of those people, alongside Jim Spencer who offered me so much help and advice. Even though I was a bit of a pain in the arse at the time in terms of not always being able to attend the BRCA Executive Committee meetings when I was supposed to, they were faultless in their support of what I was trying to achieve with the Micro Section. I have a lot of love for the BRCA, they work very hard behinds the scenes for very little reward. At some point around 2007 I organised an event called the "Hereford Open" at the now closed Leominster club. I'll forever remember this event as the biggest meeting to that date event I had ever organised (80 or so entries), but where the entry fee to everyone was free. I had always wanted to make racing micro RC here in the UK as accessible to everyone of any budget. At the time I was a forklift salesman earning just over £14k a year. I had no money, and micro racing offered me cheap fun and occasionally a trophy! I managed to generate enough sponsorship funds from the distributors and manufacturers for the event that I covered all the club fees and could offer the event at no cost to everyone. Proud of that! After a few years of running the Micro Nationals, with the forum still growing, the micro scene being more and more supported by manufacturers, I organised 3 more of my own personal events, this time called UKMicroX 1, 2 and the International. The UKMicroX International event was the first 2 day micro RC meeting I had organised, and probably ever in the UK. We had drivers come over to the venue (Caldicot, Wales) from America, Sweden, and Hong Kong and it will probably forever be the best thing I ever achieved in RC. Things kinda went downhill after the event though, unfortunately. A year after starting the Micro Nationals I enrolled into university as a mature student and the pressure of my last year coincided around this time. I was in a terribly toxic relationship at the time, then I finished university, got my first job as a software developer and put most of my effort into building a successful career. A lot of stuff happened at work that was taking a toll on my mental health, the end of my toxic relationship around the same time, the UKMicro-RC forum was regularly getting attacked by Russian spammer/hackers so my hosting company threatened to stop hosting me unless I paid for a dedicated server at £ridiculous per month, and finally my mental health just crashed. This was long before the current times where it was ok to talk about mental health. I had 2 breakdowns and ended up in therapy for 2 years, but I had burnt myself out of RC so badly that I vanished from the scene totally in about 2014. I tried coming back to racing in local club 10th offroad racing in 2017 but couldnt do it - my head wasn't in the right place, although I thought it was, and I tried again in 2019 with some 10th onroad indoor racing but my crazy working hours ruined any chance of that happening. Luckily now things have settled down - I work remotely so time isnt an issue, my head is in a lot better place at the moment, and the lockdown has given me opportunity to fettle with my cars again and actually enjoy doing what I was doing! Going back to MSUK though - like I said, this place will always be my spiritual first home. I learn all about racing here, learnt how to run in a nitro engine here, got into bashing through this site, and made lots of great online mates. Nick was always very kind enough to allow me to advertise all my micro RC events on the forum too which was very much appreciated! Hopefully I will be able to get back to posting here more regularly now, giving something back to a forum that helped me so much when I first started Sorry for the essay, Cris.

Is drifting gearing different to on road normal gearing For the most part yes. Drifting should really put minimal load through the motor, especially on the Banzai which runs rock hard drift wheels. If you've managed to pop motors then something isnt right. Will i need to regear from brushed drift to brushless on road Again for the most part, yes. Onroad will put more load into the motor so you'll need to be more aware of temps. With brushless it isnt as critical as brushed motors, but you still need to keep an eye on them - if you brushless motor is fizzing away after every run then something is wrong. Are you running LiPos in your Banzai? If so, the higher voltage (and current draw) in the LiPo compared to standard NiMh's might have something to do with it - equally is your drivetrain binding anywhere? I know from experience with my Banzai that I had to rejig the front and rear diff output shims around to get the drivetrain to mesh a little better.

Hi all, looooooong time no post. Does anyone know of any aftermarket screw kits for the Banzai that aren't made of cheese please? Thanks

(Phil Sleigh's championship winning Carisma GTB ready for its RRCi magazine photoshoot!) There doesnt seem to be much talk on this forum about the new belt-drive GTB from Carisma so I thought a thread might be on order! The newly released GTB won the last 2 rounds of this seasons BRCA Micro Championship, and won the overall 1/16th 4WD Championship, a 3rd championship in a row for the Carisma team. More details about the car can be found at the following link: http://www.cmldistribution.co.uk/cml_product.php?productId=0000007197 If any of you have any questions about the GTB, or micro RC racing here in the UK please let me know and I'll do my best to answer them, or atleast get some of the team to answer them Cris

Where does the sound sound like its coming from? Motor or servo? If motor it could be that your tranny trims are set a little too far forwards or backwards, if its servo related it could just be that it aint the worlds best servo and all servos make some noise to some extent. That video isnt very clear as to your issue really, lots of funny noises coming from that car and none of them set alarm bells ringing in my head initially. Pin point the area of the sound and let us know so that we can try and be a little more accurate with any diagnosis. At the end of the day you are probably going to either jump this thing off the side of a field or an indoor track and its going to make even funnier noises when you do that

For the 2013-2014 season we are introducing a 1/16th 4WD Junior Championship! If you are under the age of 16 on 1st September 2013 you are eligible to compete in the Junior Championship. At all rounds of the National Series the top 3 Juniors will recieve trophies on the day based upon their qualifying positions. At the end of the season the top 3 juniors will recieve overall Junior Championship trophies! If you have any questions relating to the new Junior Championship please contact the committee via the following link: http://www.brca.org/index.php?q=content/committee/12369

http://www.brca.org/?q=node/134 All the info/rules etc are there. If there is anything you need clarification on just get in touch

As long as the car meets all our contruction and dimensional rules then yes, we allow "home made" cars What ya got boss?

http://www.wycomberacing.co.uk/

All, 1/16th 4WD video from the most recent national

On the opposite side of things from bashing, the best micro RC racers in the country racing their Mini-8's (plus afew other micros!)

Oh yeah LOL

Dan, http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ftx-Fury-1-16-Micro-Not-Blaze-Lrp-Shark-Losi-Mini-8-1-18-Brushless-/290667448827?pt=UK_ToysGames_RadioControlled_JN&hash=item43ad2149fb#ht_618wt_1270

As far as BRCA Nationals go there is no specific class or racing for those cars. You may find that any club will be willing to allow you to race with them