philgor

after refitting the left hand front dog bone back in for what seem's like the millionth time, i gave up and ordered some universal drive shaft's... let's hope these stay in.... on the other hand i did give it some abuse and it did bloody well....

for some reason I very rarely get any cold call's, despite having a home phone, personal mobile and work mobile, the last one I had was on the work phone, while I was underneath a trailer adjusting the brakes, the I got the call, answered it, turned out to be some ppi thng, I put it on loud speaker, had some lass talking to me about claiming ppi, it got that boring that I put the phone speaker next to the park/shunt valve on the trailer and pulled the park, (that dump's 10bar or so of air out of the brake's creating a loud noise) she wasn't there when I asked if she was ok..... the one I remember the most was one my dad got, he was a truck driver, and his truck had a built in cab phone, one day he got a phone call on it from vodaphone, asking if he would like to upgrade his phone, to another.. he did say it was a company phone, and was told that's ok, and he did ask them if the bloke on the phone knew what company this phone was registered to, he responded with j.bloggs transport limited. it finally dawned on him that it was a cab phone......

right, managed to get an early finish from work, (started at 6am finished by 10.30 am) so popped in to my local model shop, picked up a couple of can's of paint, and also had a bit of a mad moment, and bought a hpi pre painted drift car 1/10 shell, just so I could get using it. and also some pre mounted rally block tyre, put it all together, and wow, what brilliant bit of kit to use, now the tyre's are bedded in, it just grip's and go's on any surface, couple of thing's I need to sort out though need to make some sort of mud wing's to stop debris getting in to the pan, jamming the drive train and steering system up, and also help protect the radio gear, thinking of making it out of plasticard. it did end up on the beach, and boy It handle's not like I expected it to, and I found it not that bad to clean it, used a little bit of electrical cleaner, a soft new paint brush, and the vacuum cleaner. as for run time, I got about 35min's in total, on tarmac, loose gravel, compacted sand, and grass. so i'm really impressed. well worth the wait to get it going. was gonna get it out again tomorrow, but I've been asked to guard tomorrow, so never mind...

right, the spare part's have arrived after landing in the uk from japan, had a late finish tonight at work, so will crack on with It tomorrow.

went to the shop in person the other day, as I had to return a t20 pinion and get some bearing's for my tt02, cracking service, will use them again.

it's one of those thing's, I've had worse happen, bought a car once, absolutely mint condition, not a mark on it anywhere on it, less than 24hrs later, me and another vehicle made contact with each other, que new wing, bumper, door's and rear quarter gutted wasn't the word to describe it... should have the replacement part's with me tomorrow. and lucky I didn't have the shell on as i'm waiting for 3 thing's for it.... the paint, should have it this weekend, in between fire lighting, lineside clearance, looking a brake's on the car and something else I've forgotten the good weather to paint it in, (no shed to paint it in...) and confidence to paint it....

well that was good, got it all sorted and set up, had a little "play" around the house with it, and left it at that. anyway took it out for a spin after work, setting up the trim for the steering, nearly had it sorted, and I got distracted and it hit a wall... and broke the n.s.f hub.... I think the term i'm looking for is bugger....

yeah, realised my mistake, the kit one is ally, so will get that sorted asap, will deal with that next weekend. it's nearly all together, just the bit I'm dreading now... electric's and then painting of the body.....

had a look through the kit, and found a metal pinion in there, so that'll be ok, popped up to the model sport shop today (yeah Grimsby to Otley) sorted out some bearing's for it and got started on it about an hour and a half later... got the diff's and drive shaft's built and greased as required, and all the upper suspension arm's fitted and the foam's fitted in the tyre's after many year's of building airfix, and the like's model's, the quality and the lack of flashing on the kit's and the instruction's are really good to some that I have attempted to build...

the TT02 has arrived a day early, really happy, just dawned on me how many part's there are..... looking forward to it, gonna sort the bearing's and pinion out tomorrow at the modelsport shop, as i'm in the area....

well citylink bought me my TT02 Subaru xv, it'll give me summit to do while i'm on call this weekend...

my postie droped off a T20 pinion, for a car that is out of stock...

hopefully by Friday next week I shall have in my possession a Subaru XV running on a TT02 chassis. cheaper than the swift as well. now before I get carried away returning the other bit's that have been ordered, as in the steel pinion and bearing's the pinion that come's with tt02 is a 22T and the steel pinion that was ordered for the swift is a 20T, was thinking in stead of all the hassle of returning it and getting a 22T sent out, would I be able to fit a 20T instead of a 22T?

first of all, sorry for the double post, every time I went to try and edit the above, it froze.... had a look through fusion hobbies web site, and found this, http://www.fusionhobbies.com/product/58567-tamiya-subaru-xv-tt02 did a bit of research on it and it seem to be a fairly recent addition to the range. and tbh, I think this may be better over all than the M05RA... as for the bearing's and pinion that have been ordered I'll speak to them and get them returned...

well that was good, ordered everything last night, bearing's, pinion and the car. got a phone call from fusion hobbies today telling me they haven't got any cars on the M05RA chassis..... so i'm ****** now, so now got look at other option's now, I think i'm looking at Hong Kong.... didn't really want to though....

upset a few, on a daily basis, even managed to show a few up with a trailer on as well....

right that's all ordered, now the waiting game....... hurry up, wanna build it!!!!!

well the van is a 2.4 tddi with 90bhp, and it avarages' about 23mpg, it doesn't help that the engine is running all day, and it tip's the scale's at around 2.5 ton's... but having said that, the Honda, the gear box is too short, 3000rpm your doing 56mph, 4000rpm your hiting 70mph, and once over 4000rpm it drink's it. but town work it's awesome, I can have it in 5th gear by 25mph, and it'll pull from 20mph in 5th without having to change down....

trained light vehicle mechanic and mot tester, but now I'm a mobile hgv trailer fitter

my ride's, a van and an estate..... the van, it's nowt special, just a transit yep a transit van, my work van, which spend's most of it's time on the local dock's around Immingham. and the estate.... it's a Honda civic aerodeck 1.8vti so spec's, it's an estate... 170bhp.. limited slip diff few other special factory bit's as well and a towbar and it's a true workhorse aswell... so it really does earn it's keep, the only down side to it is the fuel economy see anywhere from 25mpg to 40 on a run, but get about 30-35 most of the time...

had a look around the local model shop's, and nothing, so much for buying local, anyway, found one in the uk from fusion hobbies. so will be ordering that Monday. http://www.fusionhobbies.com/product/58464-tamiya-suzuki-swift-super-1600-m05-ra as for extra's gonna get the bearing's for it, daft not to really. gonna leave it brushed for the moment, and see how I get on with it.

right, quick look on the net, well ebay , reveal's that there isn't a lot of these about, in the uk, but load's in Hong Kong.... found this in Hong Kong, http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tamiya-58464-RC-Suzuki-Swift-Super-1600-M05Ra-1-10-Car-Kit-/121026790736?pt=UK_ToysGames_RadioControlled_JN&hash=item1c2dc24550 is there anything I should look out for when buying from Hong Kong, would be buying on the credit card for protection though and the delivery date as well, September 16th to October 2nd, air mail my arse is there any good model shop's that may stock this, around the Grimsby area, i.e. hull etc...

hi, thank's for the warm welcome, for the use of the car, i'm planning just to use it as a "car park basher" but on any surface, live in Grimsby, so plenty of park's and also the beach, but not thinking that's a good idea.... so upgrade to ball bearing's, and avoid combo's, look at a 2.4ghz radio gear, is there any system's should avoid, and any I should consider as for previous rr.c equipment, it got given/lost/sold away, and it wasn't even Tamiya stuff, it was cheap Chinese stuff and nikko bit's..... less said the better.... I think I'll just stick with the basic nimh? battery's etc till I'm happy to commit more, don't want to go too expensive too quickly... I might consider rallying it, but I want it set up for off roading

didn't really know where to put this, so. put it in here as it best suit's..... right, I've always had r.c car's of some sort, but for the past couple of year's, I've not had one due to one thing or another (yeah I know....) I've been trying to sort some spare money out to spend on a rc car, and have been thinking about getting this; Tamiya M05RA Suzuki Swift 58464 right car chosen, now for the questions..... where would I be looking at to get one? what sort of price should I be willing to pay? is there any point in getting a combo pack, including controller battery etc? are there any upgrade's that I should do while i'm building it? or do any of you have a better suggestion for another car? cheer's for looking and hope you can help.