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JohnyT

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  1. Hi Reilluor, yeah did work great! I made sure they were nice and clean and also gave them a light scouring with some fine wire wool.
  2. Stickers are added. Each one apart from the Tekin sticker is either from an upgrade or club from my 1:1 car. It will get it's first proper run this weekend if the weathers clear. I have also ordered a 7500 lipo battery and charger, very much looking forward to my first LiPo experience.
  3. I sprayed up the body today. After a previous experience of forgetting the window mask stickers, I thought I would give it a go on purpose for a tinting effect.
  4. Forgot to show a pic of the wheels after the Mr Muscle treatment.
  5. Well here it is almost ready to go. The wheels have been painted the same gun metal colour as the shell is going to be. As I mentioned earlier notice that the rear wheel nut just has enough thread to be fully on. Once the wider stance hex's have arrived for the front I will be one happy bunny. I've got the two blue bumpers fitted for both front and rear oopsies. I'm probably going to start work on the shell in the next day or two and will keep you updated.
  6. Here is the Tekin FX-R Pro ESC I went for. As mention on another page here I had real trouble trying to solder the wires to it. Its just so small, light and the solder terminals are a bit thin and closer together bearing in mind how thick the wire is. After making a bit of a hash of it I pulled a couple of Tamiya plugs apart and prised the cylindrical contacts open a bit to form a makeshift spade connector. This made things much easier and wish I thought of it before I began. All a bit embarrassing as I'm usually fairly good with an iron. Any way its fitted now and is an awesome bit of kit thought a bit expensive for a brushed ESC. There are loads of settings for braking, drag breaking, reverse modes and speeds. It also supports 2s LiPo and has a cut off setting to accommodate. I've never really considered LiPo before but have started looking around now that I have an ESC that can use them. For now I've set it up for immediate reverse with the capability of reversing at high speed. I don't like having to flap the stick about to go backwards. I've decided to set up a bit of drag brake one I have it road ready so it can come to a quick full stop on its own before I attempt my J turns. There is a Punch Control setting too which I don't fully understand yet. Here it is all rigged up. I've not noticed till today but the blue battery bar that comes with the drift spec kit is just painted plastic not the anodised aluminium I thought it was. Bit of a poor paint job on the one I have too.
  7. A view of the cups and uni's fitted. I think eventually all the suspension parts I will upgrade to shiny blue.
  8. At last the bits I ordered from the other side of the world have arrived. The Yeah Racing cups are nice, and came with some shims than can be used to take out any remaining play. I just needed one to sit behind the hex pin of each wheel. I bought the bumpers just because they are blue. The kit only comes with one bumper originally but I'm going to fit one on each end as reverse bumps with me are also a danger. But now came the moment I had been waiting for. Are the TopCad unis long enough to accommodate the "wide stance" hex? And the answer is yes! Just. You'll see in a following picture that the thread just about lets the wheel and nut fasten with a slight bit of that thread protruding. This is a relief as I really wanted these nice shiny blue unis fitted. Plus this has saved me from buying two out of the three Tamiya spare part bags I would have needed to get the wide stance at the front, saving me a bit of money.
  9. As Percymon advised I've submerged the wheels in Mr Muscle oven cleaner to remove the chrome.
  10. The last of the bearings are in and I've started to play around with hex and wheels. At this point I really do whish those uprated parts had arrived, I guess they're still in transit. Any way at least now I can have a visual idea of how I hope its going to look. In the picture bellow you can see the 2 stock wheels and opposite the hexs showing both normal and wide stance.
  11. Well after having a good look round I decided on the Tekin FX-R Pro. It cost just under £100 so a big spend particularly for a brushed setup, but it's such a good ESC. There's no turn limit and its compatible with LiPo batteries which will probably be my next purchase. Its got the choice of breaking no breaking and instant reverse. There are 11 reverse settings from very slow to full speed. The drag brake setting is fun to play around with but I'll probably disable it normally. It is possible to hook it up to a computer but you can actually program everything using the two buttons and referencing the instructions, very easy. One thing I would say is that its quite hard to solder onto the little terminals, you can see in the picture where my lack of iron control has struck. In the end I pulled apart a couple of Tamiya power plugs and used two thin pliers to tease out the little metal tube like contacts. I stretched them out just enough to just slide of the Tekins terminals. They gripped on pretty well but I did add a dab of solder on the tips of the terminals to make sure they wouldn't budge. Much easier to solder there now the makeshift spades are in place. I've only test fitted it for now just to make sure it all works. I'll be putting it in my TT-02D Drift Spec - Lexus IS200 build. You can find this build in the Builds section of this forum which is still in progress currently.
  12. Have the nice shiny blue steering bits in place. I used the Yeah Racing bits on my Neo Scorcher and were very impressed with them. The Jazrider rods are not adjustable but I wanted to give them a try. I do have an adjustable set by GPM Racing so I can swap these over later if needs be. I'm still waiting for my box of upgrades to arrive so have used the standard servo saver for now. All feels nice and tight so far though
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