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terry.sc

Member Since 15 Sep 2002
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In Topic: Rally Mini Tyre Mod

03 February 2011 - 04:52 PM

Oh ok cool, one stupid question gathering by your post I would still have to trim them down?

You can buy the touring car size rally blocks, and cut the tread and reglue them, but Tamiya have done the work for you by making rally tyres in mini size for the M05RA, part number is 51427.

If you really want the look of touring car rally blocks then Corsair Racing makes mini size rally blocks identical to cut down touring tyres here.

In Topic: Best Silvercan?

03 February 2011 - 01:19 AM

How much of a difference would the no limit esc make, im not racing, just bashing,

Which makes all this discussion comparing motors irrelevant.
You will only notice the difference between motors of the same wind against a stopwatch or lap counter, you won't notice much difference, if any, if you are just bashing.
If you want more speed then just go for a lower wind. The 20 turn HPI Saturns are good, although obviously the greater speed means less runtime and it wears out faster, and the gear ratio needs to be adjusted correctly to get the best out of them. You don't want to run them on more than 7.2v.



Willychang: Does the big bore wires help to keep them cool, as i will be running some v's?

if anything the thick wires means the motor runs hotter, but the wire are cooler as they have a lower resistance.
When racing you do everything to get every single hundredth of a second off your laptime, so you use the highest spec ESC you can, Deans/Powerpole/Traxxas/Corally battery connectors instead of the Tamiyas to cut down on resistance, and thick wires directly soldered between motor and ESC again to keep resistance to a minimum, which means the motor gets a few extra hundredths of a volt to get a fraction more speed as hundredths of a second can make a difference on the racetrack.

In Topic: Rooster Crawler-Edition Brush ESC

03 February 2011 - 12:56 AM

For a brushless system for crawlers you must use a sensored system, the cheap sensorless systems like the Integy just can't hill hold by design, there's nothing they can do that will hold the truck due to the small magnets in the motor. You can get an amazing improvement in performance by using an outrunner brushless motor instead, such as the Holmes Hobbies Revolver.

The Tekin or Novak with a good high turn motor will hold as firm as you can get with better low speed control than any brushless system, it's why very few competition crawlers use brushless.

In Topic: http 500 error message when uploading to showroom

02 February 2011 - 11:54 PM

It depends on the software you are using to edit the pictures. Size isn't too important as the server will resize the pictures to 1024 pixels wide, although setting them at that will speed up the upload. To get the server to recognise them though they must be in the correct format.
The image must be a standard jpeg, and the images name must end with the extension .jpg for it to be recognised.

Also there have been glitches in the past that while preventing you loading the image you want when setting up the page, later you can edit the showroom page and the images which failed earlier will then happily replace the first ones, so you could try replacing the images.

In Topic: Hotshot chassis help?

02 February 2011 - 07:12 PM

GB-03 is the TamtechGear Hotshot in 1/16th scale. http://www.tamiyaclu.../car.asp?id=823

The 1/10th Hotshot doesn't have a chassis number, they pre-date that by 5 years. The chassis type is just Hotshot.

No one does a titanium screw set for the Hotshot, if you want any hop ups for it you'll have to find original vintage parts. You will have to buy the screws individually.