The gold slips through your fingers

Thought I would give the drift spec TT-01 a try and she's a bit of a hoot. It's based on the TT-01E but with the following additions:-

    Sport tuned motor

    CVA Oil filled shocks

    Motor heatsink

    Ball race bearings (except steering)

    Drift spec (adjustable) upper A arms.

    Drift spec (rock hard) tyres.

As always with the TT-01, she's a doddle to put together with no issues cropping up during the build. Because the supplied ESC (105BK) doesn't support lipo cut out (and I don't trust myself not to drop the voltage too low when running) I binned the supplied motor and ESC and replaced them with an Etronix 10T brushless combo I had in my spares. Way too much power for a drift spec car but it'll do for now.


I plan on swapping the motor back out for the 15T HPI Firebolt brushed motor and 15T Etronix ESC that I'm currently running in my TT-02 when Tamiya finally get round to releasing a metal main propshaft.


Needless to say that you have to be very gentle with the throttle which makes controlled drifting trickier. As the TT-02 is out of action for the minute (waiting for a new front hub to be delivered from Hong Kong), I may swap the motor over sooner rather than later. The propshaft in the TT-02 seems considerably more resistant to flex compared to that in the TT-01 so it may be that the TT-02 can handle more power by default than the TT-01 without the need to upgrade the propshaft.