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Yup, easy swap. To make it even easier, a spare servo saver would be handy - the body-post holds the servo-saver together, once the post is removed you've got 2 pieces of plastic and a tensioned spring which wants to flick the plastic behind the sofa! Try assembling the servo saver then sliding it off the body-post and it'll probably make up your mind for you

No, no wheel adaptors are needed - the drive plate supplied with SS will fit RR wheels

There's a couple of spotlights on the front uprights, but I think they'll be part of the body set. Scorcher tyres won't fit RR wheels, so you'll need tyres too.

Not a fan of the rear wing, seems to be a Kyosho/Tamiya preference; http://www.lotuseuropa.org/LotusForum/index.php?topic=1602.0 The Tamiya 1/24 model includes it, but they don't use it on the box art https://www.tamiyausa.com/blog/first-look-tamiya-24358-lotus-europa-special-photo-etched-parts/

If he's contacted you proposing the swap, suggest he sends his item first. If you were selling, he'd pay first. If he's not up for that, there's your answer - Walk away

I can't see as it matters where anything is made any more, so long as it's made to the quality you're expecting. Even if you buy the finest 'Made In Japan' electronics, chances are it'll have individual components from all over the world. Tamiya will have strict measures in place to ensure plastics used are to their specs, not just for their reputation, but for recyclability etc. Over the years, complaints about Tamiya, on this forum at least, tend to be about their (Japanese) engineering and design errors, not the plastics or the part of the world in which they were made - ORV gearboxes spreading, Jugg 1s exploding on acceleration, Anniversary Porsche shells not matching the wheelbase of the chassis etc. - None of these were down to where the plastic was poured into the mold. Indeed, in the last 20 odd years of being back into regularly building RC, only one Tamiya kit has ever had a manufacturing defect, and that was a cross-member brace on a Knight Hauler where the sprue wasn't properly cast. Outsourcing to anywhere without stringent control over the end-product would be disastrous, but Tamiya have been manufacturing in the Philippines for years now with no noticeable or reported affect on quality Cheap labour will always be attractive and, provided the quality aspect is 'Tamiya', it shouldn't matter except to those that have outdated misconceptions about a particular country's abilities.

You missed out all the stuff in my head - I've added it now If you're an old fart like me, but one that doesn't do Facebook

I do do FB, it's a great place to flog stuff locally - Might not have the same range as eBay, but it's free. FB groups are a great targeted marketplace. So far, I sold a couple of boats, a MTB, a caravan, a few table saws, routers, etc. wood burning stoves and all fee-free

Yiup - eBay now handle your payments What used to take Paypal milliseconds now takes eBay 4 days, but they're 0.01% cheaper, when you take all the charges into consideration - eBay's 10% + 2.7777777779 is cheaper than 10% + Paypal's 2.8% If you're an old fart like me that doesn't do Facebook, try Facebook first - eBay is my last resort eBay do have a helluva lot of 'offer' periods where fees are fixed at £1 etc. , list during these for best value

It makes me chuckle when the USA have SHevrolet and SHampagne, but their vehicles all have CHassis

The difference with the implementation on the DN/TRF is the plastic parts are thumb-nuts (requiring no tools to tighten, so little chance of over-tightening), easily replaceable and, in a pinch could be substituted with an M3 nut If the SA screws do go into plastic, and the threads strip, then the chassis tub would need replacing - a somewhat different process to swapping a couple of thumb-nuts

Cross threads? do you mean machine screws? They'll wreck a hole in plastic (glass reinforced or not) far quicker than a self tapper ever will. Self tap threads bite into the plastic a lot deeper than machine screws but, for instances where regular removal is necessary, any screw into plastic is a stupid idea.

If they used a pressed-in steel thread insert as per the Dyna Storm, then it should be ok - the silvering of the screws' exposed thread suggests they're going into metal - either that or they practised removal so many times for that video that they've worn off the plating. The recess on the backside of the hole looks like it could be access for either an insert or a Tamiya Wrench Dyna-Storm insert Either way, it's a ridiculously complex operation for a simple, oft-repeated procedure - Strange solution for a 'blank canvas' model , it's not like there's any chassis-size restrictions apart from those Tamiya imposed on themselves.

Better pic - 2 Screws in damper sub-frame. Unless the screws go into steel inserts, the holes in the chassis sides should strip pretty quick!

Side on, neither of them are especially attractive

Just announced by Mokei Kagaku on FB M06 Chassis (RWD) 1/24 Kit boxart

I would phone them before ordering - their stock list looks quite old, in so much as they don't have any new releases that I could see. For instance, their newest Traxxas crawler is the TRX4 Chevy Blazer and the GMade line is quite out of date too. I'm also a bit suspicious when a site has things like "© 2019 - Rcmodelstore™" at the bottom Having said that, they do have a covid statement in their 'news', but that was dated Dec 2020 Ring 'em first!