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You may have, it can't have been cheap, there must be very few of those around these days! Lovely kit, nice one. 👍

Today I spent an hour or more sorting the screws sets from my Avante. Long ago most of the screw bags and the Ti screw kit got accidentally mixed up and the whole lot went into the 'too hard' basket (or box in this case). Some 10 years on, on a wet Sunday afternoon, I decided to sort it out (literally), boy the Avante has a lot of screws! I seem to have misplaced my magnetic parts tray which is annoying and made this task just a little bit more tricky. From this: To this... It would be a shame not to build it now right?

Or dogbone ejection? If so, that's a big problem.

It does handle very well, I'm impressed with that. At first, with the low range of motion, I assumed he'd built the steering incorrectly (and he had, but that made little difference) and it was obviously poor in his first runs. Removing the stop screws seems to have worked but it makes me wonder what they're there for in the first place and will removing them have an unintended consequence?

I have a Hackmoto 55T in my Hi-Lift and it's fine, I also had a 35T but it was far too fast for how I want to use the vehicle. Probably a clone just as the pics above seem to suggest but mine were cheap enough that it doesn't worry me.

At @Re-Bugged - "Just to wild"?

Good to know, thank you. Although I don't think this one will get driven, I have mint built M01, M03 and M05 and hope to keep them this way.

Where did you get the big bore springs from? And did you pay billions or a reasonable amount? I can't find them anywhere for anything near RRP.

I achieved something amazing today, I installed 4 x Ti coated suspension shafts without firing 2mm e-clips across my living room to be lost for eternity. These are outboard shafts, I actually thought I'd purchased inboard shafts and was frustrated that I couldn't find all 8 of the shafts I needed. Once I clicked that I'd been doing it wrong, and actually started searching for the correct parts today, I found them immediately so the outstanding 4 inboard shafts are now winging their way from Asia. All in an effort to add as many Hop-Ups as I can to my M-05.

That shouldn't be the case on a new build if it's put together properly. I'd want to track down the cause of this before other trouble shooting. I'm not familiar with the TT chassis, can you adjust the steering to even out the left and right sides? Check that everything has been assembled correctly and nothing is bent or broken.

Actually, stock, non-adjustable tierods will be easier to tune because they're always the same length. Does it pull to the same side every time, or is it variable? You're better off to try and solve it without adding more adjustment, even a slightly binding bearing can make a huge difference.

Wow, that trailer looks fantastic (well so does the cab), did you paint and weather it?

I manage the technology & digital department at a museum of all places.

Tasty motors, did you acquire the Acto-Power recently? I'm looking for one at anything other than eBay prices.

I'd be interested in the VW body, stickers and body parts you don't want want @Nikko85 if the price was right and we can work out a way for me to get you the money (or something else) as I don't have PayPal. I could potentially buy you something you wanted of equivalent value and have it shipped straight to you (for example). Buying a full kit is often the cheapest way, you could arrange to split a kit with somebody else before you purchased it I suppose.

FWIW I've been using Giant Power hardcase lipos with round edges in my older vehicles for years and have no complaints, many years in and they still balance fine.

Nice one, I've always had a soft spot for the Dark Impact and you've built a good looking one there. 👍 Given it's your first buggy I'm sure you'll have a lot of fun with it!

I believe the deck is lacquered FRP, if that's the case it may be able to be (carefully) polished back... I'd test that on the underside or an inconspicuous part first - and others may have better ideas/experience.

Nice one, at least it won't be soul destroying restoring it now that it, and the Egress, have been re-released!

Some bits and pieces from China and Japan, its the first time I've used Hobby Link Japan and, except for some niggles, I quite like their system and prices... they allow you to order stuff and queue it up in your "private warehouse" so you can secure the goods but also batch stuff up over time for more cost effective shipping. As a result of their system some of the shipping costs aren't entirely transparent but I emailed them about this and got a quick and helpful reply that also said that I was not committed to paying for the product (even if it was in "my" warehouse) if I wasn't happy with the shipping costs... that alleviated any of my concerns. They also sent the small parts in perhaps the best packaging I have ever seen for such items, there was 0% possibility of damage in carriage. On the right of the pic I ordered 4 black work stands from AliExpress for almost nothing (and promptly forgot about them) and they arrived in NZ less than 10 days later. I'm going to use these for some of my display buggies to keep them off their tyres.

Still doesn't work for me but that's cool, I've seen what I need to.

that ^ post has gone for me, I can't see it, here's the pic... looks awesome!

lol - topic read fail on my part... I just saw "911" and thought of mine... and I don't have a RSR... as a matter of interest how different (in shape not size) are the RSR and 934 Tamiya bodies? IRL they're not too dissimilar, one being an evolution of the other. i.e. could you get away with a 934 body (on a TA02SW chassis) posing as an RSR?

Kimi be like: get.out.of.my.f'ing.seat.