Dr.Robotnik

Thank you very much. I really appreciate it. Cheers.

EDITED I NEED LESS DIMENSIONS NOW: Hi guys, I haven't been on in a while and was wondering if anyone could help me with the SRB chassis dimensions. So far I only have a front end and the majority of a rear end (just missing a tranny case) but no chassis. I do however have a 3mm thick sheet of alloy and a drill. So, could someone please measure the length of their chassis and also the width at the front please? Also if you can tell me the distance the front servo saver mount is from the front of the chassis as a bonus that would be great Please let me know if you can help. Cheers Ed

Cheers Terry, thanks a lot for your help as always. I don't know why I couldn't work it out....

Fingers crossed I have got the hang of it/ have learned to read....

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If this works then thanks a lot (I am surprised), it's exactly what I tried before but it didn't work then?? Cheers Ed

Hi, Since the new forum I haven't been on much and now don't know how to post pictures. I have read this thread; http://www.tamiyaclub.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=10273 and asked for help in this thread; http://www.tamiyaclub.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=37095 I have read this "You just right click on the image in your showroom and select properties then copy the filename at the end... in the above example its "img1_12272003111939_2_350.jpg" then the path to the image to paste in the forum is http://www.tamiyaclub.com/tc_userimages/YO...lenameYouCopied if its the fullise image you want just miss out the "/generate" bit http://www.tamiyaclub.com/tc_userimages/YO...YouCopied" and even tried it out but I can't find my membership number written anywhere and what I thought it was doesn't work. I think all I need to know is my own membership number so where do I find it? I'd be very grateful for a reply please. Thanks in advance.... Ed

So no one got back to me and told me where I could find my membership number, so I guessed and.... http://www.tamiyaclub.com/tc_userimages/17...006124629_1.jpg Why don't they work as a picture? Anyone?

Hahahaha, how broad is this topic. Good luck!

I am confused where do I find my membership number?

Thanks mate, I see the problem is you can't post things from other peoples showrooms. This seems strange to me as the pics are already in the public domain and you could do this on the old forum. It'll make it very difficult to talk about rare models when there is only one example on the site though (like in this case). How strange!

They mention the Kyosho rear? That might have been my deliberate mistake to check you'd read them, or more likely I could have just forgotten as I haven't read them in a at least a year and am getting old Can you post this article you keep mentioning please? :-)

Hi, Great question! I believe, but I could be wrong (please correct me), that the Taipan was a car put out by an importer in your country called Pitstop. Pitstop was the importer for a number of vintage hop-up manufacturers from this period, Thorp, RCH, MIP, CRP (I think), etc.... The main offroad racer at this time was the Tamiya SRB, many racers would buy the stock Tamiya kit and then over time would ditch all the stock parts for hop-ups in an attempt to make the car perform better. This generally left only the Tamiya SRB transmission case from the original kit (which was generally cut down until it was unrecognisable anyway). Pitstop decided to bring out a race version of the SRB which showcased a lot of the hop-ups they imported (see link to Jim123's showroom). This car they called the Taipan and it was distinguished from other SRB's with the amount of hop-ups it had and also the tranny cases were highly polished and engraved with the moniker Taipan. My friend jim123 had one in his showroom http://tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?c...86&id=15112 his was bought from TC member Rood and has since been sold back to a guy in Oz (I think from TC but can't remember). [*img]http://www.tamiyaclub.com/tc_userimages/17773/img15112_12082006152018_1.jpg[/img*] In the reference section there are some great links about vintage racing (in Oz) and some leaflets/ads from Pitstop. http://tamiyaclub.com/article.asp?id=191 http://tamiyaclub.com/article.asp?id=190 http://tamiyaclub.com/article.asp?id=189 http://tamiyaclub.com/article.asp?id=82 Hope that helps, though it doesn't answer your Kyosho/SRB hybrid question, I imagine this was just a hybrid set-up that racers at the time found worked best. P.S. Why doesn't the picture posting thing work? I added the star to make it show up.

Thanks Dan, I am really into my hop-ups. Keep an eye on my trades and ebay (id: edprest) if you are interested in this sort of thing as more stuff will be going up in the next few days/weeks. Cheers Ed

Hi, Sorry about that, I am selling a lot of vintage stuff at reasonable prices and things are tending to sell quite quickly. When I made the post they were still available. I may be able to sell you the Hot Trick version in a week or so, if you are still looking then give me a shout. Cheers Ed

I believe those front shocks are made by You G (mine are at least and look the same) and not Parma (unless Parma copied them which is possible). The rears I believe are Parma.

Shameless plug here; I saw you asking about front shock replacements for the Hornet. I have a set of CRP mounts and shocks for sale on ebay and in my trade-room at the moment. http://www.tamiyaclub.com/trades_model.asp...53&id=17773 I may also have a couple of the front You G shocks. Let me know what you think. Cheers Ed

Solid stuff :-)

Quote and laugh.............. I don't care and don't understand what the problem with make me an offer is...there can be many reasons for using it. Surely just put whatever you want e.g. make me an offer, o.n.o., o.v.n.o., etc? Imagine its ebay and you have to put in your offer/max. bid, well that's the same here surely?

CRP are long out of business, the new stock is just new old stock. Its like if I set up a shop called Hot Trick and sold all my old NOS Hot Trick parts. The CRP shocks were only made back in the day with red collars. Red doesn't go with a lot of colour schemes, so the CRP shop are re-dying them black to make them sell better.

I've heard that many racers were into RC as kids, I've even seen a picture of Ayrton Senna racing an ancient 1/8th scale nitro 4wd somewhere on the 'net....

Yes mate. That is a really good looking car. Well done. I wish I had a camera, you guys have sure missed out on some rare builds at my hands. Lol.

Yes more questions I can help with Here is the part you have, assembled on my car. http://tamiyaclub.com/pictureframe.asp?t=n...006095809_1.jpg More pictures can be seen on http://tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?c...25&id=13728 You can see in the pictures, I am using You-G shocks (blue). These are a vintage hop-up which replace the original springs with a coil over oil damper. The spring tension adjustment is done with a threaded collar just like modern shocks. These may be quite rare but if you search ebay for a couple of months I am sure you will spot some. Failing that, I believe the C-brackets people mention are used to mount Tamiya shocks like on the Lunchbox previously mentioned. The Hornet uses them to and you can see them at the base of my shocks where they attach to the front arm (the metal part with the bolt going through it). If you mounted another pair at the top too you could fit some normal style eyelet shocks if you can find a small enough pair. Maybe early front small RC10 ones might fit but I think not. Or you could just wait until this lot of shocks arrives at my house from the states. In the top left corner is the CRP version (another vintage hop-up) of the part you have (its the silver bracket in the top left with small coil overs attached). It is slightly taller and allows the fitting of normal coil over shocks. You can see it is fitted with the CRP coil over already. This will be going up for sale when it arrives so make me an offer if you are interested. Cheers Ed

I believe Hot Trick made all their parts in red, gold and black as I have these colours on parts.

Yes I should add that JR-RC is an excellent shop, great products and fast shipping, I have never had any problems with their service. It was only an issue with not being able to contact a person there.