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Cool to hear it holds up so well with brushless power on a 1/8 track! As for reinforcing it, in many cases a metal brace plate between left and right hinge pins helps a lot for durability. This may be possible for the front side/edge of the hinge pins and should reinforce against any impacts on the front side of the rear wheel, but not impacts coming onto the rear side of the wheel. As for fibre-reinforced composites, it might be possible but I'd say unlikely based on Tamiya history with material choice. At the risk of (once more) mentioning stuff that's already known, The majority of Tamiya's plastic parts seem to be unfilled amorphous polymers such as ABS, ABS-PC, Polystyrene (PS) and Polycarbonate (PC). No surprise as some of those materials are also extremely suitable for static kits (low shrinkage for moulding process, solubility for glueing process, easy to paint or chrome plate). Tamiya also applies unfilled or fibre-filled Polyamides much like the rest of the RC industry, but it is often only for high-end models and high-stress parts like gears. The DT-03's gear casing is PC. I have not seen Tamiya use fibre-reinforcement in PC, and putting Polyamides through the same mould may well result in dimensionally inaccurate parts due to the higher shrinkage of the material. With the reputation of Tamiya's moulded parts, at least we won't see sloppy attempts at improving things

I'm hoping with you but I'm not so sure it will happen. In 2009?, Tamiya made the TRF201, which design was much influenced by the Team Associated RC10B4, which was the benchmark in the 2WD buggy racing scene in that time. With some downgrades (CVA shocks, no slipper, dogbones, softer plastics), they released the DN-01 'Zahhak.' It never became a mainstream success and no subsequent models followed. The diff was reused in the FF03. The BBX also uses many parts from the TRF201 / DN-01 platform (diff, spur gear, TRF small bore shock caps) by the way. These cars are all designed to modern standard, i.e. metric (M3) hardware, high-end (fibre-reinforced) materials. Stuff suited to big brushless power and high performance (read: racing) requirements. Meanwhile, the DT-04's roots - the DT-02 - actually date back around 20 years. Over the years Tamiya added CVA shocks and they have kind of become standard by now. For the DT-03 and now the DT-04, there is a different main chassis, but front & rear suspension and gearbox are actually unchanged. It's a very solid and affordable platform, but you have to accept and in fact embrace its inherent limitations. Everything is too floppy and flexible for proper power and proper grippy tires, but that is beyond the point of these cars. On stock tires, you can slide it around using merely a silver can, poviding big fun for a small price. At my local club, we have an entry-level racing class where we race DT03's. Ball bearings are allowed, and any mods that will cost you lap time. Sooo, mine has a 'rusted Polycarbonate' Beetle body to penalize my car's Centre of Gravity and top speed

Thanks. Seeing how few appear on eBay and Facebook I think I'll go for that then instead.

Hi everyone, Here we go, my first post in a couple of years. I'm looking for a pistol grip transmitter for small hands (my son is getting his first Tamiya, but he really is quite young to hold a full-sized unit). I had a Quanum 2.4Ghz 3CH pistol grip (link) around 12 years ago (image below) which would have been perfect, but I sold it. I think it was also included with some HobbyKing RTR cars (like the Basher BSR BZ-222) back then? I'm not asking you to openly admit that you like HobbyKing cars but does anyone have this TX+RX and consider parting with? Or of course a similarly minituarised set?

No, he still drives the original spur and slipper housing. It's probably the best way to retain the vintage feel of the car anyway, in fact wouldn't it be nice if Tamiya re-released it again in a few years? :-)

The club member asked if it were possible using the original MDC components, just a modified housing to help centre a modern spur correctly. To fit a modern slipper, the topshaft does need modification to achieve this. RCVet: In racing conditions the Dyna Storm is truly a vintage car to drive with compared to modern rear-motor buggies (like the B4 and the original rear-motored TRF201). The car was designed with a completely different philiosophy of what was a fast car and a fast way to get around a track. In that era, you had very bumpy tracks, less powerful motors and less grippy tires. Some adjustments (such as shorter front shocks) do wonders for vintage racing, but it still does not stack up against a modern car even on dirt. For bashing you may encounter more bumps than on the track, so it might be a different story there. I do know that the Dyna certainly has at least as much fun factor as a modern rear or even mid buggy, both on- and off the racing track :-)

The alu bulkheads/suspension blocks are new to me, they are cool! Am I seeing correctly that the rear hangers even have the 2* anti-squat integrated? As for an aluminium chassis plate, I have one (I drew it for SHY69, we both got one). Durability-wise it of course is great, but performance-wise I'm not sure if it is better. The Dyna Storm has a tendency to tweak the chassis from bumps. With the FRP chassis I think most of the tweak flexed back again (because it was so flexible); with the alu chassis to me it seemed to retain a lot more tweak. PS: I am not often online on TC anymore, I just happened to notice the topic at the right time :-) Through ORB I have a lot of Dyna parts available these days; bulkheads, hubs, wishbones, steering, shock towers & mounts, slipper cap... A member at my local club recently asked if it might be possible to create a slipper housing that accepts modern / 48dp spur gears (for example if the centre is cut out); at the same time it could lighten the slipper assembly.

The Ryuz FF is originally from the late 80s/early 90s; it's a hand-built prototype; FWD was used because back in the day it was not uncommon to race on loose dirt: There were also three brands that released production FWD buggy kits: Kyosho (Maxxum FF), MRC (Sandmaster) and Nichimo (Vantage & Spirit FF). The fine details I don't know because I wasn't in the RC hobby yet back then, but I have heard FWD was popular in several regions, amongst which Japan and France. They were also around for a short amount of time as a result of their success: The story is that one or several drivers - who were beforehand not considered to be in contention for the win - turned up at an IFMAR Worlds' warm-up with such cars and dominated the event; the IFMAR banned them from the 2WD class - instead it was to run with 4WD, where it couldn't keep up. Regulations from regional racing organisations also banned the car (although the EFRA and BRCA reverted that a few years later). In that time, developing and producing a car required more resources and effort than it does now, so being that the car had no competitive advantage anymore, it no longer had a place in the product line-up of a car manufacturer. 25 years on, and the story is quite different: tires, shocks and knowledge on RWD suspension geometry had been developed significantly. Also, most tracks nowadays are not nearly as bumpy and the grip levels are higher. The FWD's strengths (consistency in all conditions) still apply and the performance of the cars is quite even now; the FWD buggy can have some advantage in tricky conditions, the RWD can have the benefit if there is good and consistent grip. PS: This is what a modern FWD buggy performs like amongst RWDs:

Fun competition theme I'm curious to see what entries there will be, it's very much open to interpretation.

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Time for a mid-summer clearout! I've got parts for sale for many cars, so have a look through the list if anything is of interest to you Pictures are available on Dropbox (LINK).