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  1. The Delta Ray Buggy

    This car has started its life as my TA01 Lancia Delta Hf Integrale resto-mod project. Using a custom made TA02's chassis strechted to reach TA01 wheelbase and a twin gear diff set up I was planning to (quick) build a robust car, easy to maintain, with a classic and generous powerplant and with a body that carries the italian tradition for great looking cars.
    Quickly I switched to a carbon fiber chassis found on the bay because I can't resist to the appeal of a fiber chassis.
    I've lost some months in the search of a body that match my expectations but unfortunately finding well made bodies to use in alternative to Tamiyas is close to impossible so, while considering the idea to keep the Lancia Delta body, this project reach a kind of empasse. Considering that my time at the work bench is ever less (Venice isn't much friendly with people that love cars or little cars) and that I spend a lot of time in front of my computer, to take a breath from work and daily life, surfing the Web looking for infos about the golden era of our hobby when I could learn something only on paper (there aren't clubs in my birthplace and no other guys with much passion for little cars) I've discoverend something about a car I've never heard before: the Yokomo Hot Dog 4, an hybrid based on their YR4 touring chassis implemented with YZ10 buggy DNA, so the inspiration cames!

    So I’ve started to consider if it was the case to turn it into something else: I miss my Yokomo and I love to drive TA01 chassis so I’ve started to look for the parts to translate this concept of hybrid in its Tamiya equivalent.

    To be honest in several moments I’ve considered to quit before starting but here is it!

    Some inspiring concepts are the same of the starting idea: availability of parts involved in the build (with less modifications as possible) and it has to look as a car that could have been built in the 90s.

    It's a kind of concept car, not necessarily a race car (as the Hot Dog), not necessarily a kind of dowgraded or rebooted Top Force.

    The name choosen is DELTA RAY in tribute to my Lancia Delta HF Integrale (some of its small parts are still in this build) and because it’s closer to a Manta Ray than to a Top Force.

     

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  2. 12 hours ago, Willy iine said:

    So what ESC do you recommend that is not made in China?  I mean I run a bunch of HobbyWing ESC's including 1060 and they work fine.  My iPhone and iPad and MacAir and many things I own are all made in China as well.. 

    Even the CF deck is made in China, no?   I'm getting ready to build my NIB soon.. running a 1060 (motor is SuperStock BZ).

    Of course I was only joking (the use of the smilie should be never casual and more or less I'm used to spread nonsense as Chandler Bing).

    It wasn't my intention spiting out judgementes, or argue about choiches of others. I'm here to talk about rc cars and, if possible, to make a smile or a laugh together... I guess it's my fault thinking it's the same for all.

    For the use I do of my cars probably the cheap HK ESC is also enough but I'm a nostalgic so and I prefer to see on these small cars electronics that in a way or another are linked to my nostalgic heritage... if possible I would continue to use Novak, Tekin and KO brushed ESC for a life attempting to keep the golden era aura alive but they cost a fortune so I use mainly Robitronic Speedstar II ESC.

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  3. My Delta Ray buggy is complete for the 99%, it needs only the hole for the antenna pipe and velcro tape to secure the body to the undertray. Some mistakes have been made while painting the body but are the same mistakes I've made when I'm 16 so it's all ok because this car has been built as a car from the 90s.

     

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  4. 10 hours ago, InsaneJim69 said:

    I mean the cheap Chinese ones that claim to be 12x2 etc. They are just garbage. 👍

    James.

    I agree, sorry for asking to underline the obvious, but I see much of that motors placed on remarkable builds and to me it's a shame. 😤


  5. 17 hours ago, InsaneJim69 said:

    Well as a comparison, my old Trinity Green Machine 3 brushed motor I used for racing was Dyno tested at 33000rpm at 7.2v. and that was a 27 turn rebuildable stock motor. It was very rapid. My old Reedy Spec 19T was around the 36-39k rpm mark. So I would say the Tamiya motor isn't quite as rapid, but probably still pretty good compared to the random brushed motors you get on eBay these days. 

    James.

    Recently I've upgraded a Tamiya motor with the only thing they need: bearings. It runs smooth on cool.

     

    Please clarify "random motors"  :rolleyes:


  6. To me is a "spirit" matter, more the time flows and more I try to upgrade my cars like I'm back in the 90s. Sometimes I use "modern" parts (as 3D printed ones) but only if the complete car keep up the golden era spirit.
    I do not use brushless or lipos, but I use modern radios.
    I do not use cheap brushed motors, I prefer refurbished classic brushed ones.
    I avoid as much as possible cheap chinese made aluminum parts, I love to build out of scratch small parts in aluminum or fiberglass.
    Everything that keeps the spirit of the cars I was used to see on the magazines when I was a young gun is welcome.

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  7. I own only brushed motors avoiding as the plague cheap chinese stuff, the motors I'm using are Tamiya's, LRP, Atlas and some refurbished Corally bought years ago.
    Now I'm collecting some vintage, used and somethimes abused motors with the idea to refurb and use them.
    I also bought for a bargain prince a comm lathe but in the good old days I were used take care of comm with a stripe of sandpaper.

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