Pablo68

I have 4wd and 2wd buggies, monster trucks, a couple of crawlers and two, no three onroad chassis two of them as drifters. They are all fun but my heart is really with 2wd buggies.

Not the Falcon whatever you do. Even if it looks sound after a close inspection. The cracks will start to appear before your eyes. I'm going to also say the Hornet/Grasshopper. Tough and fun.

Hmmm, Our boy Pintopower did make a pretty good re-design of the Falcon front end. I can't see why Tamiya couldn't do similar. This would also distinguish it from originals.

Oh yeah, it doesn't have timing marks, and there are tabs holding the endbell in place, so I don't think it's adjustable. Without knowing anything this makes me thing is was used in some kind of stock class.

When it's time to open up one of Hiroshi J Tamiyas finest small bags of screws, nuts and miscellaneous parts, I like to grab one end and shake the bag so the parts all go to one side for when I cut the bag open with scissors. Futhermore, check that the bag isn't already open, cough! (it could have been a lot worse tbh)

Oh badword yes it is. Being low on funds helps though. God help me if I do have a bit of money.

I am doing this atm with a Grasshopper build, though in reality it is a Hornet with a Grasshopper body. I'm knocking it up so I can say I have a Grasshopper, and for my nephew to drive. I spent almost two hours with him a couple days back running my RC's. He's 10 so, perfect age. Anyway, back to it. I had the chassis, gearbox, nerfs, front susp arme/uprights and shocks. Also has rear shocks. I didn't have a body or wheels and a couple other things. The painful part of this is I spent a bit more than a new Grasshopper kit would have cost. Not sure what I was thinking. Or maybe I wasn't. If the nephew likes it I guess it will be worth it.

Well if so it's the only bitof AYK I have in my collection (unfortunately, too rare and spendy). Well, for what it's worth I put it in the Optima it came with and gave the chassis a test run. Not incredibly fast or anything but seems appropriate for the chassis.

The MIP diff is a nice bit of gear, and it does solve any issues with the power train in the Frog/MB/BF cars. It might be best used with the dogbone shaft and cups as I couldn't get it to run smoothly on my MB with the CV shafts.

I've seen machine screws used in many places into plastic in this hobby. I usually tap the hole first if it is going into a place that is difficult to get the thread started. In general machine screws into plastic are plenty strong enough for the job. You just have to be careful not to strip them. And....when I9 have stripped them I've often bodged them up but putting superglue or loctite onto the screw and putting it in. It tends to work.

Thx for the response! The end bell is black. It also has Race Prep moulded into it. It came with a partially complete Optima chassis. I'm most likely going to put it back into that chassis.

Can anyone tell me anything about it?

Thx for that!

I really miss those relatively cheap and cheerful Brushless combo's Hobbywing made back in the day. The ones with the blue anodised motor with cooling fins on it. They've gone all upmarket and spendy, as successful companies do.

Oh yeah, good point.

I've run mine with a brushless system for years and it has been fine. I also chucked Tamiya Aeration shocks on it. It goes well.

The dogbone and drive cups set should be findable on Ebay. Worth doing as the original hex drives were ***. My Frog re-re camewith dogbones, it has an esc, I mounted the steering servo in the center. I used a thick anti friction grease in the front suspension tube, so it actually damps ok. Can't think of much else, but it handles relatively competently.

Wow, well I'll be. I'll have to have a closer look at my Willy.... There has to be a better way to phrase that.

Very nice. Ok, Mea Maxima Culpa: I certainly did adapt a few things lying around to keep my Hornet going back in the day. Not wood screws though. Of all thing the wood screws in question came out of my sons Xmaxx (I bought it 2nd hand).

You!!! YES YOU! I'm watching you. No! noooo! No! No! (in various innotations) Don't. I know it's all you have. Be patient. Wait till you get some proper hardware in. And trim up your darn sprue tags!!!

I don't have a partner and can't see myself getting another any time soon. If i did have one I'm sure it would go something like this. Partner: Pablo, did you buy another RC car? Pablo: What!? Noooooo, perish the though. No I spent that money having sex with prostitutes. Partner: You have bought another RC!! And you promised! (leaves the room crying) Pablo: No you have to believe me! It was Prostituuuuuutes!!! As to rules, it has usually been a matter of if I can afford it or not and keep up any commitments I have. The only cars I have multiples of are funnily enough, Ultimas and Hornets/Grasshoppers. The other limiting factor is room. Mine is pretty much used up. And I never sell anything.

Yeah most of my Tamiya cars are running o silver cans or slightly better (torque or sport tuned). I once put a Traxxas VXL system into my Hornet. The gearbox handled it surprisingly. It would do wheelies and more often backflips. There wasn't much of a point to it really. Perhaps the only exception is my Monster Beetle. It has one of those old metallic blue Hobbywing brushless systems in it ( I wish they still made them) 13T I think. It also has TRF shocks, centre mounted steering servo, full bearings and an Ampro eng IRS rear end. It also has some stiffening on the front shock tower. It is fun and goes well. In a way it's not really a Monster Beetle anymore though.

I told you once....

True enough, especially since as an Australian I am still a possession of the Empire.

I hate to be the one who brought this up, but there is a Brummy in this thread. Very progressive of this forum to let him in.....