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As long as no one enters their "Wild Willy" Tho tis the perfect season for a "Midnight Pumpkin" photo shoot

Nah, wifey was out haha!

Got my Alloy wheel covers for my scorcher today! As Percy said awesome product, great quality!! Check out the pick, coming nicely together now. Took 6 days from Hong Kong, awesome.

You got yours in 5 days??? Mine havent arrived yet and it been a week. ho hum!

Well got down to the beach twice this weekend, had great fun. The interference is well gone and it goes very very well with the Sport tuned black motor fitted. Heres a couple of pics on teh beach, couldnt get action photos was on me own!

went to local model shop and sourced a fairly cheap but modern tx and receiver set for a very good price. Fitted and tested around kitchen and all seemed to be ok. Will update tomorrow once i have been out to the beach with it and see what the range is like. Fingers crossed!! But so far its stopped mucking around!

Not sure whether to post this here, or in the "Electric" section. Correct me if i am wrong. Basically i bought a restored sand scorcher from Volks Rod. All very nice, but there was a problem with interference when running it. It would get to about 5 meters away from you and start "glitching" stopping starting, jerking, losing control. He seemed to think it was the Motor as he had swapped receiver box etc a couple of times and was still doing it. So when i bought the car i swapped the motor (standard silver can) for one i had spare. Still no joy, running like a bag of horse manure. So it definately isnt the motor. Granted the transmitter and receiver are quite old items, should i just bite the bullet and buy a new radio set up? could it be these? He said he swapped these around and tried different receivers/transmitters resulting in the same problems. Its currently running an ESC, is there any chance it could be this messing it up? I dont think it is, as it only happens from a certain distance and further which for me says it must be radio gear. Could an ESC mess it up like this? Any input, ideas would be greatly received. I have a new ESC and Tamiya Sport tuned motor to go in it. Shall i fit all these items and go get a new radio set. then surely all the possible variants have been renewed and it should stop "glitching"?.

Me too mate, but have gone for the larger Rough Rider ones. Gonna look pretty darn cool. Good work on this Scorcher. looking great. mine has been on back burner past couple of weeks, been a bit ill! Should be moving forwards this weekend

Scorchio, they were obtained through google images, just put in what you are looking for and sift through the hundreds of images til you find what ya want. Something like "Rear VW beetle suspension diagram" should get you close to something you are after.

I'm not getting involved in the cafuffle above, i'm here to talk design As far as whether Tamiya were copying the full size VW chassis because they had nothing else to go on or they were copying it because of its simple and clever design, i'm not sure. Personally i think they copied it for a bit of both reasons. The rear set up on a 1:1 VW chassis (swing axle with torsion bar running parallel to back axles), i doubt, would be strong enough scaled down. There would also be the issue of flexibility against strength. These little buggys take a heck of a bashing! I think the design they came up with is a good compromise, as stated above, giving an overall similar appearance once assembled and the body is on the buggy. For me, the real genius in design, was the front axle assembly. This is so close to the 1:1 vw front beam assembly its uncanny. The only differnce is the way it is sprung. The SRB of course has a wire spring at each end of the assembly, where as the actual 1:1 has 2 torsion bars (made up of individual leaves) running through the two tubes attached to the trailing arms at the end. Apologies for all you VW savvy people out there, if i am teaching you to suck eggs, but thought the non vw educated may find it interesting From these diagrams you can see how close they got it, and also how difficult it would have been for them to spring it the way the 1:1 assembly is sprung. Overall, i think the SRB is a spot on replica of the VW chassis, compromising between design, function and ability to mass produce at good costing. Sure they could have made it a perfect replica, but this of course wouldnt have been cost effective. thats my two pennies worth, not a difinitive answer, but what i think of their design

haha! I thought that when i first saw it, but after a while staring at it i knew i needed to have it! When it arrived the wife was like "what? another one?...................oh thats cute..........wow that really nice.......is that what yours will look like when you finish it?"

As some of you may have seen in the "I received from the postman today" section, last week i bought another Sand Scorcher. This isnt any old sand scorcher though, but one prepared by Volksrod. Now, being i am a classic VW Mechanic by trade, I am a big believer in building something yourself if you are going to use it. But when I saw this I just had to have it. I think there was a bit of too-ing and fro-ing with another prospective buyer, but in the end I stuck in there and won it in auction. A few of you requested i start a thread on it, and show some more detailed pictures. So this is it. I'll start at the beginning, when I bought it he mentioned that there had been some interferance with the radio gear whilst running it. For this reason it had only been run for 5 minutes or so before packing it away. After numerous swaps of receivers and transmitters it was diagnosed as possibly being the motor that was causing the propblems. So when I bought it he included a spare motor for me to try in it. I tried fitting this the other night but wouldnt quite go, but luckily I had a spare original motor from my other project that is surplus. Twenty minutes later all fitted and had it running perfectly with no interferance. Result. The spare motor i fitted couldnt have been used much over the years as it certainly had a spring in its step! Even better. Heres a couple of pics for now, i will upload some more detailed ones later today. Its running a stock Silver can, with run of the mill Modelsport generic type ESC and old school Acoms radio gear. The front assembly is powder coated whilst the rear is painted black. The chassis is a modern Alloy type that has been painted black. Underneath there is an alloy Rad22rad skid plate and up front a modified Lightning Rapid bumper. The front suspension has hardened steel shafts, which were made before the re-release. The body is beautifully prepared in a "Mooneyes" theme with a great paint job. Truly is a stunning example. The bodyshell is a brand new re-re bodykit, but with obvious mods. The arches trimmed, running boards removed, window rubbers removed, sunroof blended in, filler cap removed, the nose has been bonded on for a smooth look, rear engine lid smoothed and reshaped, custom inner arches back and front, yellow headlight lenses.....the list goes on. I'm very much looking forward to getting this car out on the sand on the beaches here in Guernsey this weekend. I am in the throws of my own SRB restoration, and think i wanted something to play with whilst that was taking shape! I also have a thread on that project and will be updating that soon. Future plans for this car arent too much. I pretty much want to run it as it should be (hard and on sand!) and just have fun with it. I dont see the point in putting it on a shelf and looking at it! Did think about fitting brushless system etc etc, but i couldnt do that to this model, its too nice to fool around with too much! This deserves to be left as it is! Will update with some more detailed pics later on!

Cool mate, have PM'd ya.

Hi, has anyone got a pair of rear tyres for a rough rider they are willing to let go? Ta Rick.

looking good mate, those hand drawn lines look pretty darn good to me! Dreading cutting mine haha. think i might have to take your lead and do some kind of template.

Wow, that actually looks like fairy liquid they have used to grease it up haha!!

i have a thread in the vintage section for my current build, updated it last night. and i will set one up with lots of pics for this one over the weekend

The front assembly is powder coated and the rear painted. The running gear is vintage scorcher and chassis is a painted modern alloy one. Very nice. If my own build comes anywhere near this one i will be a very happy man

I am very pleased to say i received this little beauty in the post today. It is the very Scorcher that Volksrod Built, and i am now the pround owner of. This is a beautifully crafted scorcher, and the body is fantastic with some very cool subtle touches!. There is just a few problems with interfearance and it seems to be the motor, but he has kindly supplied it with a replacement motor to try out. So will spend some time trouble shooting and getting it running spot on! Am widway through my own scorcher build and couldnt resist this, going to run it and use it like it was intended on our beaches here on Guernsey! Flat out

Yes mate, diamond plate was from there. is good stuff but a bit pricey. But you could make quite a few bumpers out of one sheet. Will prolly use bolts and bolt the sheet to the ali tubing. Will let you know how i get on tomorrow!

Very very nice!! Those are some very wide rear Sprint Stars on the back!! Did you get them banded, or did you buy them like that? Nice. Always fancied doing a 1:1 Baja, never got round to it, all i get in the garage are original and slightly custom bugs to work on. Fancy building an all out racer.

Couldnt agree more with you Steel Rat! half way through my SRB project and am going for a hard as nails, been used in countless desert races kinda look! Its the best way. Its nice to have a minter, but you want them a bit roughed up and lived in! like this:

Yeah i wonder great product, they really give it that beefier look i wanted. You really dont need many tools to do the bumper. £9 metal saw from B&Q and a few smaller drill bits is all i have used to far. To sort the rough edges out will just use some metal files i have at the workshop. Not sure what to do with the ali pipe, whether to fix something together using nuts and bolts or to solder/braze. will see. But it all done by eye and hand, no engineering tools here

Ok well here is a long overdue update. Havent really done much to my SRB, the garage has been chocoblock with pre-winter services so all my spare time has been working on the real versions of VW Beetles So, New front tyres have arrived, custom ones made by a certain person from this forum Have cleaned up front wheels, fitted new bearings and fitted new tyres. Looking rather dapper. New rears are in the post on the way and same treatment for them once they arrive. All four tyres will be lettered. Have ordered esc, sport tuned tamiya motor (I already have the instructions ready to fit this when it arrives, i am aware i have to modify the gearbox where the motor goes) I have started to make my own custom front bumper/battering ram! Could have easily bought something off fleabay or such like, but wanted to make it myself. As you can see from the pictures it is still in mock up stage. Found this rather cool diamond plated ali sheeting at my local hardware store. Is perfect for that scale hard as nails look. Excuse the rough edges etc. Main thing was to get it to fit properly first. This has all be done my hand, no big drills or saws involved. Prefer to work that way. Will take a bit off the end to make it shorter, and tidy the edges up at the weekend at the garage with some decent tools . Have bought some thin ali piping that was at the same hardware store and is perfect scale to go on the bumper. So will cut and fit all that at the weekend. Not sure of design yet, will just wing it and make it up as i go along. having lots of fun doing this. Once Bumper is sorted, will strip down again, fit new motor, paint, and fit radio gear etc. Then its on to the body! Slowy getting there.

As far as i am aware they are the same as the vintage ones, and they are 70mm front and 55mm rear i think.