Wooders28

What are you classing as 'nowadays'? Most of the tamyia range sold are RE re and the likes of the RB6 just look odd with the forward cab.

That would discount the RS 500 cosworth touring car, thats on a Raider chassis.

Would the '88 Marui Coors Thunderbird, fall into the touring car category?

If its going to get used,or at least out on show,it's being enjoyed,It doesn't matter.Just as long as it's not stuffed in a box in the loft!

Hate it when work gets in the way of priority jobs!

Fantastic engineering work! Guessing CNC and nightshifts? ;-)

Like a few have said:- Big pinion = Slow acceleration / high top speed. Small pinion = fast acceleration / lower top speed. This is a general statement.If you goto extremes, ie put a HUGE pinion on,the motor just wouldn't have the power to drive it upto the top speed,which is why in some cases it goes quicker with a smaller pinion (as with nobbi1977 race bike). If you have a bicycle,it's like setting off in top gear.Technically you can go the fastest in that gear, but more likely you will (if it was me anyway!) run out of puff before you reach top speed. Don't get confused looking at the rear wheel gear,that's the ' counter gear' the 'pinion' is where the pedals are. Which surface you are on has a factor too, on tarmac you can run taller gears as there is less drag on the car than say,grass. If you are planning on racing,you will need a selection of pinions, for different track layouts.Large pinion for an oval layout with long straights and small pinions for when it's more like a supercross track.

No bother, the only Tamiya I maybe tempted to sell would be a Bigwig. Monster beetles seem to be going up in price,had a few on my watch list that went for way more than I thought!

Would you consider None Tamyia's?

They are a few years old now! It's one I used in the optima mid in the late 80's. Couldn't afford the 'gold star'.

Swapped to deans after,

Worth the money though?

Found this on Ebay, thought to give people a heads up,although I am sure most of you search "vintage Tamiya" etc so may have seen it. Don't think they know what they have ,even though its written down the side! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Tamiya-Rc-Car-/221770143035?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item33a287d53b

That's kyosho for you! ;-) Did the same with my Dark Impact too TBH. BMX track 2 - Buggies 0 Use it, break it, fix it, repeat :-)

It's the reason I have more than one of each!! I tell myself i will make a good one out of the two,then sell the other! lol

Tried to get some shots today,not quite the 3 wheels in air I was after!!

No bother,the shocks have just been sat doing nothing for years,glad you can make use of them. To save messing with body clips,we used to (may still be the done thing?),use sticky backed velcro to stick the undertray to the chassis (1" square at the front and back and each side),then strips down the full length at the side of the body to undertray. This meant easy access plus reduced debris into electrics.

This takes me back to my racing days! :-) I found the custom special body a better looking body,but used a sapphire Cosworth body when racing as,urm,gentle nudges in turns didn't result in me flipping over! You are needing gold rear shocks! I have a bag of them somewhere,they work,but not very cosmetically pleasing?

If you paid via PayPal,I believe you have 45 days to dispute the payment.If it gets close to that,open a dispute.PayPal take the money back off the seller and keep hold of it until the dispute is settled.

When you deal with 'the public' you do start to wonder if evolution passed some people by!! The main reason I haven't sold on ebay for a while, I would rather let someone on here have RC bits for buttons than pay their rising fees,(even though I didnt sell much when I listed in the sales section).

I have a new frog body for sale.Are you in the UK?

I run the 3 racing on my df03 (so maybe irrelevant on a dt02?) , reason being that, if you have an incident and pop the rear balljoint turnbuckle, you don't have to spend ages hunting for a driveshaft.

Nice, Paddle tyres? I couldn't post using Photobucket because I was using Internet Explorer, chrome works no problem.

As long is it's a hardcase lipo,I think the only issue would be that you would need a low volt alarm of some sort.

If silver cans, on-road yes, off-road (especially on grass) not as much.As the extra drag will pull the top speed down. It's a balancing act,for the price of pinions,buy one and try it. I tried a 24 (if I remember right) on my df03,on road it was ok,off road it melted the tamyia battery connection together (which i had in my hand today,searching for something else,weirdly enough!)