Snappy1

Does anyone have an idea of pricing for the 2001 on original release? Compared to the rest of its family

As someone who did drop the crazy dollars for a VQS, I am very , very happy with it, I have modded it a fair bit and it’s fantastic, but the price set by Tamiya didn’t do sales a favour. I would also jump at a 2001……

RIP Willy , I am another grateful member whom he helped, it is a shame that his family cannot see these messages .

I don’t own friction shocks anymore but from memory the friction shocks springs are harder so you would be more inclined to get nil droop. I try and stick to high caps but if you want droop use the internal shock plates with more holes to get softer cva shocks.

You want as much MAH batteries as possible for racing, unless it affects weight balance. You want as high as possible C rating for racing. It depends on what ESC you are using for lipo cutoff….

I’d take 2 pair

Somebody jump on these parts while they can, thanks

It’s a no brainer, Top Force. You can always put a Manta Ray shell on the Top Force, Top Force has front and rear ball diffs, hardened prop shaft, cv joints at all corners, lightened gear shafts etc etc etc

More from me, I have a lot of Avante family cars, re re Egress, re re VQS, original Vanquish times 2, original Avante 2001 times 2 and an original Egress. They are some of my best runners. the re re VQS feels better than my re re Egress , but the amount of hop ups thrown at the VQS to get to that level far outweighs the performance benefits over a re re Egress. The VQS has Egress tyres, ball diffs and bumper, alloy rear G11 plate(adds a lot of rigidity)carbon front tower and mini hi caps . VQS is by far the most under rated re re , they were very expensive so not many people jumped on them ‘The VQS is lighter than my Egress, the Avante 2001 is lighter again. ‘All the Avante chassis cars I have are set up with triple ball diffs, so smooth and it removes the twitchyness of the chassis . The Avante Black edition is also still floating around, that would be the other car to consider .

Rumour has it the Avante. 2011 will be back very soon, Egress or Avante would be my choice , not the Super

They will fit but the Boomerang has toe in that the Hotshot does not.

Your Technigold was an open can, adjustable timing ,and rebuildable, similar to the super stock motors. closed can motors will last longer on the brushes but that’s about the only advantage other than the price, A GT tuned will have similar performance to your technigold, I would suggest a super stock BZ if you want more punch you will be surprised how long a super stock will run on a set of brushes

LRP are European, German I think , they have been around for a long time and usually manufacture good quality products.

Vintage Top Force Evo. , left any other Tamiya I had ever driven in its dust……..

If I run silver cans it’s with a 3 cell lipo, I replace them when they let the magic smoke out, approx 20 hours is a guesstimate.

Sorry, I cannot help you with the front arms but I’ve just got to say that’s one badword of a good looking Fox

Colour and decal colours.

I would go for option 1, that’s just the purist in me talking. I m also rebuilding an original Egress and have been wrestling with similar options, it came with a technigold, part of me wants to fit a O2H that I have spare but I have decided the car has probably had that technigold fitted for around 30 years, it’s going to stay ultimately you can make a choice now and always change it up later, sometimes I change motors in vintage shelters for the sake of it ……

https://www.tamiyaclub.com/forum/index.php?/topic/83341-top-force-re-revolution-2017/&page=4 If you scroll down this page it has the info ……. https://carisma-shop.com/collections/m40-b Purchase from here….

You can get slipper pinions, you have to modify the gearbox housing to make them fit but for a DF-01 that is the only slipper option

Yes, the Rookie Rabbit was the first built, complete with radio gear Tamiya, I have one and yes it’s a great basher

I have experienced this , I never got to the bottom of what happened, although I always put my radio down, turn it on and keep hold of the car when I turn it on…. The sheer panic of seeing my vintage Dyna Storm driving away full throttle, pink can screaming on a 2 c lipo, I can laugh about it now as the car was undamaged but at the time I was not a happy camper.

It’s pretty safe to say no one on this site would buy a vintage car off someone who advertises with their first post, way too many scammers around these days. the car itself requires a full rebuild, it has broken parts, is missing parts and it isn’t fitted with a technigold motor, like it should , put it on E bay if you want to part with it.

Although I completely agree regarding the super stock upgrade I wOuld keep the smaller pinion as they can run hot with a lipo

Sounds like motor, if it won’t turn over smoothly with your fingers uninstalled it has issues unfortunately