Problemchild

Great stuff mate JJ

The only way I’ve found is to limit the extension of the suspension in another post I showed a picture of how it’s done in the 1:1 world so I made my own temp solution this has worked really well but it needs a slightly better solution (this is for my beetle running 3s brushless) JJ

What you need is a @Xeostar gearbox brace rather than the expensive MIP diff JJ

You need to type @administrator or the like has your post not been approved in the build thread? JJ

I’ve been running my wiltoys 144001 for a few days now it’s great fun cost me £97 woth 3 x 2s LiPo the 550 motor in the small 1/14 scale car makes it fun and it does 20mph easy (not the 60kph it says on the box) i also bought the bling pack of red anodised metal parts which I will use as spares. Tbh thoigh it’s already making creaky diff noises (and yes I stripped it down and greased the diffs) I also put a phat bodies shell on it mit bling 1.0... however, building my comical hornet when that came out was amazing fun and last week I lowered and widened it using baja champ lower arms, longer drive shafts and steering arms and gave it a new shell in Jun Watanabe colours - Tamiya is better for this very reason When Tamiya have finished fleecing us nostalgic middle aged men, it will change its business model but while we are still around then long live driving crap RC car’s on nimh haha JJ

Awesome - great info mate I’ve ordered some fibreglass and resin to try and rescue the hard shell haha JJ

Very cool - almost bought that clod look-a-likey JJ

Cheers - yeah defo needed them JJ

I’d rather fit chassis braces or buy new chassis at £14 each As a kid, my falcon was always dying but working out ways to fix it was great fun I know what people are saying but nah hahaha JJ

Thank you JJ

I’d not buy one if it was a falcon shell on a new chassis JJ

That’s really nice @Shergar how much £ in total? JJ

The reason they don’t show pictures is because if you saw what it was then 1. you wouldn’t buy it and 2. if you still wanted it you’d buy it elsewhere at 1/10th the price. I haven’t bought one but I would speculate that it’s just a shim to take up the slack in the side wall movement - keeping the diff cogs tighter and thus reducing slippage BUT adds tightness into the system under normal loads that could lead to excessive wear. You want to maintain the standard gear face contact pressure but stop them moving apart as the power is applied and the angle of the gears naturally forces things apart hence @Xeostar and I designed the brace as the next step on from the amazing work @mheald did with his solution JJ

Just a little bump as people are starting to drive their cars hard again now the weather is looking better i know I am JJ

Did consider this i like the monster beetle look and decals I’d have to shell out £30 to just get it smashed up again wheelie bar needed most as it’s the shell tearing across the grass that’s damaging JJ

Thanks mate - enjoyable build JJ

Have a read through my project pages - I started with 1 (lunchbox rere) and had that for a few years then beetle rere and then terra scorcher and then boom - 20+ now and a new shed but not quite a new wife yet

My monsterbeetle (same ORV chassis iirc) is running 3s LiPo and a bushless Combo the only mod I needed to do was to design and manufacture a gear box brace (now for sale) it’s now fast as ******* Get bearings follow the instructions enjoy (a hard shell is harder to paint that a clear one) JJ

Watanabe homage.... JJ

Yeah - you can get 2 sets of front or backs as even thought it’s 2wd both wheels are hex JJ

Looking at Tamiya base it’s exactly the same chassis so looks like no reason why you couldn’t just buy the 2 parts trees and drive shafts and steering arms to lower and widen the car assuming you have the rere city turbo JJ

10 months for the hotshot gold wheels to arrive but now they have it’s finally finished JJ

At last....!!! the gold wheels finally arrived 10 months after I paid for them - covid haha so I finally got to finish the hotshot and i think it looks amazing Another project to hang on the wall JJ

Nah - I’ll just send the people round JJ

Wow - just wow JJ