Chicken Man
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Good spot on the hills hoist. Yep you definitely need a drag brake esc makes it heaps easier to drive. I had 2 different setups one was the stock silvercan with stock esc and a hpi gear reduction. It was geared so far that it didn't need the drag brake it would just hold itself from the gearing. But I found I didn't have quite enough wheel speed so I changed to a braked esc 70 turn motor and no gear reduction and that was my preferred setup. Still crawled awesome but just a touch more wheel speed when needed. Also run weights in the wheels, just hot glued some sinkers inside the rims.
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5 hours ago, rc_ox said:
@Chicken Man she's a beauty! I read about all the modifications people under take - very impressive. It must be a shadow of it's former self under that body. I'd love to see how it performs.
I have a couple videos on youtube of it in action from back in the day. Just wish I had painted those yellow springs and front bash plate black, was always going to do it but never got around to it.
Here is one
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Great fun to modify these rigs, here is my old girl. Wasn't much left stock, extensive chassis cutting, custom shocks, suspension links, gear reduction, servo winch, steering mods, bigger tires ect. Was always a favorite in a sea of axial crawlers on the trails.
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Here is a timelapse build of my blitzer beetle, might be of interest, hope you enjoy
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I just use the gel pens as well, quick, so even though they don't last to many runs its easy to re do them.
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Finally finished my wild one off, painting the driver always slows things down
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All those memories of going to the big hobby shops with dad seeing the tamiya's, could never afford one until into my teen years. Got a second hand super hornet and thrashed the guts out of it for years then moved on to "bigger and better". The super hornet much to my shame ended up in the bin because I mean who would want to drive that with all these awesome modern cars. Anyway years later I see a tamiya wild one brand new going dirt cheap, building that just opened my eyes to something I didn't even know I was missing. Added more tamiya's to my collection since but am yet to bag a super hornet.
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1 hour ago, El Dougo said:
the sunshine
It look's like it's going well!
Add the details to your video post it should be eligible for an entry. Would move you to tenth place overall
ok added the details, forgot to do it at the time I posted it
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6 hours ago, Kingfisher said:
What is your current setup include?
3520kv turnigy motor/esc 2200mah 3s running the big pinion 19t?? can't remember exactly. Its getting pretty hairy at that speed.
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Finally got around to running my blitzer beetle again managed 80.1 kmh 49.77 mph. Don't think there is any more in it with its current motor combo.
2520kv trackstar motor and esc
3s 2200mah turnigy
the big pinion for the blitzer 19t? can't remember
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Went out with my blitzer beetle on the weekend to do some runs. Started with a 2 cell batt hoping to hit 60kmh and a 3 cell as backup if needed. Well I got my goal of over 60kmh with the 2 cell but couldn't help myself and chucked the 3 cell in anyway.
The video is a bit long so the 3 cell runs start at 7:00 if you want to skip to that. I got a wheel standing 69.3kmh/43.0mph and a 72.9kmh/45.2mph
Specs are
3520kv trackstar brushless
15t pinion
5000mah 2 cell and 2200mah 3 cell
stock tires
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1 hour ago, Jason1145 said:
I had to ream the wheel centre bore hole out to get them to fit over the axle and clear the threaded par, there is about 1mm play allowing them to spin freely, the nut cant reach the wheel face it stops where the threaded part ends and the wheel axle widens out.
Ok sweet I will have to take another look at them thanks
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7 hours ago, Jason1145 said:
Here's the wheels fitted with the hex adapter
How do you find those adapters?? because if i'm not mistaken doesn't the wheel nut rub on the face of the wheel and cause some drag?? I have some in my parts draw but was wondering if you had some special trick with them.
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Hi guys gday first post here, hopefully this vid fits the bill heaps of slow mo action with my trusty wild one. It was actually this rig that got me back into rc cars love the tamiya stuff
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It look's like it's going well!
The big fat juicy run time thread
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Wild One
stock silvercan with biggest pinion
2s 4000mah turnigy
general bashing but heaps of full throttle gets me around 30min run time with a little left over