kitefighter

Thanks for your reply, and I understand your misgivings. I felt the same way, and was looking for a front mounted motor driving rear wheels chassis for a more authentic replica of the Datsun 510 but could find none with a 225mm wheelbase I looked at some of the midship and rear mounted chassis but felt they would be better suited to a sports car body, not a saloon / sedan car. All running models are a compromise in accuracy and scale in one way or another. Thank you for the tip about the plug in the pinion hole. What body did you used for your M-07 chassis?

Hello everybody. This is my first return to kit building an RC model since I was a teenager in the early 1980s. Building the Tamiya chassis and installing the electronics was the most wonderful experience. Trying the mate the body in alignment with the chassis didn't go well to begin with. In desperation, I joined this forum and gained invaluable advice from fellow modellers to whom I would owe a debt of gratitude. It was very interesting to see how different RC cars are today compared to when I last took an interest in the hobby. The only downside for me, is that this was an expensive project and it will be a long time before I have the budget for a second model to keep this one company. More pictures here: The next project will be to re-assemble an original release Tamiya Toyota H-Lux, complete with all parts including massive N-Cad Battery, Accoms 3 channel transmitter and shift gate for the three speed gearbox. All comments welcome. Thanks for looking.

Hahaha. You're right. As long as she doesn't browse to these forums, won't find out. And yes, well done for spotting the Seiko Tuna can in the background.

Good news! Using my wife's hair straightener's I managed to bend and adjust the mounting posts to bring the body back a little and onto the correct position on the chassis. I then lowered the body and now it steers and runs correctly. On the raised platform at least. Still a little more fettle to do and it will should be okay. Many thanks for all your suggestions and support!

If she ever finds out how much I've spent on this project already, I'll need to fake my own death, dye my eyebrows, change my name to Phil Shockley and attend my own funeral in disguise.

I'm going to try and bend the mounting posts by using my wife's hair straighteners to apply heat on a point I need to bend. I will experiment on plastic sprues first.

Hello again and thank you for the suggestions. The problem with magnetic mounts is that I have already cut holes into the body for posts. The solution I think is best would be to somehow bend the mounting posts into the correct position for the body in alignment with the chassis. The difficulty is, how to bend the plastic mounting posts. If only there was some sort of adjustable elbow I could fit the mounting posts into. Any ideas?

In did actually consider magnetic body mounts from the beginning but decided it was an RC car first and a scale model second. At the moment it's neither!

Thanks for advice about not cutting the wheel arches. How did you resolve the issues with your BMW body? Can you post pictures?

Thanks for the advice about the HPI wheels being the same size as the Tamiya wheels. Your suggestion of trying to bend the body mounts is a great idea that doesn't require further tampering with the body. The mounts only need to be adjusted a little bit to bring the body back into alignment as you say. The body mounts are very hard plastic and I will have to heat them somehow to bend them. Or I could cut them and then fix them within a metal tube (like a bicycle frame). Someone must have done this before.

This is embarrassing. I just finished building a Tamiya M-07 Chassis to 225mm wheelbase option. So far, so good. Then I tried to mount a HPI Datsun 510 body on top. And that's where the problems began. I've somehow managed to mis-align the holes on the body to the mounting posts on the chassis. (Please see attached picture). The result is that on right turns, the wheel front nearside wheel touches and distorts the body. I really screwed up and feel lousy after all the excitement of returning to RC models for the first time since I was a boy. A possible solution might be to fit HPI cup racer wheels and slick tyres as they might be a smaller diameter. Which would be a shame because I'm over-budget on this project and rather liked the higher profile Tamiya tyres. The more drastic solution would be to cut a larger apeture on the wheel arches, but I'm not confident I'd mess that up. Any help or ideas and share experiences would be welcome. Thanks in advance.

Thank you for your reply. I didn't realise that there was a four door version of the Datsun 510 available. Would you be so kind as to post a few pictures of your Datsun on it's chassis? Kind regards, Humayun.

Hello, Can I fit a HPI Datsun 510 body onto a Tamiya M-07 chassis? Both have 225mm wheelbase. The HPI body is around 165mm wide. I have the body but I'm not sure if it fit over the mechanicals of the M-07 chassis because the bonnet and boot may be too shallow. Thanks for your advice.

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