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  1. Throw what I'm taking in the Jeep, and take it to where I'm running the rcs. Run the rcs till their dead and reverse order. My crawlers have hours of run time so I'll take 2 matched packs and walk until I'm ready to go home. No special ruck sack things. No pelican cases for my radios. Just throw them in and pull them out.
  2. It is the ta01 chassis from the hummer kit and not the ready to run version.
  3. Quality control is the difference between dodgy manufacturing and quality manufacturing regardless of the country in question. I've seen incredible things made in china, and absolute garbage. Same with the US really. If some of you saw the quality control coming out of some automotive oems in the states you'd be afraid to drive. I've had to modify inspection equipment to pass bad parts because obviously the extremely precise and qualified gauges are wrong. What a world.
  4. The injora motors I messed with smoked after a few battery packs. Cheap enough I wasn't mad, but I had hoped they were at least a little better. Their hard bodies, specifically my XJ, is great for the price though. Different beast but my tt02 rally had a 3300 or 3700, don't recall which at the moment, but it was way way hot for a rally car. It would rip, but it was so fast you couldn't chase it really. I'm going with a torque tuned next, a couple of my buddies used them in theirs and they worked out well. Fast enough to easily outrun you but not so fast you've got to baby the throttle. They also have solid punch and will tear out of a corner with authority.
  5. anyone correct me if you feel I'm wrong but In my experience with Tamiya's vintage buggies is your expectations and experience determines your opinion on how they drive. Specific characteristics have already been covered but it's worth pointing out that if you expect the same type of control and reaction to terrain a modern buggy has you'll be left wanting more. They do great bashing around yards and beaches but they tend to get squirrelly when jumping or trying to tear around a modern buggy track. They don't react as surely and they don't always want to turn in opting to plow. Some of it is tires, some of it is weight balance. I built a hotshot this winter and I got some shakedown runs on it and it is kind of the same idea. It's more at home tearing up a ball field or dirt walking trail than it is really being sent big and fast.
  6. There is always joy to be had in pushing limits. The failures suck, but when you land that crazy jump and roll away it's a great feeling. My complaints with the current state of the hobby is the faster is better mentality. Sure, that arrma can hit 100, so can a tt02, so can a rc10 but it doesn't mean it's worthwhile. You can't do anything but blast off in a line. It's too powerful and too unpredictable for any track I've ever seen. Traxxas has been on that bandwagon for probably 20 years now. 65mph out of the box! The chassis can't do anything at those speeds but it'll do it and people buy that up. I'd be lying if I said I didn't do absolutely stupid **** with my old emaxx. Launching it up onto and off of my roof, sending it off big drops at my mtb park. It went bad often, but when it went right it was glorious. I just picked up a super rock Rey. That 1/6 scale monster will absolutely scoot and I don't doubt it's going as fast as the box says. It handles it well and will actually tear around a corner without just understeering off the map. I also broke the **** out of it launching off a birm at my park second day I owned it. Really bummed me out but before that launching big as badword and landing flat and blasting away was good fun. I'll be going back later this week when the parts come in to do it again too.
  7. The tt02 is probably one of the most capable Tamiya platforms. From high speed cars to buggies, tarmac racing to rally it really is a good platform with a lot of support. I've got a fleet of them and I'll build a few for my local shop if they want a few to sell complete.
  8. The obvious reddit mention as well as various others over the years. I'm not a huge social media user and only use it in bursts then go silent when other stuffs going on. Anyway. These large scale kits these days are super nice. I've always been a fan of FG modellsport and mcd, now we can add losi as a feature on that list. I think I like this more than the dbxl. It's an impressive piece of kit. It's stupidly fast, but not 100mph tt02 fast. It doesn't feel like it's outside of the chassis ability like a lot of fast rcs.
  9. So I was at my LHS Friday to pick up some parts and maybe grab some minizs for my niece and nephew after finding these amazingly fun inside this winter. Instead I saw a losi super rock Rey and went all in. I've always owned large scale touring cars and it's been 15 years or something since I had a fg marder. I figured I'd grab one and have a blast. And a blast it is, it moves with zero effort at a solid 50mph over whatever. Steering is sharp and the suspension plush. Even the kit tires bite like crazy. Awesome kit. Got a little sure of myself and sent it off a mound. I left the bump badly and landed hard on the side breaking the top link mounts. This is where the rant starts. Head out to the hobby shop. Don't carry it. They are basically stocked wall to wall with maybe 30-50 skus of Traxxas and arrma parts and a box of Tamiya stuff for the tt02 (honestly I've bought so many tt02s down there I'm convinced it's mostly for me). Owner said he has to because if he doesn't stock the parts people keep coming in for business sags. So basically social media everywhere ****s on Tamiya products, but my local shop survives because Traxxas and arrma break so often that it is the only thing propping up their shop.
  10. Not the city nuking warheads. The taste bud nuking kind. It's the only sour candy that's actually sour.
  11. There was a performance shop I always used to order my STI parts from. It didn't matter what it was. Suspension bushings, stickers, a closed deck crate engine, or brakes they always sent goodies with it. My favorite was the warheads when a guy Tony was doing the shipping that day. It wasn't the specific reason I ordered from them and had them do the tuning for the vehicle, but it didn't hurt.
  12. The last year or so has had a lot, and I mean a lot, of kids at my lhs. Some of the other rc social media groups are predominantly younger people too. I think they just target a different aspect of the hobby than we do. In the era I grew up buggies and touring cars were king. It wasn't about big jumps, sick flips, and high speed, it was about control and competition. Now the big thing is the monster truck and larger scale buggies doing air stunts and smashing land speed records out of the box. For me, that isn't that exciting. I still prefer to drive a slower car fast than to drive a fast car fast. I can't speak for everywhere but property values have driven tracks out of business so most of older guys who grew up in the golden era of tracks everywhere and you can always find a place and a group to hang with struggle finding the same humor in the solo run.
  13. I use cura slicer and do most of my model work in either solid edge or freecad. I had issues with the tinkercad meshes but it's another popular option if you just want to modify existing stuff.
  14. Sorry I'm late to return. The throttle is likely due to the twin servo setup and the bec is probably meh. You can try a more powerful esc or use an external bec. Castle creations has a few. I'd not go brushless. A 35t crawler motor is what I used in mine. The vehicle is weighty and the transmission is reasonably stout but it can get broken pretty quickly with bigger tires. I had a set of rc4wd wheels and tires on mine. They were slightly bigger than stock but not massive like something on a axial crawler or the trx4. For springs, not much you can do. Try using a single leaf or swapping to a linked setup and use traditional coil overs. The factory dampers had internal springs on mine. I removed them and that helped. I eventually went to an aluminum shock from another vehicle without the springs.
  15. XJman

    Hotshot

    I really like that avante, it's just a bit spendy at the moment. I have wanted one for a while and it's what kind of inspired me to get the td4. That's a vehicle I'd shelf queen and I know it. Those buggies you guys have are so clean.
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