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  1. Thanks! Was a fun build. The older nikko stuff makes fun projects. I have a few more that I will be doing soon.
  2. This buggy is pretty much tamiya. Started as a Nikko Scorpion I won off ebay for 20 bucks in really bad shape. The gearbox was bad and I figured I'd keep the body for another build and make a good buggy. I love the old straight axel buggies. These were the same chassis as the traxxas cat, nikko f10 and tons of RadioShack buggy's. Actually my first buggy was the tsauro x and the chassis looks the same. Wish I would have known when I was 10 that I could have saved it when the control unit failed. I modified it with lunchbox uprights, shortened grasshopper gearbox, hex adapters, wild willy 2 wheels, comical grasshopper tires, mci racing grasshopper ii special addition decals, comical grasshopper driver, full ball bearings, stadium blitzer oil filled front shocks, Super astute rear oil filled shocks, mad bull body, rear strut brace, tamiya esc, tamiya sport tuned motor, metal gear servo, and grasshopper ii steering arms. Fun build and drives great! I have a few other nikko builds I have been doing with tamiya parts. I'm amazed how they are all interchangeable. Same suppliers? ...lol
  3. What was the outcome on this build?Would like to see the finished body and more shots. I still have my old ff02 that I need to restore. Favorite on road I had and believe me I had tons of different chassis. It was the most fun to drive.
  4. My favorite on road was the ff02. Most fun to run. Understeer was an issue till I got a ball diff, sway bars, of course shocks and i used x pattern radials from HPI. I remember I used yokomo narrows in the rear and wider in the front. It did really well at the track. I had upgraded king pins and other hop ups I can't remember. Key was stiff rear and soft front sway bars. I still have the chassis somewhere I have to pull out to see what I still have. When it would understeer if you let off a little the rear would trail. Awesome car. ......... now I want one again.
  5. I bought a grasshopper 2 super G off Ebay trying to restore it but found that the chassis was done, trans case gone, gears smeared, shocks missing components.....the only things that were kept was the body (a lot of wet sanding and glue), control arms, wheels and axles. I am now doing a retomod with it becuase I feel it's not original enough. On the other hand I bought a super hornet where only the body needed repair, ordered new decals, rebuilt the shocks and trans and polished all the plastics. I consider that an original.
  6. This is what I love about this forum. Awesome ideas and ingenuity. it's always difficult dealing with the rear end of these cars because under acceleration the rear suspension is under tension and off throttle suspension works. I'd love to see how this works out. The part looks amazing and definitely trick. I guess that's why the design was called hopper. Under acceleration there was no suspension in the rear. Tons of fun to drive, but the slop was always annoying.
  7. Awesome! Perfect speed for learning!!
  8. Thanks! It does have the ampro shock relocation and trans brace. So that did lower the wierd stance too.
  9. Today I put comical grasshopper wheels on my rising fighter. I think I might make my super G build a resto mod because I ended up buying new chassis, gears, shocks and trans cases. Not that original... and follow the same principle of this rising fighter.
  10. Yes the grasshopper uprights would work only requiring shorter tie rods. Dt03 will not clear. The wheels fit the standard 12mm hex. The first picture is current set up and the second is a grasshopper upright.
  11. I had to use the longer madbull axles and make spacers with gpm hex adapters. The wheel diameters are too small so they won't clear the uprights.
  12. That looks awesome! You're right I need the super g dampers. Do you know if I can dye the black ones? If so what would be a good dye to use? I also made adapters for my mad bull to run the comical buggy wheels. looks kinda cool. I'll post it up later tonight.
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