Andreas W

A few washers under the front bodypost should bring it up. I made the mistake by doing the opposite with my Grasshornet, before I drilled the cage to accept the rear Hornet bodypost. It had worked fine for me just running the front Hornet bodypost, just taking care that the body stayed in place.. When I let my son run it the body wiggled partially off the tub and broke right behind the shocktowers afterminutes. I regret to this day to not have mounted it properly. So do yourself the favour and do it properly the first time around.

Nicely modified body and a great overall stance. Almost eyewetening.

A Falcon and/or a Bear Hawk hommage on the DT-04 is my wish togetherwitha Blitzer oriented truck. And first and foremost: Please give us more nice wheels with hex fitment and in multiplecolors. F.ex inspired by the Fox/WO design or maybe the Hotshot. Just end the wheelbarrow design era .

Nice Hornet Evo. I like them in blue. Is this your 380 contribution?

Hope this run lasts a while. Here some shops still have the M-08R in stock. I remember it beeing good value for the money. It would be nice to revert my M-05 back to 210mm/Golf MK1 and put the Suzuki Swift on an M-07R instead.

I like your approach here having it in the boot. I used to have my Grasshornet or Tomahawk in the boot when they ran NiMh batteries. Same with the M-05 until last year, when it still had the 1060 and TT. It was nice to grab the opportunity when it turned up and I always had a few NiMh packs topped up as well. Now I always have a small LiPo bag and a charger at work or with me in the car, so when it looks like I can leave early I charge and give it a go.

Hehe. Almost. As long as I keep out of the loose stuff. One wheel into it and the line is off. When I go around corner 1 wide enough while slightly braking it will slide and I can link 1, 2, 3 with nice sliding giving me a grin every time. That and feeding the throtle around 8 and 9 is the nicest part of the course, even though it's pretty deaf at the long straight.

I had the first attempt with the winter XV-01 yesterday after having ran a few packs just for testing with the now healthy Tomahawk. Running the winter XV-01 was rather unhealthy. The frost is gone, it's become loose and there's loads of small stones coming from everywhere. These stones find their way into the rear arms jamming the suspension travel and or one drivecup. Or they jam between the chassis and a drivecup. For every stint I made it happened at least twice that a rear drivecup jammed, the car had 3 wheel drive and hardbarkede on one wheel, the car spun and after going reverse it was fine again. As long as everything is free the car runs nice, is predictable and it's looking cool. But all this unpredictability is stressinkontinens and irritating. The Tomahawk was on the other hand brilliant and ran without any problems. It did almost 7 stints on one pack and the last was the best only one lap short of the troublesome winter XV-01. I also tried out different tyres and concluded that I liked running Schumacher Mini Spikes all round best. The fronts have good enough grip and don't hook as bad as the Cut Stagger low profile I have been running earlier. They are also better than the half worn full Spikes on the rear, as they have sufficient grip for the little motor and give less understeer. I think I can make one lap more with it on this surface, when I rake off the loose debries, but that's probably it on this surface. All in all I'm very happy with the conversion/downgrade and it's almost as I have got a new car now. Even though it's weaker than I am used to it's challenging to run it in a clean line and you cannot just floor it out of the corners. By now it's almost no need for markers .

This weekend we have rented a cottage up in the Mountain, so we are going for the last ski tours for this season. On Saturday me and the kids are going Alpine skiing. It a first time for them (and I have been snowboarding for the last 30 years), but they are fairly good in all sorts of terrain on cross country skiing, so alpine is more or less intuitive I expect. This is a welcome break away from dust and dirt inside and outside the house. The frost went a few days before the digging for the new garage and access road for it started. The garden is now turned into something that reminds of how it was for the Wehrmacht when they hit the wall on their way to Moscow in the late winter 1944. Have a nice weekend everyone.

I opened up the shocks on the winter XV-01 and shockingly the oil was nice and clean. Then it was just a matter of pouring in new 400 and 250 oil and it's ready to go again.

Already done the first few attempts with Tomahawk. It's immensely fun linking the curves 1-3 together with it. So come join us!

Hehe. I understand we are going ultra bultra basic here, which is fine as well. If we are doing this as a separate class in the postal racing series, as TurnipJF suggested, I'll build my spare Grasshopper and join. Then I can recreate how my Grasshornet started out the first time I ran it in 2021 with the green body and the box 380 motor (while I was waiting for the Torque Tuned to arrive). Beetle or Sand Scorcher body is of course good candidates as alternative bodies.

Hehe. You are right. They are in line. I like it and am looking forward to try it for the first time on Thursday.

To complete this brilliant info above I can say that you can get away without 3D printed parts by drilling out a Scorpion drive washer to 5mm. You'll need washers or a spacer on the outside to make the nut press on the wheel. I ran this solution the first years, but have 3D printed parts now. The simplest solution is Javelin wheels with 12mm Frog hex with whatever tyres you prefer. I have not tried the Javelin spikes myself.

Normally I would prefer the flowing layout you get with all three markers in line. It's tight enough anyway. But on the other hand your original layout is more like the original. It's also an extra challenge and something that would differentiate. I can see that a rally car would be happy to slide around marker 2 and you'll need to limit how much sideways movement you get. Since you are asking I think I would like to have the original version for the extra challenge. I'm saying this without having tested.

I thought this before I fell asleep last night and I think it would be a good idea not to limit it to the solid axle cars allowing the other DT buggies to participate. As others have said not everyone has access to a 3D printer, so if you want such parts you need to buy them from somewhere. When you run on a less smooth surface (or add jumps) the solid axle cars are getting more frustrating. I would look to Japan and see what they do. As I see it they run solid axle, DT whatever and/or Kyosho Scorpion and it's derivates together. What they have in common are the motors and the gearing. Here the DT 02 and 03 are cheaper than a Hornet, so out of a cost point of view would be a good starting point. If people would want to have the extra challenge with running a Grasshopper and modding it then go on and embrace that challenge .

I follow your thoughts and would encourage you (and others) to join our postal racing series with such a car. The 380 hype has got me to enter the Grasshornet again, after it has stayed inside the closet for a long time. Since today I also have my Tomahawk up and running under 380 power. There is a great variety of cars that enter, it's low effort and the costs is up to each individual to decide. I would love to see more simple cars participate.

Cool. I tried searching to find an earlier course I liked especially much (the first we had with a loop/spiral), but that must have been back in 2022 or 23, so gave up. Today I made a last test on the course with the harmonic motorized Tomahawk. It did 2x 24 laps with a few mistakes here and there on loose gravel - meaning less good conditions than the Grasshornet had. This is promising. Expectations are as low as you can go, so I am astonished how quick it is with the little motor with that tiny 15t pinion on a small course like this.

They must both be 225mm. But still an impressive difference in favour of the M-07.

Aha. I had completely forgot about the modern Fiat 500. Well done, only one lap short. And a good 3 laps ahead of the M-05.

Good to see you are going. I marked up the course on Friday so will hopefully get a few attempts made this week. It's on gravel but with tarmac with pebbles between marker 1 and 2, so more rallycross than anything else.

Large and diverse field. Interesting to see the 380ST powered TT on top of the podium. Another example of "light makes might". Well done @Pylon80. For me it was a great advantage to run on frozen gravel. When it got warmer and looser I never made more than 25 and 24 laps with the winter XV-01 and XV-02 respectively. @TurnipJF. Are you running your M-07 in 210mm wheelbase, or do you have an L&L body in 256mm ?

I finally fitted the Ro Mans 380 motor in my Tomahawk. I also mounted the new front end after I crashed it into a rock almost a year ago. Now I'm looking forward to healthy Postal Racing.

The M and/or S grips I suggested earlier are 60D- the same as the rallyblocks I assume you are running now. I have the best experience with the grippiest tyres rear, but that's personal preference. In my experience the car is less prone to spin with that combo (based on my Carten M210R and M-08). Others like it with S grips all round. Despite you saying it's not the pinion or the spur I think you have a loose pinion. Check if the grub screw is on the flat area of the motor axle and if the grub screw is tightened.

2 months is the way to go for me in this time of year for the Endurance Postal Racing. I have done a lot of running on the normal Postal Racing course, but did not take the time to shovel such a large area as the bigcourse. Now mother nature has sorted it with endless rain and higher temps, but my area has now turned into a swamp, so I have to wait forbit to dry up or to freeze again. Still salting without an end in sight, so tarmac running is out of the question ATM. And when not salted it's like 1 cm of small gravels, so a big job to get it away and not something people will want until spring comes. You are no hero when there's black ice the week after.