Andreas W
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Cool, TurnipJF.
I ran the M-08 in Escort MK2 form today. After running the super trusty M-05, which is going like on rails this was a real challenge. The biggest issue turned out to go on the right side of marker 4, if I was to early and too hard on the throtle rounding marker 3. It's 8 laps behind the M-05 and you can see it's going much slower from marker 5-1. It's going on Shimizu though, while I ran the M-05 on Ride slicks in all fairness.
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Thanks for a thoroughly writeup. This is gonna be my bedtime lecture today
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A little less stressy this weekend.
Today: Change for summer wheels on the family beater. After that a heavy round of shopping on div builder shops to get all I need to make the fundament for the terrace on the camping site tomorrow. Just now that the wife is away I'll blow the trusty M-05 clean and rotate the wheels after an extensive run of postal racing yesterday.
Tomorrow: Full day on the camping site. Level up the fundament for the terrace. We have bought 3 sections terrace second hand (wife's idea. I prefer to build from the ground up, but of course a ton cheaper this way- and harder on my body), so sometime next week I'll have to figure out a solution to move them.
Have a great, long weekend everyone.
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As others already have said Penguin makes Undertrays for every Optima. There's loads of options to choose from; undertray only, body and undertray, body and spoiler, spoiler only.
Gonna get a spare body and undertray for mine.
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I have been running this a good bit now with the M-05 and the lapcount has stagnated. My take what I have diff oil mixture of 30K with a good dab of 1mill is not what it used to be. It's diffing out quite bad to the right when I floor it after marker 3. So it looks like it’s time for the M-08 now, unless I take the time to split the M-05 again (which ATM probably is less positively seen by others in the household)..
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As Pylon80 says. This winter Ihave also tried the soft compound Rally Blocks and they are even better all round. Especially on loose surface and snow. Predictable grip regardless of sliding or accelerating. The wear is also not that bad either.
So my favorites now are soft Rally Blocks with soft inserts (come with the tyres) for loose stuff and MST LTX for tarmac.
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Hmmmm. The Embie parts fit in an envelope. Thinking, thinking....
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A tasty color scheme, as usual
. I also need some time to get used to the design of the kit rims. I never got used to them on the Ultima BITD, so they are maybe not for me. Luckily JC Racing makes Pepper Pots, which I love, in many colors.
Did you build it with the ball diffs?
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Happy to see you are enjoying the gorgeous Optima Mid. Looking forward to build mine sometime next year. I am debating back and forth if I should get hear diffs for it or not.
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And by the next time and you can get them: MST LTX are nice for tarmac running. Good grip but predictable slidable.
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Marked up the course yesterday and tested it with the M-05 today. It has been my preferred starter a few years now and still is.
In addition to the M-05 I think I am gonna enter the M-08 in Escort MK2 form. The latter is gonna ride Shimizus (even though the Ride slicks are better).
This is a good flowing course and I hope for many participants this time. Welcome to @benchrc.
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11 minutes ago, Tamiyastef said:
Counter clockwise like in 2023?
Yeah, or what do the community think? I tried both last time and it's best counterclockwise.
Maybe we will see 50 laps this time.
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I think I want to revisit Hebbes Racing (despite winter is over) from spring 2023. That is a fast and flowing course, not necessarily favorasing smaller M-chassis.
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1 hour ago, TurnipJF said:
Another two-horse race, but this time my horse was the faster. I suspect that the wet conditions that @Andreas W was faced with had more to do with my victory than my driving skill though.
Hehe. The Carten is super fast now in the improved version, but on an even longer course I think your TC-01 will have it as a side meal for the tea when you get it dialled in
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Thanks for the kind words. It means something coming from you, when we remember your double win with 2x48 laps in 2022. That was really something already then. Ferruz' 46 laps with the Terra was also pretty brutal.
Do we feel for more revisiting? I remember one of the first courses we had in 2023, when I started running Shimizus on the M-05 and things started to loose up for me. I have to look back to spring 2023 and hope the pics are still there. That course would be nice scaled up with 3 relatively long straights and a super quick sweeper between two of them.
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The obvious and biased answer from me is to get the XV-02 RS Pro if it still is cheap while the wife think it's a good idea. As you know I have both XV and I love them all. But the future belongs to the XV-02. It is also far simpler to wrench on and if you would like to run on the loose stuff it is also less prone to gave downtime. That said my two 01 have been super reliable, apart from when I trusted the old gearbox internals when I converted to brushless.
Then the question is how hard you want that Arrma..
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This is gonna be another busy weekend.
The carpenters are starting on the bathroom on the ground floor on Monday, so I am gonna finish the demolition there. Thus is heavy work carrying out the concrete from the floor I have demolished earlier.
On Monday I am picking up a new daily (Skoda Citigo e, to remind me of the VW Lupo we had earlier - the somewhatmodern Golf MK1), so I need to do some paperwork beforehand; insurance and reg the transponder for the road toll on the new car.
It's also time to check and send in the annual tax report.
The weather is lovely, but I'm stuck inside.
Have a great weekend.
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I squeezed in one last attempt today with the M-05 on the same Tamiya kit slicks I ran in 2022. It was a solid improvement over my 2022 lapcount and it ended up on the same lapcount as the two loose surface rally cars and 5 laps behind the result on Ride slicks.
I can see with the naken eye that the car accelerates less on the Tamiya tyres. It is also less consistent in the corners, so it's easy to make mistakes when you are pushing. I made 5 full stints, but probably had equally many aborted stints. The tyres are past their best and are paper thin now.
I have to say that I prefer the look with the larger wheels as well.
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@TurnipJF.I'm happy to see that. Iam also curious about how the TC-01 does on the smaller course and if it can beat your massive lapcount from last time. We have all improved since then and so has our equipment
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Imarked up the course on Wednesday, made a few erends and would run on the way back. Meanwhile it had started raining. What to do with 2 full shorties? Just run. I had only brought the Carten and it was on slicks, so this was so lala. At least I did not spin. I chose to slide around marker 4, like I do with the rally cars on the smaller course. Good fun and nice to see that the skills have improved after running rally cars over the winter, but efficient?
Anyways; I got a result and that's fine. The car is working flawlessly with the new spur and pinion (and taller gearing). Now it has the steel spur of the rally M210, so it should last a while.
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I ran the three rally cars extensively last week and think I cannot do better on the MST tyres. The XV-01 is 2 laps ahead of the XV-02 and the winter XV-01, which is surpricing with the weaker motor against the XV-02. The Hobbywing in the XV-02 slides with no effort around marker 4, while the Ruddog gets somewhat empty there.
I deviated from my original plan and tried the M-05 Suzuki Swift last Friday. Oh man, that went well. Already on the first stint it was a new personal best and the next two stints were 2 laps more. Good times.
Since I want to ride the 380 wave I tried the Tomahawk yesterday. I normally don't run my buggies on tarmac, when I can run f.ex. the M-08 instead, but 380 is the thing so Tomahawk it is. 5 stints in all, no drama and all were better than I did with the M-05 last time in 2022. I am glad that I bought the fan mount when I got the motor. Now it's about 13C and there the motor gets hotter now. Nothing serious, but it will be when we hit 20C.
Today I'll run the M-05 on Tamiya Racing Slicks, like I did in 2022 for comparance.
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A tasty build thread as usual
. It turned out semi hop up heavy after all. I expect it to be brilliant. This car or the Dirtmaster would have been a grab and go if they were launched in 2020. No questions asked.
Thanks for making me want a Dirtmaster even more
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If Tamico is a place you can order from they have Carson steel pinions in 08 mod.
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1 hour ago, JimBear said:
Aah, you Norsemen raiding the foodstores! - is it Strömstad then?
Have a nice weekend, everyone!
Oh yes, sure it is. We are not the biggest in this though. We live a bit too far away, so this is not something we do systematicly. But I get what you mean. It's sometimes comical to see how much soft drinks can be put into a pasienter car.
That said the swedes are even worse, when I think about Volvo station wagons loaded to the roof with beer when they leave Puttgarden
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Tamiya TBLE-02S or Carson Dragster - which to keep/use?
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Then it's one of two (or both) things that can cause this:
1) The vintage stuff was differently pinned. When I started with my Grasshornet in 2020 I used my old radiogear and had to repin the connector for the ESC. If you run a vintage servo just copy the way it's pinned.
2) Your vintage RX doesn't have a built in BEC. In the beginning I used a battery pack from my glow buggy to power the radiogear. Later I fitted a UBEC as in the pic and has left it in after I converted to modern radiogear (which is not needed now and overkill for the humble Futaba 3001 servo).