chris.alex

Today the postman brought me three sets of rims. Spring is coming! 🙂 I'm particularly fond of the Vanquish rims. Since they're different front and rear, and they're also aligned with the direction of travel, I have four different rims. I think they're beautiful and will try them out on my TD4 Super Avante.

I bought this used "maisto tech" Volkswagen T1 pickup truck yesterday for €10. I don't need the chassis or the 40 MHz technology for now, but I like the body. I'm going to replace the black windows with clear ones, add some stickers, and maybe install some LEDs. Finally, I want to mount it on an M-chassis; my MB01 might be suitable. I just need to shorten the wheelbase. This could be a nice low-budget project. 🙂

Over the years, I've repeatedly discovered that there are different types of silver cans. Some are shiny, some are matte, some have stickers, some don't, some have a black end bell, some are silver. And then there is the 540-J and 540-N, kind of premium silver cans. I can't say much about their different characteristics since I've had them in different vehicles. However, I can say that the Torque tuned is better than all of them, and the Sport tuned is even faster. My GT tuned is still waiting to be used; perhaps it's suitable for the Honda City Turbo, which I hope to welcome into my fleet later this year.

It seems that, almost twenty years after the first DT02, there's still no use for this mysterious hole. Or have I missed something?

Steering set and diffs are the same, as well as the motor mount and some parts of the suspension. Center shafts are shorter. I am driving mine with 39t front diff, 39t center diff and 40t rear diff. I love it!

Yes, it's part no. 002 of my finest handmade hop-up parts 🙂

I recently installed a very simple light unit: Independently powered LEDs The button cells can supply four white and four red LEDs or whatever you like.

Guess what that is? You saw that right, a leaking differential in a TT02. I've had enough of it, so I've now installed a ball diff. While I was at it, I swapped the blue chassis for a black one. I prepared all the holes with a thread former. I also added one or two shims, and I largely dispensed with greasing. Last but not least, I did something for the looks and installed a small carbon part that covers the front part of the chassis. My TT02SR approx one year ago: And now with the black chassis:

Correct, these are regular touring car wheels. I enlarged the wheelbase by 3mm in the front in order to use tc wheels. It's a perfect fit now. This is the body, a Porsche 914 aka VW-Porsche:

May I introduce another rally car? Believe it or not, it's a Tamiya. It's the little brother of the XV02 Pro, the new XM01 Pro. I really love mine, it's my favourite car since I built it last June. Recently I finally finished the chassis cover. Voilà:

Beautiful! I think your wheels fit the Super Avante perfectly.

TA08 and TRF421 both have an internal ratio of 1.85 instead of 2.6 that the TT01 and TT02 have. With the TA08 you can run 71:29x1.85=4.53 using Tamiya parts only. If the TA08 or TRF421 could take smaller Tamiya spur gears, which I don't know, one could go easily below 4.0 FDR.

Today I modified the 55t spur gear from the TT01 spur gear set. I shortened the hub by about 1.5mm so that it fits nicely into my TT02SR. Now I have the option of driving below 1:5 FDR without switching to the 64dp or 48dp standard.

The 22049 diff didn't cause any issues, neither in my XV02 nor in my XM01. I am running both cars with brushless motors, 3800kv and 3370kv. Don't over tighten the small diff screws when you build them. 🙂

What are their advantages over the originals?