CMshooter

Seperate accounts and the bills are split. If I want to work a little overtime at work to pay for toys I can.

Looks heavy

Depends on how you are using it. As a road car or a Rally on short tracks that you have to run with it? 77/30 would be 6.5 final drive, the same as my FZ02 Rally came stock with a 14 turn brushed.

Current fleet.

Cars cost too much. Have a few motorbikes.

I usually at least give it an honest run stock (ball bearings if course) just to see if the hop ups show a benefit.

That is the road chassis. The Rally chassis has taller shocks for more travel and chunky tires. Only 2 body choices for the rally so far, datsun or Subaru. Get both chassis, I am trying to decide on the body style to get next. Leaning towards the blue GTO... RCmart had the ugly green Camero reduced to stupid low price last month, and I should have got a couple.

The chassis normally go together fairly quickly, just a couple of hours. Painting and decals take me much longer. An entire day if I am off work. I think my TT02 body took 2 weeks only working on it in the evenings to get 3 colors on the body, plus tint the windows and do box art decals.

Not a Tamiya, but it has a Tamiya driver, so I am going with it. All the paint fell off my old vw body for the traxxas slash. I painted up a new shell just like the old one. Was inspired to take it back out when the rc10 narrow tires became available again. They look so right on it.

This thing is a blast. I added some lights and sway bars, but will basically leave it as is I think. Need to hire a better camera man though. https://m.youtube.com/shorts/Lpyd41lVDlQ

I still used the nimh traxxas packs. The 7 cell 3300 give 10 minutes of run time each in the Slash and stampede and plenty of power with the 12turn 550 motors. I keep a couple of 6 cell packs for the older tamiyas. Seems like they were over sprung and under damped from the beginning of time and a lighter battery just makes the handling worse. I started with lipos just because my first vatera crawler didn't have room for a stick pack a few years ago. When the local track opened up with a box stock tt02 class, everyone runs the 5000 mah protec lipos, so I got a couple of those.

I got the stickers done on this one. I don't normally do box art, but had to this time. Took pictures for evudence before I tear it up. Body is pretty thin, maybe some mesh and shoe goo reinfircement is a good idea.

40/16 for a 6.5 final drive ratio. Any other options?

What problem does it solve? It limits your gearing choices and must run the motor in reverse.

A solution in search of a problem?