Parts Bin Rally Build - TT01

[monark192 46]

This will be my fist build thread and, confident that I won't come anywhere close to the quality of the builds shown here, decided to build a rally car runner using as many left over parts I already have.  These days I mostly race Tamiya on road (TT02, TA08 Pro currently) with our local club so I was looking for something I can drive on the street in front of my house for fun.  The added ground clearance of a rally car seemed a good choice - and I don't already have one. As the r/c budget goes on racing these days, it was time to dig through the parts bin.

TGS Chassis as the starting point.

[monark192 46]

Initial Progress

 

 

 

[Grumpy pants 4474]

Nice, a parts BNIB special 👍

Will be watching with interest 😊

[alvinlwh 5894]

I had done the rally mod to my TT-01, great fun. 

[monark192 46]

A little progress - working on suspension travel

 

[monark192 46]

A little more digging through what I have.  Wheels, improvised tire foam, and the only extra body I have - Rally BMW M3!

Only purchases so far are the tub, rally block tires, and the G parts for the gears.

I can only find friction shocks in my box of spares so will have to do some research for a cheap option.

[TurnipJF 9192]

Looks to be coming along well!

[monark192 46]

Starting to look a bit like a car again.

 

[monark192 46]

Pretty much complete and I'm pleased how it turned out.  Total investment was about $40 (tires, chassis, and G parts for some gears) and I have a running car from parts/electronics I had sitting in a box. I'm looking for a used rally body cheap and currently it only has friction shocks but it drives!

 

[Grumpy pants 4474]

A great use of parts and bargain for $40 👍

[EsotericRC 98]

Subscribed. Been thinking of doing something similar with an older TT-01 I have. What you planning on doing for shocks/suspension? For mine, am contemplating some taller shock towers and longer shocks for more usable travel.
I dig the E46 M3 body you're running too...have the same body on one of my drift cars. 

[monark192 46]

5 hours ago, EsotericRC said:

Subscribed. Been thinking of doing something similar with an older TT-01 I have. What you planning on doing for shocks/suspension? For mine, am contemplating some taller shock towers and longer shocks for more usable travel.
I dig the E46 M3 body you're running too...have the same body on one of my drift cars. 

The E46 body didn't work out as it was too wide.  Currently only has friction shocks while I'm looking around for used body / oil shocks.. Didn't want to spend too much as the goal was to use up spare parts sitting around. I hope something will show up if I am patient.

[Pylon80 2628]

16 hours ago, monark192 said:

The E46 body didn't work out as it was too wide.  Currently only has friction shocks while I'm looking around for used body / oil shocks.. Didn't want to spend too much as the goal was to use up spare parts sitting around. I hope something will show up if I am patient.

It's too bad. They are plenty of options to go wider but as I'm sure you know, none of them is cheap. For what it's worth the Castrol Civics bodysets are very cheap right now. If that's your thing of course

[BuggyGuy 1106]

Cool project!

I would have a look at the Yeah Racing Big Bore Go dampers - they come in a lot of sizes starting at 50mm, and going up in 5mm increments to 70mm, after that they go up in 10mm increments to 120mm.

To use dampers much longer than stock TT01 items you might need to think about taller towers though (like the XV01 Long Damper Spec). I guess if you have too much travel you could end up having the driveshafts fall out/disengage anyway.