SRB Advice- Sport Tuned Motor, Slipper Clutch and Gear Ratio

[Willy iine 18831]

6 hours ago, JimBear said:

(took away some nice example of the Kyosho Beetles to save space)

... But pray tell, where is the Wild Willy one?

You know, I was thinking about it at one time, but decided to keep the driver in my Kyosho's brand oriented.  However, Collin has a shop for his Beetles.   

 

[Willy iine 18831]

7 hours ago, Grumpy pants said:

Are you thinking of the RC Channel kit that removes the camber? 
 

QQ which stock SRB is the best runner - Sand Scorcher or Super Champ? 

Yes, RC Channel.  I keep forgetting the name of their brand thinking it's some YT channel.      I want to keep one Sand Scorcher factory set up, and do another one with their suspension kit either another SandScorcher or the Fighting Buggy I have.  

I still need to make the low riding street SandScorcher..

[Raman36 1743]

5 hours ago, Willy iine said:

You know, I was thinking about it at one time, but decided to keep the driver in my Kyosho's brand oriented.  However, Collin has a shop for his Beetles.   

 

What’s the Beagles name 😍

[shenlonco 1184]

On 7/3/2023 at 10:50 PM, Re-Bugged said:

Nice 👍🏻, sounds just like me (and countless others!!) a number of years ago.

If you think of an SS as a radio controlled scale model for simple enjoyment & not a thoroughbred race machine then you’re half way there already.

Just to add to some great advice already, tuning can be a personal preference to the environment and what you want to be able to do with the car.

I love the SRB’s for what they are as it was the Super Champ I longed for as a kid but never had one.

When a half built Buggy Champ came up on eBay a while back being sold with a Sand Scorcher body + both sets of wheels I just couldn’t resist and a deal was done.

Unbeknown to me at the time there was a, hard to find at the time, Ball Diff installed. I think the seller didn’t know either. (With just the fix spool in stock trim the car will grip roll on pavement.)

The chassis has see a lot of use wearing either the BC body or SS body on all kinds of terrain without any issues. (Apart from the softest of soft deep dry sand, but then it also only 2WD) It does tend to favour firm but loose, dusty type conditions.

Tamiya intended these to run their 6.6v life hump back batteries, but I don’t have one so had to modify the clear box and (micro) servo position to accommodate a square LiPo battery. While I was modifying, I also put a Hobbywing 1060 brushed ESC and lengthened the notoriously short on/off switch so it reached the original position in the clear box. The LiPo & ESC powering a Torque Tuned motor I find plenty fast enough for it. (I have a Kyosho 20T GX2 motor in the Fighting Buggy and is great in that one)

 

 

With modern waterproof electronics the clear box is fairly redundant now like on the Fighting Buggy with its upper & lower decks it’s just a case of pulling a couple of split pins to install the battery instead of the hex head cam bolts of the SS clear box. Incidentally I also run a Ball Diff in my Fighting Buggy too.

 

There are lots of reports of the stock shocks  leaking but changing the black O rings to the Red seems to fix it, or just install the shocks upside works fine too.
Courtesy of member @shenlonco 😉

 

The only other thing I can recommend is when assembling the gearbox is to seal the 2 halves with a smear of grease on the mating surface joins to keep dirt out the internals.

Oh actually one more thing, buy a spare body set so have a pretty one for the shelf and one for running.

 

 

It was all Matteo’s doing that I ended up with a Sand Scorcher and I don’t regret it one bit…

 

Have fun with it mate 👍🏻

😁👍 May want to try what I do here it worked like a treat!

 

[shenlonco 1184]

On 7/2/2023 at 10:33 PM, Willy iine said:

Not for me, man..    

 

I love mine and this motor combo is the best in it!