wtcc5's Stadium Truck garage: King Cab completed

Tbird232ci · June 4

I think after I finish my current builds...and my next one...I'll be pulling one of my TA02T's off the shelf. I really like this build.

wtcc5 · June 4

@Tbird232ci: Happy to hear that The look of these Stadium Trucks is already very nice, but after I took it for an easy track stroll, it gained a spot in my heart for being so much fun.

I continued with hexes and tyres:

With body:

The car is not completed, yet, but I had to wait for the rest of the tuning parts and/or parts for these Hop-Ups. These then arrived so I could continue.

Black aluminum motor mount by Xtra Speed:

Looks 1:1 like the Tamiya original:

This is a good time to add the tougher drive shaft outdrive to the rear gear box:

wtcc5 · June 5

Now to a very important upgrade - Adjustable camber links. It should be an easy thing, but for TA-02/FF-01 cars it is always a stretch. Problem is the kit use of fitting bolts. So if you do a carbon shock tower conversion and a camber link conversion, you need shims and shorter fitting bolts. You also need super short turnbuckles (18mm):

The rear was no problem:

The shocks will need a bit of spacing...

Back to the front, I added the front one-way:

The camber links then made more problems. First, I didn't have another pair of short step screws and then the camber link length is much too short to use turnbuckles... I decided to use the longer touring car front arms:

Which then also required to change the cardans back to 44mm:

After adding both adjustable camber links and steering links:

Grumpy pants · June 5

This a gorgeous looking F-150 and the cleanest Stadium truck I have seen 👏

ruebiracer · June 5

@wtcc5: nice build again, I never saw a rear stabi mount in black color? Is this a Tamiya part coated in black?

ruebiracer · June 5

And , will the track width in rear be adapted to the wider front?

wtcc5 · June 8

@ruebiracer: The rear stabi mount is a 1:1 copy 3D printed. The rear track width will be adjusted with shims for the moment. Maybe I make a design with longer arms later...

I really like the 90s period of Tamiya. They made a lot of special parts for their chassis. I love all the wheel designs, but also details like the different bumper designs of this line of stadium trucks.

The Chevy S10 and the Toyota Prerunner came with the Escort Rallye car bumper:

The Ford F-150 and the Desert Fielder came with a narrow TC-style bumper:

I chose the former:

The front gear box housing was also prepared for the aluminum support (three holes).

Now to a very nice Hop-Up :wub:

I had these planned for another project, that then didn't need them and now can be used here.

NM Frontier · June 9

Oh man this is just beautiful. I have been slowly working on a hop up F150, but this takes the cake! I’m just not sure what it is but those shocks with the yellow springs really tie it all together!👏

Tbird232ci · June 10

This is a very clean and well thought out build. I love it.

I'm very curious to know how the sway bars change the handling. Mine was mostly stock and it liked to traction roll. I wonder the bars will prevent that.

wtcc5 · June 28

@Tbird232ci: I think a front sway bar is much more effective than my rear bar in the mentioned case. A front anti-roll-bar setup is much harder to implement on this chassis...

A bit of waiting time, but now the transformation of this chassis can continue.

This week bodies and decals arrived:

Even though I ordered just one of each (left: Chevrolet S10, right: Toyota Prerunner), TBG send two of each :wub: What a lovely gift!

I couldn't wait longer today and already cut both:

Then I had a simple idea of how to make the car wider in the rear: Super Astute/Dyna Blaster rear hubs. It is nearly "plug and play". I had to replace the 39mm cardan with the standard 44mm again and use a slimmer ball bearing on the inside of the hub (3mm instead of 4mm):

Now the width is perfect:

wtcc5 · June 29

Spend the day with making the Prerunner body. Masking and painting alone took 4.5 hours. All the additional number signs and sticker another four hours... Not sure if I am slow or if you guys need also that amount of time. At least I wouldn't earn nothing as a body painter :lol:

The outcome is super beautiful:

And on the chassis it looks even better:

ChrisRx718 · June 29

Phwoar, the Hilux looks great. Look forward to seeing the Chevy too. Great project.

technics · June 30

Ufff, outstanding job and I love the subject. How good is TBG!

NM Frontier · July 2

Looks great, perfect shell to finish it off, the prerunner is my favorite of the Trio. I am definitely inspired to put some love into my S10 and F150. Thanks for sharing!

wtcc5 · July 5

Thanks guys!

A little teaser for what will come here next:

I painted the S10 this afternoon. This shell was much faster to mask than the Prerunner. Everything went well and this rattle can paint job came out flawless.

Tomorrow is sticker day!

guggles · July 5

Great work, turned out nice and neat. Where did you get the decals from?

wtcc5 · July 5

@guggles: Thanks! Stickers are MCI

wtcc5 · July 6

The stickers are on

It was a comparable easy job. Only the red lightnings made me sweat shortly, but then sat perfect in the first try. Unfortunately (again) MCI had one „BFGoodrich“ sticker in black and not white as needed…

It became very beautiful and looks a bit more scale than the Prerunner. It also looks very good with the wide suspension:

wtcc5 · July 9

Recently I stumbled over a problem: I have two brand new bodies for one chassis :blink:

That is kind of sad. I started looking for chassis on the net, but couldn’t bring myself to buy one as I own too much cars already.

So yesterday I went through my FF-01/TA-02/DF-01 stuff and sourced parts. I found nearly everything needed to build a full car. Only missing are rear diff internals, outdrives for front and rear diffs and 4mm E-clips. Just for show I bought the branded rubber tires and new wheels. I read that the front diff fits in the rear too. As I found two front diffs, one will move into the rear.

I found silver gear boxes, a black new tub, red and blue hubs and red/silver/black shock towers. A colorful combination is on my list for this build. A set of yellow plastic dampers would be nice… but which chassis used those in yellow?