Racing a Grasshopper

[Tamiya UK]

This must be the best Grasshopper in the world, I would love to make one but it looks quite complex, could take a while.

for more info go here ;-

http://www.tam.ne.jp/nic/grh/grhnew.html

[Martin71RS(2)]

Great car!!

I feel I have some work to do on an old GH2.....

with al the spares laying around it might work.

thanks for this awesome link!

Martin

[TamiyaBeaterFleet]

hehehe., some guy at my local track entered his grasshopper with a ton of custom parts and aluminum on it, unfortuantly it got stomped by the losi and AEs, but it was neat to see.

[SubaruBrattJunkie]

Some guy's have too much time and money, but I really like it![]

[Twmaster]

While I think it's kinda neat to see somebody put the effort and imagination into a project like that I also think he needs to have a mental health check-up! []

[rc-martin]

That GH is just plain bonkers, just shows what can be done with imagination. Hats off to that man. [^][^]

[mud4fun]

That is really great work, man after my own heart, who cares if you can buy a modern car which will be as good off the shelf - there is a lot of fun to be had making the old'uns perform better!! [8D][]

[SJoerD]

I'm afraid this Grasshopper is really a quick and good handeling car. But good handeling vs. grasshopper seems a big contradiction though... [] Very nice job, a lot of time and effort must have been put to that! He has many other special projects that look very cool, hats off! [8D]

[snollan]

I'm still working on mine. The guy that owns it replied on Roby's messageboard once. He(Super G's owner) also has a hornet with a 4 link suspension and a striker with something done to it.

The only hard part to his setup is the cutting of the CF. Everything else is almost drop in and the plastic is super-easy to cut with a coping saw.

[Tamiya UK]

I would say the Carbon firbe development is quite easy really, all you have to do is use wood for the R+D process, and then if the parts are simple enough you can fabricate them using carbon sheet yourself, or when they are more technical I always send my templates off to Fibrelyte (UK carbonfibre company) to fabricate, the finished products are top quality and almost exactly the same as Tamiya.

http://www.fibre-lyte.co.uk/

btw it belongs to tamiyaclub member Grahoo if you did not know.

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=3258&id=418