So, What Have You Done Today?

[A2591 221]

Finished up the M-06 today and kept it relatively stock aside from machine screws, aluminum steering posts (54193) and replacing the screw pins with stainless suspension shafts.  Just running the stock motor with a 1060 and a super basic servo for now.



 

[Sogogi 1950]

Just ordered Grasshopper2. Cannot wait! 

[BuggyDad 2471]

6 hours ago, Willy iine said:

@BuggyDad Thanks for the insight.  I will be running a 1060 and SuperStockBZ so I hope I can get everything in there tidy.. but I did forget to order the high torque servo saver so not sure how the factory horn will work.. 

I bought this car as my outdoor expendable basher (got it super cheap) so as long as it runs okay, I’d be happy.   I have zero spare parts for it too..  not that I plan on crashing.. 

Interested to hear how with your experience you like the drive.

So far I've found it easily resilient enough. Mine's got the tough gig of being a bad driver's most run car. Its bottom is not so much scratched as heavily scarred. Yet I've only broken a lower arm, and that took a nasty crash. Replaced with reinforced version which is anyway cheap. I doubt space will be a problem for a 1060 - mine's got a 10BL60 in. 

I have another XV-01 to build. Only car I've bought 2 of. So I guess you can call me a fan! 

[Gebbly 501]

14 hours ago, bavee said:

he even said I could use his savings for the repair if I did not have enough money

Sounds like a nice kid. A great opportunity to teach them that when something breaks you dont have to throw it away and buy a new thing and that broken things can very often be repaired and are as good as new.

Demystify the whole taking things apart and repairing them which seems to terrify so many people these days.

[Willy iine 16805]

6 hours ago, BuggyDad said:

Interested to hear how with your experience you like the drive.

So far I've found it easily resilient enough. Mine's got the tough gig of being a bad driver's most run car. Its bottom is not so much scratched as heavily scarred. Yet I've only broken a lower arm, and that took a nasty crash. Replaced with reinforced version which is anyway cheap. I doubt space will be a problem for a 1060 - mine's got a 10BL60 in. 

I have another XV-01 to build. Only car I've bought 2 of. So I guess you can call me a fan! 

Good to hear, it sounds pretty robust.   I should keep a few arms and steering bits if I decide I like the car.   I should get the high torque servo saver regardless .. 

I should be able to finish the chassis today.. will work on the Delta body this week.  

This week I will begin the pretendRCshop expansion.. 

[silvertriple 3130]

Finished a TT-01E / CLK-GTR for my daughter... She likes pink, so I have to do something for that. The Orange/White is the same bodyshell and based on a vintage Kyosho TF-3 chassis...

[RC_FunLand 157]

Exploded the rear diff of my Hotshot. Gears have been grinding for some time now, but I took the madness and upped it a level. Did donuts, launched the car off of ramps, and just full-on bashed it. It was quite fun while it lasted, but I knew the end was near from the very moment I picked up the car.

 

I have a new gear set (both plastic and aluminum/steel), as well as new gearbox covers coming in tomorrow (as the rear gearbox somehow got sand in it )

[RC_FunLand 157]

22 hours ago, BuggyDad said:

Half term refit of my lad's DT-03.

New gearbox bousing, lower arms, drive shafts, motor and ESC. And hex screws and suspension shafts. Old sensorless ESC was knackered and it's developed monumental suspension slop through wear. Also a test of whether he can do pretty much every bit of it. May even see if he can hold a soldering iron 😬

How did you manage to mount larger rims/tires on it? Also, what kind are they?

[BuggyDad 2471]

57 minutes ago, RC_FunLand said:

How did you manage to mount larger rims/tires on it? Also, what kind are they?

The wheels on that DT-03 are all stock Aqroshot/Blitzer, so that's now simply an Aqroshot with a Neo Fighter body. The tyres are Schumacher. You then just need the front uprights with longer axles, which are the parts used on Aqroshot, Blitzers and Mad Bull. IIRC it's cheaper to buy a Mad Bull set which comes with its tie rods (which you don't need) for about £10, rather than uprights on their own. 

On our other DT-03 I have a front hex conversion, so that takes truck and buggy wheels interchangeably. 

Now my son tells me both cars have some sort of problem, so it's spannering time... 

[BuggyDad 2471]

We fried an ESC. I had bought a very cheap aliexpress thing that looks like a knock off of a 10BL120, and fitted it with a new bluebottle motor. Think motor wires shorted, although I wasn't there when it stopped on my son. Totally my own fault, leaving some exposed contact on a 90° connector.

Anyway, later I fitted a 10BL120 in its place and problems continued. Getting hot and running rough despite no load. So I thought maybe I'd fried the motor too, or perhaps even damaged the new ESC and/or other new motor I tried subsequently 😬. Started to look like an expensive day. 

On further investigation it turns out, the cheap ESC I bought was wired orange-yellow-blue instead of blue-yellow-orange.

So I'd wired the new motor accordingly, and when I later replaced the ESC with the 10BL120 I'd just plugged it in by colour. End result I think is that our motors and 10BL120 are OK, just the cheap ESC is dead, and one of my wires is a bit short. Phew... 

On the plus side, two kids drove unsupervised for a fair while and broke nothing, and I got quite a lot of soldering practise! 

If this shorting was the cause of the cheap ESC's failure though, and it probably was, then I might buy another for my nephew's car. It uses the same end point setting method as HW anyway, implying same or similar under the hood. 

[bavee 809]

Changed from steering rods to turnbuckles on the Madcap:

Sharp drills feel so nice:

Night and day difference. Now ordered a high torque servo saver.

[Ray_ve 841]

Ordered a different sticker material for the Jugger's custom decals. Making progress but I want to try one more option before deciding how to proceed. I just hope the ink cartridges will last...

[Superluminal 3472]

Painted my Schumacher Cougar yesterday and fitted the body to the chassis this afternoon.

And managed to scratch a hole in the paint on the wing while attempting to fit it using the utterly impossible o-rings it shows in the manual (reverted to screws in the end)

[Kowalski86 1515]

Installed my Superstock into the Frog, it is now officially a "track/park only" RC, due to how quick it is. Also I need new rear tires, BADLY.

[Willy iine 16805]

For me, passed test drive.  Never mind the wires to the motor.. was trying to first decide whether I like this chassis or not.  

Turns well left, right gets too light on the rear.. okay for now as an outdoor basher.. XV02-Pro is 10x better.

[OnTheTrail 714]

3 hours ago, Kowalski86 said:

.... Also I need new rear tires, BADLY.

Do you think?  LOL.   I'm sure you had a lot of fun turning them into slicks.   

[RC_FunLand 157]

8 hours ago, BuggyDad said:

If this shorting was the cause of the cheap ESC's failure though

I had one too. It shorted after three uses and went up in flame… wouldn’t advise!

[Kowalski86 1515]

1 hour ago, OnTheTrail said:

Do you think?  LOL.   I'm sure you had a lot of fun turning them into slicks.   

I have! It's actually fun to drive when the roads wet. Good thing new tires are cheap (and I won't need new rims).

[BuggyDad 2471]

2 hours ago, RC_FunLand said:

I had one too. It shorted after three uses and went up in flame… wouldn’t advise!

😬

Maybe not then! 

[BuggyDad 2471]

4 hours ago, Willy iine said:

For me, passed test drive.  Never mind the wires to the motor.. was trying to first decide whether I like this chassis or not.  

Turns well left, right gets too light on the rear.. okay for now as an outdoor basher.. XV02-Pro is 10x better.

I wonder why it's one-sided? I haven't noticed this with mine but perhaps it's weight balance L-R? Or is it something fixable? 

[Willy iine 16805]

6 hours ago, BuggyDad said:

I wonder why it's one-sided? I haven't noticed this with mine but perhaps it's weight balance L-R? Or is it something fixable? 

It’s definitely weight related.  Do you run LiPo?  If so, that could fix the issue.  Once I get the car outside, I will rebalance it using some weights if needed (or desired).  

[BuggyDad 2471]

I have only run lipo in mine. So I guess that could make the difference. 

[Willy iine 16805]

6 hours ago, BuggyDad said:

I have only run lipo in mine. So I guess that could make the difference. 

I think so.  I will adjust the rear camber a little bit too which should help a little more.   I also want to give a bit more rear toe-in.  The motor on the front is a good idea if the rear is not so light off throttle..  There is just not enough suspension travel either to rid the rake to give more weight distribution to the rear.  The XV02-Pro is a night-day improvement.  

In other news, Beetle #6 is now in transit.      so are the translucent red and gunmetal paints.  

[BuggyDad 2471]

50 minutes ago, Willy iine said:

I think so.  I will adjust the rear camber a little bit too which should help a little more.   I also want to give a bit more rear toe-in.  The motor on the front is a good idea if the rear is not so light off throttle..  There is just not enough suspension travel either to rid the rake to give more weight distribution to the rear.  The XV02-Pro is a night-day improvement.  

In other news, Beetle #6 is now in transit.      so are the translucent red and gunmetal paints.  

What springs are you running? If I remember correctly I swapped out the rears for something softer, probably from the XV-01 setting spring set. Certainly my rears were much softer than front. I also ended up with a soft set up overall for rally, I don't know whether this is any good round a track but I loved watching the super active suspension take all the little bumps and I didn't object to the body roll that went with it. Currently it's set up for the road though, with different shocks. 

From stock I think the other change I made to big positive effect was diff oil. My front diff is much stiffer than stock, following general consensus from various threads on here. 

I wish I'd been more organised keeping notes of my settings. After a resent phone factory reset I lost the lot 🙄

[BuggyDad 2471]

My lad and I took our DT-03s to the beach today in glorious early summer weather. Both now have 10.5T brushless and currently big wheels. His the smaller pinion, mine 19t, no timing. His has just had a rear suspension and gearbox casing refit. It runs much better with that but also with a sensored motor over the previous cheap sensorless combo. 

With these wheels on they are superb on sand. Watching it zip along the sand in front of me the suspension on mine just eats up the pebbles now and maintains its line. A couple of my big wheels lack glue so I started with buggy sized full spikes. Bad idea - they just dug holes and beached it in a heartbeat, so on went the big wheels. Unfortunately we didn't get there til the tide was well on the way back in so space was limited, and he gave my car a proper soaking. But he especially had a great time. 

The soaking stopped my car, but once home, rinsed, blown out, left for the afternoon to dry then lubed up it's back on form. It'll need new outdrives in a minute, maybe CVDs too. They're quite worn. I should've bought a few sets.