So, What Have You Done Today?

[mtbkym01]

5 hours ago, moffman said:

Bank holiday weekend and I’m not actually doing anything  how often does that happen?? So I got cracking on my optima pro

body was more difficult than I thought but I decided to do a coat of lame flake backed in gold and alloy chrome wheels from yeah racing!

Whoa, stunning

[Nick-W]

5 hours ago, moffman said:

Bank holiday weekend and I’m not actually doing anything  how often does that happen?? So I got cracking on my optima pro

body was more difficult than I thought but I decided to do a coat of lame flake backed in gold and alloy chrome wheels from yeah racing!

Wow! That looks so sweet. I keep holding out for the turbo to come back into stock but your pro is really starting to turn my head. 

[moffman]

56 minutes ago, Nick-W said:

Wow! That looks so sweet. I keep holding out for the turbo to come back into stock but your pro is really starting to turn my head. 

Yeah I’ve noticed that the turbo optima has sold out and no expected stock! must be its turn to disappear like the javelin did for best part of a year! Hopefully the turbo won’t disappear for that long a lot of these re-re’s including tamiya’s have had a longer life span than the originals they are based on!

[toyolien]

Not exactly 'today', but last weekend I entered the Batley Buggy Club Classic weekend in West Yorkshire. It was a three hour drive and the first time I've raced 4wd and on grass since 1996. It rained all the way up the motorway until I got to within 15 miles and then the sun came out and stayed like that all weekend. I spent Saturday practicing and making a few changes, and then Sunday we started racing. Four rounds of qualifying and two finals. I managed to qualify 7th overall, and after two A finals I ended up 4th. I was so happy with that and the SWB Mid performed superb. I'm sure if I had drove a little more cleanly I could have snuck an extra lap in. But, and enjoyable weekend nonetheless. Here's just a few pics from the weekend.

Getting ready for my first practice.

 

My bed for the weekend. A nice pop up 'festival' tent.

 

The track. A nice short grass track.

 

My green Mid.

 

And lastly a nice action shot (courtesy of OwainRC on Facebook)

 

 

[Andreas W]

@toyolien. Congrats with the good result and thanks for the writeup and pics. The Optima Mid look good and fresh  in green . 

[Verskis]

I bought some checkered tape and a silver paint marker pen.

 

[Andreas W]

Just now I extended the M-05 to 225mm WB and cut out the Suzuki Swift body. I got to find the extra bodypost extensions I have somewhere and I need to think about the 9mm hexes rear. 

[Pylon80]

4 minutes ago, Andreas W said:

Just now I ertende the M-05 to 225mm WB and cut out the Suzuki Swift body. I got to find the extra bodypost extensions I have somewhere and I need to think about the 9mm hexes rear. 

Very interested to know if 225 makes it faster or slower in postal 👍

[Andreas W]

20 minutes ago, Pylon80 said:

Very interested to know if 225 makes it faster or slower in postal 👍

Me too. What is for sure is that these wheels made it significantly faster already in 210mm. I tried them after the deadline in an earlier round,  when the original TT was still working, and it made the same lapcount as BuggyDad, who won that round. The forecast for tomorrow is promising, so hopefully I'll start finding it out then.

 

[Saito2]

Dodging mosquitos, I had the Emaxx I'm selling out for a run today. Its big and it boogies, even with brushed motors, let alone the brushless one I'm selling with it.

 

[morrisey0]

I was writing out that this isn't Tamiya related at all, but I had to correct myself.  This has stock Clod rear wheels, stock Clod rear tires (cut, clocked, and back cut), aftermarket Tamiya Semi front axle, custom Semi front wheels, and Semi front tires, so it is actually is very Tami.  My Sportsman class puller.  Scheduled  for its first competition this Saturday. 

[Pizza Frog]

I took the Fire Dragon for a run to test it's new torque tuned motor, I forgot to take my camera but here's a recent photo I took of it with VQS wheels;

[Ferruz]

Still at the beach for a few more days. The Hornet keeps going and going, it doesn't skip a beat. Sometimes the motor starts screeching in anger, but a drop of damper oil on the axle-to-bushing spot is all that's required to keep it running. I am once again amazed at its durability!

Tried to get a little better with photos and action shots. ☀️

[bRIBEGuy]

I had finished up a TD2/TD4 combo a while back, and I FINALLY got around to taking the TD2 out for it's maiden run.




I do really wish I had done a build thread for these two cars, as the process was a lot of fun (with a few obligatory headaches...lol), and I'm really happy with how both cars tuned out (since even I can admit they are a bit fugly in box-art clothing).  On 2S (with a 10.5t motor and gear diff) the TD2 was fast enough to be silly, but not so fast as to be ridiculous.  Suspension works really well, but the rear end has a real tendency to kick up.  I'll have to make some adjustments there for sure. My biggest complaint was having the tires rip clean off the rims after only 5 minutes of goofing around.    One rear tire ended up 100m down the road, while the other rear only half came off the bead, and the fronts stayed on (while breaking the CA bond with the rim:

I had used the "CowRC" branded IC-2000 rubberized CA for the first time, and it looks like it just did a poor job.  Tamiya rims and Pro-Line tires were cleaned before hand, glue was applied in spots around the perimeter with the tire pulled back, then tire bands were used to hold everything together while it cured overnight.  You can see on the tire that came off that the glue did not "flow" around the bead at all, and seems to have not adhered at all.  I checked the Tamiya rim/Tamiya tire combo on my TD4, and it looks like the same situation has occurred there... I can easily break the bond and free the tire from the rim by hand.  Not thrilled by any stretch...

[Verskis]

Finally installed lights on the Porsche.

 

[Ray_ve]

I was looking into maybe getting a new buggy. I had a grasshopper back in the days, but was thinking about getting a Hornet.

But now I saw some ads on the Hornet EVO.

Something to obsess about this weekend.

[Gebbly]

After help and advice from @Alexei and @alvinlwh (thanks guys ) I wired up head and tail lighting to my TT02 project chassis including a "3rd channel control switch". I then spent some time figuring out how to program the Tx (a Taranis X9D+ running OpenTx) so that one of the switches turns the lights on and off. I was a bit over excited as it was my first time with lighting and my first time programming any of the Tx switches. Actually attaching the lights to the body is still a way off 

 

[Mouc-RC]

A few months ago, I rebuilt an original Bruiser chassis for my Brother (who said "Broiser" ? )

Video link here, for the most brave amongst you all (!)

 

Today, it runs

The Brother takes care of the body. I hope he'll do it in "Toyota Green" !

[Kowalski86]

I bought a spare parts bundle of sorts, threw it at my PUBG "Military Vehicle", and made it into something useful.

I just need to figure out how to give it better low end control (electronics wise), it's very jumpy. But it crawls well for what it is.

[Nikko85]

48 minutes ago, Kowalski86 said:

I bought a spare parts bundle of sorts, threw it at my PUBG "Military Vehicle", and made it into something useful.

I just need to figure out how to give it better low end control (electronics wise), it's very jumpy. But it crawls well for what it is.

Looks really cool. I love those bodies.

I just finished my CR12

Went a slightly different route! 

[Rinskie]

On 8/28/2024 at 8:41 PM, morrisey0 said:

I was writing out that this isn't Tamiya related at all, but I had to correct myself.  This has stock Clod rear wheels, stock Clod rear tires (cut, clocked, and back cut), aftermarket Tamiya Semi front axle, custom Semi front wheels, and Semi front tires, so it is actually is very Tami.  My Sportsman class puller.  Scheduled  for its first competition this Saturday. 

Man this is so awesome! Way back in the early days of RC Car Action, I remember being so in awe at the pullers but nobody in my area was into it so it remained just a passing interest. It's so cool to see different sides of our hobby. 

[morrisey0]

4 minutes ago, Rinskie said:

Man this is so awesome! Way back in the early days of RC Car Action, I remember being so in awe at the pullers but nobody in my area was into it so it remained just a passing interest. It's so cool to see different sides of our hobby. 

TBH, this is new to me also!!  I have been collecting / restoring vintage RC cars for a few years now, but I wanted to get into some sort of competition.  I did the crawler thing 15+ years ago and kinda lost interest in that, and I am approaching 50yo, so I don't have the eyes or hands for racing ............ but about 4 months ago, during a random local FBMP deal, the seller mentioned the LHS having puller comps.  The next day I inquired with them, and it was on!  Tomorrow will be my second official registration, and I will be entering three trucks.  Slash based, 7lb 2wd, and Sportsman.  All have different rules, weight limits, battery limits, dimensions, etc.

[Kowalski86]

2 hours ago, Nikko85 said:

Looks really cool. I love those bodies.

I just finished my CR12

Went a slightly different route! 

Thanks, to be honest my PuBG truck had been sitting around and I didn't know what to do with it, since it was neither a crawler nor much of a trail truck. Now it's a decent crawler despite the frankly terrible stock shocks.

I think your build looks a little better than the recent "MT12+", did you use those aluminum AE shocks or something aftermarket?

[Nikko85]

8 hours ago, Kowalski86 said:

Thanks, to be honest my PuBG truck had been sitting around and I didn't know what to do with it, since it was neither a crawler nor much of a trail truck. Now it's a decent crawler despite the frankly terrible stock shocks.

I think your build looks a little better than the recent "MT12+", did you use those aluminum AE shocks or something aftermarket?

Just stock for now, what do you find wrong with them? I've not got much experience but they seem ok to me.

[simalarion]

First run with 225 body on M-08R, with superstock its fast, i never did full throttle.

I badly need to find a good tarmac spot for it, even small gravel in road cause some problem