So, What Have You Done Today?

[Jonathon Gillham]

1 hour ago, Effigy3 said:

Sometimes slow and steady really does win the race!

If it were me, I'd get a DB-01RRR.  Put that SpeedPassion ESC you won and mate it to a 13.5T motor. 

I'm partial to the SpeedPassion v3.0 MMM series.  My track is pretty strict on configurations though.  4WD buggy Super Stock requires 13.5T motors.  That class has pretty much decimated the 4WD buggy mod class.  Most of the racers found 13.5T was pretty much perfect.  The mod motors were far too quick for the track.  As Jon Gil said, the lap times between the two were pretty much the same but the 13.5T cars spent more time on their wheels and experienced far fewer breakages thanks to slower speed crashes.

Interesting what you say about 13.5T racing, we don't have that class here for buggies but I could see that happening.  The guy who wins 2wd runs the same car in 17.5T blinky and mod, and doesn't adjust his ESC anymore.  His laptimes are consistent and at the top, the guys who run true mod 2wd cars have faster fast laps but slower average times. I think the 13.5T super stock class would do a similar thing here as many of the mod racers do that classic crawl around the corners and then a blip of throttle then straight on the brakes, its not smooth driving and can't be very satisfying.

We have the Super Stock class for touring cars and that doesn't seem that well supported, although is better than mod.  Its pretty common to have say 15 cars in 21.5T, 6 cars in 13.5T and 2 or 3 in mod.  The cost to set the car up is the same between the classes (mod is arguably cheaper as you can add power to make up for weight etc vs running everything at the limit for 21.5T).  From what I can see the stock type classes are plenty fast enough for most people.

I have only just started using the Speed Passion motors but like what I see and have quite a collection now, 21.5T, 13.5T, 8.5T and 5.5T...

 

And a good shout on the DB01RRR, I didn't think to get one of those when I was buying.  I could have had a new kit for the price of my secondhand Kyoshos

[Effigy3]

5 hours ago, topforcein said:

yeah it can.. you will be surprised on what that can be used for tbh .

the nitro cleaner is available in the usa click the link

https://www.amazon.com/Dynamite-Nitro-Force-Car-Cleaner/dp/B0006O51AO

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Oh yeah, it's "available" but not locally.  I have acetone in my garage so I'm trying that on the bevel gears right now.  (crosses fingers)

[Kingfisher]

22 hours ago, nowinaminute said:

Got a bit closer to finishing my Holiday buggy. Just need to do the interior/driver and a few little bits..

Nice. I did a yellow roof on mine too. I like the red gas cans instead of green water cans. 

On 1/23/2018 at 7:17 PM, iluvmud said:

Well..... the big purge is starting.

Sorry to hear. Good luck finding a job. Hope it all works out for you. 

On 1/23/2018 at 8:53 PM, Effigy3 said:

Any suggestions on how to clean up the plastic diff housing and the metal bevel gears?

From here, that looks like tar. Would replacing it with new parts justify the time it would take to clean them up?

[iluvmud]

6 minutes ago, Kingfisher said:

Sorry to hear. Good luck finding a job. Hope it all works out for you.

No worries Im sure I will once I get my resume back in order. Also... I still havent posted pics of all done. I didn't think you'd see that post that fast. lol

[moffman]

Finished off my bigwig today just tested it and forgot to put the self tapper in the steering and it came apart then had to strip the front end to fix it, i do like the novelty rack & pinion steering and I thought I'd do it box art but not box art colours and slightly different decals 

[Baddon]

That looks VERY smart.

[StrokerBoy]

A few days ago, but only uploaded the pics today.

[iluvmud]

@Kingfisher as promised.

Tehcnically last night... well all day yesterday. Got the room 95% completed for my Mother's arrival. My "office" is now moved into my daughters play room which was basically our dinning room but since our kitchen is pretty huge we just had our table in there. My daughter and wife like that in here now, the daughter says "Sharing is caring", and I keep finding some of her toys in my shelves.... and my wife likes it more now that Im more "present" vs being holed away in the spare room. It's not bad, and Im sure it's only temporary as my mom cant sit still for too long before moving on.

Office nearly cleaned out, she said the racks and lamp can stay along with the 3 shelves worth of cars.

So here's how the office looks now. (The Dyna Storm and Madcap will be sold as soon as they're done)

And here's my new office!

To put the space in perspective (hence my daughter calls it the "play room office")

The metal rack next to my desk is now the limited space I have for cars in queue to be worked on.... once I clear this off

 

On another note I'm close to getting the GF01 Yota I got from @Saito2 close to how I want it. (Anyone have a set of those RED Yeahracing dampers????)

 

Oh and here's my condensed Display of cars.... A lot of them got boxed up and moved into a closet

 

[78Triumph]

That's a really nice space you've got there!  The last photo of the shelves you have looks awesome.  I want to do something like that myself now!

[moffman]

2 hours ago, Baddon said:

That looks VERY smart.

Thanks very much! It' taken me since its release last year to decide to get one or not because I was never a fan of the original I had the boomerang which I then put the independent oil shocks on (I think they were for the hotshot?)  and a Technigold and the 8.4v battery! Simply because I thought (at the time) the boomerang was better looking but now I think there equally cool looking!

[iluvmud]

47 minutes ago, 78Triumph said:

That's a really nice space you've got there!  The last photo of the shelves you have looks awesome.  I want to do something like that myself now!

Thanks! There’s actually 4 shelves but I had to remove one so she can move her bed in

[Effigy3]

5 hours ago, Kingfisher said:

From here, that looks like tar. Would replacing it with new parts justify the time it would take to clean them up?

 

It's actually more like rubber, or a tacky silly putty...  The acetone did nothing.  NOTHING!  I pulled of a bunch with my fingers.  I'm going to give WD-40 a try tonight.

If this was my truck, then I'd probably just buy new.  It's not mine though.  I'm doing a friend a favor.

[Juggular]

3 hours ago, iluvmud said:

 

 

 

I like that magnetic tool holder thing!  

[WillyChang]

1 hour ago, Effigy3 said:

It's actually more like rubber, or a tacky silly putty...  The acetone did nothing.  NOTHING!  I pulled of a bunch with my fingers.  I'm going to give WD-40 a try tonight.

if acetone don't affect it I doubt WD40 (it's basically kerosene) would do anything

if it's really rubber & organic... I'd be tempted to hit it with strong chlorine bleach &/or peroxide

or perhaps to shift it but not dissolve it, rebuild it & fill case with olive oil then operate it via outdrives - to try make it flake off the plastic & stick to itself only

[Rb4276]

Installed the eco power sling shot 13.5  brushless motor in my beetle. I left the 17t pinion for now, has some decent torque and nice top end. I left the timing at the stock setting of 20 degrees. I may drop down 2 or 3 teeth on pinion to get more torque. My soldering could of been better too

[Jonathon Gillham]

1 hour ago, Rb4276 said:

Installed the eco power sling shot 13.5  brushless motor in my beetle. I left the 17t pinion for now, has some decent torque and nice top end. I left the timing at the stock setting of 20 degrees. I may drop down 2 or 3 teeth on pinion to get more torque. My soldering could of been better too

That would be fun, my sons has a silvercan and that goes ok but could handle faster...

What have you done to sort the rear diff? MIP or something else (he asks hoping for a $2 bulletproof fix...)

[Rb4276]

41 minutes ago, Jonathon Gillham said:

That would be fun, my sons has a silvercan and that goes ok but could handle faster...

What have you done to sort the rear diff? MIP or something else (he asks hoping for a $2 bulletproof fix...)

I do have the mip diff in it which obviously isnt cheap and imo not 100% fix because  if i hit big bumps Or flip I have had the universals pop out. Not all the time but a decent amount of time where it is annoying. Can you run maybe a gt tuned  a superstock rz or bz with the stock gearbox? I know i did for a little before i got the mip.  I had no issues but that was only running it a handful of times for two weeks. I had put in a kyosho le mans 17.5 a few weeks ago that kyosho america had on sale for only $30 during christmas. I wasnt overly impressed with the top end. Id say it was a little slower than a superstock, but i was geared up and had the timing maxed out too

[Effigy3]

So WD-40 seems to have done the trick.  It didn't totally dissolve the diff putty but it did enough that I was able to get most of the putty off the diff and out of the housing.  I think there's enough still left in the teeth of the bevel gears that it's causing it to slightly skip. If it were me I would just replace them.  Note to self: once you put diff putty into a diff, leave it there. 

I refilled the diff with 5,000 CST diff gear grease.

All better now.

[Juggular]

Another win for WD40!  Thanks for posting this, Effigy3.  I feel like I have an antidote before using the poison.  

[Jonathon Gillham]

1 hour ago, Rb4276 said:

I do have the mip diff in it which obviously isnt cheap and imo not 100% fix because  if i hit big bumps Or flip I have had the universals pop out. Not all the time but a decent amount of time where it is annoying. Can you run maybe a gt tuned  a superstock rz or bz with the stock gearbox? I know i did for a little before i got the mip.  I had no issues but that was only running it a handful of times for two weeks. I had put in a kyosho le mans 17.5 a few weeks ago that kyosho america had on sale for only $30 during christmas. I wasnt overly impressed with the top end. Id say it was a little slower than a superstock, but i was geared up and had the timing maxed out too

The diff is sounding knackered already and this was built on christmas day, stock apart from ball bearings and only ever run the silvercan on NiMH. 3/4 of running at 60% epa on the throttle too since my son is 4. It has however done a heap of jumps, we have a track in the backyard including a couple of plywood ramps.

I'm going to try shims in the diff first since I have those so its free. It may have to be the MIP diff but I'm reluctant as thats USD60 so will try the cheap options first.

[Kingfisher]

8 hours ago, iluvmud said:

 

Oh and here's my condensed Display of cars.... A lot of them got boxed up and moved into a closet

 

"I love you 7 cars & 7 trucks". I would hang that on the wall next to my cars/trucks. Please don't take it down. 

 

Also, I think our shelves are near identical. Three brown stained 1x12's on a grey wall. I even think I have the exact same shelf brackets. I should get a pic for comparison.

[iluvmud]

46 minutes ago, Kingfisher said:

"I love you 7 cars & 7 trucks". I would hang that on the wall next to my cars/trucks. Please don't take it down. 

 

Also, I think our shelves are near identical. Three brown stained 1x12's on a grey wall. I even think I have the exact same shelf brackets. I should get a pic for comparison.

Heh, it’s not coming down. It’s something I would say to my mom when I was little and it’s passed on to my kids who painted this for me for Father’s Day. Lol the shelves were pine wood I stained and poly’d myself the brackets were the nicest cheap ones I could find at Home Depot. As for the room color, it was my youngest nursery room but it was adjacent to the garage and my Jeep is loud (so was the garage door opener)  so we moved her into the middle room which was my office..... like musical office 

[markbt73]

Started work on salvaging/recycling an old Wrangler body for use on my ECX Barrage beater:

It will get arches, inner fenders, and an interior. Inspiration:

[Baddon]

11 hours ago, moffman said:

Thanks very much! It' taken me since its release last year to decide to get one or not because I was never a fan of the original I had the boomerang which I then put the independent oil shocks on (I think they were for the hotshot?)  and a Technigold and the 8.4v battery! Simply because I thought (at the time) the boomerang was better looking but now I think there equally cool looking!

The independent shocks were from the Supershot. I have them on my Boomerang too.

[Re-Bugged]

Got my wheels dirty !!!     I know it's minus driver, wipers & mirrors, but I had an unexpected day off & was itching for a spin. Man these these love the sandy places.