New Mini body

[Tom05]

Is the mew mini body able to fit on a TL-o1 chassis?? I believe its mainly made for the m-chassis. But would you be able to fit it on a TL-01?? Im talking about the new ones, not the older minis.

Thnx

Any feedback is appreciated.

[WillyChang]

Afraid not.

"Mini" bodies are about 165-170mm wide, whereas your TL01 is 190mm. Lengthwise will also differ, and even the 'long' M03L is about an inch shy of a standard touring car's wheelbase.

I hear there are several 3rd-party body manufacturers who want to issue full-size BMW Mini shells soon... licencing permitting.

[miramar]

Willy is of course right, but I just can't resist making a small comment! []

If you fit M03/M04 suspension arms (50793) and driveshafts (50632) on your TL01 (direct fit), you will have the right width for any M-chassis body.

The remaining problem is then the incorrect wheelbase. A Japanese RC-magazine (don't remember which) coped with this problem by cutting the TL01 chassis in three (taking away the "wheelbase difference"), and cut and drilled the propeller shaft to match. They run it with the M03 Suzuki Wagon R RR body. A quite simple conversion.

[WillyChang]

Imho the Japs have waaay to much spare time.

There's another bunch who have released a conversion kit, that turns your M04 into a full-size RWD touring car. [:0]

[miramar]

quote:Originally posted by WillyChang

Imho the Japs have waaay to much spare time.

There's another bunch who have released a conversion kit, that turns your M04 into a full-size RWD touring car. [:0]

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Converting the M04 to touring car dimensions isn't very hard. You just need the following parts:

50737 TL01 suspension arms

50806 TG10 driveshafts

53300 TL01 Turnbuckle Tie-Rods

50851 M04 F-Parts (Chassis), 2 sets.

All parts are a direct fit/bolt on.

The M04 Chassis includes the two pieces making up the spacer for varying wheelbase between M04M and M04L wheelbase. By adding two of these spacers, you get normal touring car wheelbase. It looks a little silly with three spacers after each other, but it's rigid enough and works great.

Then you'll just need a touring body, and you have your own RWD touring car.

I have modified several M04's this way myself, to get different wheelbases (short without spacers (240mm) and normal 257/260mm) and widths (180-200mm). Of course none of them handle better than a 4WD touring car, so I did it to be "authentic" when using bodies, where the real car counterpart has RWD only.

[Dazmeister]

Proline do a 190mm Mini Cooper which is quite nice.

I painted this one up and sold it on a HPI Pro 2 last month.