Stadium Thunder 58181

[kalsh]

Can someone please help me out with a few questions about the Stadium Thunder.

Firstly do the Blitzer Beetle and Stadium Blitzer have the same gear box internal gears? What other model has the same gearbox? Where does one source replacement gears from as I couldn't see any on the Bay?

I ask as I have just picjked up a second hand one and plan to convert it to a blitzer beetle if I can find some blitzer beetle body mounts.

Thanks

Kelvin

[yellowscott]

Can someone please help me out with a few questions about the Stadium Thunder.

Firstly do the Blitzer Beetle and Stadium Blitzer have the same gear box internal gears? What other model has the same gearbox? Where does one source replacement gears from as I couldn't see any on the Bay?

I ask as I have just picjked up a second hand one and plan to convert it to a blitzer beetle if I can find some blitzer beetle body mounts.

Thanks

Kelvin

From what I can work out they should have the same gearbox internals. It's only the body, body mounts & wheels(colour) that differ. Also I'm pretty sure the bear hawk shares the same chassis with again different body. They shouldn't be too hard to source on the bay, try Tony's Tamiya Parts. I believe he's a member of this site also. You might want to consider leaving it as a Stadium Thunder as there isn't too many around although you can change back at any time I suppose.

[Mad Ax]

The Bear Hawk uses the same chassis and gearbox. I'm pretty sure the gears are the same, only the pinion is different on the Bear Hawk. Gearing is limited to those two pinions so you can't gear for really hot motors.

You need the Blitzer Beetle C-parts to fit the Blitzer body to the chassis. These are extremely rare, I was hunting for a set for about a year before I sold my Bear Hawk.

The chassis itself is great fun to run, not a very scale-looking car but it's low COG and wide wheels prevent it from flipping over like bigger trucks. Ground clearance is an issue on bumpy stuff but their favourite terrain is short grass and gravel. Stick in a Super Stock BZ and it'll fly!