TT-01 from bland to BAM! Yeah Racing conversion

[Dojo Dave]

So I'm addicted to The TT-01 chassis it simple its clean and fairly cheap.. Lots of simple Hop ups available and so I have 4 in various ranges of modification. This is an extreme conversion in my opinion as I spent more on the hop ups than the whole chassis.. I'm living state side so I've become partial to american muscle cars and that is the theme of most of my builds.

So I started with

Plain old basher... Except for the Hpi meats front and rear a little 26mm and 30mm action there

A clean chassis had full bearings and aluminum (Aluminium)shaft.

Standard front and rear

Away horrible black front end, hello shiny red,

Well this is a combination of kits because I hate to do things by half your standard yeah racing kit with an RC damper front and rear box plate and suspension hangers

As we all know front and rear assemblies on these are basically the same so I won't bore you with the repeat.

It came together fairly well and the weight allows me to throw it about a bit with little to no roll. I'm thinking a black sport tuned motor to keep it fairly tame but this is my show piece..

I've gone with a Parma 53 ford body, bought as Chevy but I was corrected by Crash thank you sir.

This my first multiple level masking job and add the flames and there are aspects of the painting I'm not happy with. They where hand drawn and done with blue painters tape. Better next time. Enjoy the pics.

Fat rear end

Enjoying the sunshine. .

[ChrisRx718]

Wow, lots of bling.

I also have lots of TT01 chassis - I am a petrolhead and usually justify buying the entire chassis kit because of a particular bodyshell, normally so I can just display it. I modified lots of TT01s back in the day, with 3Racing and GPM alloy parts. Before long though, I realised that the plastic was actually more precise and adjustable as well as being lighter and cheaper to replace. My modifications were for drifting primarily.

The problem with aluminium is that if you have a little accident there is no flex - so it bends instead of flexing, never to return to its' original shape.

[Theibault]

That looks excellent. Love the color choice and body.

[Dojo Dave]

Yeah my fast ones are all in plastic still, this baby is a show off piece more than a racer. I've put Shafts and bearings in my others and that's about as far as they'll get I've got a traxxas brushless system in one that I took my I off for a second the other day..... Straight into a wheelie bin. Fortunately the damage popped right out but there's a scar. Thanks for lookin

[XV Pilot]

Wow that is a lot of red alloy!

You know what goes great with alloy? Carbon!

I think a carbon fibre upper deck and battery strap would round it off nicely.

Well done on the masking and paint by the way - excellent work for a first time!

[MitchellJames]

Love that last pic outside on the road

[Kevin_Mc]

i love the TT-01 chassis as well as it's so simple and nice and cheap.

I've never seen the red hop-ups before, i think my next TT-01 will be getting the red treatment the same as my blue one got.

[Dojo Dave]

i love the TT-01 chassis as well as it's so simple and nice and cheap.

I've never seen the red hop-ups before, i think my next TT-01 will be getting the red treatment the same as my blue one got.

I saw it on the cover of an RC magazine with a candy red fairlady nissan. 350z

Wanted it ever since.. kinda like seeing the dark impact build. Now I've ordered one. oops.

[Dojo Dave]

So ever since I painted the truck body I've been a little unhappy with my flames as they are a little off. So I've received my new ford body and this is how I plan to trick it

[Dojo Dave]

Ps 12 body, smoke and gunmetal flames mirror chrome bumpers and trim, black grill backdrop. Clear windows and possibly Willy driving. Lol if it's gonna go bam might as well be right

[Dojo Dave]

Fairly happy, better next time. Driver ordered

[speedy_w_beans]

I ordered one of these Yeah Racing conversion kits last night (orange color).  There's just something about all that bling I can't resist!

[Theibault]

I'm going to have to pick up one of these kits when I get my Man Racing Truck.

[speedy_w_beans]

2 hours ago, Theibault said:

I'm going to have to pick up one of these kits when I get my Man Racing Truck.

Ha, you read my mind!

[Dojo Dave]

So glad you like this, its one of my favorites, need to run it more often. 

[Shodog]

It would look pretty cool if you could tuck a 2.2 wheel under those rear wheel wells