Hertz WT01

[Wooders28]

As the recent WT01 purchase from @Nobbi1977 has been also owned by @Grumpy pants , I've decided to do a bit of a build thread, to document its progress (?)

This is how it arrived.

 

And then the speed gears arrived soon after 😎

Fitted a set of front optima mid custom shocks (x4) , 7mm wide hexes to fit the FTX Mauler wheels, and the speed gear set.

 

Ive called it a Hertz WT01, in the fact it's been passed about a bit, like the old Hertz, Rent-a-racer 350 Mustang, 

It does mean the paint , which ever body , will be in the , Hertz Rent-a-racer livery 😀

Can't decide on the body, so may do a, like , vote thing on here, and go with the majority 🤔

[wolfdogstinkus]

OOoooohhhhh, what do the speed gears achieve?, Are they easily obtainable?

Only recorded 29MPH so far with the 6x6.

[Wooders28]

24 minutes ago, wolfdogstinkus said:

what do the speed gears achieve?

Not a clue , ratio wise, 18t - 18.3:1 , the 20t - 16.5:1 , so guessing the 23t will be around 12:1 with the smaller spur and the 25t around 10:1?

I'm going for a castle 3800kv on 3s, and slightly small diameter tyres, so should have enough grunt. 🙈😂

[Nobbi1977]

I think a low light body is needed or this thing will flip and fly.

How about a Mustang body?

[Wooders28]

59 minutes ago, Nobbi1977 said:

How about a Mustang body?

I'd have to buy one! 

Seems daft, when I've maybe 10 kicking about! 😬

[Nobbi1977]

27 minutes ago, Wooders28 said:

I'd have to buy one! 

Seems daft, when I've maybe 10 kicking about! 😬

We need photos

[Grastens]

Second on the Mustang shell, but might consider some other Ford product - maybe the WT-01 was a Rent-a-Blackfoot kind of deal?

In which case, the Blackfoot shell in black with gold stripes would be quite the option!

I do look forward to seeing where this project will head

[Wooders28]

8 minutes ago, Grastens said:

the Blackfoot shell in black with gold stripes would be quite the option!

I think that would be too....normal? 

The Lamborghini shell would really need to hug the chassis, meaning burying all the elecs....🤔

I'll throw the tyres on, and take a couple of pics of each body, kind of, mounted (but the Parma Escort Cosworth is NIP 😬!?!) 

[Wooders28]

1 hour ago, Nobbi1977 said:

I think a low light body is needed or this thing will flip and fly.

Nailing the lipo to the front bumper worked well on the Neo Fighter 😀

[Wooders28]

2 hours ago, Nobbi1977 said:

How about a Mustang body?

Sold this a few months back!?!? 

 

[Wooders28]

Couple of pics of the bodies.

 

 

 

 

 

[TurnipJF]

That Lamborghini shell looks great, especially with those tyres!

[Wooders28]

I'm torn between the Willys, Lamborghini and Escort.

As the NIP Escort bodies are fairly uncommon now, it's a flip between the Lambo and Willys? 

(I've a Coors thunderbird body somewhere, and the TransAm I forgot to take a pic of today!)

[Grumpy pants]

The Willy’s body would be my vote! 

[TurnipJF]

The Willys would work, but to me that wheel and tyre combo just screams "MODERN SUPERCAR"!

[Kevin_Mc]

Love the Lambo shell - if you don’t use it i’m calling dibs! 

[Grastens]

Add another vote for that Lamborghini shell - the sporty tires would really set off that rakish shell quite nicely!

[Biz73]

The plastic bag JK The one above that, or the Willys on the bottom. I guess I like that old school look.

[wolfdogstinkus]

Needs a Top gear Hilux shell. 

Or mix it up and have a Front wheel drive, front motor monster truck..

[Wooders28]

1 hour ago, Biz73 said:

The plastic bag 

That's the Parma Escort Cosworth,  I wanted to fill that with plaster of Paris and get a mould, once I'd finished (well, started!?🙄) The vac former (same as the others tbh) as they were designed to fit the 1:10 buggy. 

The Willys, I was going to do a ProMod or Pro Touring (defo not a gasser), but sat for years and I've done nothing......🤔

[Wooders28]

1 hour ago, wolfdogstinkus said:

Needs a Top gear Hilux shell.  

Actually consider a, Fall Guy, rep truck body, but can only be Hertz livery now 🙄😂

1 hour ago, wolfdogstinkus said:

Or mix it up and have a Front wheel drive, front motor monster truck.

😳

[Kevin_Mc]

3 hours ago, Wooders28 said:

That's the Parma Escort Cosworth,  I wanted to fill that with plaster of Paris and get a mould, once I'd finished (well, started!?🙄) The vac former (same as the others tbh) as they were designed to fit the 1:10 buggy. 

The Willys, I was going to do a ProMod or Pro Touring (defo not a gasser), but sat for years and I've done nothing......🤔

Do you think the shell will be salvageable with a good clean after taking a mould? 

[Wooders28]

58 minutes ago, Kevin_Mc said:

Do you think the shell will be salvageable with a good clean after taking a mould? 

Yeah, it'll be fine. 

I used veg oil to line the others first, and the mould dropped right out, but that was just small shells,  frog, dark impact,  Ultima etc, but don't see why that would be different. 

[Kevin_Mc]

Yeah, that’s what i was thinking - there shouldn’t be any reason for it to not come out and the shell cleaned up, particularly because it shrinks as it heats and sets so should pull off the surface slightly.

Saying that, the last time i used plaster of Paris was when i was 10 so what do i know?!

[Wooders28]

Managed to dig out the TransAm body (made by, Somebodies RC) whilst on secret loft duties 👀,