Nimrod Dyna Lightning

[bjorklo 1620]

This have been a project I have wanted to do for a very long time now. So what have been stopping me. Well the fact that Nimrod who make the special parts don’t produce em anymore and that these parts most likely were not sold to many of, have done the search for the parts take a very long time. I started to hope this would be possible when I managed to get hold on a package with several of the parts from Lee in the Dyna Storm fb group. And just recently I decided to ask around if anyone had the parts and we’re willing to sell em to me or to make an drawing of them. To my luck I was offered the blade wheels from Paul a fellow TC member and Jochen actually took his great car apart just to make me an 1:1 drawing of the chassis plate and a rough drawing of the undercover. So thank you very much to them. In the overview picture Nimrod made of parts for the Dyna Storm it looks like they uses the TR-15T transmission and yet another TC member, Michael, stepped up and offered me a complete transmission.

I have learned allot from Paul and Jochen about the story of Nimrod and the parts, I will try to share some of it through this project thread.

So why Dyna Lightning? I saw this name on the car to Jochen and asked him if this was a name he had given to the model or Nimrod. This is actually the name Nimrod gave to this model and they also made an sticker to go with the model. So I will have to get one of those. Would love to find one original but i think I will have to get one made.

So here are some pictures of the parts I got so far.

Since the rear suspension arms area Nimrod V3 version (most likely) they have been designed like the TR-15T arms and are a bit longer than standards, they do need longer drive shafts.

A fun fact, from Paul the previous owner of the wheels: “The Nimrod rear rims were modelled to accept modern 2.2 tires, so were wider and had a larger diameter than the Tamiya star dish rims. I wanted a set to fit the original tires, so they custom made these and were the only set in existence at the time. In fact you may well have the only set in the whole world 

How cool isn’t that

The rear wheels

And the front wheels

The motor cover

The rear suspension arms

The front suspension arms

The front mounting block

And the front bumper

So what is next? I need to decide if I should use my new built Dyna Storm as a donor car for this one or if I should get another one, or try to get the missing parts I need to complete the car.

There is also some remaining parts that Nimrod made that I’m searching for as the very special upper to lower deck they made, and the air flow channel to the motor and probably some i have forgot right now. Also in the overview picture I found on their website it was a special rear damper tower this i have been told was not made for sale so I will have to replicate it. I will also where possible make carbon fiber parts even if Nimrod maybe didn’t do it.

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To get the strongest possible gearbox for the car I decided to go with the TR-15T just like it seems Nimrod did with their car. In addition there are also some other parts from the TR-15T i think can be used since them were on the overview picture from Nimrod

I also managed to get an donor car for this project which will be good for the little things I need that I haven’t thought about. But most importantly this means I don’t have to use my shelfqueen for parts in this build. Hopefully it will arrive sometime within a month.

[Collin 2131]

Twiddling tumbs!

 

... but somehow I am more curious about your organ donor. A Dyna BlasterStorm,... doesent show up so often and I think its even more interesting to keep this in a piece.

https://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=69011&id=22258

 

[bjorklo 1620]

7 hours ago, Collin said:

Twiddling tumbs!

 

... but somehow I am more curious about your organ donor. A Dyna BlasterStorm,... doesent show up so often and I think its even more interesting to keep this in a piece.

https://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=69011&id=22258

 

Wow, if that car really is an 211X it will for sure not become an donor car for this project but a project itself to be restored. Could I really be this lucky? Thanks Collin for making me aware of this. 
 

 

Looking closer and comparing some of the special parts such as suspension arms and front damper tower it seems to have been replaced with "standard" tamiya parts so not sure what this car is. Is it a dyna storm that have been tried converted into an 211x or an 211x that needed some new parts I guess would not be that easy to get hold on, so the previous owner had gotten Dyna Storm parts, I don't know.. But the body looks to be the same and I would guess that is lot easy to come by, so that makes me suspect that it could have been an 211x in the start, maybe? But then again looking at the alu plate the motor is mounted to this one is also original Dyna Storm, and I can't really see how it would have needed replacement. Nevertheless I'm looking forward to getting it to compare it with my original Dyna Storm.

Looking even more and I see the front bulkhead are not 211x and the top chassis plate. So now I'm pretty sure this is just an racers car that knew about the 211x and tried to convert his/her car and give it some of the advantages the 211x had.  Pretty sure @pUs could confirm my suspect. 

[bjorklo 1620]

🧐

[GTodd 1600]

Oh man!!! Suddenly it's 2008!!! Envious!! I never received any parts I ordered from Nimrod other than the suspension blocks. 

[Collin 2131]

Definitly nothing more then a DS with DB Chassis and (propably) Losi XX shell. It became a common mod that time, to extende wheelbase. 

The car at the showroom is something very special and shure not mich to do with your donor.

But anyway this is on my todo list and I wanted to point in it because you dont see this mix often. 

So keep on! 

[bjorklo 1620]

22 minutes ago, GTodd said:

Oh man!!! Suddenly it's 2008!!! Envious!! I never received any parts I ordered from Nimrod other than the suspension blocks. 

Ohh man, to bad you didn't get all the parts you ordered.  I just wish I knew about this parts back then. 

9 minutes ago, Collin said:

Definitly nothing more then a DS with DB Chassis and (propably) Losi XX shell. It became a common mod that time, to extende wheelbase. 

The car at the showroom is something very special and shure not mich to do with your donor.

But anyway this is on my todo list and I wanted to point in it because you dont see this mix often. 

So keep on! 

Yeah... Then this one is going to be taken apart and used for spares. And maybe one day I will consider trying to replicate the 211x

[GTodd 1600]

11 minutes ago, bjorklo said:

Ohh man, to bad you didn't get all the parts you ordered.  I just wish I knew about this parts back then. 

Yeah... Then this one is going to be taken apart and used for spares. And maybe one day I will consider trying to replicate the 211x

I don't think it'd be too hard to make 211x. You can get the chassis from Fibrelyte, they can also make the shorter shock tower and that some of them ran with, and the super Astute arms they used are readily available, for now anyway!

[Collin 2131]

I am in processing TRF211x based fiber parts such as chassis, upper deck and shorter shock towers. But no replica, more like dedicated too.

 

Back to nimrod. I guess this Dyna Lightning is too rare to be driven, right? What I really like are the rims and the airhose. Both really affects motor temp. Airhose could be another winterproject for 3D modelling.

[bjorklo 1620]

25 minutes ago, GTodd said:

I don't think it'd be too hard to make 211x. You can get the chassis from Fibrelyte, they can also make the shorter shock tower and that some of them ran with, and the super Astute arms they used are readily available, for now anyway!

True, could be possible to make one that somehow on first sight looks like one without being the real thing.  We'll see. 

12 minutes ago, Collin said:

I am in processing TRF211x based fiber parts such as chassis, upper deck and shorter shock towers. But no replica, more like dedicated too.

 

Back to nimrod. I guess this Dyna Lightning is too rare to be driven, right? What I really like are the rims and the airhose. Both really affects motor temp. Airhose could be another winterproject for 3D modelling.

👍🏼 

Yeah this one is for the shelf, I wouldn't dare to drive it. Yeah I will try to get the airhose replicated, but I think my 3d drawing skills aren't good enough so will have to find someone to help me out. 

[jeekelemental 528]

15 minutes ago, bjorklo said:

Yeah this one is for the shelf, I wouldn't dare to drive it.

 

 

What about a short shakedown, to shoot a video for the guys here on TC? 

[bjorklo 1620]

50 minutes ago, jeekelemental said:

 

 

What about a short shakedown, to shoot a video for the guys here on TC? 

Yeah that would be cool. But would just be on road with no jumps.. 😛 boooooring 😂. I will consider it.. 

[jeekelemental 528]

[Collin 2131]

@bjorklo this are the best photos I found about the airhose. http://www.offroad-cult.org/Board/tamiya-dyna-storm-tuning-ersatzteile-t11771,start,10.html

[svenb 4617]

Interesting build👍

But where's the all green Ta01 build I've been waiting for?? 🤔

[bjorklo 1620]

On 10/31/2019 at 11:01 AM, Collin said:

@bjorklo this are the best photos I found about the airhose. http://www.offroad-cult.org/Board/tamiya-dyna-storm-tuning-ersatzteile-t11771,start,10.html

Yeah, I have seen them. That should be good enough photos to replicate the part.  That is Jochen's car, so maybe I can get some more photos from him. 

20 hours ago, svenb said:

Interesting build👍

But where's the all green Ta01 build I've been waiting for?? 🤔

thanks. 

Got a bit bored building that chassis, and when the the parts also had different shade of green I kind of lost interest.. but will get it done one day, just need to get the parts from the donor car washed.  

[ruebiracer 1325]

Following this thread with interest! Still my favorite Tamiya 2WD Buggy.  And Nimrod was such a cool Company, focussing on improving it´s perfomance.

All the best for the project,

Matthias

[joe999 10]

All I can do to support your great project I will do. I can send more photos as a file if you want.

 

Regards, Jochen

[joe999 10]

When Nimrod still produced parts, I took the Dyna Lighning for bashing, therefore  the fastening tab was broken. However, since the part fits so exactly into the structure an attachment is hardly necessary, a moss rubber block is enough:

 

[bjorklo 1620]

2 hours ago, ruebiracer said:

Following this thread with interest! Still my favorite Tamiya 2WD Buggy.  And Nimrod was such a cool Company, focussing on improving it´s perfomance.

All the best for the project,

Matthias

Thanks Matthias. Yeah for me it's definitely one of my top favourite 2wd buggy's.

2 hours ago, joe999 said:

All I can do to support your great project I will do. I can send more photos as a file if you want.

 

Regards, Jochen

Thanks so much Jochen this is highly appreciated. 

2 hours ago, joe999 said:

When Nimrod still produced parts, I took the Dyna Lighning for bashing, therefore  the fastening tab was broken. However, since the part fits so exactly into the structure an attachment is hardly necessary, a moss rubber block is enough:

 

Auch, to bad that happened. But good thing that it stays in place with the moss rubber block. 

[Collin 2131]

Very interesting details. I think there need to be a shaped model 1:1 taken from the car.

I hope you guys are patient, winter is coming and I will invest some time into this.

 

But one thing. What does a air-intake brings if it takes the air from inside the shell? If you ask me, I would do a completely new design.

 

[joe999 10]

1 hour ago, Collin said:

... But one thing. What does a air-intake brings if it takes the air from inside the shell? If you ask me, I would do a completely new design.

 

The air is taken from outside the shell:

[Collin 2131]

ya man! just had a look at my DS. Its all right how it is. Just had a notch in my brain.

[bjorklo 1620]

 

Hi @joe999, Jochen.

 

Is there anyway that you could try to take some measurements of the motor air intake? Maybe lay it on a paper and write some of the measurements on it. And do it for as many as possible sides of it? This would for sure help for 3D modeling it. 

[joe999 10]

this is such a complex part and fits so well that it literally locks in and does not need to be fixed. Therefore, I think that 2D drawings do not lead to the goal. I consider with which material I could  mold the part. Do you have an idea?

 

Regards, Jochen