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Tamiya USA turned around my order in 1 day.. Parts arrived yesterday.... rebuild thread to follow

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In preparation for the brushless motor, I did some shimming on gear box.  

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Shimmed counter gear towards the spur gear side

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Drilled out gear box to attach motor via screw.  Of course drill bit moved so I had to make the hole larger. Im a terrible machinists 

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Motor spacer from TB05 worked out perfectly to space motor from gear box

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Shaved down marking on Motor so it would clear housing

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Checked Mesh and marked gear cover for trimming to clear button head screw

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Added my favourite lube to moving parts

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Some shims to take out play

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Now this bit here .. I spaced out the RCChannel outdrives so that I could used CVDs.  The Dog bone is from M Chassis.  The Axle is from the frog.  Then I spaced it out on other side of upright as well.  This is all so that I can use the big bore TRF dampers.  

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Now for the radio box.  Removed wire grommet.  Ran all abc wires plus sensor wire and sealed with hot glue.  Finished product, SRB with Brushless censured motor :-) 

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Totally interesting mods Raman!:)

So as I get it, you used the CVD setup instead of the original RC channel drive shafts for widening the track width, and for using a CVD?

And this gets you more space for the dampers with spring setup?

Very cool. Our cars are really somehow identical. I even have the same receiver!:lol:

Just have the positions switched ESC and receiver compared to yours. (ESC too high with fan to place it in front.)

Don´t care about the too big hole, thin washer under the screw and nobody will notice!;) 

With spacing the motor slightly out, I guess you will have to run it without the plastic cover? Shouldn´t be a problem, as the Novak is probably without holes in the back...

Please let us know, how the first ride with the new powersource was!:)

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Correct. The RC Channel axle was too short for the wider set up.. I went with this route so the tyres wouldn’t rub on shocks upon compression.

The back motor cover wouldn’t serve any purpose other than to create heat

i wanted to move ESC to back centre, but I had a wire for lights soldered to it with a connector to front of radio box.. decided I don’t want to mess with it. 

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11 hours ago, Raman36 said:

Correct. The RC Channel axle was too short for the wider set up.. I went with this route so the tyres wouldn’t rub on shocks upon compression.

The back motor cover wouldn’t serve any purpose other than to create heat

i wanted to move ESC to back centre, but I had a wire for lights soldered to it with a connector to front of radio box.. decided I don’t want to mess with it. 

Ah, cool, I thought that is a mini switch for the ESC. No worries, looks all tidy in your radio box!;)

I use M-chassis dampers with special piston rods and without spring (would not clear the tire under compression, so I have to use the original twist beam setup. But works still good enough for me. Next year I really want to do my original ABS body finally, I´m still using the Parma Lexan one. But a Scorcher really deserves the extra details of this nice part of Tamiya history. And running on the beach mainly, the risk of damage to it is quite low.:)

Thanks for all the detail infos, really helpful!

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I did an initial run with the 15T / 70T pinion and car was really slow on 13.5. So o changed to 20T / 65T.. haven’t run it yet.. hopefully will get a chance this weekend 

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