Dammit!
07-08-2008, 11:55 AM
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Not my SA, not my DD, but my R/C car. 
I was trying to do a sweet jump in my alley, by a neighbor's garage, between a wheelbarrow and a telephone pole. Got moving pretty good, caught the rear wheel on the "leg" of the wheelbarrow. "Oh ****" ensued. I just got it running again, too. I had burned up the reciever crystal, which was hard as hell to diagnose. Anyway, I brought camera-phone pics.
The car is a Tamiya TT-01 chassis (4wd shaft-driven), basically unmodified except the carbon fiber upper brace and aftermarket front springs. Stock rear rims + tires (not grippy) and Venom pre-mounted hyper-grip fronts. Electronics are a Futaba reciever and steering servo, Dynamite Taser 12t ESC and Method 15t modified motor. I recently finished this body (HPI 190mm Toyota Altezza) but want to get something wider so I can run a deeper offset rim and get more track width.
I was trying to do a sweet jump in my alley, by a neighbor's garage, between a wheelbarrow and a telephone pole.
The car is a Tamiya TT-01 chassis (4wd shaft-driven), basically unmodified except the carbon fiber upper brace and aftermarket front springs. Stock rear rims + tires (not grippy) and Venom pre-mounted hyper-grip fronts. Electronics are a Futaba reciever and steering servo, Dynamite Taser 12t ESC and Method 15t modified motor. I recently finished this body (HPI 190mm Toyota Altezza) but want to get something wider so I can run a deeper offset rim and get more track width.
07-08-2008, 01:06 PM
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The key to getting into RC is to buy used. Ebay is good. Find a used setup and stay away from Duratraxx garbage. Tamiya also kinda sucks because you pretty much have to buy Tamiya parts to upgrade, and they use 42-pitch gears as opposed to the standard 46 pitch, so you HAVE to order your gears from them.
But my brother has a Traxxas Stampede and loves it. Get the VXL brushless and you'll be smacking the nitro cars no problem. He converted his with a Rustler frame, and it stands the wheels at full throttle all the way from 0-70, it's nuts. My TT-01 goes maybe 40-45, but it's fun to me. I do have an old-school RC10 chassis I am getting ready to build though for some offroad fun.
But my brother has a Traxxas Stampede and loves it. Get the VXL brushless and you'll be smacking the nitro cars no problem. He converted his with a Rustler frame, and it stands the wheels at full throttle all the way from 0-70, it's nuts. My TT-01 goes maybe 40-45, but it's fun to me. I do have an old-school RC10 chassis I am getting ready to build though for some offroad fun.
07-08-2008, 04:12 PM
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The nice thing about Tamiya is that it's fairly cheap. Not cheap in the "junk parts" aspect but cheap price wise. The entire chassis tree for my TT-01 is only $10, and that will fix this crash and many many more. This is actually the first time it's crashed and anything broke, and I bash the **** out of it. It may be a road car, but it sees plenty of hang time.
