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.

 

It looks a little busted.

 

we've been eyeing each others R/C cars, we might bring em to the race track, or even make a track in my backyard.



but the rc stuff isnt cheaper than full size!

 

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.

 

we've all got jrx stuff. stupid fine tooth spur gear



ive also got a nitro hpi car, its nice until the engine falls out

 

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.

 

thats nice. my brother had an rc10 back in the day, and we had to keep straightening the chassis, casue a new one was too much $$

 

i have a gas rc car from a while ago completely disassembled, also have a gas r/c airplane still needs servos.



kevin.

 

I want to go brushless on my RC10... I think that could be a lot of fun.

 

brushless? i got out of rc cars when the price of the r/c kit was $200 and a REAL rx7 was $100.