Tamiya

So 3s gave you an extra 10mph. I may have to buy one just to see how much more rowdy my Sand Viper can get.

Yeah. The mechanics are pretty simple. Just spur to gear wheel 2wd. The tyres are solid / foam but the layer of copydex I had applied for grip years ago started to unravel with the centrifugal force. I would imagine air filled tyres will go pretty egg style. 😎

I got one of these which was actually the same dims as 2s if u have small batt compartment.

Zippy

I'll make sure to glue the tyres on the wheels before I give it a try.

Quick maths scale (1/12) speed puts that up to 780kph

or 487.5mph

Most impressive

Slowly killing it. 😜

Might need to araldite that back on. 😎

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Did you not have to glue those on anyway? Back in the day we always used to have to Evo Stick the sponge tyres onto Ministock wheels!

Went out again with the spill tray removed. Got to 69kph then it took off just like it's real counterpart. Landed back on its wheels natch. Broke a steering arm tho. Will be epoxy resin throughout soon. 😎

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The front going light seems a likely consequence of the GPS location. Could you add ballast ahead of the front axle?

Yeah. Mate said the same... I'm not sure I'll get much more out of it tbf.

Broke the 500mph scale speed barrier too. 😎

69, nice

Innit. Nothing to this with cover off.

I saw a dude who had the tamiya porsche GT1 up to 70kph on 2S so I think the gearing is the main issue. Was 4wd aswell which I think helps acceleration too...

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Want

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Yeah that’s on my shopping list

Purists will dislike that it's 4wd

Just take the rear driveshafts out, job done.

Yeah it’s annoying that they can’t seem to pair the chassis to the actual car.

Removing the front ones would seem more appropriate.

Were they rwd? For some reason I thought they were fwd.

This is lush

99% done on the Micro, little bit of soldering and we’re done

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@Matisse - you got a link to that kit please?

It’s a modified version of one of these:
https://www.modelsport.co.uk/associated-reflex-14b-brushless-rtr-buggy/rc-car-products/435068

A buddy of mine is running a raffle on FB to win one

https://www.facebook.com/104521844602702/posts/182082480179971/?d=n

4500kv pretty decent.

What speeds u get on 2S? 😊