This motor mount came off of a Futaba FXT but was also used on the Futaba FX-10 buggy and many Tamiya r/c's I believe. I've been searching for months now trying to find one. Can these be found anywhere?
My First RC car was a Tamiya Bear Hawk. I didn't know what I was doing when I built it up but the instructions were good enough to get it running. Over the years I Frankensteined that car trying to get more from it than was ever intended for. I...
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Looking forward to following your build, always like checking out what mods are added to squeeze more out of the Tamiya cars (an old hotshot was one of my firsts and it barely resembled the original car when I was done with it). :)
Hello - Having a hard time finding parts, specifically for a Tamiya Dirt Thrasher - parts tree E, E11, the battery holder. Does anyone know a good place to look other than ebay or just a blanket search on the web?
Thanks!
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A couple years back when I was looking for a tree, I was able to put my name on a waiting list at Tamiya USA and within a month they had restocked. Might be worth checking into, so long as they don’t show up as discontinued.
A couple more videos from Jasonfest 1 2021. Sorry for the short crappy videos, we needed them to be textable so we could impress chicks. Not to mention we didn't go anywhere with enough space for any of them to really stretch their legs......
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That blackfoot really impressed with that lemans 240 st. Thats the combo I raced in late 80s.
HI!... I picked up a Sonic Fighter a bit ago. Was advertised of being new built and a shelf queen. Far from it. Took 45 days to get to me. :angry: It had overspray all over it. The front tires were so dry rotted they had to be thrown out. Some of...
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He hasn't been on here in almost 4 yrs...sadly another one to give up vintage rc for absolutely no reason
What up RC10 talk. Noob here. Just got back into these, it’s probably been 30 years since any of these have run. I figured I’d share them with you and query whether or not I should be running these as some parts have been breaking and now I’m tasked...
Merry Christmas! Hope everyone had a great day with family.
I've owned a few Bigwigs, both in the late '80's and one I built one about ten years ago, by buying every part until I had a complete kit, ready to assemble, in front of me.
That one was...
I got this as a mystery auction item purchased by the wife. :D
Been cleaning, sanding, painting, sanding, painting and trimming decals for a while.
Turning out pretty nice if I do say so.
Chuck
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Rember Ralph and Danny well...but they are not into rc now....we deal with Andy all the time now but didn't know him then...Sean could care less about vintage rc, or any rc for that matter now. Chuck Freeman (RIP) was a 4wd icon back then with his...
Has anyone found a readily available replacement for the larger red seals? I know that the rear CVA shocks on Blitzer models used them but I don't know about other models. I figure that with all of the larger bore shocks out there, something is...
I have no idea on these so i thought i would post them up on here. I have recently started gathering parts for a cool old Hotshot build, maybe two, and one of the cars arrived this morning. It has some aged looking front steering hubs in silver...
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Possibly TMS (TRADE MODEL SUPPLIES) I had them on my Hotshot back in the day but I cannot be sure as my memory of exactly what they looked like is hazy :? TMS also did all steel dog bones and a steel hex one piece prop shaft .
OK, so i have had this for quite some time but having contacted Rory's parents who sold the car they have said they are happy for me to post up some pictures of it. Rory was a very very successful racer back in the late 80's and early 90's and won...
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Second from last pic in your first post.......
Awesome car. Pit stop models was my local shop and the owner founded the the club I belonged to. Pit Stop models was located on the Barking Road, Plaistow. E13. 8)
G'day guys I finally got myself a Bigwig. When I saw this for sale, I did some research & found that it seemed to be a bit hit & miss model for Tamiya. i found more negative comments than favourabel ones. But, despite, I could not get over the...
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I did a silly thing and lost the prop shaft out of my rere Bigwig and can't find another, anywhere, except eBay, for $60. :(
Do the alloy re re Hotshot prop shafts fit right in a Bigwig?
Thanks!
Hi all.
Is this a grasshopper 2 or a hornet? The rear shock has prefloat like a hornet, but it came with the larger wheels of a later model buggy.
Cheers for your help
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Judging from the rear body mounts, I'd say its a Hornet with a Grasshopper body. The front wheels appear to be from a fox and have tamiya super gripper tires. The rear tires are standard Hornet tires.
The Euro Truck class is gaining popularity fast at my local racetrack. I picked this up earlier this week and will start racing it this weekend. Pretty cool class. Cheap to get into it too. I already had servo, radio and transponder from other...
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The Euro Truck class is pretty big around here on the oval. I haven't gotten into yet, though. All I know about it, is that winning is all about tire prep.
Hello.
Achieved a dream last November, and got The Bruiser. As a Birthday present from the Wife :D :mrgreen:
In preparation, i searched on builds, and found a couple of good threads online.
Then, after building it, and using it, I wanted to make...
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I always loved/wanted a Bruiser. I'll never forget when I was a kid of about 13-15 yrs old in the mid 80's when my Dad's friend brought his Bruiser over to show us. I feel in love with it soon as I saw it (all I owned at the time was a Hornet &...
Does anyone know if there are any readily available wheels that I can use to convert an Astute to a truck?
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how about tamiya king cab/ monster racer, bush devil 1, blackfoot extreme or super, or non tamiya imex. factory works on ebay also has some 2.2 trucks wheels for the blackfoot it may fit astute.
I was one of the select few who signed up on buying a conversion kit from Full Option (UK) which is run by the very talented David Beeby. The kit was supposed to be a pretty accurate copy of the Egress that Jamie Booth ran in part of the 1990 BRCA...
I would like to buy re-release of Super Champ, but all stocks were gone. Do you guys think that there is a chance to re-re-release in the future? Not understand why other SBRs are continue to produce but Tamiya stops producing this legend product....
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The Buggy Champ (Rough Rider) remained discontinued and last year we saw a new batch. I have a feeling we will see a new batch of Super Champ eventually.. hopefully in 2021
I've been wanting to do one of these for ages , now I'm getting started I've realized i know more of what i don't want than what i do ! :? So this is going free style :D
What its not having is a stock body , waterproof radio box , torsion springs...
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I've still got to wait a few hours before i can put the gold paint on but i think the shape of the rear engine panels is better .
old version
I was just browsing Ebay and i came across a Tamiya Striker that was listed at £550 so i thought i'd have a look expecting to find something with some nice period Mod parts , maybe one of the rare Tamiya Mod motors or a Thorp diff or something but...
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I think the Striker is interesting looking RC , and would like to find a clean used one .. but not at the prices asked now. :roll:
The same seems to be happening with Falcon prices - through the roof.
Hey, I was wondering if someone on here with an FF03 chassis could do me a favor and measure the front overhang, I can't seem to find any dimensions online.
I'm looking at a 257mm wheelbase body, with an 80mm center of front wheel to nose overhang....
Does anyone know if some of the Re-Re parts are interchangeable with the vintage counterpart. In particular, the Fighting Buggy and the Super Champ , and the vintage and re-re of the Sand Scorcher. Particularly the suspension parts.
Does anyone have a scan (or could do me the favor to scan) the fitting instruction sheet that came with some of the rear anti-roll bars kits for the SRB, made by CRP and RCH?
Tom
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Anyone have a rear kit for sale for the RC10 classic, or the dimensions and I will bend one at the local fab shop.
Hi, new to the forum and in need of help please.
I'm building a tamiya midnight pumpkin, all was going well till I put on the rear wheels and found that when I manually turn one wheel the opposite wheel turns the other direction.
I've revisited the...
Hi, hope everyone's well and hasn't had their lives too[/i disrupted by this Covid carry on.
I bought a re-release Bigwig a few weeks ago.
I had to sell my Turbo Optima Mid SE to pay for a new clutch for my Subaru WRX Type RA.
The Bigwig was to...
I’ve been making good progress on the Scooby during the virus lockdown. The car is basically finished, I’ve just a couple decals to fit onto the wing sideplates and to paint and install the side mirror. I’ll post pics when it’s finished.
Meanwhile,...
Here now the story of my Tamiya Boomerang or how Tamiya influenced my childhood:
Cars were always my favourite toy. When my father bought his first RC car 1989 (Tamiya Thunder Shot for 370 DM ~ 200Us$ at that time), it was apparent, that I need...
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Brilliant interpretation of the boomer, love the air scoop and spotties, great job
Does anybody have a picture of the crp front suspension for the hornet installed? I just bought it for my hornet, and I can;t figure out how to install it.
Last week I came across a very lightly used Tamiya Hornet re-release on Facebook marketplace and decided to contact the seller. The only vintage Tamiya car I’d ever seen before in person was a pal’s Sand Scorcher back in the 90s (which at the time I...
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But if your interested, I payed under US$160 for everything you see in the photos
I say you got a heck of a deal. Tamiya vendors are now selling near msrp and a hornet is going for $130+ here in the states. Nice find!
I just finished restoring my brothers old Futaba FX10, which as I understand it is mechanically a clone of the Tamiya Striker. The guy at the hobby shop said I was being stupid to try to get it running and all the plastic would be brittle, it would...
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TamiyaCowboy, I just sent you a PM. Everyone else thank you for your help.
I happened to be browsing Tamiya's US site and found this:
Bruiser sale.JPG
Horizon has it listed as discontinued while other major online sources are out of stock on this model.
The Mountain Rider appears to be sold out everywhere.
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I've decided to pass on this one but I'm very happy for those who have seized the moment and taken advantage of the Bruiser's price drop.
I wish I could have anticipated that Tamiya was going to drop the price to a level that is more reasonable.
As...
I came across this gem on Craigslist, and got an awesome deal on it, plus it was local pickup😳
Never liked the mono shock design in any tamiya, not a big fan of Asymetric looking things....🙄
So I installed a set of Bigwig shock towers, mounted on...
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The Boomerang is one of the few Tamiya designs I like. That car looks great, but I agree with Lonestar, it needs to lose the bug-eyes on the front shock tower. :lol:
That’s it, I’m gonna cancel my membership to this website😭😭😭😭😭, 😁 I do think...
So I’ve always wanted a shot on the txt. Massive wheels and a lot more scale than a clod etc. There are also many build options so it’s a great platform. Only now are Axial coming up with the MT to match its kind.
This is how it started this...
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Nice progress! Have you checked out www.clodtalk.com ? There's a bunch of information over there that may be useful to you. :wink:
I am look for some of the Plastic spring collars that go on High Cap Dampers, they are not the ones where you have a screw just a simple collar that slides on damper and retains the spring (see pic)
Hope someone can help...
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These are the parts you’ll need “Hop up option 53111 damper spring spacer set”. They were only used on the Evo and Dyna Storm as far as I know. I got lucky on finding this set earlier in the year for my Evo replica.
Found this awesome surprise under the tree on Christmas morning and thought I'd post a thread and pictures to keep folks entertained during our time at home.
Mostly stock, but I added a set of HiCap rere's and bearings to bring it to the glory and...
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Sweet!!! Tell him to grab some bearings and any other goodies he might want, and have a blast! It was a fun build!
I found an old chassis that has been under water for some time. I have an original Wild Willy since the early 1980s, and have had several other Wild Willys I bought over the years. At first, I thought this was a Wild Willy chassis, but after looking...
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Ok... To save you from having to ask. About 3 years ago, we bought some rural property. In the back side of the property there was a big plastic trunk behind the barn. I never got around to looking in it, frankly because there was no telling what...
A few years ago I picked up a basket case Rough Rider for like $10 at the going out of business sale of a long time hobby shop. I bought it because it was cheap and original, and I thought it would be fun to take apart. I had no plans for it.
Fast...
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Thanks for the great compliment! :D
Looks like you're off to a fine start. It will be interesting to see how the project pans out.
I have an original Mud Blaster which has gone through some changes over the years (Trackmaster Turbo Glide, Thorp dog bones, Tekin SC, Trinity Monster Horsepower motor, aluminum oiled...
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Any cheap brushless esc/motor combo on ebay will work. Stayed sensored if u can, they are smoother....if u really want decent stuff go name brand, HobbyWing stuff is excellent. I prolly wouldnt get more than a 10.5 for that, if u want the balldiff...
So I saw a Vintage Truck for cheap on the Bay, and even though it had no body, I knew immediately from the picture that it was a Hilux Monster Racer/King Cab l and I had to jump on it.
When the package arrived, it was dirty, had Clodbuster shocks,...
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Ah, I didn't know he did that. Now I'm curious if it actually needs to be done or not. I think you can get away with not doing it but the only way to know for sure is to just run it with the o-rings and see if the dogbones fall out or not. I mean...
Early Brat has been lurking in my attic for a couple of years and lockdown here in the UK has given me an excuse to drag it out. This is my first ORV having been a Kyosho Scorpion/Beetle kid. The car is very original and likely quite low...
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Looking like a good survivor and an excellent base for restoration . One of my friends had a Brat back in the 80's and one thing it suffered from was the rear hex drive shafts (dog bones ) rounding off , no matter what he did or how well lubed and...
Does anyone know of a modification or replacement part for the shock tower that is still available for the dt-02? We've been through two recently even after adding the brace across the top, and the 3racing alloy/fiber replacement is no longer...
Hey guys. I am an old skool RC guy. Still have my Wild Willy I build back in 1982. Been restored a couple times. I elaborate on it's history a little in the Welcome area if you want to read it. He's been through a lot over the past 36 years. Here he...
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