Kyosho/COX Tomahawk R built for US VONats 2013

[Hcp22]

Beautiful job! Always wanted to build a similar racer from the Scorpion/Tomohawk chassis. Curious however, how much rear toe does the car have (per side) -Jeff

I will check that up Jeff when I get back home.

Hi Lars,
In Denmark we had 3 different gearings, I don´t know if that last gearing was provided by Graupner or the entire bag content was Kyosho. I don´t recall seeing three gears in a bag with Kyosho header.

Those gears you are referring to Dennis are #RS-17, so you are absolutely right. This was made for the predecessor Rally Sports series. Scorpion/Tomahawk shares the gearbox and the rear trailing arms with these cars.

[DennisM]

Yes, that´s the one

Is that fine example Yours?

[Hcp22]

No, but I wish it was, I have two used ones that I plan to renovate for the Swedish vintage indoor race and run it in the Classic class

[DennisM]

Turning that one into a racer, must be Your biggest challenge ever

[Hcp22]

Here are some videos Joel (j0pp3) did shoot at the VONats on the Tomahawk R

Qualifying heat 1

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Qualifying heat 2

[youtube]GUWJJca0gIY[/youtube]

Qualifying heat 3

[youtube]aHY27LlRCM0[/youtube]

B-main Final

[youtube]jQv9_mjocy0[/youtube]

[j0pp3]

Great! I see that you have them all now on your own channel

Sorry about the forth qualification... I must have been so eager to watch the race instead of record it.

[DennisM]

Very nice videos -
How many laps did the slowest A main driver do?

[Hcp22]

[DennisM]

Aha, just what I thought.
So You drove like a broken arm in the qualifier, just so You could whipe out the competition in the B-final

Some of the laps You did, were more or less flawless - You´ll make it big in this game when You get older and more experienced

[rccars4sal]

Fantastic racing. Im glad the kyosho dominated. Your car seemed to emulate the newer designs in handling and jump attitude much better than the other cars. Surprising considering that a tomohawk is every bit as archaic as any of the cars in the video, it really was much better. Great job building, prepping and driving!

[Hcp22]

Aha, just what I thought.
So You drove like a broken arm in the qualifier, just so You could whipe out the competition in the B-final

Some of the laps You did, were more or less flawless - You´ll make it big in this game when You get older and more experienced

Exactly my tactic… Actually I was aiming for the A-main and was somewhat surprised when I discover that it was only 6 cars to the A-main. Another thing was that the invitation stated IFMAR qualification, but it was best heat in the end. When I did the forth qualification round I thought I held 5th place overall. So I was just cruising, saving the car for the A-min. But I’m not disappointed; I still think I did well.

[Hcp22]

Fantastic racing. Im glad the kyosho dominated. Your car seemed to emulate the newer designs in handling and jump attitude much better than the other cars. Surprising considering that a tomohawk is every bit as archaic as any of the cars in the video, it really was much better. Great job building, prepping and driving!

Thanks!

[Hcp22]

Beautiful job! Always wanted to build a similar racer from the Scorpion/Tomohawk chassis. Curious however, how much rear toe does the car have (per side) -Jeff

None at all and that’s why the rear stepped out all the time. Need to fix that to the next race.

[Jay Dub]

That is where I was going with that . Also looked as though the rear might be under sprung a little. Looks awesome none the less. -Jeff

[Hcp22]

I feel like an amateur…
This is a bad excuse, but I know I checked that when I had the original alloy/magnesium trailing-arms mounted and they were good. But all that changed when I mounted the MRP ones. I know they had shrink a few tenth of millimeters over the years, obviously even the angle between outdrives and the arms mounting point had change due to dryad out plastic.