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Jay Dub wrote: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.

DennisM wrote: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.

Yes, that´s the one

Is that fine example Yours?

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

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

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]

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.

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

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

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!

DennisM wrote: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.

rccars4sal wrote: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!

Jay Dub wrote: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.

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

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.