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tamiyadan wrote:The supershot used the same trap door as the hotshot, the under tray just served to smooth out the bottom of the chassis it was not mention to hold the battery by itself, check page 14 of the supershot manual.

The manual also makes it clear that using the under tray made the battery a permanent fixture of chassis since you would not constantly remove the under tray to change the battery, this was because of the original hump pack battery.
Later when the 6cell stick was standard people put pins on the side battery holders and just removed one side to change batteries.

As far as telling rere parts from original besides the bag of the parts being old, every single rere part was slightly tweaked.

The gear cases on the original do not have the reenforcement of the boomerang or bigwig, this was redesigned by tamiya after the supershot, the center shaft was redesigned after the supershot from a hex drive to dog bone the rere uses a bent wire like the boomerang and later. The Dog bones are smaller on the rere as well as the drive cups the originals are larger and colored black and silver, due to the C clips used in the transmission of the original using he rere parts to fix an original is not a straight forward swap, it ripples down the drive train and requires more parts swapped out.

The roll cage is different on the original as well, the chassis is a dead giveaway on the rere because they used a hotshot 2 chassis for the rere, the lower chassis was also tweaked to use a esc instead of the Msc and the servo mounts were modified....

The suspension arms front are different from originals as well

Anyway could go go and on but you can tell new from old if you know what to look for.


On my supershot to further prove it's pedigree I have the original supershot box and manual.

Nice supershot