Here comes a new challenger for champion

[JPG]

I don't know if you know but ...
Here comes a new challenger for champion

 

[WickedFog]

Too bad it's going to be priced about 3x higher than it is worth

 

[JPG]

Too bad it's going to be priced about 3x higher than it is worth

In my opinion, all the magic is lost with moving the motor from the front. Motor at front was an advantage of Xv-01.

 

[WickedFog]

I just can't get past Tamiya's market philosophy. It's either they make toy grade garbage and sell it for hobby grade RC's, or they make nice stuff and sell it as a kit for twice what you can get a better complete RC built for.

 

[Tunedfrog]

One of the very reasons there isn't any Tamiya's in my arsenal.

 

[ground_zero298]

Gonna take them a couple more years to get on my tt02’s level.

Love my Tamiya’s.

 

[WickedFog]

Gonna take them a couple more years to get on my tt02’s level.

Love my Tamiya’s.

What chassis is that? And how is your steering? I have two TT-02's with lots of upgrades and the steering is crap on them.

 

[ground_zero298]

What chassis is that? And how is your steering? I have two TT-02's with lots of upgrades and the steering is crap on them.

That’s a carbon Tt02 chassis off Amazon or eBay. Steering so good I had to add bump stops to it. Has twice the range of my rally Tt02r. On my rally I run about 3 degree of toe to compensate for the steering travel and most the steering’s done with throttle.

 

[WickedFog]

Ours is so sloppy the car goes wherever it wants to. I should have bought the Tamiya steering rack, but I wasn't about to pay $60 for a few bits of aluminum. There are better cars available for the money, and I already dumped too much into ours to make a mediocre performer.

 

[ground_zero298]

Ours is so sloppy the car goes wherever it wants to. I should have bought the Tamiya steering rack, but I wasn't about to pay $60 for a few bits of aluminum. There are better cars available for the money, and I already dumped too much into ours to make a mediocre performer.
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See if you can put the stock steering link back on the front of the rack. Steadies the towers.

 

[WickedFog]

I will try that. But it is the pivots that are sloppy, even though I have them bolted through the chassis with a locknut. It is the Yeah Racing steering set. The only other option I saw was the Tamiya, but the price of that is ridiculous. I am not putting any more money into it. I'm not much into road cars anyway.

 

[JPG]

Here you have ours (my and my son's) Xv-01s
I'm not a fan of placing alu everywhere. I prefer alu as chassis plates and carbon reinforced plastic parts. Tracks here are not flat and hitting the obstacles could warp the aluminum swingarm. Plastic is more flex