OEM Bullet/Bit Frankenstein experiment
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After destroying the steering arm and losing the spring on one of my favorite Bit Charg’s, (like a few other people I read about on this site :smiley6:) I decided to play Dr. Frankenstein and see if I could repair it using parts from an OEM Bullet I just received. It doesn’t run too well (as some of us know) so I went for it and mangled the OEM Bullet car to get the steering arm (with Spring) and the front wheel/axles for use on my Bit Char. The Bit Char was messed up by a certain klutz (me) while messing around with it before. I figured I’d write about it since it actually turned out well!
The carhandles better than itdid when it was new! The OEM’s steering arm appears to be just a hair less wider than the bit char-g’s, making for actual TOE IN on the re-assembled car. See below:
Top is the Frankenstein car, bottom, a standard Bit Char-g. Notice the difference in the tires. This is due to the OEM car having a bigger “bump” for the tires to rest on… The translation? More grip in the front. Here’s what it looks like without the tire. Left Regular Bit, Right, Frankenstein Bit with OEM wheels:
The parts all fit together without a problem. I did have to reverse the magnet in the steering arm and re-glue it because the polairty seems to be reversed on the magnet in the OEM car….Weird though because it steered properly using a Bit Char controller… Perhaps the receiver is wired differently…. ANYWAY, One more note about the OEM car. The Electro-magnets that control the steering arm appear to be “beefier” than in the standard Bit:
Here’s the OEM car:
As a result, it seems like the spring on the steering arm of the OEM car is also a bit stronger, and when placed in the standard Bit Char with the smaller electro magnets, the car surprisingly handles great!!! The steering response and radus hasn’t deteriorated, AND the car returns to neutral steering faster. At this point I’m thinking that this is turing out to be a modification, NOT just hacking for parts to get the car up and running… Heck, it’s running better than ever!
Next thing I did was throw on the standard tires on the front of the car (to be sure I could use standard bit tires with the OEM wheels), and the OEM soft tires on the rear of the car. I run on hardwood floors, and the Bit-Char tire set “SOFT” tires are what I usually run on the rear. The OEM tires are softer than the soft tires from the Bit Char tire set, so now I have even more traction. The car HUGS the floor, but has enough “push” to handle when steering without doing donuts.
Last thing. Will the body fit? After making sure, I stripped off the old clunky decals and put on some new ones. Here’s Frankenstein’s unvailing:
Bottom line? For 15 bucks, I gotfirmer steering, a new body, a set of tires, and had fun modifying my car…. It was quite worth it!
The standard and new cars together:
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P.S. I can confirm now that the O.E.M battery is a 120mah battery…. It is labelled as a 1/4 AAA battery… It is slightly smaller height wise, and the same radius as the n-50aaa battery in the bits….
However, each battery has it’s own personality…. A 120mah battery is no fun if it’s flat the whole time you run it… If the 50mah batteryhas punch and then levels out as it discharges, I’d prefer the shorter run times for more fun with that battery… In the OEM car, the battery discharged quicky in my opinion and ran flat… If installed in the TOMY car, with thesmoother gearing Bit char-g’s, maybe it will run longer and stronger. That’s a test for another day…!!!!!!
mcojoc
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