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aaron they havnt discontinued i think they are on and off during the week its strange

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have the numbers been scrubbed off?
is it propo? or on/off
your best chance is to replace all 4 of the drive fets with a new fets. ill have a lok and see what i have in my mystery boxes that could reaplce the old fets, just from a guess that its the std toy style RX board

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great going guys not many websites last 4 years lol

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whoo aronn we should organise a meet bassed around your trip (not comming to stay are you?)
i will have some planes to bring but probly no eletric trucks/cars, unless someone can tempt me with something before that time,

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http://cgi.ebay.com.au/IRC-Racing-1-16-Vulcan-Mini-Nitro-Buggy-RTR_W0QQitemZ6049874939QQcategoryZ118229QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
this is the ebay one which is megaly overpriced but the guys seems to stock most pars for it

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there will never be nitro Xmods to small to hard,
these are bassed heavly on a mini inferno (great for parts :D),
i have been waiting for a few more to come out on the market before i get one but i will be deffently getting on when they do come out mostlikely the schumacher as RWD mean more sick wheelies and more fun, not as easy to drive but 100 times funner,
all the 1:16 buggys are a expansion on the H8, RD lgic are doiung a conversion kit kyosho doing a official one and guys like smartech and acme and a few others doing clones, ive seen some on ebay in aussie and USA..
these are somthing that i have been watching closely,
problem on them is shipping i was gonna get docked 80usd to ship a acme one from rcmart, possibly could we use the buying power of ausmicro on one of there next orders from there supplyer to possibly bring a few in, cause im deffently very keen

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elusiver have you seen mod eletrics far more graceful than nitros.
whats your setup?
the TA05 is a very good first car has huge potental and is very quick form the box

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doesnt matter just wrap the tyres with 3 layers of eletrical tape and your set.

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wow. i have NFI who derek is he must have been gone before i got here?

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Cheers Aaron i will do

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Guys this i great new. and Ladas arent bad cars
we rally 2 hyndai Excels (sponsored by hyundai) and the do arite. (although modifacation restrictions stop them geing fast)
do you know if they need help? im studying motorsport At the moment and would glady donate my time to go down and give them a hand working on the car, or just service points, i assume they have a full team already though

as for a brock polariser you dont have one do you willy? for a very short while they came out in a few holdens and are worth a mint

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Aaron,
dremel + zip ties did teh job on the stockie 😀
just working on power supply and were ready to test her

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possibly, i will probly opt for a Li-ion setup thought that way i can use the standard battery mounts 4 cell li-ion would be mighty interesting, ofcouse i would need to solder up the packs cause the sping connectors would fry, problem with BL motors is you need to do lots of calculations to see what they will take, i will probly see if i can get a 2 cell li-po setup happening but just need to work out a mount system

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as promised here are some pics,
ATM she is just waiting on the RX to go on and were ready to rock.

ESC and RX, I swapped over to a larger RX becasue i realised i had no spare micro Xtals

Servo driver installed

ESC and servo driver in

Motor installed

and heres a idea on how big the RX is and were it will be mounted after i get some shrink wrap on it, if i had of used a micro RX i could have probly just squeezed it in the origional electronics hole, but i couldnt justify the cost of a whole new Xtal pair (specialy micro Xtals)

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Barrell, i bought stuff off you a couple of times. back in the day. lol

welcome back, i just got back into it aswell

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how high is it in the back? mostly the problem is clearing the motor the middle part is no problem as 89% of it is all inside the original chassis
i might have to come out to visit some time, to borrow a pinion puller (you had one right?) and put the old girl on a speed tester, pics tomorrow it seems due to stupid camera drivers

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when do we get to come race??

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im thinking i want the PN one, but dont wanna fork out for one without a close look, oh well i will dremel the crap outta a stnd and use cable ties for now,

The Iwaver arrived today and i stripeed it out, it became apparent pretty darn quickly that i wasnt going to get the servo in there, so i got a old std size servo that stripped its gears and put in the servo driver, works well but will get a smaller servo driver before its finished. the motor is not likly to fit under the GT40 body so am now looking for sumthing like a Mini cooper or VW if some one wants to offer me a spare cheap (condition not important)
pictures of all the bits and servo driver in should be up late tonight

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will do just need the iwaver to arrive

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i just saw the lancia now im gonna have to get one. DAMNIT
front one way and a front spool would be interesting to “play” with

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so far my setup has cost.
120 bux + RX and TX (another 200 for a good computer 6 chan radio ,needed for my helis)
that included everything including 2x 3s550mAh lipos

next stage is for a little medusa BL that should give me Aprox. 13 ounce thrust and the model weights about 5.5ounces RTF.
will have power to weight like a shockie 😀

kero we should organise to go flying sometime i got a mate with a zippy little wing pusher who is keen to join in

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leon is bassicaly right,
4WD you have a transfer case which just puts the power into teh rear diff in AWD you have a multi clutch plate thing in the moddle which is the cross between a slipper and a LSD which puts power down at the rear when the front slips and vice versa while a 4wd will just keep putting out equalpower to all the axles

as for digital steering servos, you lose accuracy (it seems lika gain though) but increase processing speed i dont think mini-zs will benefit from digital processing,
although a full electronics overhaul would be nice go full PCM or HRS and get some of the nice features although the problem is the adverage user would be up the creek witout a paddle when it come time to setting independant servo return expos and speeds (dont laugh my old KO had it, along with a 140 page manual)

possibly a better steering system, i dont see why they dont go with ball cup joins like all oter RCs they are so versatile and can have little/no slop,
not the standard stlye clipon but screw throughts on mounted ball (will solve problems with the cups popping off)

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they use the term AWD very loosly its acctually 4WD to be picky,
i doubt we will ever see RWD dissapear, but it may become less popular

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its a EPP model that was designed by a guy on RCgroups who cut it and posted it over like a kit and i assembled it,

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OHHHH, nice kero what you running on that SS?
ive just got a new EEP trainer which flys so well on a IPS gearbox on 11.1V,
cant wait to drop in a little outrunner into it.

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