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Yeah, no room for the golf clubs & no airconditioning. :blush:

Nah, I just want one as a loungeroom ornament!

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Yeah, no room for the golf clubs & no airconditioning. :blush:

Nah, I just want one as a loungeroom ornament!

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That wouldn’t even pay the for a wheelnut on the 1:1… 🙂

No fear anyway, I’ll be patient. I can’t have it
registered in Vic until 2015 anyway, so got plenty
of time to accumulate the cash. :smiley16:

(there’s only 5 RHD cars ever made, and they’re all owned by Sultan of Brunei – doubt if he’ll be selling in any hurry. Would likely to have to be one of the other LHD cars… & we can’t rego them in Vic until they are 25yo.)

There’s a couple in town anyway – 3 or 4 at the last Ferrari club trackday. At least 1 in Tassie too, last time I heard.

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That wouldn’t even pay the for a wheelnut on the 1:1… 🙂

No fear anyway, I’ll be patient. I can’t have it
registered in Vic until 2015 anyway, so got plenty
of time to accumulate the cash. :smiley16:

(there’s only 5 RHD cars ever made, and they’re all owned by Sultan of Brunei – doubt if he’ll be selling in any hurry. Would likely to have to be one of the other LHD cars… & we can’t rego them in Vic until they are 25yo.)

There’s a couple in town anyway – 3 or 4 at the last Ferrari club trackday. At least 1 in Tassie too, last time I heard.

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you really do have a thing for the F40 eh?

Slowly working my way towards the real deal… :p

For now just gotta be content with every RC one
ever made by the big names, about 95% there so far.

Anyhow that runner Tamiya completes the collector’s
Holy Trinity (1 in box, 1 on shelf, 1 on road). 🙂

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you really do have a thing for the F40 eh?

Slowly working my way towards the real deal… :p

For now just gotta be content with every RC one
ever made by the big names, about 95% there so far.

Anyhow that runner Tamiya completes the collector’s
Holy Trinity (1 in box, 1 on shelf, 1 on road). 🙂

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that f40 is beutiful!

Well… that’s just the EBay picture. blackeye:
Won’t say misleading, but didn’t quite meet expectations upon arrival.
I reckon seller is a damned good photographer, managed to find that
elusive angle that avoids showing all the true dirt on the thing. :dead:
This fella must be able to take a pic of an 80yo and make it look like
Kate Moss!! 👿

Bought it for a runner anyway.
Seems to go like stink, did some donuts in the lounge.

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had a go with your f40 superbit yet panda? how did it go?

haha… last time I looked at it was to check the freq.. 4u?

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that f40 is beutiful!

Well… that’s just the EBay picture. blackeye:
Won’t say misleading, but didn’t quite meet expectations upon arrival.
I reckon seller is a damned good photographer, managed to find that
elusive angle that avoids showing all the true dirt on the thing. :dead:
This fella must be able to take a pic of an 80yo and make it look like
Kate Moss!! 👿

Bought it for a runner anyway.
Seems to go like stink, did some donuts in the lounge.

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had a go with your f40 superbit yet panda? how did it go?

haha… last time I looked at it was to check the freq.. 4u?

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Meh, Victor had an onboard data logger in the mid 90’s…

Yeah, Victor Eng had some really fancy gear, their engies
really had some smarts back then eg Hi-IQ etc. Respect!

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More importantly, think they’ve stopped counting Uploads! :clown: Gosh that was a good moneymaker, charging over-users $140/gb… as a TLS shareholder, I’ll miss it. 👿

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More importantly, think they’ve stopped counting Uploads! :clown: Gosh that was a good moneymaker, charging over-users $140/gb… as a TLS shareholder, I’ll miss it. 👿

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RIMming eh, Aaron? 🙂

Can you get cable in your new neck of the woods? Big-T seems to be offering pretty good deals on Foxtel/Bigpong cable “unlimited” last few weeks; probably Optus too I’d imagine.

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Ralfy just missed the podium! 🙂

Dunno about you guys, but jeez it was a boring race. Even the 2004 Celebrities’s Race didn’t deliver any excitement.

Schuey sprints from the start, is 2s ahead by the end of the 1st lap and that’s it – game over. He’s clocking laps (1:24s) in the Race thats even FASTER than his qualifying scorcher… well, that’s 1 benefit of the “one engine rule” where you have to race with your Qualifier donk (and now everybody’s forced to design motors that are Fast AND Reliable).

If Schuey hadn’t cooled it a little towards the end (1:30s), he would have lapped even more cars. He could have easily done in #5 & #6 … 😀 if only he had Brocky’s guts and kept the pace up on the final few laps (Nations Cup Monaro 2003). :p

My TV was on but I fell away after about 5 laps… got stuck into rebuilding another recent arrival – yeah a red Fiat, very fitting.

This is the ‘before’ shot:-

Australian Grand Prix results
March 7, 2004

1. Michael Schumacher (Ger) Ferrari 1 hour 24 minutes 15.757 seconds

2. Rubens Barrichello (Bra) Ferrari 1:24.29.362

3. Fernando Alonso (Esp) Renault 1:24.50.430

4. Ralf Schumacher (Ger) BMW-Williams 1:25.16.180

5. Juan Pablo Montoya (Col) BMW-Williams 1:25.24.293

6. Jenson Button (GBR) BAR-Honda 1:25.26.355

7. Jarno Trulli (Ita) Renault 1 lap behind

8. David Coulthard (GBR) McLaren-Mercedes 1 lap behind

9. Takuma Sato (Jpn) BAR-Honda 1 lap behind

10. Giancarlo Fisichella (Ita) Sauber 1 lap behind

11. Christian Klien (Aut) Jaguar 2 laps behind

12. Cristiano Da Matta (Bra) Toyota 2 laps behind

13. Olivier Panis (Fra) Toyota 2 laps behind

14. Giorgio Pantano (Ita) Ford 3 laps behind

Did not finish

Felipe Massa (Bra) Sauber

Nick Heidfeld (Ger) Ford

Gianmaria Bruni (Ita) Minardi

Mark Webber (Aus) Jaguar

Zsolt Baumgartner (Hun) Minardi

Kimi Raikkonen (Fin) McLaren-Mercedes

Fastest lap: Michael Schumacher (Ger) Ferrari 1:24.125 on lap 29

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ok, Don’t Mention The War…!! :D:evil::D

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is there anything the germans arnt good at?

Yeah… basically anything that the British are good at.

eg Humour.

:p:p:p

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Sounds like a shoo-in for the German with the red italian car… unless there’s something unexpected comes up.

Otherwise the catfish Williams aren’t going too flash, Minardi can’t even get their CashConverters engines running and heck, maybe Toyota might take the chequered with a Bradbury (and a Camry-reliable donk would be good for that).

Its a long race, one can always hope!! 👿

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If you’re changing the size of your tyres, then this also affects the “effective” gearing.

To counter this… some talk in terms of “rollout”.

This is just the Inverse of the gear ratio X the circumference of your drive tyre.

Rollout would be quoted in unit of “mm (travelled) per rev of motor”.

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drive on/over charging (kind of like a pit stop set up). Talked about it b4 long time ago. To allow for contiuous run.

Could probably rid up some kind of induction loop charger, maybe
borrow the system from a Braun Oral-B electric toothbrush.

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-BH
…jamie i HAVE to know my **** because i SELL this **** 🙂

Damned!

Thought you were just teacher to all those sailormoon girls??!

How lucky can a fella get???!!! :smiley16:

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Did it race with the Rodenstock Celica LB Turbo Grp5??

Or was it after the Celica’s time?

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Looks like something to race up Pikes Peak maybe… like that Suzuki Escudo special? 🙂

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Cameras and speed radars… yep, it can only be Melbourne. 👿

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I’d agree too, but think it all boils down to economics.

There’s no shortage of CNC equipment everywhere, but the time & effort required to tool up to manufacture each and every part (100s) would add up significantly. You’d need:-

-metal stamping
-cast metal molding
-machined gears from steel & nylon

Even if one produced a run of say 100 pcs, might still be asking $5000 per unit for a complete kit.

For that amt… might as well just eBay a NIB kit for US$2000 and get the real thing.

Same applies for individual parts too. If I had access to a lathe I could probably cut a new gear for that shaft quite easily & a hunk of brass is cheap. But to commission a workshop to do it, they’d quote $50-100 easy.

Hmm, what if one farmed it out to China… :smiley2:

Although was mentioning to uA recently… might be an interesting project to remold every component of a Sand Scorcher in transparent polymer. Purely as a display piece..!! 😀

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-OTP
$800? A well used Mountaineer chassis of course. I’m hoping Tamiya release it again soon, it’s been ten (or 15?) years 😛

Nah, avoid the “well-used” ones.

More headache than they’re worth.

Wear out this ONE part and its all history:-

As for IMPRESSIVE SIGHT, no one can yet match Al Jung’s cache:-

:shock::shock::shock::shock::shock::shock::shock:

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– uA
Seems like this is turning into a threead on “what I’d rather spend my money on other than that RC magazine car”….

Ok then – so be it.

(think OUTSIDE the square)

Fixed the title! 🙂

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