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i see you got the wrx. its the only one out of the 4 avialable here in oz that comes with the green end motor, the rest have a white ended one. the green is faster…

got any bcg gears still? they work in these just great. and has betty seen the q-steer yet?

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the rear wheels are painted in a quartered pattern of black and white, some type of camera is mounted near the axle.
while you could fit it into a mini-z youd need to modify the wheels to have the same pattern and possibly the location of where the camera watches (e.g wheel diameter) would affect readings.

also this thing is cheap. its built to be messed with by young kids. it isnt the most accurate of speed readings available but it is the smallest.

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@dgs73 226616 wrote:

hey hey… you’re here!!! Cool!! (lol, never trust anyone who calls himself overchar-g!…) you pulled yours apart yet? Trying to figure this steering issue without a dismantle. Any ideas, my ideas man?

after a little gathering here last week all the q-steers got opened and used and the trueno from the initial-d set had completely dodgy steering. no matter how much yo fiddled with the trim it wouldnt turn properly.

unfortunatly dave im thinking a few here and there will have stuffed wiring in the steering coils. its the same micro thin copper as bcg’s but mounted flat under the magnet of the steering arm.
also the same super fine wires are in the way of dismantling the steering.

a freind in osaka japan sent me a grasshopper tamiya/tomy buggy. worked great for about three days and suddenly carked it. im pretty sure the battery is a dud (these buggies use a rechargable system). was a little underpowered considering the car its trying to emulate. not enough speed to get air of small jumps but the suspension was terrific and it has good clearance for a stock micro.
if someone with the skills to rework micros with a propo board 😉 and fit some small lipo into this chassis would really have a wonder car. mini-t stock would still be a better car so i dont think it’d be worth the bother unless someone was after a challenge.

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back @ you pandabear 🙂

whats the w stand for?

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aye dave hard to find now, from what i can glean out of google translated japanese they are in the same position also mass sellouts all over.

its good and bad for the hobby, i like knowing things are not hugely mass produced so it floods the market but not being able to buy things easily can be frustrating.

ebay is your best bet dave, not to expensive either if you have a good look 🙂

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hehe merry christmas!

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a freind in japan found a buggy for me and its in the post :).

sorry talldude, the reebok skyline you have is a choro-q. it is not a q-steer. there is a q steer set with the same body but its hard to find anywhere as it is the only set with the orange end motor available right now. the q-steer version of that car has grey rims where as yours has chrome and black. if your never going to take it out of the really nice packaging then it doesnt matter much though 🙂

heres a link to the real reebok skyline q-steer in packaging

http://www.toyking.com.tw/merchandise/3/Qsteer_QsH03_772569.htm

i received my corvette and the gears are nice but it only comes with the standard speed motor. the box says normal speed type/high speed gear type. ah well.

print quality on the initial d set is nice.

also got a few choro-q’s arrived. pontiac firebird body fits nicely after a little modification but the landcruiser and hummer will take a bit more work to get fitting properly.

ill get some pics up soon.

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http://www.takaratomy.co.jp/products/qsteer/tamiya/feature.html

have fun, this is very detailed comparison and looks at the tamiya buggies. they are a fair bit bigger than the 40mm q-steer cars…

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target kids “magazine” catalogue thing has pics of q-steers in the back with a different controller. dont think they have any supplies however. christmas shopping is madness and trying to find a few more q-steers will be tough, make sure to look for them in th secured lock up cabinets as the packages are small and thieves will probably have a feild day.

bad news is pretty much all big bcg motors interfere with reception. unless you want to build a drag car that doesnt need to turn i think the old motor collections are useless.
any tech heads around care to speculate on how a motor would be interfering with the cars? any idea for a fix?

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the spring is only on one side though which is kinda odd. check out the official tomy q-steer website and have a look around the under development section has some great close ups of the buggies.

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quick update…

did a lot of chopping, and a little shopping. found some nice railway HO scale aluminium mesh for the grill and rebuilt the back end. figured on modeling a hard top ute rather than an open tray.

all the windows are empty now. i might leave em like that. didnt end up doing the sunroof. figured ill save that for the next gravedigger body, im planning on doing a full mod on it to become a t-bucket.

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sorry talldude, yes i think the faster motors are better.

ive tested the green Vs. the white q-steer motors and the green is faster (in normal and boost) on the hotwheels speed checker.

the green motor also has a little more “roll on” ability, the q-steer keeps rolling a little longer when you stop the power. new gearing (taller ratios) will expand on this disired effect. the stop/start nature of non proportional cars is sucky but it can be smoothed out with a little tinkering.

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the silver 2007 wrx suby has a green end motor in it off the shelf. all others come with a white end here in aussie. the corvette stingray comes with an orange ended motor from the pics floating around ebay (i have one waiting at my p.o box ill pick up on tuesday when i stop by home).

from memory the bcg motor codes were as follows:

white: 1.0
green: 1.6
orange: 2.6
red: 3.0

i vaguely remember a blue end as well. cant remember what it was rated at.

i did have a go at finding a bcg size motor on the road as i dont lug around my rc stuff these days and couldnt wait till i got back home. it came in some micro scale plastic train toy that took a single aaa battery.
i had to shave down a q pinion gear to get it to fit nicely, and allthough its bigger size gave significantly more power it somehow interfered with the reception on the q-steer.
the signals where getting to the car, they just where laggy and undrivable.

im really hoping at least some of my pile of bcg motors will be usable without having this nasty side effect.

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@TallduDe 226655 wrote:

can u run the wheels of a bit on the wheels of the toy to get a speed?

aye, matches up perfectly.

the buttons are on the opposite side of the board to the lcd display, so barring some fancy mirror tricks i dont think ill be able to get all the features onto the one side. could allways learn to solder i guess 🙂

but yes indeed, streight off the shelf these can measure a bit sized cars speed 🙂

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http://cgi.ebay.com.sg/Choro-Q-HASEMI-REEBOK-NISSAN-SKYLINE-solar-turntable_W0QQitemZ130168043906QQihZ003QQcategoryZ223QQcmdZViewItem

nice! a solar turntable for display is brilliant 🙂 great packaging but im not to keen on the actual car body personally.

this is more my taste:

http://www.hlj.com/cgi-perl/tanoue/freedompage.cgi?Code=TKT78080

’57 chevy substitute? yes thankyou!

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charging on a q-steer, what a shame… looks like they have suspension in the front and back though! OMG…… wonder if its as good as betty k’s efforts tho. is that a little charging plug cap on the side of the chassis? could this just posibly be equipped with a lipo battery out of the box?

as big kev used to say IM EXCITED!!!

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had to expand both wheel arches using sandpaper wraped around a pen. they line up nicely now.

anything that is a choro-q clone mates up perfect with a q-steer chassis. the problem arises with the lack of transparent windows and in low bodies like the mx-5 the guts prevent the body from fitting at all.

with an hour to kill today and no latex/resin to make a mould i decided stuff this im going to cut those windows out. the back end of the van got in the way so of that went, its now a ute.

still think the windows are so small i might need a sunroof in the cab still. havent seen many rods with sunroofs however so im a little stumped on how to do it.

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is that a q-steer talldude or just a model/body like an autoscale?

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driving technique perhaps 😛

i dunno, i bought 2 at a time and now have 5 of the little buggers now.

mind you big W decided to give 2 of them to me for free 😀
(long story short, i bought 2 shirts with the first 2 cars and they were to big. went back to return the shirts and wanted to buy 2 more cars and some books for emma and a toolbox for storing cars in. got to the checkout and the lady looks at the receipt and decides ive allready payed for the 2 cars with the shirts! i thought well if yor that stupid i wont say no as she put it all in the bag )

they all seem pretty balanced to me, as balanced as a car can get without a diff that is. they run streight ahead but without power slides turning will never be even.
slightly slipery surface gun full throttle and let go of the power as you press the steering. without momentum it wont work but if you have the right surface (vynal flooring works good) they turn on a dime in both directions with practice.

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beat you by $1…

found a bcg motor in some toy i bought and it interferes with the reception 🙁 dunno if thats going to be the same wit all bcg motors.

i needed to trim the pinion a lot to get it to mesh right.

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@betty.k 226604 wrote:

mini z i chassis has a usb link and software so you can customise the throttle curve, steering epa, etc much like a fancy computer tx does. :8ball:

damn that sounds interesting… if i was racing z’s regularly that’d be a definate purchase.

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yeah rtr i thought and very cheap retail considering how silly the $ on kyosho mini-z usually is.

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bugger! i thought id have that no probs considering the mispelling dgs. jooo sark.

dunno what your driving on to get that much of a turning circle difference, ive found mine are running true and turn pretty evenly.

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anodized alloy is just normal silver alloy with a modified surface ( i know you change the surface colour of titanium using heat which makes it oxidized). cant see how an oxidized layer could somehow change the alloys properties to interfere with radio signals.

thats just an educated guess however…

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i found myself the corvette stingray on the bay tonight for under $30 delivered. comes with an orange gear set and an orange motor and looks pretty cool.

my 41 ford is coming along nicely… the second layers of putty went on tonight over the plastic frame i had to build to keep the front nice and tough. ive learnt a lot of sculpting tricks during my sabatical from r/c’s.

had to buy a second gravedigger micro monster body today, along with some new body shells thanks to some cheapy “kids r cool” plastic toy cars at coles. picked up an mx-5 and a wedge style mclaren i think it is for $4. i seriously love how its possible to find new bodies for these qsteers just about anywhere if you put in the legwork.
thats if you can be bothered fabricating mounting clips so they fit on the r/c chassis.

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picked up the yellow lancer and the silver wrx on my lunch break today.

the lancer was last one on the shelf, there where at least 15 of these on saturday at the big W i went to. must be pre christmas binge and any car thats yellow must be bumblebee syndrome.

plenty of all the other cars left and after getting them open over a coffee i noticed the silver wrx was just a little faster. i checked the motor colour and its a green end instead of a white end like the others.

if i remember the greens are 1.6 in the old bcg scale…

so just a heads up, if your thinking of picking one up, grab the wrx even if you think the new design is a little shite.

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