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Top pup
237 posts
75 months
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schmalex
Original Poster
8,683 posts
75 months
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one here http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tamiya-Supershot-Hotshot...My car is currently with the Model shop in Reading, getting the both gearboxes re-built. The Sprt Tuned BZ motor makes it go like a stabbed rat, but I don't think my building abilities quite stood up to the abuse it was giving the gearboxes. As an aside, I have a brand new Dirt Tuned motor coming in the next day or so that I won't need. I'm more than happy to send it to a new home for a donation....
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miniman
16,015 posts
131 months
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illmonkey
6,149 posts
67 months
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You gits. I'm now trawling ebay. Would be great to have a off-roader again, always enjoyed them. Best go Nitro though!
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schmalex
Original Poster
8,683 posts
75 months
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SWH
911 posts
71 months
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Superb, and nicely done  Brings back a few memories! I have an old Hotshot II hiding somewhere in the garage at my mother's house, probably not been buzzed about for the best part of 20yrs; seem to recall breaking the front suspension arms quite regularly and eventually ended up replacing the whole front setup with Bigwig front suspension, worked well! Now, I really should dig out the RC Top Fuel Dragester I made for a GCSE project and get a few photos up, not sure where that is however, so may take a while..!
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miniman
16,015 posts
131 months
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I'm not convinced I've built this right. It has a terrible turning circle, seems to hardly want to steer at all.
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schmalex
Original Poster
8,683 posts
75 months
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Have you calibrated the ESC? I read somewhere that you may have to set up the ESC to accept all the inputs. The only other thing I found was when I built the hubs, the little red circles that screw onto the ends of the suspension arms are really sensitive to which way round they are. If they are the wrong way up and it was a b  d of a job to screw in the 3 little screws top & bottom, that will stop the front wheels turning. Mind you, having nearly shredded a gearbox already and, last night, my newly ordered receiver caught fire on first turn on, I'm hardly one to speak!!!
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Top pup
237 posts
75 months
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miniman said: I'm not convinced I've built this right. It has a terrible turning circle, seems to hardly want to steer at all. Whith the steering on full lock the wheels should be nearly touching the triangular lock stop on the front upper wishbones, if not try moving the steering links foward one hole on the red hubs. It still won't have a good turning circle though, when we used to race these a common mod was to fit a chassis 1/2 an inch shorter to help.
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miniman
16,015 posts
131 months
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Small upgrade today courtesy of a friend with a vinyl cutting machine.  Smiley by binaryimage, on Flickr
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PumpkinSteve
1,802 posts
25 months
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I love this thread. The Hotshot and The Frog are probably my two favourite RCs. 
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k-ink
4,627 posts
48 months
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schmalex said: If anyone has any mega tuning suggestions, please post them up!!!! The ultimate tuning mod would be to replace it with aKyosho Optima of that era  Sorry, joking aside enjoy it.
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schmalex
Original Poster
8,683 posts
75 months
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I used to lust after an Optima after my friend bought one.
I'll stick with the Hotshot for the time being, though!
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k-ink
4,627 posts
48 months
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I also lusted after one. But that ended when I started to go racing. It soon became apparent why no Tamiya has ever been competitive in off road racing. They simply fell apart in no time. From memory I seem to recall the entire transmission was the weakest point - bent drive shafts, cracked hub cups, that sort of thing. The dampers we also an area to be upgraded. Tamiya do one thing better than any other maker though: image. The styling of the cars, the box art, the names etc are all fabulous. As a wide eyed kid in a toy shop they got most of us started
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nickg123
465 posts
112 months
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k-ink said: I also lusted after one. But that ended when I started to go racing. It soon became apparent why no Tamiya has ever been competitive in off road racing. They simply fell apart in no time. From memory I seem to recall the entire transmission was the weakest point - bent drive shafts, cracked hub cups, that sort of thing. The dampers we also an area to be upgraded. Tamiya do one thing better than any other maker though: image. The styling of the cars, the box art, the names etc are all fabulous. As a wide eyed kid in a toy shop they got most of us started It depends how serious you get though, Tamiya were always at the opposite ends - The fun play stuff from Beatties and the full on TRF racing division where the cars were all pretty much custom built, lots of titanium, carbon fibre etc. This is still pretty much how it is now with some of the nice TRF buggies: http://teamtrf.com/index.php/trf-products/kits
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k-ink
4,627 posts
48 months
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Of course the TRF are on another level, but that wasn't even on the radar in the 80s and 90s. Back then It was Kyosho, Schumacher, Yokomo and not much else built properly.
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nickg123
465 posts
112 months
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k-ink said: Of course the TRF are on another level, but that wasn't even on the radar in the 80s and 90s. Back then It was Kyosho, Schumacher, Yokomo and not much else built properly. Yeah but Mr Booth and Mr Harman did ok early 90's with the TRF Manta rays and super astutes, those cars were complete one-offs :-)
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