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Well I finished it, all bar the tyre lettering & gave it a quick razz around the garden ... it's not "ludicrous speed", but it is quite fast ... difficult to tell exactly how fast, but it's got to be at least twice the speed of a silver can.

I had the suspension set on the soft side - evidentally a bit too soft, as the front end dug in on a series of humps, flat out ... it must have gone end over end six times before smacking into a tree, with an awful sound of crunching plastic ... which would have been quite cool, if it was someone else's just restored Bigwig

I really ought to get a decent camera and video my first runs - I usually manage to break something in less than a minute ...

Damage isn't too bad, the driver has lost his right arm & there's a bit of paint missing around the front body mount & nose



But on the other hand ... definitly not a "shelf queen" any more

Ooops! Oh well - no more need to be gentle with it now...

Which EzRun (# turns) are you using btw?

Edou wrote:

Ooops! Oh well - no more need to be gentle with it now...

Which EzRun (# turns) are you using btw?

Nothing too extreme - a 13T/3000kv motor & 35A esc

Aftermath of my recent "oopsie":

I know the feeling...

Put lots of work in my Grasshopper at one point and made it do a flip flop and a few meters on it's roof with the first run.

A few "finished" pics, I'm now completely projectless

ps it's not poo, it's a leaf.

Braaandnew

Great work Jonny!

I've also recently bought a Bigwig. Need to source a chassis for it as the current one is cracked. Where did you get the new rubber shock seals from??

I think I'm going to start the 'dismantle' later;)

sheriff wrote:

Great work Jonny!

I've also recently bought a Bigwig. Need to source a chassis for it as the current one is cracked. Where did you get the new rubber shock seals from??

I think I'm going to start the 'dismantle' later;)

In the end I didn't rebuild them - all had oil in & weren't leaking, so I left them alone except for cleaning... the manual justs lists them as "3mm o-rings" (12 of them), so i guess they are pretty generic to Tamiya cars, part # 50597 looks fairly promising, although there are only 10 in a packet...

I see there's one chassis on ebay, but it's in the USA - price is 30USD/19GBP, and the shipping is the same. I did see one in the UK a while back, price overall was about the same. How badly (& where) is it cracked? At that sort of price I'd be looking at repairing it.

Welcome on board btw

Very good work, Jonny.
It's up my alley, box art and new look to it.

-Lars