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welcome in the club Iridium!
With Edou we are 2 ta0102 addicts:$addicts. If you need spares nuo problem.
You have here a nice on road ta01 with its blue shocks. This is the beginning of a nice collection. Ta01 on road, ta02 on road, ta02t like chevy s10 and ta01at like mantaray and ta01 t like hummer. And ta02w and ta02sw:-P

What's bad is I saw a Tamiya 58307 (m-04m chassis) Alfa romeo GTA there for $50 which I'm now considering too.

Wife's going to kill me

New ESC and motor arrived today.

Also stripped the entire TA01 down to individual pieces and screws, working my way upwards again cleaning and making a list of "will need replacing soon" parts, the front gearbox is the first major complete section i am done cleaning/re-greasing.

Left damper - before
Right damper - after


The now-clean damper in that picture must has suffered a harsh impact at some point because the main rod was bent and preventing proper movement, after some time on a vice and pin hammer its now straight again, i am trying to avoid going too nuts on the change-it-for-new temptation, and sticking with changing only the wheels, tires, speed controller and body...... for now.

Hey, matching motor mount.
I that is an aluminium pinion and you plan on running it (especially with that motor), it would probably be wise to go for steel.

Edou wrote:

Hey, matching motor mount.
I that is an aluminium pinion and you plan on running it (especially with that motor), it would probably be wise to go for steel.

I believe it already is steel! Feels too heavy when removed to be ALU
Yeah no idea on the color either, since that part was inside on the red rear gearbox.
I can't seem to find a single model or picture of this greeny yellow front gearbox anywhere!

Iridium wrote:

Wife's going to kill me

Ha ha ha never heard that before

Welcome to the Tamiya addiction club !

I had only seen limited edition stabilizer sets in that yellow color so far...
But this guy Tizer (I actually know him, he's a walking Tamiya encyclopedia) seems to have most of the other parts for your car :

www.tamiyaclub....?cid=94741

Went to another thrift store and, completely unintentionally, found some op-590 ball joints in a "everything 100yen" bin, even though they were marked as 300y on the old sticker and 500y on the original card.
But more importantly, i chanced upon a compatible, unused body, complete and boxed for 500 yen! (ball joints and the boxed body came to $6 basically).


Blue model spray isn't tamiya brand and is slightly lighter blue than suggested but it's the color im going for!

I am reminded a lot lately of why I like Japan so much.

$6 you suck

Iridium wrote:

I am reminded a lot lately of why I like Japan so much.

Wow lucky boy !

I think i should send you my shopping/wish list ?