FWD TOURING CAR FORUM - Tamiya FF01, FF02, Yokomo YRF-2, Kyosho Mantis FF
#1246
Tech Master
If your going to race a home made car and be competitive dont you have to be in one of 2 buckets?
Are there allot of fast guys out there that understand chassis design or a really smart guy that is fast? I thought you get one or the other but not both. I dont know what the big deal is. Neither one of the two is going to catch the eye of the new hot girl coming to the track. The argument is like racer on racer crime, Im sure it wasnt a racer that said they felt unsafe when so an sos car exploded. Based on the points being made whomever added it as a restriction was in one of the 2 groups but certainly not both. smart and fast. Im kidding but dont we have rule makers that frequent this forum? Maybe its just a rule passed around because when you are developing rules you start by looking at other similar rule books and add them until its questioned.
Are there allot of fast guys out there that understand chassis design or a really smart guy that is fast? I thought you get one or the other but not both. I dont know what the big deal is. Neither one of the two is going to catch the eye of the new hot girl coming to the track. The argument is like racer on racer crime, Im sure it wasnt a racer that said they felt unsafe when so an sos car exploded. Based on the points being made whomever added it as a restriction was in one of the 2 groups but certainly not both. smart and fast. Im kidding but dont we have rule makers that frequent this forum? Maybe its just a rule passed around because when you are developing rules you start by looking at other similar rule books and add them until its questioned.
#1248
Tech Regular
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I think you guys are over exaggerating what a home made car actually is, if you were to simply move the motor from the rear to the front of any touring car similar to awesomatix, you have now changed weight bias so a simple spring/shock package would need changing but otherwise steering geometry etc...has not changed and you don't need to be an engineer to create such a vehicle. Is it any different to all the conversion kits popping up now?
#1249
Tech Master
lighten up brother. I wasnt trying to identify who has been hurt by the ladies of RC. There are none, My points should be taken about as seriously as the rest of the opinions on home built versus a factory car (interesting but not factual). There is a way for a black and white guy such as yourself to get the facts. Ask or let the rest of us have an opinion and expand, contract and abstract what you want but anyone who tells you to abandon your opinion without facts is controlling (resist with all faculty and try to teach them understand freedom). If a home built is safe who cares? You should because we need progress and participation more than mindless surface level acceptance of the rules or my comments. Im pretty sure you have a had a regular feeling in your gut that someone is saying something stupid that might have more to it than just stupid? I was sure I was partially wrong before i said it and yet i did, I had no idea that you are humorless but to be fair it was barely funny. You went way to hard on it But its cool because you are my people,
#1251
Thanks to this thread. I ordered one on Thursday. I've been keeping an eye on it. Funny thing is I was thinking that our would be nice if it was on sale and there it was on the tamiya news page.
#1252
Tech Master
#1253
Tech Regular
There was no basic FF04, just Evo, which is XV01TC with carbon chassis and and removed rear gearbox
#1254
Tech Master
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#1256
Tech Addict
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I've been racing my MTS FFv3 in our club race against other FWDs and so far, I've taken TQ and win on the first race and win in our second outing qualifying second. This is against a T4F, AMX Destiny and a Spice Yokomo conversion. I like my MTS so much that I bought a second one lol. At $179us on RCMart, this is the best bang for the buck IMO.
#1257
Tech Lord
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I've been racing my MTS FFv3 in our club race against other FWDs and so far, I've taken TQ and win on the first race and win in our second outing qualifying second. This is against a T4F, AMX Destiny and a Spice Yokomo conversion. I like my MTS so much that I bought a second one lol. At $179us on RCMart, this is the best bang for the buck IMO.
#1259
Tech Champion
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I've created a thread for the Xpress FT1 - Xpress Execute FT1 FWD TC
My build had a few hiccups, the manual had a few errors in it, some were corrected with an addendum sheet but there were still a few other issues (some screw sizes weren't mentioned, wrong screw sizes mentioned in a few other places). But overall, it went together pretty well. Hopefully they iron out the bugs in the next batch.
My build had a few hiccups, the manual had a few errors in it, some were corrected with an addendum sheet but there were still a few other issues (some screw sizes weren't mentioned, wrong screw sizes mentioned in a few other places). But overall, it went together pretty well. Hopefully they iron out the bugs in the next batch.