Should be able to push a bigger gear then if it has more torque. It will only be for a while before i upgrade to a brushless eventually

ya i saw rod using a hacker and man that thing was fast he was pulling wee-lies on the strait anyways i think if anyone goes brushless they should use the hacker because i bought a mamba for my associated mini and the speed control goes into thermal shutdown a lot :nod: :nod: :nod:

Dan Garber was using my Tekin Mini-Rage and Dynamite C4 8000KV motor and he had tons of power...too much actually. He started the weekend with the 9200KV C4 and you just couldn't get the power down. Without a doubt though, these things need oil shocks for off roading. What a huge difference that make.

I believe Rod had a Quark 33amp ESC and a Dynamite C4 motor powering his TamTech.

It was such a blast to see the unlimited class this weekend during the TCS Finals, these over-powered buggies made the newly renovated Tamtech Off-Road Track look small. It was a amazing to see these Tamtechs catching some good air time off of the table-top in the middle of the course. This is going to be a fun new series of buggies in the upcoming future.

I am looking at getting either 4200kv or 6800kv mamba for by GB01, any ideas on gearing for these?

What other wheels and tyres will fit the GB01? Not so worried about fronts more rears. Any minipins etc?

Here are some pics that I posted in another thread:

In regards to tires, mini inferno crime fighters fit well if you remove two rows of pins. A lot of the tires that we used on our Frogs were custom cut 1/10th scale tires.

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rod what springs are u using :sweat:

I posted this in another thread so here's the recipe for the little Froggy.

What I did was the following:

Shocks
I used old TRF shock shafts (the ones that are a bit longer). I then took a two hole piston and drilled the holes out to 1mm. I then drilled two 0.5mm pilot holes perpendicular to the two existing holes. I drilled those out with a 1mm drill bit. I used the new 1mm down spring retainers. I also reamed out a bunch of those plastic shock rings you find on the Vparts tree to fit on top and bottom of the spring (prevents spring from popping off). I used Losi Mini LST springs (white). 400 weight front and 500 weight rear for oil.

Shock Mounts
I threaded 3x12mm droop screws into the existing holes. Added a 3mm spacer so that shocks can clear body and suspension. Top them with aluminum ball stud.

Front Axle
I cut the drive axle ears off to prevent anything getting caught in there.

Front Chassis
I dremeled a section of the chassis where the front suspension hits in order to get a little bit more up travel.

Tires
Fronts had stock sidewalls with a center section of Proline Bowties. No insert.
Rears were Losi IFMAR Pins cut and sectioned to fit Tamiya Wheel. Insert was foam from the Dark Impact (? DJ made the tires so I'm not sure). The rear tires Jimmy used were Crime Fighters for the Mini Inferno with two rows cut out and Trinity Soft (white) Inserts for the RC18. Cut Square Fuzzies were for doing hyper-donughts and were no good when the track dried out.

Camber
Rear 4 degrees
Front 1.5 degrees

Toe
Front about 1 dgree toe out
Rear is stock

I think that pretty much covers it. Let me know if there is anything else I can help you out with.

Hey i was wondering what electronics you were using in your Frog? Mamba 6800 or 8000? What receiver and servo did you put in? Could you tell me what old TRF shocks those shafts came with?

So does thins mean all the options for rear tyres are cut and shuts? I am assuming someone will start bringing out tyres to either fit the tamiya wheels, of wheel tyre combo's that fit the car. Well i hope so amyway

Electronics were stock servo and Futaba receiver. The Speedo is a Quark 33A Universal (although a Pro-Car version is available, all I could use was the Universal and it is saaamooooth) Motor is an 8000KV with a 12T pinion. As for which TRF shock kit the shock shafts came from, I'm not sure...but it was from one of the older kits (pre TA04 perhaps?).

As for tires...yeah, it is kind of a bummer that there are no tire options available but atleast the Crime Fighters were easy to cut and glue (read VERY easy). I certainly hope aftermarket support for this car picks up because it is a very capable chassis.

There are enough other parts being made for them by 3racing, hopefully some tyres will appear soon.

I would have thought the 8000KV would be a bit rapid, almost too fast for the GB01.

Obviously the TRF shocks have a larger volume, but are they that much better over the GB01 hop up shocks?

Some pictures from the event. The motors are a bit too powerful for the cars, but throttle modulation with a good driver makes up for it.

They were getting very finicky on the straights with both front wheels almost in the air

We make the following that all drop in no need to change out any of the electronics: