Quick Silver - Tamiya & RTR Touring Car Thread

[Hail Ming]

Hi Nick,

Richard and I got our pinions from an ebay seller called Tony's Tamiya Spares. He's based in Coleshill and is very reliable.

James

[Eddystone]

Tamiya Aluminium pinions 24T and 25T are Tamiya part number 50477 - available from many Tamiya stockists or eBay. As James has said we recommend Tony's Tamiya Parts on eBay (europro975). He's excellent. If you want steel ones then just makes sure you buy 0.6 module ones, they are available from many RC stockists - FusionHobbies, Apex, TimeTunnel, Microtech to name a few. These links should take you straight to them.

http://www.fusionhobbies.com/RW-Racing- ... rw0600.htm
http://www.apexmodels.com/gbu0-prodshow/RW0625.html
http://goldstarstockists.net/live/catal ... s_id/29202
http://www.microtechracing.com//product ... 0.6+MODULE

[Chris4x]

HI not sure where to get the pinions from but i am going to give this catagory a go next week as i saw it this weekend got home and built my tt01 up, will be running it with a Laguna shell in btcc colours its well used but looks ok when moving lol.
its pretty much standard other than tires using some of my old sorex's of my 10.5 tourer.
could be a really great cat

see you saturday

[Eddystone]

Good on ya Chris, TT-01s are making good race cars for this class - we're enjoying oursleves a lot racing in it. You may have read further up the thread that 25T pinion and 55T spur gear seem to work well with the stock silver can motor - good balance of top end speed and punch out of the corners. The used Sorexs seemed good to me, but then I freely admit I know nothing about touring car racing but I'm enjoying learning! Will be looking out for the BTCC Laguna on Saturday then. See you there.
Richard

[Hail Ming]

Haha - you beat me to it Richard.

Welcome to the Quick SIlver series Chris - I look forward to racing with you next Saturday.

James

[Eddystone]

I'm like lightning on the keyboard James!!


For everyones benefit the Tamiya part numbers for the suggested pinions and spur gears for the TT-01 chassis are:-

53665 ( TT-01 Spur Gear Set 55T / 58T )
50477 ( 24T & 25T AV Pinion Gear Set )

The equivalent 25T steel pinion is by RW racing part number RW0625

[stox217]

hehe
Il be out in force with my tt01 its got some hop up's its needed so far!

[Chris4x]

Just for reference what are we allowed to do to the cars in this cat as i know its a RTR cat just wandering what is allowed and what is not really
I mean like batteries,suspension stuff like that

Cheers

Plus i will be racing my mardave aswell so do i have to pay twice to do this cat also?

[stox217]

have to pay twice
All hopups are allowed but it has to be silvercan motor's

[Eddystone]

Don't the club do a special offer if you're racing in two classes??

I also understand that any hop-ups are allowed aslong as the motor is a stock sealed 27T silver can as per most Tamiya kits, Batteries to be 7.2Volt NiCd / NiMh or 2 cell Lipo, Rubber tyres only. K.I.S. racing - Keep It Simple!

[stox217]

Well sealed can 540 motor or equivelent speedwise

[Chris4x]

Ahh will ave to get a new motor then mine came with the black motor might poss have one but is probably knackered are they the same turn as the mardave motors?

[Eddystone]

Don't think so - Mardaves are 25T I think. A quick search on eBay for a Tamiya RS-540SH will get you a suitable one. A few sellers have them including Tony's Tamiya Parts. Tony is local being only in Coleshill and fast to post so you'll get it quickly.

[stox217]

I have an ansmann clash 28t in which is what i have atm i dont think its quickerbut we will see
If its any quicker i can turn my throttle epa down so it wont be hitting top end and will be back on speed wise but we will see

[Eddystone]

I don't think a 28T motor is any quicker either - I'd expect it to be slightly slower from my rudimentary grasp of these things. Be interesting to see if the theory is right though in practice.