031 - Oil leaks, Grease & More

Diff tests today! Yesterday I filled a good old Tamiya diff with silicone oil made for the modern gear diff to test if it works and if the Stadium Blitzer performs better. Well, the diff didn't had leaks during the night and installed in to the car it works fine and the car handles better. After the test run I opened the tranny and the result is shown below.

The differential leaks oil from the left side and there are suspect metal chippings.
Cleaned the diff from the oil I decide to try another way: I filled it in marine grease that it's heavy and sticky. it works! The car performs a little worse than with the oil set up but I hope that the diff will not wear.

The last "no bucks" mod is about the antenna holder: I had already reduced the original radio tray but I'm thinking from long time to mould an underbody and, I'm sure, lowering the antenna could help me to make it without too much work. So I decide to use a body post spacer from the FF03 kit, to drill to the bottom also the second hole and to fit it in to the car: nice and cheap.

Before

And after only in a shot of Dremel :)

The only bad new is that from now I will start to spend money for the unis, a turnbuckles set and for the stainless steel screws set... and I hope I do not get the idea to convert the Stadium in to a Beetle... ops!

030 - New Strut Braces And Diff Experiment

Well, who knows me knows that I'm in constant mumbling and no matters if I'm mumbling about four wheeling, fishing, rc cars or anything else. So today, during all the day, I've thought about the strut braces I built yesterday.
I'm fixed with the total black look for my little cars and mumbling and mumbling I remembered  that somewhere in my cave I got a carbon tube (normally used for kites), a M3 stainless steel threaded bar and and some other items that could help me to rebuilt the struts.
The second upgrade that I was thinking about is about diff. If I'm not wrong it's possible to upgrade the Blitzer with a TA01 ball diff but I think that if racers are going to gear diffs it will be there a why! So I decided to do an experiment filling the stock diff with a 50.000 diff silicon oil sealing it with a little of marine grease, I didnt fit it in to the car because I want to see if the oil leaks.

A carbon tube, M3 stainless steel threaded bar and something else: the necessary to build "total black" strut braces. I made a sort of bushings starting from a Breakaway Impact Shields rubber tube (every beach angler know what I'm talking about).

Front

Rear

029 - Repaired & Strengthened Blitzer

This evening, during a(nother) mental planning of the future upgrades for my Stadium Blitzer, I decide to repair it so I've looked for a spare in my Tamiya junkyard box: mission accomplished. I also found a pair of 3Racing titanium turnbuckles, some ball-ends and some ball connectors so I decided to quick build a pair of strut brace: a low bucks upgrade for the Blitzer's plastic shocks towers. Nothing original but it works!

Front

Rear

028 - Time To Get Unis!

This afternoon, after work and before having dinner, I looked for a little relax  with my Stadium Blitzer in the car park near home. I was having fun until I had a crash on a sidewalk, it wasn't a hard crash but the axle had broken as cutted. I suppose it's due to a previous crack.
It's definetely the time to buy unis :)

detail one

 

detail two