202 - Holidays

 

As usual between july and august we spend a pair of weeks in the alps in regenerating our batteries. Unfortunately this year (due to health reaseons) I can't dedicate time in discovering new local breweries and beers so I mostly do gardening works (we have more ore less 1000 square meters of lawn to care) and I increase my knowledge of interesting cheeses.

My ride for 2022 summer holidays 😅

I've also renounce to bring on holidays a Tamiya to have some fun because neither my Blitzer and my Wild One were ready and because I didn't feel confident to bring my Delta Ray without basics setup and without a proper shakedown: too much risks of breakages without not much possibilities to work to fix it properly.

Often when we discover a new cheese the only leftover is paper 😇

201 - Stadium Blitzer Update Detailed

My Stadium Blitzer has been neglected for a long time without a reason because it is a car that I like and that I've lightly upgraded in the past (handmade crossmembers for shock towers and radio plate removing).

I've also some good memories with it.

Weeks ago I've swapped the old chassis, that I've ruined in the attempt to make room for Lipos, with a new chassis bought last year (if I'm not wrong) and more recently I've swapped the dogbones with DT02 unis as I have planned for ages.

To complete the trasmission upgrade I've in stock a Carson steel pinion so I can push a little more in choosing the motor.

A new servo saver is the not planned upgrade but it will be useful in a car without bellcrank setup for steering.

The main update concern the ESC: I will swap the Mtroniks usend in the past with a brand new Robitronic Speedstar 2 (I love its square shape) that I use widely in my cars.

New tires are also ready to by installed and in future, with more time to spend in the search, I will prepare a secon set more specific for grass.

The more evident change it's about the body that will be swapped with a Kamtec Blitzer Beetle body mounted in a lowered position in the attempt to create something unsual.

Unfortunately both this car as the Wild One will not be ready for my next holidays.

200 - Wild One Upgrade Detailed

 

In my last post, due to not enough pics made, I haven't well detailed the upgrade of my WO chassis.

The aluminum chassis looks well made, it's composed by an upper and a lower deck with two options for the battery positioning and the servo screwed upsidedown on the upper deck. This position force the servo horn to rubs on the lower deck, in the past days I've received a new Tamiya servo saver that will be installed using the shorter horn to avoid rubbing.

I have to underline that I've ruined this car trasmission during 2021 summer holidays and the spares shortage experienced during Corona/Covid pandemic has delayed its fixing. I've also experienced my first unlucky purchase on Ebay: gears payed, never received and money refund not received... I will see how it goes. I've ordered spares to another seller that are punctually arrived.

Unfortunately I will not finish this car in time for next holidays (and my Blitzer also) so my Delta Ray Buggy it's the perfect (and only) candidate.