Today I fitted a part aluminium ball joint steering upgrade to my TT01 chassis. This replaces the stock steering track which is all plastic and screwed in. This upgrade has improved steering control which is especially handy when drifting.
The upgrade item is a 3Racing Steering Track. It says it is for the TT01E but comes with the parts also needed to fit it to the TT01.
New steering track in action.
Today I fitted some more parts to my tt01.
I added an Aluminium heatsink to the motor as they tend to get hot when drifting, I noticed this myself last time I took the car out. The heatsink comes as standard with the drift edition of the tt01 chassis but as I am building from the standard chassis I had to buy my own.
I also added some indicator leds to the body shell. I prefer to have all the lights left on so I have put aside the light controller that come with the leds and just connected them to the standard tamiya one.
Luckily they are cheap and easy to get hold of.
Listen for the nice crunching sound in the video.
Waterproofing the receiver is as simple as stretching a party balloon over it and tightening the end where the wires come out. I had already replaced my stock speed controller with one that happened to be water resistant so no action was needed there.
Taking our souped up Tamiya Blackfoot monster trucks for a bash in the park and skate park.
I decided to once again upgrade my motor on my electronic monster truck. The maximum upgrade people seem to recommend for a truck of thistype is a 12 turn with x2. the x2 gives it a little more torque to make up for the torque lost by using a lower turn motor. In order to use this I also had to replace the stock speed controller with one that would support a 12t motor.
The motor is an LRP v10 spec5 12×2 and I am using a Modelsport Sniper RV-12 ESC.
They seem to give the truck a nice boost compared to the small gain received by upgrading it with a tamiya motor.
We took the upgraded blackfoot’s out for some off-road fun along the shore.
Its all fun till you loose a dog bone jumping your truck into a post. Luckily we found it and repaired the truck at no cost.
Giving my Tamiya TT01 a little drift session after its hop-ups and drift tyres are fitted.
Shane's Shed 