Dual-celll Thunder Charger & revived body

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 12:42 am

These Thunder Chargers are da bomb, but I just can't quite take a liking to the bodies. They're a tad longer than bits, so only my Cannonball clone bodies fit. That leaves me the option of my hummer, which I already have plans for, and the Celica, that was my first micro RC and has been through every experiment imaginable.

I didn't think it was worth saving, but I gave it a go. Sanded most of the guck off. Repainted it with the original paint scheme I did 6 months ago. Gave it a new Zip Zap wing, and since I had already hacked out the back window for a dual cell, I went ahead and made it a wheelie machine

When it came together, I think this body is actually ready for one more tour of duty.

I made a video clip, let me know how this works out, it's my first time posting a video.

Sorry for the Quicktime format, if anyone knows how to convert it to Windows media let me know. This ones been optimized, I have a larger higher quality one if this ones too hard to see.

Video Clip

Post by **CaboWabo** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 12:54 am

hell yea, I'd use that body for a racer anytime.

I can't see your video, missing software that is not available for download from apple.
any ideas?
I gots the 5.0.2 plugin

SuperFly · Post by **SuperFly** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 1:58 am

nice! I saw the video fine, but I'm on a mac, cuz I am a mac.

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 9:05 am

CaboWabo wrote:I can't see your video, missing software that is not available for download from apple.
any ideas?
I gots the 5.0.2 plugin

Hmmm

When I turned up the brightness it warned me it might not work on other computers, guess I should start paying more attention to those warning boxes.

I changed the link to a file that does not have the brightness turned up. Try that, and if that don't work, then it must be the compression format. The default was MP4, but there was a huge list of others, anyone know a more common one I should be using, I think MP4 is still kinda new.

Post by **CaboWabo** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 9:41 am

cool, seen it now.

that thing smokes!

p.s. I like your kitchen floor too. lol
we've seen just about everyone's kitchen floor.

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 10:36 am

Ok, glad I worked that out. Just bought Quicktime pro, so we can edit the little videos our digicam takes, and I don't know what the hell I'm doing.

The car does smoke, and all I did was dual cell it. Best $5 bargain I've got yet.

Oh yeah and the kitchen floor, decent traction, but it could be alot bigger.

Post by **CaboWabo** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 10:38 am

that things gonna be great for stunts.
what motor did you have in it?

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 10:48 am

Oh yeah, and I saw this Candy Clear, I laughed, what good would a Candy clear coat be. Then I thought wait a minute, it might be better, it does cost a dollar more.

Glad I did, this stuff is super glossy, without any rubbing. You can see it in the pictures.

It's made by Plastic-Cote, they sell it at Pep Boys. It is Laquer based, so you'll want to make sure your using it over laquer.

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 10:51 am

CaboWabo wrote:that things gonna be great for stunts.
what motor did you have in it?

It's the stock pink endbell clone motor. The top end was good, but not impressive with a single cell, but they are very torquey. Considering these are Hogjowls favorite motor, I figured it would be good with dual cells, and well, it is.

ph2t · Post by **ph2t** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 4:52 pm

Yo crazy, what sorta results do you get with that antenna man? I would assume the range would be curtailed a bit.......

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 5:45 pm

ph2t wrote:Yo crazy, what sorta results do you get with that antenna man? I would assume the range would be curtailed a bit.......

Honestly, I can't comment on range, because I run in a small area, but there is a washer, dryer, fridge, and thermostat all right in that area, and I usually have problems with glitching, when everything's goings it's almost unbearable, but I haven't had the slightest problem with these cars. I bought one for my 3 y.o. to play with when I'm playing with my cars, and I only pull the antenna out an inch or two, and there still isn't hardly any problems.

kwikbb · Post by **kwikbb** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 8:59 pm

nice dave, clean vid too... short clips for short attention spans LoL me likey!
that thing really moves huh?!

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 10:15 pm

kwikbb wrote:nice dave, clean vid too... short clips for short attention spans LoL me likey!
that thing really moves huh?!

Funny you say that, or should I say ironic, anyways, I shortened the video further. Yea, I'm an eMpTV, generation X'er.

MTV edit

...and yeah the car smokes. I'm lovin' these cars. I've got 3 more to mod.

kwikbb · Post by **kwikbb** » Wed Jun 18, 2003 7:23 am

LMFAO
that's perfect... i didn't even have to blink