All the Cool Kids were doing it...

45tr0 · Post by **45tr0** » Sun May 27, 2007 4:02 am

Had a fight with the Girlfriend last week, and was feeling pissed off when i decided to visit my favourite LHS.
I fully intended just to buy a new centre diff for the minizilla, and then got REALLY interested in the mini Baja ($200aud), when I offhand mentioned the Micro-T, and he pulls one out from below the counter... $140aud later and I was charging it in the carpark

I'm already in love with this little sucker. Gonna go do some reading/learning and learn up on mods - i already want new shocks, but need to work out which will suit the best.

Im hooked

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Sun May 27, 2007 4:11 am

Congrats, now you're a cool kid.

Before you run out and get new shocks, try some friction damper grease in the stock ones. Really helps quite a bit. Also if you rig some kind of collar to give the rear a little preload.

45tr0 · Post by **45tr0** » Sun May 27, 2007 5:49 am

thanks man, i'll give it a try.

sorry for the stupid question, but i'm assuming i'll need an o-ring of some sort to stop the grease from leaking out of the shock?

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Sun May 27, 2007 9:01 am

45tr0 wrote:thanks man, i'll give it a try.
sorry for the stupid question, but i'm assuming i'll need an o-ring of some sort to stop the grease from leaking out of the shock?

That grease is really really thick and sticky, so you don't use a lot and most stays in the shocks, but it does help gather cat hairs.

SHAUN · Post by **SHAUN** » Sun May 27, 2007 9:48 am

Don't buy new shocks. 3 racing is coming out with oil shocks, REAL oil shocks.

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Sun May 27, 2007 11:28 am

SHAUN wrote:Don't buy new shocks. 3 racing is coming out with oil shocks, REAL oil shocks.

Well lets not get too excited, HR was calling their's oil shocks when they were first released, because they reccomend thick silicone diff oils (Like 30,000 wt. I believe). I went back to HobbyEtc. (The distributer of HR) to show you, but they've changed the description to "High visconsity damper".

http://www.hobbyetc.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?part_id=35451

Anyways, find 3Racing's ad in RC Car Action, and you'll get an idea of the broken english they talk in.

"To keep your car in the best condition at all times, replace the old one immediately with our fascinating parts for the three RC chassis"

"Front Suspension Arm Stronger than the original one, aluminum allows the arms to be in the most rigid state"

"Rear Suspension Mount It supports the arm and motor in best way"

So yeah, lets not get our hopes up. Its not that they intend to false advertise, its just that they don't really speak english well. Or do they mean to, they are trying to sell a product after all.

SHAUN · Post by **SHAUN** » Sun May 27, 2007 12:40 pm

Heres link.
http://www.thetoyz.com/cart/thetoyz_det ... &cat_name=#

They sure do looks like real oil shocks. I hope they are.

BilboBaggins · Post by **BilboBaggins** » Sun May 27, 2007 1:57 pm

crazydave wrote:Also if you rig some kind of collar to give the rear a little preload.

I'm using a Mini-T plastic Bushing as a spacer on the rear shocks on my Micro-T (also installed X-Mod Truck springs).

hogjowlz · Post by **hogjowlz** » Sun May 27, 2007 6:19 pm

i used the springs from my old pos xmod hummer and they are marginally stiffer. i had to stretch the rear ones a bit so theyd fit tho. performance is noticable at high speeds.

instead of going with dirt attractors i just stuffed graphite in the shocks and on the diff and slipper. ill probably have to keep doing it but i wont really have to clean em.

45tr0 · Post by **45tr0** » Sun May 27, 2007 7:02 pm

i'm working for bunnings now (think oz version of home depot), so i should be able to find something there to do the job of a small o-ring.

Don't really have access to x-mods down here, but i'm on the lookout for pens, anything i can gut for slightly stiffer springs.

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Mon May 28, 2007 5:37 pm

SHAUN wrote:Heres link.
http://www.thetoyz.com/cart/thetoyz_det ... &cat_name=#

They sure do looks like real oil shocks. I hope they are.

Yeah, there looks like there is something going on the bottom, but still I'm skeptical. We'll just say I wont be the first to find out about these.

pimpsmurf · Post by **pimpsmurf** » Mon May 28, 2007 8:28 pm

If you want to use grease instead of silicon oil, you should probably start with a 3000wt. People are saying that seems to work well for general driving. You can use small o-rings as preload spacers, or the other stuff people are talking about.

I think I have someone selling me one now and I'm going to put a Novak Micro GT ESC and XXL reciever in it. I think I'm going to get a CF chassis if it will allow me to use a HS55 instead of the stock servo w/ an HS55 board wired in.

As far as mods, other than flipping the wheels around for a wider stance, you can get some ultra cheap lipos (I think 10c 160ma is common) for it, and the stock ESC is cool with it. If you don't want to mod the motor plate, there is an upgrade motor for it (Atomic BB motor which is Brass Bushing, not Ball Bearing) which gets the sucker going about 25mph. Pretty insane for this little guy. With aftermarket electronics and a 130 size mod, I think 40mph would be easy to get if you have a perfect surface to drive on.

You could gear a 130 extremely high if we could find out what pitch the gears are. There are aftermarket gears for it, but I don't know if they are the same size or not.

EDIT:
As far as shocks go, 3000wt diff lube is supose to be a good place to start with the friction shocks. I was wrong about the overflow shocks. They are hot racing friction shocks with a reservoir.

-JNY

guerd87 · Post by **guerd87** » Tue May 29, 2007 3:45 am

well i picked up mine today, got one for $140 aswell (couldnt resist the week wait so i had to look while i was down here visiting)

also picked up my HPI savage off a mate for a great price

havnt done anything to the micro-t yet, had a quick derive...and im in love

cant wait to get some parts and have a look inside hehe