SE Dunebuggy

LiL_Mike · Post by **LiL_Mike** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 12:16 pm

Well i was bored this weekend so i made i was chillin' at rcmod.com and saw the carpet runner mod thingy so i tried it with my se.
Looked cool.
Drived like crap.

I'll get pics later today.

hogjowlz · Post by **hogjowlz** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 12:37 pm

sounds like most of the ideas at that site

HirotoR34 · Post by **HirotoR34** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 2:11 pm

yup. too bad.....so sad. I hate it when projects don't work out.

ph2t · Post by **ph2t** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 3:44 pm

as long as you learn something from the process, then not all is lost....

hogjowlz · Post by **hogjowlz** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 3:54 pm

hopefully some of youz learn that form should always be considered after function.

weve had to judge cars out of top 3 a few times because it looked cool but we knew that it would either run like crap or not at all.

HirotoR34 · Post by **HirotoR34** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 4:03 pm

Right now, I'm learinin that the hard way (project HW tunerz)

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 4:04 pm

Yep, I totally agree.

When I first got on TinyRC I saw all this cool stuff people were doing, and had to try for myself. I quickly discovered most of it was just cool lookin'.

I didn't start experimenting with things like putting on die-cast rims, until I figured out exactly how I could make it perform as good, if not better than stock.

Something like lowering your body can totally screw up your handling by limiting supension travel, or tires rubbing here and there. That's why I don't like to lower my cars. So know when you do see one of my cars lowered, I spent plenty of time to make sure it performed as well too.

HirotoR34 · Post by **HirotoR34** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 4:09 pm

You said it D! I spend hours grinding away at inner bodies to make room for wheels and lowering. I like to make it perform first and look good last.
I have destroyed more cars modding than the ones that came out somewhat decent.

hogjowlz · Post by **hogjowlz** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 4:31 pm

i hear that!!!

SuperFly · Post by **SuperFly** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 5:00 pm

I totally agree. I really only have one or two cars that are more about looks than performance. Even those work fine, I just put slow motors and blue gears in them cuz that's what kind of cars they are. Ya gotta be able to drive them, otherwise you might as well build a model or buy a Hot Wheel or Johnny Lightning car. Some things break my heart, too. Like how alloy wheels (or most any major wheel mod) don't perform as well as stock, how you really do need an antenna, and a host of other things that are difficult if not impossible if you want the car to drive well.

Post by **CaboWabo** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 10:48 pm

word.
I heat up the inside of my bodies with a bic and push them shits out with my finger leaving the prints behind and some plastic stringin off, then I paint the whole the thing black and piss on it and snap a pic.
kick ass shit man

that felt great

ph2t · Post by **ph2t** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 1:22 pm

CaboWabo wrote:word.
I heat up the inside of my bodies with a bic and push them shits out with my finger leaving the prints behind and some plastic stringin off, then I paint the whole the thing black and piss on it and snap a pic.
kick ass shit man

that felt great

If there was ever a detox centre for 1/64 scale cars, this is the sorta thing you would be hearing......

ph2t.

Post by **CaboWabo** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 5:27 pm

rehab is for quitters lol

LiL_Mike · Post by **LiL_Mike** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 7:43 pm

Guess this was just for looks. I wasn't really counting on it working. Guess i'm slowly slippin out of the hobby. Anyway I decided i wasn't gonna buy more bits, so my only working cars were and SE and reg. ZZ. I've found that my se was faulty or somethin' and I didn't wan't to bother to see if rat shack'd do anything. So, I glued the wheels on, let it drie overnite (I used model glue btw, very effective) well the back wheels ran great, but only one of the front wheels barly moved.

The moral of this topic:
If at first you don't succeed.
Try, try again.

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 8:19 pm

Sounds like some glue seeped in between the axle and wheel. I've had that problem with paint.

Try pulling the pin, cleaning out the hole, and see if that helps.