My rs4 sport 3 came with slightly bent center shaft, it causes vibration to the car. the Carbon driveshaft cover does help to stiffen the chassis and help keep the shaft straight and less vibration.
Ari , these videos are fun. You do good coverage of different things, and that pirate is hilarious. I hear your voice and appreciate these videos even more being originally from Long Island. It’s a certain mentality, a certain delivery, that never goes away. haha Keep up the good work.
The car is 2-3s capable , I ve been playing with it on 3s with no problems ,it’s written on the esc if u wanna check it out ,just don’t forget to switch the pin on the esc to the lipo side.
HPI has been through more hands (owners) than a dollar bill in the last 20 years. At one time they had almost as good parts support as Traxxas (the GM of RC). If the steering is to twitchy, turn down the dual rate. There are many more styles of Drift wheels than touring so if you can't find what you're looking for check them out.
Not that you might care it also has some jumpers to change it to lipo if you want to and has adjustments for how you want it to break and stuff through the jumper too as far as I said to me that looks like a off-brand looking 1060 ESC from hobbywing.
Just picked this up on ebay... It's going to a great home. I'm looking to start a Kyosho retro collection. If you could only own one retro what would it be? Thanks
Ditch the box TX. Bind it to your normal TX and you will more than likely see an improvement in the steering. If you can adjust the camber that will also help with how it handles.
@@RCRetroHi I know a year has passed but I wanted to share my experience with this car that I got recently... Out of the box the car had very twitchy steering due to a defect of the radio and a design flaw of the car, To start, the potentiometer on my remote that controls the steering is malfunctioning and often when steering right the servo shakes/twitches making driving impossible (I tried other servos and it still has this problem). I replaced the radio with a cheap Carson 2 channel and it works like a charm. Now we get to the second problem, the car comes out of the box with ZERO toe on the front wheels and no way of adjusting it. I am not a professional racer but in my experience if a car has zero toe in the front it simply will never go straight... In addition to that the servo has close to zero deadzone, so barely touching the steering wheel when going straight means the car starts going slighty one way or the other. I even tried changing the servo with other two servos, a digital 12KG one from SPT and a full metal case 20 kg hi-end servo and got pretty much the same result. At the end my solution was to take that one metal link that connect the two sides of the steering that stays under the central driveshaft and make another one from scrap using a piece of alluminium of similar thickness but with the holes closer to each other, this way the steering gained a slight toe-out. I tried it out and I was blown away by the handling...absolutely zero twitching or anything it is perfect. At the end I swapped the stock servo for the SPT as I already had it, but the stock one is probably fine for other uses. I still can't wrap my head around the fact they sell a car with zero toe and no way to adjust it... must be some small circuit racing bs.... Anyway If you want to make yours better I suggest you buy adjustable links for the steering so you can give it a bit of toe out.
I've got the Tamiya E30 M3 and it looks like the Tamiya body is more detailed with side mirrors, rear wing, front grille, and real (but not operational) headlights. The HPI front grille and headlights are just a sticker. That said, the HPI chassis looks to be much nicer and more versatile than the Tamiya's TT-01 chassis. Also, since you have the Tamiya M3 as well, how do the two cars compare, appearance and performance-wise?
Unfortunately, I do not have the BMW M3 from Tamiya. It was only the box that I had. Someone shipped me another RC car in that Tamiya M3 box which got me interested in obtaining one.. Then, coincidentally, not too long after receiving that box, HPI came out with one. From looking at pics online, I can tell that the Tamiya one is definitely more detailed.
Hey I did see that on road race but what happened to the track races with the dirt and everything what's going on with that I mean how much more do you think you guys are going to get in racing before your series is over and is there a new channel cuz someone says there's a new channel.
I can see what you're talking about but I've never seen one of these tamiya's up close with this livery. I really wanted one and could have purchased it but they were a little on the pricey side and for less, I was able to get this RTR version from HPI.
@@RCRetro I wonder if it might be possible to put the Tamiya body on this chassis? I have one these Tamiya bodies and the detail is excellent but very hard to get it right. Thoughts?
Sorry I would not be able to tell you what the max speed is. I ran this as stock right out of the box and it was a decent speed. I'm sure with different gearing and different Lipo batteries you can get this to go much faster. I also do not own this RC anymore. Sorry I couldn't give you more information.
Hate ''Toy looking'' Buggies!... Give me a Rally Car Camp, Trophy Truck, or a scaled down icon vehicle with ''good original detailing, it's so important'' after you have built your perfect RC model chassis... There seems to be so few body's for Petrol 2 stroke scaled 1/15 model vehicle's... (Tamiya, are still hard to beet with there ''visual detailing'' in there RC products)🧐
I did not gps speed run this so I'm not sure of exact speed. It was decent out of the box. I also ran it with a Nimh battery. I'm sure if I had used a Lipo it would have been a bit more quicker.
Those Firebolt motors are known to perform not well to put it like that. Sport Tuned from Tamiya will eat that motor for breakfast. Nothing to so with your battery. They just performs poorly. Hope HPI will grow to how they were back in the day. But I gotta say those window stickers have to go.
I'm new to thr rc world and love this model in real size, something looks wrong on this car though. I think the wheel arches flare out too much.making it look distorted. Shame.
