Finishing The Best That Tamiya Has To Offer In 2024 (Part 3) 

Thanks Pete 👍

The name and Ps code was on the tin in the video if I’m not mistaken but yep, you are 👌

Yep 100%

I hope Tamiya does something with the chassis again.

Don’t go to nuts, you don’t need a race servo

I agree it does. Yellow would be another colour I would like to do

@@RCKickschannel I have seen a yellow BBX with Blockhead Motors livery and it looks good. For some reason, I am drawn towards a brown colour scheme.

In the video description 👍🏻

No the taller pinion gear is causing the motor to overheat. The taller gearing puts more load on the motor. Ideally a pinion around 2 or 3 teeth less will reduce the motor load and allow the motor to reach its power band , it's rev range goes to 27500 rpm. So the motor needs to rev out high to make its power and a tall gearing doesn't allow this that's why it's overheating. If you put a smaller pinion on it won't overheat and you still get really good results with that motor. I've got 2 of them both in a Super Hot Shot and a Hot Shot both with 13 tooth pinion and for an old design car ( re release kits ) it still gets 28 mph or 46 km/h as I'm in Australia. Your BBX is a newer more modern design and you can avoid the overheating and still get really good results even with a smaller pinion gear. Enjoy that's a great car mate. I've wanted one myself but somehow I get stuck building the old rerelease classic kits although one day I'm going to just take the plunge and get my own BBX 👍👌

@@joedipietro2559 I would agree with you. However, you are comparing a 2wd car to a 4wd car. With 4wd cars you need to use a smaller pinion gear to get more torque. On 2wd cars you can use a taller pinion gear and get a little bit more speed. This also depends on where you are driving your car too. If you are driving on road, you can gear up. If you are off road it would be better to gear down. Thoughts?

Yeh I see your point. I should have taken that into consideration. Obvious now but yeah the driving surface makes a big difference to gearing and I hadn't actually thought about 2WD versus 4WD gearing. Well you make some good points here. I don't know what you could do to keep your ESC and motor running cooler except adding a cooling fan to both. Your receiver is probably a 2 channel plus auxiliary port so you could easily plug in a cooling fan to your auxiliary port and splice another fan onto that so you have 2 fans running on the 1 port. Or if you have a 4 channel receiver no problems. Possibly a aluminium heat sink on the motor and a fan on the ESC. Or run 1 fan off a AA cell battery to either your ESC or motor and plug the other fan into your receiver plus a heat sink on the motor. Those Super stock Tamiya RZ ,BZ and TZ motors look really nice a d have a cool sticker too but if a heat sink keeps it cool it's a wise move. They're actually a really good motor and perform great as a brushed motor without going to the trouble of trying to fit a brushless setup. Good luck Alfred I hope to see a video of your BBX running 👌👍

@@joedipietro2559 Yes, I have been surprised how good Tamiya brushed motor are. You are right, you could install a fan on either the motor or the ESC. I do not have any plans on doing so right now, because they are not getting hot.

I very nearly did that on mine!😬

LOL

Seriously he chose the most dreary, depressing color ever🤦🏻‍♂️ even gunmetal has more character than this sad shade of blue

I actually think the color he chose goes really well with the stickers

​@@HawkinsRC_Officialeach to their own . I love box art too and I paint box art on almost all my Tamiya RC cars but I reckon your being a bit harsh. If we all painted box art all our cars will look exactly the same. So a little bit of variety is good with paint schemes and there are so many possibilities. I don't know where some guys get inspiration from but I've seen some stunning paint schemes.