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Originally Posted by jimmy
What are these hinge braces all about then ? Ive not actually built the car yet, I'll start it next week I think in time for the weekend. If the kit shocks are a bit pants I guess I'll put some associated b4 ones on just to test it out.
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Hey Jimmy, great site
I'm a regular visitor but never realised you had a forum.
One of the guys from the Tamiya Club forums (who luckily lives about 10 minutes from my house) has made an alloy gear adaptor plus a pair of carbon fibre hinge-pin braces.
The standard inboard hinge-pins are about 3 mm too long, so I assume Tamiya will offer up their own versions soon enough, but I grabbed these in the meantime.
The front one fits just like the brace on a B4, XXX etc, at the front of the arms, the rear one is supposed to go at the front of the rear arms - but I found that it restricted the motor movement too much so I did a bit of dremeling to the rear bumper and put the brace on the back of the rear arms
Tamiya cars are traditionally a little sloppy in this area so the braces both strengthen that area and remove some slop
