Tamiya Durga DB01 EP Buggy (A cheaper 501X?)

[DCM]

come on down, and sneak in lol

[peetbee]

Originally Posted by DCM

come on down, and sneak in lol

aye, time to kiss and make up

[DCM]

ha ha, Craig in make-up.... Roy, I love you long time....

[cjm_2008]

Originally Posted by DCM

ha ha, Craig in make-up.... Roy, I love you long time....

it's either that or I go out and buy my own patch of grass to race on...

[i4n]

Originally Posted by DCM

ha ha, Craig in make-up.... Roy, I love you long time....

Steve,

That's an image I never, ever thought would be in my head.

Thanks

[DCM]

haha, no worries Ian, years of training, to make a statement like that.

You racing this weekend Ian?

[i4n]

Yeah, got to get the DB-01 dirty again now I've spent all week stripping it down and cleaning the GNR mud out of it!

[DCM]

so glad a slept in... I got to whip the 5.5 out, now, do I go for the 6.5 or 7.5..... hmmmm

[i4n]

Nah, leave the 5.5 in

[DCM]

down there, it took half the straight at Talywain, to open up fully!!

[FERRETTI]

I've been putting this together over the last couple of weeks




.......and here's a list of the bits and pieces used:-

Tony’s Screw Kit

54028 TRF Buggy Aeration Damper F / R
53709 Flourine Coated suspension balls F / R
51286 TRF501X differential joint set F / R
54118 DB01 Assembly WO Universal Shaft (Front)
54119 DB01 Assembly WO Universal Shaft (Rear)
51090 4 pack of 950 bearings for steering
53884 Option PT TA05 Carbon Battery Holder
54061 Double Slipper Clutch
51320 Wheels Front
51321 Wheels Rear

JDRDB301 3mm Black Ceramic Differential Ball Set F / R

3 Racing DB01-04 Aluminium Front Suspension Mounts
3 Racing DB01-06 Aluminium Rear Suspension Mounts
3 Racing DB01-02/LB Front Shock Mount (awaiting Atomic Carbon version)

Atomic Carbon Rear Shock Mount

Custom Blitz shell

LRP Sphere TC and Vector X11 7.5 (soon to be X12 6.5 I think)

53884 Option PT TA05 Carbon Battery Holder is thinner than the standard version, this allows me to drive the retainer posts further in and more securely when running my TrakPower 4900s.

Hoping to run it for the first time at Jarrow next week

[shanks]

Car looks mega pal

Got one myslef very similar spec - i have a front one-way in it..have you?

Find it far better on the track i race (bury metro)...pulls through corners easier than without...

[FERRETTI]

I haven't fitted a front oneway yet, I'm going to see how it performs on the slippery surface a Jarrow first.

[bender]

Very impressive Ferretti

How easy was it to fit that brushless motor?

I've only just converted my Durga over to brushless and couldn't really fit my Tekin motor in it - it looked like it wasn't sitting flush due to hitting the part of the chassis at the back of the motor and was almost impossible to connect the sensor cable.

I ended up having to mill out part of the bottom of the chassis and decided to fit a new Novak Ballistic Brushless which has a smaller "endbell" section, and different sensor cable position.

[DCM]

my tekin redline goes straight in, you got to plug the sensor cable in first though.

[FERRETTI]

Originally Posted by bender

How easy was it to fit that brushless motor?

Straight in, no issues

[aittam]

Hello,

I just bought the trf501x diff joint (51286) and the large ball diff plate (51287) both for the front and for the rear.

The base of the diff joints are keyed, but the diff plates are not keyed. How should i assemble the diffs? Should i glue the diff paltes to the diff joints as i did with the stock db01 diffs?

In touring cars both the diff joints and the diff plates are keyed, and no glue is needed.

Mattia.

[jimmy]

I have not seen large diff plates? but anyway, no, these parts are not keyed and work via friction.

[Spoolio]

What Jimmy said . Just place the plate onto the 501X diff joint and the metal-metal contact does the rest, no need for glue or anything. It is to be honest a much better design than the stock DB01 plastic thingy (which is really the only bit of nasty cheapskate engineering in the whole kit).

[A.J. Gee]

Whats the deal with Tamiya releasing an abundance of the DF03 RA kits? I mean are they really that good? It seems to me that the differences between the original DF03 and the rally ones are so slight, that it seems quite rediculous to be releasing these kits left and right. What exactly is the demand for this kit anyways? I am hopefully wishing that Tamiya will step up their game and come out with something that interests me. I know it sound's quite selfish but i'm only speaking the truth. LOL