Show us your Tamiya TRF 201 XR.

[xfactor]

Hi all,

Thought it would be nice to start a new thread for the new tamiya 201 xr, so here it is.

My new tamiya 201 xr with tamiya big bores.Any question please ask Enjoy

[andoiwebb]

Looks great, xfactor! You could make it look even better by adding a Vega Gen3 conversion!

Shame the spring retainers are a different shade of blue

[Aussie Top Force]

Well done Xfactor! Very neat build and wiring. Is that a shorty pack with the receiver positioned under the rear bulkhead?

Thinking I might order the BB's for my 501X and 201+Exotec 8mm. But I'm very tempted to get the XR! I might wait until the mid mount conversion is available a build a mid mount XR from scratch??? Thus I'll have a rear motor and mid motor to play with.

As the tracks over here are sugared more and more, grip is no loner an issue on our clay tracks and mid mount appears to be where the trend is going.

Thanks for the pictures!

[xfactor]

Hi David,

Yes shortie pack with receiver and transponder at rear under bulkhead.I did this as not to kink the wires off the speedo and gain more air around the speedo by fitting the speedo on the battery bar due to no fan.

Mark.

[Johnny Pedersen]

Hi all,

Here are my car :-)

[Origineelreclamebord]

Originally Posted by Johnny Pedersen

Hi all,

Here are my car :-)

That looks even more like a Vega than I thought! That said, it does look pretty neat, I wasn't expecting Tamiya to sell the conversion with an alu gearbox. I take it Tamiya anodized the casing, or did you have it done yourself?

[Aussie Top Force]

Wow, looks nice! Where did you source the rear conversion from? Stellamodels hasn't released them yet.

[Johnny Pedersen]

The conversion kit have arrived in Denmark, together with the new racing steering set :-)

[Johnny Pedersen]

The gearbox are blue from Tamiya, it is standard :-)

[andoiwebb]

Nice Vega copy, though the Vega conversion looks better.

[trowta]

Originally Posted by Johnny Pedersen

The conversion kit have arrived in Denmark, together with the new racing steering set :-)

do they ship international? if so do they have a website???

[Fredrik Emilsson]

Originally Posted by andoiwebb

Nice Vega copy, though the Vega conversion looks better.

True, gearbox looks very similar to Vega. Would´nt say copy, but very similar.

Chassi looks very similar to 22.
Front similar to B4.

But most buggies have borrowed ideas and design from other models.

Would very much like to see some more "twists" from Tamiya.
But performance is of course the most important thing with TRF cars.

[Origineelreclamebord]

Originally Posted by andoiwebb

Nice Vega copy, though the Vega conversion looks better.

That's only down to the badly shaped sidepods - if they would merge into the front bulkead and motor guard/rear bulkhead to make a smooth tub shape it would look better than the Vega

[Racecrafter]

Originally Posted by Origineelreclamebord

That's only down to the badly shaped sidepods - if they would merge into the front bulkead and motor guard/rear bulkhead to make a smooth tub shape it would look better than the Vega

Side guards were designed not to connect to the front nose piece or the rear bulkhead to aid in flex-tuning.

[Origineelreclamebord]

Originally Posted by Racecrafter

Side guards were designed not to connect to the front nose piece or the rear bulkhead to aid in flex-tuning.

Imo it is just to cut costs. They could easily aid flex with bigger sidepods, look at the Xray XB4: It has a whole tub you can tighten onto the car in many configurations to adjust flex. So simply said, they could connect the sidepod in the front and rear, and add extra holes throughout the length of the sidepod to adjust rigidity (even specifically to a certain area of the car)...

So nice that the feature is on there, and I understand the TRF201's small market share doesn't give the best bargaining position to the director's board to increase the ambition of the project to a new kit, moulded sidepods or whatever... but in all honesty with Tamiya's rich history of attention to detail, they should know better

[Aussie Top Force]

Originally Posted by Origineelreclamebord

Imo it is just to cut costs. They could easily aid flex with bigger sidepods, look at the Xray XB4: It has a whole tub you can tighten onto the car in many configurations to adjust flex. So simply said, they could connect the sidepod in the front and rear, and add extra holes throughout the length of the sidepod to adjust rigidity (even specifically to a certain area of the car)...

So nice that the feature is on there, and I understand the TRF201's small market share doesn't give the best bargaining position to the director's board to increase the ambition of the project to a new kit, moulded sidepods or whatever... but in all honesty with Tamiya's rich history of attention to detail, they should know better

TRF Cars don't have a big market share (Globally) because they don't have a top ten USA driver. Lee Martin is good and certainly a contender for top 10 at the worlds, but they need a good USA based driver to mix up the AE, TLR and Kyosho drivers. Tamiya is a big company and makes many model products, so budget shouldn't be an issue. The cars have what it takes, all they need a US based driver to take them there! Kyosho have.

[taomo]

Hi,

some pics of my TRF201XR. It is not finished yet because I am thinking about the saddle LiPos position before the soldering process. My local track is very similar than the Valladolid Euros 2013. What do you think? "stick" position would work better than "saddle" (I have the #54440 TRF201 Suspension Weight Block (5-Deg.)).

Johnny Pedersen, I want the new alu steering set, where did you buy it?

Best regards

[patez]

Taomo, i tried saddle configuration without any extra weight and it felt very nose heavy on clay. then again there was lot of turf lookin parts in vallodid.. its not a rear traction machine like the old 201 imho.

[D.A.R.C 1]

Originally Posted by Origineelreclamebord

That's only down to the badly shaped sidepods - if they would merge into the front bulkead and motor guard/rear bulkhead to make a smooth tub shape it would look better than the Vega

I totally disagree with statement above
If it had a smooth tub shape etc like you say then it would look just like a Vega
No better no worse. The same.

[taomo]

Originally Posted by patez

Taomo, i tried saddle configuration without any extra weight and it felt very nose heavy on clay. then again there was lot of turf lookin parts in vallodid.. its not a rear traction machine like the old 201 imho.

Thanks patez!