Pinions and Spurs

My first real FPV video I did a while back, miss the old tc5r chassis

This is a short video of the recent run I did on this car, I have to admit this is one Tamiya chassis that I am least impressed with.

It is definitly more adjustable from the TT01E but if you are thinking about upgrading I would say just go for the Ta05 or better. The car does not seem to handle brushless systems too well, the fastest motor you can use in my experience is the super stock from Tamiya anything more you will start to rip the car apart or just keep burning through spur gears.

Love this little car, built it over a year ago and was sitting on the shelf. So decided to take it for a spin, everything is bone stock, standard 540 tamiya motor I think it is 19 turn. The battery is intellect 4200, the tires etc are stock but almost brand new, love driving this thing.

This thing probably does not even hit 10-15mph but it is a lot of fun to drive, rear wheel drive chassis seems to be well balanced for taking decent corners at reasonably high speeds. The body is very detailed, I kind of wish I had built it in red color to begin with but oh well.

Took the Ta05 speed passion 2.5R combo for a run as well, nothing changed on the car setup except for rear wing addition and FPV video gear. The car ran very well, as expected the added weight of the FPV gear made the car a little unstable at high speeds nearing 50mph. 

I have radar tested this setup for 50mph in windy conditions along with rear wing, I would say it was pretty near that target given that it was not windy that day. 

The video is more fuzzy on this car, I beleive this is mainly due to the car being setup lighter than the TC5R and so on corners and little bumps the car shakes more and thus causes more video disturbance..

I will hopefully be working on some kind of universal chassis of some kind that can hold the FPV gear better and definitly upgrading to 5.8ghz system when I can.

So finally got around to test out the new motor/gear/25c lipo setup on the TC5r. It was an extremely hot day, average ambient temperature was about 90-96. The car performed well, but ended up blowing the left rear tire and crashing as a result

The Mamba Max 5700 combo 87/22 gearing with Trakpower 3s 4900 25c combo is very very good, I enjoyed running the car. However the FPV equipment it self is pretty heavy along with the 3s lipo made the car somewhat unstable at high speeds, I estimate the car was topping out at around 60mph I did not get a chance to use the radar gun to make sure but given the setup and my calculations it should be doing at least that much.

I intend to get an OSD setup soon and perhaps in time upgrade to a 5.8ghz video system so I get better reception, the whole project has been challening because there are a lot of moving parts. The video gear and the car the electrics all need to be setup well and mounted on the car so they dont make the vehicle unstable.

I think I’ll be doing this in phases, next one will definitly be the OSD so we can start seeing some data like motor temperature, RPM and of course GPS based speed.

This is my first test of an FPV equipped car, the vehicle is Team Associated TC5R with Novak GTB 3.5R brushless system. I am using the 900mhz video system from hobby wireless. This is just a first test, I am currently working on a new enzo body and other upgrades and will be making a new video.

This is what the car looked like when the video was shot, but I think there can be some updates made to the body to decrease wind resistance among other things, will be posting a video and pictures soon.

This is the first speed run test with basic gearing 48p 87 spur and 17 pinion, novak GTB 3.5 and was able to hit 53 mph max in a straight line.