Tomy the intruder of the 4wd world!
 

You could say tomy were intruders of the 4wd rc world. I don't think many people at the time expected them to enter the competitive arena. Nevertheless, I think their entries were commendable but unfortunately short-lived.

I never knew about Tomy's cars until quite recently. Anyhow I picked up a runner on eBay from down under. It was being used as a tourer or carpet buggy on foams. It needed a complete strip down before I could get working on it. I also installed hop up options including Kose wheel hubs and universals all around, yz10 black rims, cf upper deck and rear gearbox stay and a new shiny screw kit.

I won't bore you with countless build pics. Here is where I've reached so far.


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Sorry about the grainy look of the pics...I'll try to sort out some HD shots later. I think it's looking pretty trick so far. Tranmsision is really smooth. Not much to go now!

I have an intruder that is basically as new apart from the bumper..

Have run it indoors once and it felt quite good, but as spares are possible to find its destined to live on a shelf :(

I've got a bunch of spares, but like you I don't think I'll run it heavy.

Wow, nice buggy!!!
Never seen one in person, so one question; Does the belt adjust by turning those disks on both side of the diff? Are those perforations offset from more to less adjustment?

Great build you have going here. I am still yet to witness one of these cars on a race track. They certainly have all the potential of a fine vintage racer just begging for a sniff of dirt.
I watch your thread with anticipation.

Yes you are right. This is how you adjust the belt tension but it's a little fiddly as once you have achieved the desired tension you need to use a screw to fix it in place! As you can imagine, the screws are really small.

Probably the same deal as found on all the early Schumacher buggy diff eccentrics.

Naushad when I sold my new Intruder I kept the set of mounted foams - the wheels won't fit anything I have, do you want them?

If yer offering mate!:thumbsup:

But let me have some pics first just in case I already have similar.

Thanks.

Naushad are those wheel hubs standard for this car? They look like Yoke adapters. Either way, me likey :)

I sold one to Keith on here a while back, mine was a totally standard original intruder. This one seems to have a fair bit of CF and looks like it's coming along great. The wheel adaptors do look yokomo, the originals had a fiddly large wheel nut and a plastic molded spanner. The diff adjusters are the eccentric cam types as seen on early schumachers as you say and had silly little retaining screws. The overall design I thought was very good, transmission and centre one way similar to the ys870 dogfighter.

Keep it going:thumbsup:

This is my Intruder ready to run, I have run on grass at my local club but split a front wishbone, i seem to remember they were a bit weak along the moulding line.
It ran quite well, I,am going to try it without the epicyclic spur gear as it was a bit weird, kept turning in really sharp off power:confused:

I ran one back in the early Nineties , i replaced the front tower with a carbon fibre version.

However that broke , then replaced both shock mount's with anodized alloy versions.

Very nice car to run .

Anyone know where I can get some Tomy Repro decals?

Have seen the Adonis ones on Ebay, but am after the intruder ones...

Looks cool Naushad. I've never really seen one of those properly.

Looks pretty good.

Dave

Ok guys. A little more progress.

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I'm now looking for some attachments for the front shock shafts to attach to the ball ends on the suspension arms. I'll then get the servo in place and cut the body to size. I've only got the Adonis repro decals, but littlevette on rc10talk has original intruder ex decals which are probably a better match.

Hey ken, nice one there. I have a thicker frp tower on mine. Kinda beefy.

What shock collars are those Naushad ?

No idea ken.

I might have some Tomy shock ends if thats what you need?

I ran an Intruder circa 1990. It was a fantastic car! Mine had alloy everything! I have a picture or two somewhere...

..classy car and pretty advanced at the time. I never ran the front one ways - hated them.

Jimmy

Here we go..

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Added the alloy wishbones after this picture was taken. Such a cool looking buggy. Even had a cab forward shell!

Jimmy

That looks great, do you still have the car? Were the alloy hop ups from RPM?

Guys I did a hi res scan of the nip intruder decals before I sold it. The shell you have Naushad is the Intruder which I had.

Email me and I'll send to you. Then you just need to find someone who will print them! If struggling I can maybe get the guy who did my masami cat decals to print them.

I actually did them for myles who sells the adonis repro decals on eBay but he mustn't have done them yet.

[email protected]

;)

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Yeah hubs look like aftermarket yok adaptors?

Will email you a pic of the wheels I have if any good they're yours :)

I was just thinking, this thread is a perfect example of how friendly and helpful our vintage community is ;)

The alloy bits weren't made by RPM. Not sure who made them. All I know is that you could get a massive amount of alloy bits for it.

Jimmy

That painted Adonis looks ace! Love those alloy towers, very nice.

Can anyone fill me in on the Tomy model line up. I'm embarrassed to say that I don't know all the models.

Cheers- Jason

Intruder Adonis
Intruder
Intruder EX (I want!)

I think?

Dan

Intruder EX...hmmm. I'd defo want one of those.

Who knows..

Yeah, they are KOSE wheel adaptors from Japan. They are for the Yoko YZ10 etc..

Mmm

http://toysjp.blogspot.com/2013/01/t...-body.html?m=1

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I'm planning to get some decals printed off for the intruder.

If I can gauge interest and numbers wanted then this would be useful.

Thanks.

Naushad

I'll have a set! Have emailed a couple of people about them to no avail..

Will post some pics of mine later when I get it down :)

Cant wait to run it again... just need to get the shell painted up..

Dan b4 kindly sent me the high res pics so I will try to approach someone to get them printed off. I will also try at the university.

Linky, from another tread; just thought you guys might like to have alook at the wheel hubs on this modern car
http://www.redrc.net/2013/07/s-workz...it/#more-68109

Ripped off...like the covers of classic tracks done by awful teen bands...:lol:

Intruder - original buggy
Intruder Adonis - cheap low spec alloy chassis, plastic shock version
Intruder EX - Intruder with updated suspension arms

Then there's the Intruders second cousin, the Xpress Striker. After Tomy sold the Intruder design to their Hong Kong distributors they created Xpress and sold a carbon chassied wide tourer version of the Intruder EX.
http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_m...d=65441&id=297 :cool:

Thank you for clearing that up. I didn't realise the Tomy Adonis shell was actually the original Intruder design carried over. For some reason I was under the impression that the EX was the original car.
Glad to know now.

It was Space Age for it's time and is still trick cool right now.I love it.Thanks for posting Naushad.BTW What's its weight vs. a newer car?

Hi. Thanks for your comment.

With sub-c saddles it feel light...say compared to a yz10 '94. But I'm sure lighter still compared to the alloy based 4wd chassis.