Show us your B-MAX4 III
 

Show off your car here

Mine so far, a teaser from my upcoming photo build:

http://neallewis.net/RC/BMAX4-III-4326w.jpg
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Looks super tasty that!!

How do you rate the quality of the kit compared to the xb4?, I hate to say it but looks even better!!

The XB4 was excellent of course, but this feels differently good. similar if not better really. Things like sometimes on the XB4 you were having to work hard to get the screws into the plastics, wrist ache, and you could feel the heat in the screws from the friction as you screwed it into the plastic bits. None of that with the Bmax4, screws go in easily. Also i like the fact they use different grades of plastics depending on if the parts need to flex or not. Example wing mounts. The XB4 wing mounts were forever breaking. They were just brittle, in my opinion, but made out of the same grade of plastic as everything else. The bmax on the other hand they are made out of a more flexible plastic and look like they will take much more abuse, also bumper also is the same, certainly different plastic to the bulkheads and gearbox casings and arms. The Yokomo shocks are a better experience. The xb4 shocks are not bad, but i found the lack of anything to hold the shock body with a bit of a problem sometimes with things got tight, or you wanted to screw the cap on tight, to stop the leaks.
For me the only "bad" bit about the bmax4 is the availability of white wheels. there are none at the moment, so i'm stuck with yellow!

Can't you use a hex from a TD or XB4 and use those wheels?
Thats what I did with the MR2, put on a 14mm hex and use the xray rims

yes need to try this with TD hexes. Seen it done on rear of mr2, but the front doesn't work with xray hexes. did you make up a spacer, or use lots of shims?

Working on the photo build....

Complete now and been run.

http://courgette.jml.net/~neal/RC/Yo...x4iii-4523.jpg

It's awesome!

Looks like a great bit of kit. If I bought one I'd probably never get chance to race it.

Would it be naughty to buy one then, in that case?!

Here's mine
 

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Very nice. My body is in paint, have been using a borrowed one.
I need to re-wire also. Just transplanted the electrics right out my XB4. A few wires can be rerouted and shortened.

well heres my Christmas prezy :thumbsup:
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just waiting on the alloy shock tops then fill full of oil and away to go :thumbsup::thumbsup:

great build but why the mixing of allen and cross head screws!

Apart from the screws tho hold in the outer hinge pins where else were the cross head screws?

Nice Andy. Didn't realise you'd changed over to Yok.

pinion screws for the crown wheel and pinion

outer hinge pins

for the sake of those why not change them???

Oh yeah, the crown gear ones are a pain in the ass. I don't recall the ones for the wing mount tho. I'm 99% sure mine were all hex heads.

Just got it as something to build really and have a go with, I quiet like the idea of the gear diffs also.

I think in my kit I got both Allen head machine screws and cross headed self tappers for my wing mounts... I obviously used the machine screws

I suspect I scared him into getting one as I nearly beat him. He won by 0.4sec though.

I wish I was just as convincing in the speed department, but I tend to focus on demonstrating the Yokomos' durability... :p

Going to give it it's first outing tomorrow.
HPI 6.5 T motor, Speed Passion GT Pro ESC & Savox 1283 servo (servo is a bit overkill but it's the only spare one I had)
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...etruggy029.jpg

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Sylvain - B-MAX4 III
 

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Ran mine for the first time yesterday. Indoors so not ideal but was quite pleased. Felt a bit over damped all day so will need to work on that next time out.

Qualifting was tough as i was in bottom heat but ended up Q7 and finished 2nd overall with a 3 2 2 in the finals.

Overall pretty pleased so far.

first run last night, nice change from the Durango. Went well, a few minor adjustments and it should be better.

http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/l...ps007b8a41.jpg

Ready to rock n' roll baby............

Must say I quite like the colour

nice...
I'll post mine as soon as i finish painting:p:p

New Ride Alert!! :)
 

After several electrical layouts I finally opted for this one. Motor sensor lead in post, thanks MB. So just the body to paint and wing to cut before I can try this baby out….

Heres my new B-MAX4 III ready for it first meeting tommorow :D

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It handles just brilliant on high grip astro :thumbsup:
Although it's the "light weight" kit it's still a rather heavy car, but on the track it doesn't feel so. In contrary, I found it very nimble. It's very stable and so easy to drive and push hard. Ran it for the first time this weekend and I immediately posted the fastest laps of the day! A broken servo ruined my chance for overall victory though. This car responds very well to setup changes, whilst a lot of cars were fighting against grip-roll, I drove her hard with new tires and minimal tire cutting.

Thank you Yokomo:D

Good to hear you went well first time out RCPower. What servo did you break?

It was an "old" KO servo (PS-2173), back from the days when I used to drive Nitro on-road. Whilst steering to full lock to the left, it went back to centre position(only for a fraction of a second). This happened 3 or 4 times. Needless to say I was a couple of times too wide and forced into error because of this. Still finished 5 seconds down the leader though. I could not reproduce the behaviour when the servo was out of the car. With a different servo in I didn't experience it anymore though...

Ready to rumble.....:D

A Wednesday afternoon practice with my son.
He's 8 years old and it was his first time out with the yok.

Do you have the shorty chassis? I think it improved the car a lot when i compared it with the saddle chassis? The griplevel on ORRA can be extremely high!

Yes, this is with the shorty(light weight conversion) chassis.
Yes, the grip level at this track is insane when it's dry!

my yoko
 

ill post pictures of my new one when i figure out how to put photos up lol

No shell to show as it's currently away at the painter, but here is my finished install ready for it's first outing at Benfield next weekend. Put the wires over the centre as I'm not a fan of squeezing them under as it it was quite a tight fit with my sensor lead etc.

Nice build and good looking wiring. Where do you get the pink from?

Usually from my local shop but its distributed by Horizon Hobbies, it's trickbits. The stuff I have on that car is Turnigy wire and i got it from a seller on ebay called "Zuue". I love the pink wiring to go with my shells. :thumbsup:

Excellent. Found him and pink wire still available :-)

Is that a Sanwa ers-971 inside? My preferred servo's at the moment.