Tamiya TOP FORCE !!! FEEL THE FORCE !!!
 

Hi all,

I have purchased a Tamiya Top Force off a fellow Oopler. It came and was in near mint condition.

It came with a few spares new, spares used, full carbon kit new, blue king pins, new original body, undertray, wing and sticker sheet.

I have ordered a few BLING STING parts for it and fingers crossed should be here this week. Once they are fitted I will post pictures of the Top Force.

I have spent most of today spraying the shell, wing, undertray and adding the stickers. Took Gainsys advice from a previous post. Sent the Mrs out shopping today so I could instantly get in the garage as it was Mothers Day. YEAH BABY !!!

This is going to be my runner for the Iconic..........:thumbsup:

Here are some pictures of the finished body etc.....

Body,Undertray and wing.
 

Here are the body,wing and undertray pictures.

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I'm in Top Force mode at the moment too. I picked up a good condition Top Force on Fleabay which is getting cleaned up. I also picked up a cheap Manta Ray with a load of Top Force option bits mixed and matched into it.

I am in the middle of creating a home cut C/F chassis to take a shorty lipo across it + a matching home cut C/F top deck. I was thinking about using the Manta Ray bits to build on to this chassis as a vintage RC runner.

The original Top Force will get used but less abused!

I'll post some pics when I get the work done.

Looking forward to seeing the pics of this Mark, sure it will be a nice build!

Bigalbi, sounds like a good project, make sure to get a thread started on it

Update !!
 

Cheers Marko.

Its looking awesome. I think anyway matey...:)

Bigalbi,

Nice one matey. Get some pics up of it. Start a thread of the work you have done....:thumbsup:

I have the carbon B44 lipo cradle coming for the Force and the blue TRF carbon lock down kit.

I have today had the Blue alloy come,

Front uprites
Front knuckles
Rear Hubs
Servo Mounts

Will get these fitted over the next few days, just waiting on a few more bits to arrive and hope to get the finished pics up.:thumbsup:

Top Force Almost Built !!
 

So managed to start the Force. Almost complete, just waiting on rear CVDs. Then Electrics install.

Fitted to the Force is,

Blue alloy uprites
Blue alloy knuckles
Silver Alloy steering
Blue alloy rear hubs
B44 Lipo saddle tray
Tamiya TRF Lock down kit
Blue hexs front and also for rear
Egress HI CAPS
Full carbon chassis and towers.

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That looks fantastic :cool:

Problem is its sooo clean I couldn't bring myself to run it at the Revival... or anywhere for that matter (maybe on carpet... indoors... with no other cars... & with a track laid out with pillows!) :lol:

Cheers Dan

I know thats the trouble :) But it will be run......:thumbsup:

Looks awesome dude :thumbsup:
Same class as my cat 2000 :D

Hurry UP July !!! :D:D:D

Up-date !!
 

No pictures at the min, but will be over the weekend.:thumbsup:

I have started to fit the electrics. Motor, servo and receiver. Also fitted is the undertray.

Once I fitted this I did not like the blue alloy against the green. So, I removed the blue anodizing. Its all silver now and I think its a lot better. This is whats taken the time and put me back a little.

Just the speedo to fit and wire, then already for testing.:thumbsup:

Another set back.
 

So went to finish the force today and fit wire the speedo.

I could not fit the speedo on the chassis with a full size servo....:rolleyes: So I have removed the undertray and servo, and have now ordered I low profile servo.

So back to how I was Thursday night :mad:......:lol::lol: I probably shouldn't say this, but hope to get it finished this week as the plan is to give it a run out at Broxtowes last snowman meet.

Fingers crossed........:thumbsup:

The Runner FINISHED !!
 

So managed to sort the FORCE. This is my 4wd drive runner on the Sunday of the ICONIC at A1.

A lot of work has gone into this beast, but really happy with it. Just the 2 corally connectors to solder then ready for the track.....:thumbsup:

Full ABSIMA set up,

ABSIMA CTS 10
ABSIMA LOW PROFILE SERVO
ABSIMA 8.5
ORCA INFINITE HV.

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A thing of sheer beauty mate!

Lee

Very nice. You're entered for the Revival?

There is an Iconic RC open track meet at Broxtowe on Sunday April 10th if you wanted to give it a test run.

John

Revival
 

Cheers John,

Yes Im doing both days at the revival. I will be at Broxtowe with the force on 10th April. What time do gates open John.:thumbsup::thumbsup:

Mark.

That's awesome!

Really nice build as usual Mark

Superb :)

Excellent. There are a total of 9 Top Force's entered into this year's event. What an epic buggy.

Broxtowe gates open at 08:00.

Cheers Lads for the kind words.....


Will see you all there at Broxtowe on the 10th........:thumbsup::thumbsup: