Schumacher SST rally sport for racing?
 

Hi All,

About 12 years I got a Schumacher SST off my parents as a present. I used it then put it away for a few years. Last summer I got it out to try drifting. It was fun so I put in a 13T ezrun for just playing with rubber and drift tyres. Anyway, the drive belts both wore out so I stopped using the car and got a cheapo Ansmann ARE-2. It handled terribly but had gear diffs and shaft drive so was pretty much zero maintainance.

I now want to go racing at Adur Rc in the 17.5T sportsman class. I've already bought a budget brushless system (the cheapest that is on the white list) and need a car for it to go in. I really don't have much money for this (my 1/8 scale buggy and 1/10 scale SCT have broken me)

Is it worth me spending £20 on the belts to get the SST up and running again or should I look for a cheap Mi1? Also bear in mind that as the rally SST I need to buy a front bumper for it (£13)

Or are there any other cars I should consider. I don't mind maintainence but I do mind things like expensive belt replacements and diff rebuilds.

Ideally I'd want to drive a shaft drive gear diff car but I don't think theres anything vaguely competitive.

Help would be appreciated.

Tim

Hi Bud,

Its probably best to post this in the onroad section.

The SST would be ok to run in 17.5t. Although if you were going to spend £35 ish on parts to get it able to race it might be best to look for a cheap second hand TC on the sale forum.

You wont get a lot for the SST if it needs money spent on it (say £20) but that would give you a budget of £50. Check on ebay as there are usually a lot of TC's for cheap. TC4's are shaft driven and they go cheap.. I personally prefer belt cars although for 17.5t a shaft should benefit from no slip.

Race level TC's will have a ball diff, the newer ones also have oil diffs, they never really had unsealed bevel diffs as they are not tunable.

** Quick edit** It looks like you can get new belts for less than £20, more like 12 for both.. thats pretty cheap, if you wanted to just race the SST.

Thanks for the advice. :thumbsup: Could you please post the link for the £12 belts? If that is the case I will do that to find out if I like TC racing.

There is a good tc3 cheap in the for sale section. Shaft drive and competitive still

Thanks for the info. Could you please link me? I did a search but couldn't find it.

If I can get the SST belts for £12 though I think that will be my preferred route just to try out racing.

Check out the roundabout rc web site. There was the rear belt for £4.99 the front I think was 7. Take a look and see if they are the right ones.

Thanks, they seem to have the front one
http://www.roundabouttoys.com/store/...-4mm-SST-Axis/

But I couldn't see a rear one :(

Is this it?

http://www.roundabouttoys.com/store/...r-Belt-SST-Ax/

Thank you for the link but that is for the AXIS. The only belts for the SST Sport are

u1492f (rear 6mm)
U1527O (rear 4mm)

and
u1888w (front)

Which belt is better out of 6mm and 4mm?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/U1492-SCHU...item27c1dee238

Rear 6mm Belt

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/U1888-SCHU...item27c1dee1aa

Front Belt

:thumbsup:

Cheers. £18 to get me racing seems reasonable. I'll do that. But when the belts pack up I'll look at other options. How long should a belt last with 17.5T brushless?

I raced 10.5 / 13.5 for years and never needed to replace a belt. Just never meddle with them by spraying oil on them etc. Also dont run belts very tight, just ensure a little bit of slack. (if you can adjust belt tension)

Basically build as per instructions and just leave and don't drive the car in mud or gravel.

Ok minor update.

I bought the belts from the link above however when I went to fit them I found the rear diff pulley and the rear pulley needed replacing so even more money :(

I replaced them though and the car handled amazingly! It was great fun!

Just need to sort out my gearing now!