Thanks, I appreciate the kind words. I've been playing with RCs for almost 20 years now. The DF-03 was the most difficult buggy to get it race-worthy. I thought my FT B4 was bad trying to NOT break front arms (even when it lands right), and not to mess up the diffs because doing so made the buggy take off in a not-so-straight fashion.
However, after I built my DF-03 and my re-re Fire Dragon, I have a renewed appreciation for Tamiya. Looks like Tamiya has gotten their stuff together with the release of the DB-01 and the 501.
I'm starting to get into on-road cars again, and my next vehicle for on-road is a Tamiya...
I've recently scored a FF01 NIB Chassis kit, and I've been eyeing the TA05v2 kit for a while now!
I've made some observations at the track last time I took my DF-03 out, and I've made some observations at home looking at the buggy. The next thing I'm going to work on is getting more droop out of the DF-03.
I initially put a conservative amount of spacers inside all four shocks to prevent the drive shafts from snapping the outdrives in half. I need to reduce the amount of limiters inside the shock to get more droop out of this buggy. Currently, it's fine the way it is, but I think there's more to be improved on this buggy....
I just wish that other vendors/manufacturers would take note of Tamiya's DF-03 chassis. If Tamiya spent just a little more effort, it would've had a great contender...
Like some of my questions for Tamiya would be, why not make the DF-03 with the same type of plastics that 501x is made of? It can't be cost, since majority of the cost of plastic is in the molds and setup right?
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