Ideal beginners racing touring car.

[lochness42]

I would go for used pro chassis. I found it best choice personally.

[colmo]

Originally Posted by lochness42

I would go for used pro chassis. I found it best choice personally.

I was chatting to an XRay driver lamenting the recent price-hikes for that brand - he wasn't sure what brand he could switch to that would cost less to maintain. I think it boiled down to Associated TC5, Schumacher Mi3.5 or Hot Bodies Cyclone, and maybe Serpent S400, as most other touring car brands are hard to get spares for in the UK - notably Tamiya TRF & Yokomo.

[qatmix]

Originally Posted by colmo

Can you use standard 48 or 64 dp spur gears on the TA-05? The whole business of 0.4 and 0.6 metric dp spurs and pinions which Tamiya do on everything except the 501X and DB-01 buggies is annoying for people with a set already, and to beginners who may then move on to other touring cars which use imperial dp gearing.

Yup, I have one car running the 0.4 pinions (they are great), my outdoors one just runs a 0.48 pitch. The spurs are std.

parts are also very easy to get online etc.

BTW its easy to get TRF parts. I order them online from demon and they arrive next day, or if they dont have them you can go to vellrip etc and have the parts in less than a week.

BTW, I havent replaced one part in my car for months other than the foam tyres

[lochness42]

Originally Posted by colmo

I was chatting to an XRay driver lamenting the recent price-hikes for that brand - he wasn't sure what brand he could switch to that would cost less to maintain. I think it boiled down to Associated TC5, Schumacher Mi3.5 or Hot Bodies Cyclone, and maybe Serpent S400, as most other touring car brands are hard to get spares for in the UK - notably Tamiya TRF & Yokomo.

I'm running Xray, because it has best parts support over here. But if I lived in UK, I would go for schuey (MI4 is really tempting, but MI3.5 looks good as well). Truth is - Xray is quite tough and I really don't have to buy many spares, so I don't see price increase tragical.
In the end it's allways matter of preference.

[stegger]

There's a brand new TC5 going for a snip on e-bay £150 so far

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...m=190308084530

Could be worth a look for a first timer at that price