RB5 Hopup

[Supergreg]

Me too, but depends on manufacturing costs and postage to germany.

cheers

[jim76]

i'm not sure on manufacturing costs until i speak to the old man at the weekend (that's if he actually has time do it at all.) Hopefully won't be too high as he should have plenty of off cuts lying around that are plenty big enough for these!
with regards postage, for fully tracked insured postage its about £6 - 9euro. standard airmail is about £2 - 3euro.

[woOdy]

I have had one made for mine early this year. How much would you pay for 1? Brass bulk head that is.

[Scouser]

I would have one also. It would be good to have options!

[Supergreg]

Woody ygm.

[woOdy]

Jimmy does have a picture of my brass bulk head somewhere? I will try and get him to post it but he is very busy.

[jim76]

OK - saw the old man this weekend and he thinks it should be fairly easy. He's disappeared with my RB5 anyway, so i'm carless until Xmas now!

Not sure when they will be done, at the latest i will collect them when i go down for Xmas but he may post them up if he does them before that.
He thinks it's less than a days work to make up a jig and churn out 10-12. He also thinks he has some brass lying around that he can use for them.

I'll have a firm price once he has done them depending on how long it takes, but i'm hoping them will be £20 tops, hopefully £20 inc postage would be good.

They should be fairly exact replica's of the kit item including the taper for the 25/30 deg options. Not sure exactly how much they will weigh obviously until i get hold of one, but they won't be hollowed out like the Alloy one in this thread. I don't think the ends will be rounded either as looking at mine there was plenty of clearance to the wishbone. Obviously the corner could be taken off with a file if it's a bit close.

I'll post an update when i hear back from him.

[Scouser]

Raced the RB5 for thwe first time today, obviously the first time with the Cliff rc parts aswell. What a fantastic thing it is. Flies so much better than the B4, strong as an Ox aswell. Had a head-on with a car that had crossed the track, hit hard enough to bend a turnbuckle almost in half! Turnbuckle didn't look too good but the rest of the car was perfect. Managed 2nd in the A final on my first outing with the car, very happy indeed.
I could tell even with limited driving time that the added weight to the front is pretty crucial. The aluminum bulkhead is good but I reckon the brass one will be even better. I think £20 or so is very fair for how much it will help the car. JMO.

[AlexM]

I received my cliff-rc parts (over futaba) and have following comments to make:

Excellent service bei Futaba

the bulkhead fits quite nicely with a little preassure used to put it into the place.

the motorplate looks awesome and much stronger than the original. I had a very small problem mounting it since 1 hole was just a tiny bit out of the line (with loosening the other screws and having all screws slighltly connected it was no problem to fix)
YET - the motorplate is not an exact stronger replica. It also has a different shape on the bottom side. this ultimately leads to a gap with mounted gearcover (size of the gap is about 1,5 cm x 0,3 cm). Since I am driving on carpet for the time being it is not a problem. I don't know if i will use the plate outdoors though

[RLGfx]

£20 sounds perfectly reasonable... put me on the list for one!

[KyoshoK]

another hopup from cliff

[Mike Hudson]

ooo im liking the upgrade parts very nice shame i dont hav an RB5

[ben]

so whats the advantage of that battery brace over the kit one?

[telboy]

Hmm, I can't see that it'll make that much difference really. Rigidity maybe? but thats the last thing you want as the car could do with losing some of its rigidity really.

I've never found the front end weight too much of a problem. since I've found a decent setup i've always had pretty good amounts of front end grip.

[ben]

ok cheers

lil ben

[woOdy]

Originally Posted by KyoshoK

another hopup from cliff

The scary thing is that its only got 5 cells in it? Must race on a really slippy surface.

[telboy]

yeah I noticed that. Actually thought that might have been something to do with the hop up, but it doesn't.

[Moose]

would prefere a reversed left to right battery brace ... would still be as stable as that and look better

[jim76]

just a quick update on the brass bulkheads. unfortunately the old man was layed up for a couple of weeks during xmas with a recurring back problem. He is back at work now, but obviously has a slight back log of regular work. He has acquired a piece of the correct size brass from a friend and is hoping to get a prototype to me in a couple of weeks to try and make sure it fits etc before he runs off the rest. So hopefully some time in Feb for the rest. I will post a pic once i get the prototype.

[jim76]

Brass bulk head finally made! See the new thread "RB5 Brass Bulk head at last" in Kyosho section