Hello again.

I was wondering if anyone had any really nice radio controlled Minis? I am looking for something that I can build and that has some really good speed. When I was a kid, I remember the Tamiya r/c cars being really nice, and then there were also the gas powered cars that were extremely fast. Does anyone have any info on Minis like this?

Also.. I know there are a few of the little tiny r/c Mini's around at Toys R Us and places like that. Are these any good? Fast?

Thanks!

Bill

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Soon to be owner of a BRG MCS!!! (June seems so far away!!!!)

 

I have the Tamiya Mini Cooper. Its a decent car, but definitely not a racerr's car. It also is not quite a standard size, so it is hard to find a body that fits it other than the default body. With that said, it is remarkably to scale. And I've had a lot of fun driving it around - though I did pick up a "beater" body so that I would not care if I scratched it.

If you drop a faster motor in to it, it will go faster. Though I'm not convinced the shocks would support this gracefully on anything but a smooth parking lot - and they are a slightly odd size so it may be difficult to get better shocks.

With that said, the tamiya car is probably the best electric RC Mini out there. Kyosho apparently made a 1/8 scale gas Mini - but it seems to be discontinued. And I couldn't find a picture to determine if it was an old Mini or a new Mini.

Your other option is to get any of the onroad RC cars that fit a 190mm or 200mm body (which is most cars) and order the appropriate Proline body. This will get you a more race quality car with a mini body. But without seeing the ProLine body, I can't tell you if they haven't changed the proportions of it.

 

Im waiting for HPI to make a MicroRS4 with the MCS body style.

We use to race M03's and M03L's in socal area along with other
4wd chassis like roadrunner and HPI's RS4mini. the M03, while
tuned correctly, could keep up with the 4wd Mini's....the downside
with those tamiya's was the gear noise and it got really expensive
to modify..chassis is only like $85, but the mods are like over $100.

The roadrunners were probably the fastest mini's out there and
tunability was great...rode just like the 1/10th sedans..but the
front knuckle broke left and right all the time. Not sure who's
in the game these days for those mini chassis.

The $20 toys-r-us RC car runs great....but its rear drive.

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I'd love to know what you recommend for the M03L. It was my first RC in like 5 years. Are there good replacement shocks?

 

try http://www.hobbypeople.com

 

Oooops, I meant http://www.hobbypeople.net Here is a link to the car. http://www.hobbypeople.net/gallery/315295.asp

 

I have the Tamiya M03L MINI as well. It's fun to play around with but of course, not a race ready ride. Tamiya makes tons of hop-up parts for it. You can replace the shocks, bearings and most other parts with better ones. So far I've only gotten the metal bearings.

I have a number of little "toy" rc mini's as well.

 

Wow, that RC looks really nice. I still haven't gotten around to painting mine. It seems like a lot of work.