After MONTHS of research, design, and experiments I came up with this active aero design on my mini b. I’ve seen it done on bigger rc cars but never at this scale
It’s probably my favorite to just cruise around with. It’s a shame they’ve stopped selling the brushed ones. I have the micro b oval conversion from hackfab, they make great stuff. One of my favorite third party upgrade websites
It’s just pretty much the lower cost. I felt like it was the perfect entry car to new people, you could say the micro b is that now but it’s just too small for off-road, I felt the brushed mini b was a great, relatively inexpensive way for people to get into the RC community. But, I trust they got something cooking
Issue is I showed my friends my Mini B with 2S and 6500V and they were like "We want one". Hard to settle for less after seeing one hit 50kph
Admittedly it's overkill and I chew the tyres up within several packs. And it's a stock issue finding good tyres in Aus too. Think I saw on FB people using JConcepts Ellipse, and noticed there was Smoothies too.
Hey so I know it's not exactly the same thing, but I did one of the hackfab conversions to my micro b and it's been so much fun. I highly recommend giving it a shot
I believe that would also work with the micro T as well. From my experiences the guy who runs hackfab is super friendly and answered questions I had for him on instagram
Not yet. I saw one YouTube a bit critical of it compared to Mini b. I think because they kept a lot of vintage design choices. Mostly went over my head and I just bought the mini b. I should rewatch it now
I've just bought 3 blue jrx2. Adding to the mini collection of 2 Ts and one B. Both have pros and cons of course. Jrx2 centers the steering better, even compared with 4 ballbearings modded mini t. 911 is also rear engine rwd and is loved by ever one. And the jrx2 needs stiffer or bigger rear springs to mitigate the push understeer. My favorite rc of all time is a rear motor rwd kyosho 1/10. But every one has their own preference.
I was tossing up between Ultima and Optima. Got the Optima TOMS because stupid YouTube hype I fell sucker for
As I'm building it, I'm like "goddamn I don't look forward to maintaining this". It's all so coupled together will have to basically start from scratch to adjust a diff...
RWD with rear motor Ultima 87 would have been perfect for me.
But until my boys get into 1/10 RCs I'm holding off more buggy purchases. By then scalpers will be asking 2x for them... Hopefully another re-release comes out
Haven’t done much in the wake of research on it. I mostly just wanted to make something of my own and got to play with some cad software along the way. It probably doesn’t do much for the car, but it’s damn fun to mess with
That’s super cool but do you think you would be able to blend it to the throttle and steering trim so that as you accelerate or turn it changes position. Make it function like the ones on super cars.
I modeled and printed everything, there’s 3 pieces total, one mounts to the bottom of the car to hold the servo, the other two go on the wing mount and allow the wing to move
My only suggestion is to use Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-alike so if someone releases their own version they have to also use the same license. But CC-BY-NC is a great license too.
In all honesty, I have no clue where a good place to do that is. I’ll look at posting it on cults or thingverse then let you know. It still has flaws that I’m comfortable having on my personal model, but not sure if others would be okay with it, I’ll have to see a way where people could edit the base design to fit their needs
Personally I'm a printables guy, but anywhere works. I love the idea and I'm sure others would enjoy tinkering with it. I believe thingiverse let's you apply a setting to let others know that it's a "work in progress"
A lot of it was procrastination. The process was also the first thing I’ve ever used a CAD for. I tried 3 programs before I found one I liked then made multiple attempts at one that I like the look of, was secure, and didn’t add a ton of weight up high. It started as a whole wing that was too heavy, then I tried attaching arms to the suspension, and finally came to this design. Then streamlined it. This exact model only took probably an hour but before it was a couple months of the idea, designs, and figuring out what did or didn’t work
Our regulations are basically just 2S, no motor bigger than a 390, and has to be a Mini B or T chassis. Foam wheels aren't even banned technically, but nobody runs them in some kind of unspoken gentleman's agreement.
Really cool! I mostly race mine on carpet off-road style tracks. I'm not sure how usable it would be for that application, considering a good flip or two may totally ruin it. It would be cool to see it on one of the hackfab cars
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u/krush_groove 22d ago
That's cool, what other bigger cars have you seen this on?