The main chassis...


Aluminum motor mount...


Aluminum motor mount in place...


Spur gear in place...


Close up look of spur gear fitted between the motor mount...


Front one way...


Front bulkhead...


One way fitted in bulkhead together with belt...


Front suspension arm fitted to the chassis...


Front bulkhead fitted to the chassis...


Another angle...


Rear ball diff...


Rear damper stay...


Rear bulkhead with damper stay...


Rear suspension arm holder...


Rear suspension arm holder fitted to the chassis...


Rear suspension arm fitted to the chassis...


Rear bulkhead fitted...


Front and rear bulkhead fitted...


Steering link...


Rear chassis stiffener...


Rear chassis stiffener on... The purpose of this is to reduce flex to the chassis...


Bumper's on...


Spur gear holder...


Spur gear holder fitted on the motor mount...


TRF damper...

Front chassis stiffener... Besides being a chassis stiffener, it is also a suspension holder... You need to use this for IFS application...

TRF damper fitted to the chassis stiffener...


Front chassis stiffener fitted...


TRF damper fitted to the rear damper stay...


Top deck... The purpose of this top deck is to further reduce flex in the chassis...


Top deck fitted...


Another angle...


Electronics fitted...




The completed chassis...

My current rim and tyres... The tyres are the latest offering from Tamiya call Super Driftech...


My other rims...

Rim fitted to chassis...

The completed car...





The completed car together with my current bodyshell which is a Japan Super GT Lexus SC430...



Front chassis stiffener for conventional suspension setup...


Front damper stay...



Conventional suspension fitted...




Now I will be using this setup cause I find it to drift better... There are more things you can adjust using this setup especially for the front suspension...



My other rims fitted...

This is the latest kit from Tamiya... The Xanavi Nismo GTR on Tamiya TB03 shaft driven 4WD chassis...

The Xanavi Nismo GTR has made an impressive start to the 2008 Super GT series in Japan winning on debut and going on to record back to back wins... With its strong comeback to competitive racing, the GTR has also grown...

This is an assembly RC model of the Xanavi Nismo GTR... One of the top contenders for the championship and is driven by Satoshi Motoyama and Benoit Treluyer... Its low road hugging form is realistically reproduced and the seperated front fender end and headlight parts enhances the realistic finish to this model...

Equipped with many race use parts as standard, the TB03 also features a longitudinally mounted motor and shaft driven with 3 piece propeller shaft... The bathtub chassis has an integrated motor cooling duct to enhance motor performance as well... The suspension is made up of TRF416 front and rear uprights, short reversible suspension arms and the unique front inboard layout just like my TA05IFS.. The only difference between TB03 and my TA05IFS is TB03 is shaft driven while my TA05IFS is belt driven...

I am waiting for this bodyshell... Gonna get it once it reach Malaysia...

You can call it what you like... Stabilizer, sway or anti roll bar... The purpose of the stabilizer/sway/anti roll bar is to tie the left and right wheels, either front or rear together to help control bodyroll... For example, as an RC car rolls through a left hand turn, inertia forces the car to roll over it on the right side... If there is no sway bar, the right side suspension compresses and the left side goes into droop or extends... With an on road car like touring and drifters, this overloads the right side wheel and under utilizes the left and in tun lowering the car overall ability to maintain traction...


Let's add a sway bar to the scenario... As the car rolls through the turn, the right side of the suspension compresses as before... But now instead of the left side of the suspension going into droop, the sway bar pulls the left wheels up... This limits body roll and actually causes the car to settle down through a turn... The end result is actually to lower the car's center of gravity thus making it more stable...

TA05 / TA05IFS Stabilizer Bar...

Just like spring for absorber, sway bar comes with soft, medium and hard... So it is important to choose it according to your driving style and also track condition... If you are driving on a high traction surface and your car wants to oversteer, try to use sway bar on the front only... This will decrease the front chassis roll and decrease steering throughout the corner... This has the feeling of increasing rear traction... If your car is understeering, then try using sway bar on the rear only... The rear sway bar will decrease rear chassis roll and decrease rear traction... This has the feeling of increasing steering... If the conditions are very bumpy, then sway bar are not necessary... That's because if you hit a bump with one wheel, a hard sway bar can also upset the wheel on the other side of the suspension... This can cause smaller bumps that are not a problem with a plush suspension to feel much larger than actually are...

A few days back, I converted my TA05IFS to TA05... The benefit of buying Tamiya TA05IFS over Tamiya TA05 is you can actually have two different model for the price of one... I can set my car up using the IFS (Inboard Front Suspension) suspension system or change it to the more conventional way of mounting the suspension... IFS kit will provide all the necessary parts for the conversion...

Just have a test run today and it actually feels good... Now I really can't make up my mind whether to use IFS or conventional way of mounting the suspension...

For conventional suspension mount...

Use this for IFS application... The two rocker arm are for the absorber...

The difference between the two...

Absorber mounted...

Front damper stay...

IFS...

Conventional...

Yesterday went to Sunway Pyramid for dinner... Most of my friend have tried BBQ Plaza before... So my wife suggested that we tried it out... Everything went fine until I took out my camera and started to take pictures... I took out the menu and started to take some shots... Suddenly one of the guy working there asked me not to take pictures of the menu... Ok I respect them but frankly speaking I am a bit pissed off by that... If I really wanted to take pictures of the menu, I can do it before I went in because they sticked all the menu at the glass in front of the shop...

Before we started to eat, one of the waitress poured some chicken soup into the side of the so call griller cum pot... The soup is for you to cook the vege... After that before proceeding to grill, we need to oil the griller... Guess what we used to oil it... Pork skin!!!

Wow so shiny!!!

The black sauce behind is their special barbecue sauce that taste like satay sauce to me... You can add in the chilli padi, garlic and also lime into the sauce...

We change our rice to garlic rice... Frankly speaking not worth to pay additional RM1.50 for it...


Fried bacon... Mmmm taste just like bacon...

Supreme Set for two... Consist of beef, pork, mutton, cuttlefish, prawn, jellyfish, green tea taufu, fish cake and lots of vege...

Grilling Time!!!

This is what happen at the end of the day!!!

Overall quite satisfied with the food... All the ingredients are really fresh... But word of caution to those that hated MSG... I am really thirsty for the rest of the night... I even felt thirsty the very next morning... Guess that's the magic that make it tasted so good...

Those in blue are Tamiya 1mm damper retainer whereas the black plastics are the standard damper retainer...

Because springs tend to vary in length, Tamiya offers aluminum damper retainers featuring a spring support surface that is 1mm lower than standard... This provides much more flexibility with both Tamiya and aftermarket spring... Spring plays a very important role in car handling... Some people prefer to have softer spring in the front and harder spring in the rear...

As for RC drifting, most people prefer to have softer spring in front... The reason for this is because when you have softer front, car will have more roll into corner and thus creating more grip... As for rear, most people will prefer harder spring compare to front... The harder the spring the lesser the car roll and this will make the tyre to have lesser traction... So this will allow the rear to throw easier...