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Quarry Creeper
Finally starting my build thread on my TWS CTS chassis, Datsun 510 build. The little feedback from people here wasn't great but the kit plus shipping was reasonable compared to the MST it is likely based on. Plus having worked with a lot of bicycle industry companies in Taiwan, someone leaving a company to start their own almost identical company is quite normal and pushes the industry forward. And only building something from the major companies gets boring. Delivery from Taiwan only took a 10-14 days.
Anyway...
Realism, pssht! People love Datsun 510s (1600s, Bluebirds) because they were fun to drive, affordable, 4 wheel independent suspension econoboxes. Datsun 510s did win the 1970 East Africa rally (before the 240z) so they have some offroad prowess but really they're know more for being Paul Newman's first race car and winning Trans-Am 2.5 class over the Alfa Romeos and BMWs of the time. Well, this isn't any of that as the chassis uses solid axles front and rear and the body will limit its ability as a trail vehicle or rock crawler.
Anyway, got this around Thanksgiving 2024.
Ordered it up after one of the first cold days here and knew I was going to need something for when it actually got cold. Funny enough that's just now happening.
Also, got some brass wheel hexes and extra links to make sure I could configure the front with a CMS and panhard bar. Weird part was the CMS link kit gives you enough links to also 3 link/panhard bar the rear. The kit itself comes with all the plastic parts to mount the panhard bars.
TWS also included some scale CB antennae as a thank you/gift. Not sure where I will use them but maybe on this.
Also ordered up the Pandora RC Datsun 510 drift body from Rolling Garage RC out of Sacramento (Sac-Town as it is known to my friends who were born and still live there).
This is the closest I have to a precut body picture
This picture does highlight probably the biggest limitation with using a drift body on a trail truck. Tire clearance. So I went tire and wheel shopping on Ebay and found some 78mm diameter tires on 1.55" rims. And then in a fit of indecision bought both appropriate sets of tires and 2 other sets of wheels and tires.
Top Left wheel and tire ended up going on the 510 for now. Kind of a BFG Krawler rip-off tread but the upper right reminds me more of an era appropriate tire and also a BFG rip-off. Bottom 2 tires are 3.75" OD BFG KM3 rip-offs. Pretty sure there is no licensing to use that name on the sidewall. Lower left set ended up on my newly built Tamiya BBX.
To finish off collecting parts for this I had a used HW1080 g2 ESC, used Reedy 16t 5 slot motor from my sons Gatekeeper, a radiolink 6 channel rx, and a Amazon DS3235 Pro 35kg servo.
I'll start in on building the kit next post. Hopefully I took some pictures. I am not big on stopping to take a picture. Documentation has always been my nemesis.
Anyway...
Realism, pssht! People love Datsun 510s (1600s, Bluebirds) because they were fun to drive, affordable, 4 wheel independent suspension econoboxes. Datsun 510s did win the 1970 East Africa rally (before the 240z) so they have some offroad prowess but really they're know more for being Paul Newman's first race car and winning Trans-Am 2.5 class over the Alfa Romeos and BMWs of the time. Well, this isn't any of that as the chassis uses solid axles front and rear and the body will limit its ability as a trail vehicle or rock crawler.
Anyway, got this around Thanksgiving 2024.
Ordered it up after one of the first cold days here and knew I was going to need something for when it actually got cold. Funny enough that's just now happening.
Also, got some brass wheel hexes and extra links to make sure I could configure the front with a CMS and panhard bar. Weird part was the CMS link kit gives you enough links to also 3 link/panhard bar the rear. The kit itself comes with all the plastic parts to mount the panhard bars.
TWS also included some scale CB antennae as a thank you/gift. Not sure where I will use them but maybe on this.
Also ordered up the Pandora RC Datsun 510 drift body from Rolling Garage RC out of Sacramento (Sac-Town as it is known to my friends who were born and still live there).
This is the closest I have to a precut body picture
This picture does highlight probably the biggest limitation with using a drift body on a trail truck. Tire clearance. So I went tire and wheel shopping on Ebay and found some 78mm diameter tires on 1.55" rims. And then in a fit of indecision bought both appropriate sets of tires and 2 other sets of wheels and tires.
Top Left wheel and tire ended up going on the 510 for now. Kind of a BFG Krawler rip-off tread but the upper right reminds me more of an era appropriate tire and also a BFG rip-off. Bottom 2 tires are 3.75" OD BFG KM3 rip-offs. Pretty sure there is no licensing to use that name on the sidewall. Lower left set ended up on my newly built Tamiya BBX.
To finish off collecting parts for this I had a used HW1080 g2 ESC, used Reedy 16t 5 slot motor from my sons Gatekeeper, a radiolink 6 channel rx, and a Amazon DS3235 Pro 35kg servo.
I'll start in on building the kit next post. Hopefully I took some pictures. I am not big on stopping to take a picture. Documentation has always been my nemesis.
