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[Burnard]

Thats a sweet buggy for £100!! A hyper 8 would have been brilliant but for £100 thats awesome

Agreed, you need a temp gun really but if you dont fancy buying one then you can tell how hot your motor's running bt spitting into the heatsink around the glow plug, if it boils away instantly it's running too hot (usually lean) and itll be fairly obvious if it's too rich i always tune mine for the best performance while keeping a nice thin trail of smoke.

yer, err, dont do that. its not accurate, and can leave stuff on the engine which sits there and smokes away. not to mention the shock of cold water onto extremly hot metal.
Ive seen people useing the spit method, there engines didnt last more than 2 gallons, same goes for the smoke trail method.
Then again, if you are just bashing about, i dont suppose it would matter much.

The £20 for a temp gun is surely worth the £150-£200 saving of a new engine?

[camp freddy]

I won't be racing it , only only using it for fun., thanks for
your advice will be noted.
went to see my bro inlaw this aftoand he gave me a spare
body and sticker set. may invest in a heat gun soon.

[camp freddy]

been out this evening, had a play with the car and got it
'RUNNING'....done some figure of 8's round the garden.......

The rc buggy that is ..

[camp freddy]

had a couple of hours in the garage tonight, Finally got
the main wiring to the digi dash sorted, just got to connect
tacho wire and sort the speedo out ( got the converter today )
will have to have a seperate water temp and oil pressure gauges
as the digi dash hasn't got one .

heres a couple of pics

[Jimmy Hat]

Thats a sweet buggy for £100!! A hyper 8 would have been brilliant but for £100 thats awesome

Agreed, you need a temp gun really but if you dont fancy buying one then you can tell how hot your motor's running bt spitting into the heatsink around the glow plug, if it boils away instantly it's running too hot (usually lean) and itll be fairly obvious if it's too rich i always tune mine for the best performance while keeping a nice thin trail of smoke.

yer, err, dont do that. its not accurate, and can leave stuff on the engine which sits there and smokes away. not to mention the shock of cold water onto extremly hot metal.
Ive seen people useing the spit method, there engines didnt last more than 2 gallons, same goes for the smoke trail method.
Then again, if you are just bashing about, i dont suppose it would matter much.

The £20 for a temp gun is surely worth the £150-£200 saving of a new engine?

Well it depends if you can do it properly or not, one of my mates had a 15 year old Kyosho Sandmaster which had the original engine (hadnt even been rebuilt) and they never had a temp gun... It was fine up until about 2 years ago when they drove it into a pond and sold it me for 10 quid... Then again you could go out and fry your engine on the first run, so if 20 quid isn't 2 months worth of saving up for you then id probably get the temp gun!

[mini_mad69]

Well it depends if you can do it properly or not, one of my mates had a 15 year old Kyosho Sandmaster

Ive got a sandmaster, havnt run it in around 3 years, I love that thing though. So much fun, indistructable little thing.





Love your buggy freddy and your dash looks great.


Ben

[camp freddy]

been out and made a mock up of the dash console, this
will be ally and sprayed satin black . may have a textured finish.

[ianpettifer]

been out and made a mock up of the dash console, this
will be ally and sprayed satin black . may have a textured finish.

yummmmm cheerios

[Deathrow]

Dash is looking great Freddy, functional and light by the looks!

I'll throw this in for you too:

http://i36.photobuck...1989/savy02.jpg

. Granted, it's in bits at the moment after it decided to eat it's own ring gear on the front diff.

(It's not pink!)

[camp freddy]

Dash is looking great Freddy, functional and light by the looks!

I'll throw this in for you too:

http://i36.photobuck...1989/savy02.jpg

. Granted, it's in bits at the moment after it decided to eat it's own ring gear on the front diff.

(It's not pink!)

Mmmmm! you do seem like a pinky guy !!!!
watching a similar car on ebay..

[camp freddy]

well cut and folded some ally when i got work today first thing, then
stayed over for half an hour to tig up the console.

so heres some pics as it is now!!









now got to decide whether to either spray satin black, texture satin black
or cover with black texture vinyl.. or other!!!!!

[mighty mini jack]

That dash looks amazing, top notch welding as usual too !

[bert998]

I'd spray it, unless you have the ability to sew the vinyl.

Edited by bert998, 05 June 2009 - 03:42 PM.

[camp freddy]

well had to trim the console a little , but
managed to get it in.





also fitted the battery box in the car.

[kcchan]

Loverly. I say just polish it up around the welds so it matches the floor plates and battery box.