Mmp f1

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Gday again,
This is my second CC's project. I swapped my Nuova Faor S501 bike for this car and another car I will write about later.
The kit is the Tamiya F104 Pro. Direct drive chassis, fully ball raced and very nice. The car came stock with a Mabuchi 540 type J motor, which I beleive is plenty quick for these cars!! I'm using Castles Mamba Max Pro with the 5700kv motor. Battery is Zippy lipo 2s - 3000MaH @ 30c. It is similar size to a 6 cell NiMh pack. Starting the gearing on 25/104. I'm also using the Lumifly Lighting system, running a single red strobe at the rear, like the real F1's do in bad conditions. The kit came with foams, but I found some rubber tyres to practice as I will be bashing first on the courts.
I have not owned and driven a 2wd car since the days of the Tamiya Frog when I was a pimply faced kid. I have not had the chance to drive it yet, but I am more excited about this than any other car setup.
I hope there are some F1 fans on here. If so, I would like to see your setups too.
BTW, both my mate and I swore blind we would leave these F1's stock, but we just couldn't.

Thanks for looking & Happy New Year
see ya
Peter