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MicroDude
06-13-2002, 09:14 AM
Do any of you race them? I find them to be way more fun than anything i've ever driven, and cheap to take care of. A $15 battery pack, a $12 motor, and you're pretty much set. This tuesday was my first night racing one, and i finished 5th out of 10, even with a dynamite 1500 mAH Ni-Cad pack, a mabuchi motor, and the stock Rubber-friction shocks. I already bent a front lower A-Arm, and that happens to be all that anyone ever breaks :D Unfortunately, when you wanna buy a replacement A-Arm you have to buy the whole parts tree for $7.50 a pop... i wish they came in aluminum or steel... :( Anyways minis are cool, do any of you have/run them?
yourmicro
06-14-2002, 11:09 PM
Do you mean the M-Chassis?

http://tinyrc.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?forumid=43
Mykroe
06-15-2002, 12:10 PM
Sounds cool, do you have any pics?
yourmicro
06-16-2002, 12:05 PM
There are pics at the above URL!
RC Jeff
06-21-2002, 12:00 AM
my rc club has a spec class for the M03 chassis car... we run the stock car with bearings, silver can motor, mechanical speed controls and hpi xpattern mini tires

it's the most fun you'll have racing... the cars race door to door and there's lots of hacking and bumping. so far i haven't broken any parts, these cars are durable! we even added a jump last week to make it more exciting, no damage at all except for some scratches
TFRMicro
06-21-2002, 01:10 AM
wow, jumps to....ahaha.....Jeff, i gotta come out next time to see....:D
RC Jeff
06-21-2002, 01:01 PM
yeah Peter... no racing this weekend, but we'll have mini, F1 and offroad next weekend
M-chassis
06-27-2002, 08:50 PM
hey you guys should check out the M-chassis forums at tiny R/C not much action yet but you can change that :D


M-chassis forums (http://www.tinyrc.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=30&forumid=43)
Lovin Sarah
10-01-2002, 05:11 PM
Tonight's my last night racing Minis for a while... back to pan! I love it! Minis are the perfect training for racing pan...
M-chassis
10-01-2002, 07:15 PM
I forgot that I registered here:D
Lovin Sarah
10-02-2002, 08:19 AM
Oh mother of god, i just raced my mini last night 'cause tuesday night pan at the lhs was canceled for the next 2 weeks... i can't drive this thing, lol...
M-chassis
10-02-2002, 02:33 PM
what happened? lolol
Lovin Sarah
10-02-2002, 05:58 PM
Nothing, It's just hard for me to drive now, even after just 1 week of pan... everythings loose and unstable in the mini, and everything's fine tuned to the thousandth of an inch on pan...
First off i gotta shorten my shocks and lower the ride height if I ever plan on running minis again, then remember to bring traction compound :o
M-chassis
10-02-2002, 06:02 PM
Originally posted by Lovin Sarah
everythings loose and unstable in the mini, and everything's fine tuned to the thousandth of an inch on pan...
First off i gotta shorten my shocks and lower the ride height if I ever plan on running minis again, then remember to bring traction compound :o


apples and oranges......


Mini's are still hella fun:p ;) :D
Lovin Sarah
10-02-2002, 06:14 PM
Oh yeah. Real men drive Minis!
M-chassis
10-02-2002, 06:39 PM
they do....:p
GT Eye
11-06-2002, 04:56 AM
What scale is it?
duxrneet
11-06-2002, 03:22 PM
A little less than 1/10th I think. The Mini Cooper body is actually 1/8th scale, since the real car is so little!
jblackmore
11-07-2002, 05:47 AM
no surprise that cheap tough cars, and lots of contact is the best fun you'll have with an RC car.
We run super cheap Mardave V12 cars full contact racing and spend half the heats laughing at all the pile ups !