Too bad the classic wheels cannot be used on the Beetle. Here's mine:
If I have two -70mm beams, and then I add two more -75mm beams, what do I have? -Some Beams!
("quote" Baldrick, The Black Adder)
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| Shock towers with 30mm raised shock mount. |
Got The RSR body painted today, it didn't turn out very well but luckily there's plenty of decals to hide the flaws :o)
GT5 racing simulation for PS3 previously had 23 window Samba, Kübelwagen
and a Schwimmwagen as premium cars, Split window beetle and a Karmann
Ghia as standard cars. Now there's '66 Beetle on premium cars with Car
Pack3 for 5,99€. Got to have and Callook it!
Kids had pretty much totalled my Tamiya Beetle body, so it needed some
freshen up. But instead of buying a Beetle body, I really loved the idea
of getting a
HPI Porsche Carrera RSR
body to it. Problem was that Beetle has wheelbase of 239mm and Porsche
210mm, so they wouldn't mix straight on. Luckily I found
the instructions to shorten the Tamiya beetle wheelbase on the net. So this is how it goes:
First thing is to remove extension block from the chassis to get the
wheelbase down to 225mm. This WB has some cool bodies too, like the BMW
2002 Turbo, Datsun 240Z, and Datsun 510 from HPI and
Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GT from Tamiya.
But this is not enough for the RSR body, shortening the WB from the 225
down to approximately 212mm is handled by tricks to the front
suspension. So following the instruction on http://www.rc-mini.net all
you need is these extra parts!
- A Pair of 15x3mm screws, I ordered these with the RSR body from http://www.wheelspinmodels.co.uk/
- Long Suspension screws from Tamiya M-chassis. I bought a set
Stainless Steel shafts (see the pic below), used them on rear
suspension, and that's how I got extra screws. (Stainless shafts cannot
be used for the front end modification).
- 2mm spacer rings
- Extra front suspension lower arm front pieces (one left, one right handside).
Parts 3 and 4 I got from Tamiya spare part set
50793 C.
If you built your Beetle from a kit, you might have these already. But I
got mine professionally assembled ready to run kit, so I didn't have
them in my parts bin.
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This is the only cut needed, sorry for the shitty pics.
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| After the cut screw in the 15x3mm screw with a HEX driver. |
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| Then join two same side parts as the new lower arm. |
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| Comparison to stock lower arm. Now do the same to other side. |
Then you need to flip the upper arm to the other side of it's joint to chassis. Like this:
Then assemble the lower arm by using two longer suspension screws like this:
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| Note the location
of the 2mm plastic spacer on the inner screw. I used a spring from a
pen on the outer screw to keep the play out, but that's probably not
needed. |
Here you can clearly see the change to WB.
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| As I previously had Tamiya Mini Cooper slics on it, the bottom is sraped as F*ck. Need to meke some protection plate. |
Spot on with HPI RSR body!
Which wheels would you choose, Fuchs or the Minilites?
