Knockoffracer

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TRF shocks are in. Feels a bit stiffer than the kit setup. Sits lower than i remember. But she's ready for paint.

Hyde

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cool build man, liked reading that! I’m using the car at a makeshift track in a parking lot, low grip with rubber tires so I need flex and the reinforced parts aren’t needed, but the weight savings you had was great! I ordered paint and bearings for the kit, should come together soon. I like this chassis so much I’m going to buy hop ups often lol

and that’s cool you are sticking with FWD 👌 it’s always been the most fun in my opinion

Hyde

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Very cool man! What color are you going with? I’m painting my CRZ body corsa grey by Tamiya and I’m painting the hood and hatch black

Knockoffracer

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I set a rule for my group where race schemes are a must.. so it's probably going to be boxart for this body. Mostly white, with a medium grey hood and roof. Lots of sponsor decals. I spend so much time on my chassis (re)builds that I don't normally have time to come up with my own paint schemes. Especially when one is supplied for me. Lazy, i know... Lol

Nicadrauspro4

Looking good!

Knockoffracer

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​​​​​​I run a parking lot(garage) as well. I found, thus far, the stock tires worked very well. This year I'm trying out the Gravity RC USGT Spec tire, nice and cheap compared to the Tamiya tires. Car handled fairly well considering it was box stock. I did manage to break a couple of suspension mounts from getting rear ended by an out of control XV-01.

I did find that the car was too flexible for the parking lot. Added the rear stiffeners, TRF suspension links, alloy/carbon steering rack, and TRF shocks. I'm on the hunt for the Tamiya stabilizer bar set for it currently, might be made of UNOBTANIUM though. Lol

Hyde

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hey everyone, I created a Facebook group called Tamiya FF Chassis, if anyone is interested in sharing tips/tricks and posting random pictures of the cars! For some reason I’m unable to post a Link

Nerobro

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when I sold my FF03 two weeks ago.. it went with a complete sway bar set... :-/

CTE

Just seen this and done the change. THANK YOU! This has been driving me nuts for months since i changed to reinforced plastics.

CTE

I have laid my TA06 sway bars on my FF03 with sway bars. The fronts are indentical shape, so you could make those by simply adding 3x23 turnbuckles in place of the supplied grub screws to make the dropper links reach the arms. The rear bar is quite a bit wider angle and longer, but they do fit. You would just need to move the ball connector on the arms from the dedicated sway bar position which the FF03 set uses to the outermost unused shock mount hole on the reversible arms, but that's exactly how it fits on the TA06 so i think you could just get a TA06 set and adapt that. I don't know about the TRF418 set that the TA07 uses.

Nicadrauspro4

I have the FF-03 stabilizer set but I only used the one for the front. My rear suspension is already stiff and the doesn't need it anymore in my opinion. Drives the way I want it.

Knockoffracer

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Thanks for the input about stabilizer bars. I'm not sure I actually need them for my situation, i just wanted to try them out. I have the kit for the TA-07, if they fit I'll give them a shot.

Tomoyuki

So I was wondering if anyone has ever tried this?

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2885182

some posts up i asked if front TRF arms can be used on FF03... and someone shared this link. Having looked at how it mounts up, with just 2 screws from left and right, 1 on motor support plate and 1 on heatsink, not certain if it will oscillate when the car is in motion, with suspension moving and all that.

Any thoughts on this?

CTE

I haven't used that part, but i have fitted TRF419 arms to my FF03. I flipped both sets of arms. Fronts now fit with the IFS and anti roll bar no problem and the offset forward improves the handling. At the rear attach the shocks to outermost anti roll bar mount hole and its same as the reversible arms.
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fyrstormer

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The suspension arms used on the FF-03 are from the TRF416, so they are TRF arms. As for the upright shock tower, it does look like it could swivel back-and-forth if the shocks aren't attached perfectly in-line with the screws that attach the tower to the chassis. However, the bigger concern is that 3D-printed part is made from un-reinforced ABS plastic and will flex under load, behaving like an un-damped spring. If you really want upright front shocks, replace your FF-03 with a FF-04 -- but personally I don't think it makes any difference in the real world.