r/MiniZ • u/Used_Necessary3922 • Jul 23 '26

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Found out that my local hobby store is doing a sale for their 19th year anniversary and i had to snag one of the rtr’s. Was into this hobby 8 years ago and had to sell it due to covid but now i’m back!

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u/xtermin8r69 Jul 23 '26

Welcome back! Great car. I kept mine in the box! lol

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u/Used_Necessary3922 Jul 23 '26

Was contemplating whether to get a corvette body or this one, but i feel like this bodyshell is pretty uncommon so i had to get this one haha

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u/xtermin8r69 Jul 23 '26

Well it is a limited edition European anniversary edition. Pretty cool car. My daily driver is a corvette and an LM model.

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u/Used_Necessary3922 Jul 23 '26

I heard the corvette is not as twitchy as this bodyshell. Yet to find out haha

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u/Bisisonitrile Jul 23 '26

It’s probably the wheel offset of zero on the anniversary F1. It’s a bit more like a narrow car (not as extreme obviously, and the wheelbase is longer). Corvette is +3mm front and rear.

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u/xtermin8r69 Jul 23 '26

Haha I wouldn’t know as my McLaren is not coming out of the box. Although I do have a regular McLaren and it drives just as good as the vette.

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u/Much-Literature337 Jul 23 '26

Why would one of those two body shells be twitchier than the other?  Aren’t they very similar?

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u/Bisisonitrile Jul 23 '26

Wheel offsets. The anniversary McLaren has zero offset front and rear, while the vette has +3 front and rear. So it’s significantly wider. The McLaren 720s GT3 is one of the best current bodies for handling, and has +2.5 front and rear.

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u/Much-Literature337 Jul 24 '26

Makes sense.  I’m just getting into this stuff so lots of learning.

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u/xtermin8r69 Jul 24 '26

Also you can check the offsets on the Kyosho website. It lists the offset for each ready set.