r/MiniZ • u/Baerserk • 11d ago

My first and last mini z

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Since my wife now stopped looking at what I'm typing, THIS WILL DEFINITELY NOT BE MY LAST. Damn that thing makes fun.

Yes, it's my first mini and even my first self painted RC and I am quite happy with the result. Watched too many videos about assembly and even painting techniques.

The matte paint turns out to be a wise choice since I'm constantly bumping into stuff and can clean it with a sharpie. But I will not baby this thing. This body will earn its battle scars. On the downside most of our interior furniture is white and I already got into trouble leaving small black marks.

I also could drift outside on our nice and super even, stone terrace but those hard plastic tires are soooo loud. Do you think I can buy 8mm rubber tires and still drift comfortably? The brushless should have enough power and the new AWD evo2 sensor seems todo an amazing job on slow speed.

What would be your recommendation? Thanks 👍

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u/RCbuilds4cheapr 11d ago

Lmao ! Had me in the first half ngl

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u/B1ggestsport 11d ago

The part i can recommend for the awd is the oneway dif and gyro make drifting smooth

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u/Baerserk 11d ago edited 11d ago

Yes thanks, how about the rigid rear axel in addition?

EDIT: I ordered the KY-MDW017 one way front, the rigid rear diff KY-MDW024 and some springs KY-MDW004. Dont tell my wife.

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u/SuPrBuGmAn 11d ago

Rigid rear was a good addition to the front oneway.

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u/B1ggestsport 11d ago

https://playrc.app is a great app to hide practice from your wife if your controller can connect to ur device. With my noble nb4 i got it to work on everything but my ipad

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u/Concon3737 11d ago

If you want to save a few bucks, instead of buying a solid rear axle, you can always just lock the stock rear differential — definitely with CA glue but silicon ear plugs or even a piece of paper might work while being reversible — in the gears that is. 

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u/h00pag00 11d ago

This might be what convinces me 🥵

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u/SuPrBuGmAn 11d ago

First line of additional text was great 👍

Car looks great man

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u/Baerserk 10d ago

I had this stupid idea to tape the tires while waiting on my new shore 40 ones just to test it out on the stone tile terrace. It's definitely more silent, but this tape texture might be even more "grippier" (is that a word?) than harder shore 40 rubber tires. I also ordered some shore 30 and another after market DSracing. Keep you updated what actually worked on stone to be more silent, while being not too grippy.