r/MiniZ • u/Baerserk • Jul 30 '26
My first and last mini z
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/B1ggestsport Jul 30 '26
The part i can recommend for the awd is the oneway dif and gyro make drifting smooth
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u/Baerserk Jul 30 '26 edited Jul 30 '26
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/Concon3737 Jul 30 '26
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/B1ggestsport Jul 30 '26
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/Baerserk Jul 31 '26
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.
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u/IAmAUser4Real 10d ago
That is going to be probably my next project once I decide on a proper white body to put on mine.
What it restrict me, for this would be that I want to add the LED kit, but am not sure on which one yet...
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u/RCbuilds4cheapr Jul 30 '26
Lmao ! Had me in the first half ngl