TAMIYA "BIGWIG" (1986)

[THE H.P FREAK]

HI!... Well I bought some new wings for my E-REVO and decided to mount the old one on the "BIGWIG". I'll probably buy a new one to mount on the "BIGWIG" but I wanted to do a mock up 1ST to see how it looked. I trimmed the factory "BIGWIG" built in wing on the body. I used a T-MAX rear bumper mount and drilled two holes in the factory TAMIYA shock mount, and mounted it. It turned out pretty good I think. I think I'll go with a white one when I go to buy a new one.

Here's a few pics :

[THE H.P FREAK]

HI!... Well while out at the LHS today I picked up a white wing for the "BIGWIG". I mounted it today. Here's a few picks :

[THE H.P FREAK]

HI!... Well I know it's been awhile but I've been busy working on all my RC vehicles. I up graded the "BIGWIG" to Traxxas Slash 4X4 front/rear shocks with progressive springs. Also installed some black rims/tires off of a Tamiya "Dark Impact". Think it looks pretty good. I just got to order a new ESC/brushless motor due to my TEKIN junk took a crap for the second time.

[THE H.P FREAK]

HI!... Well it's been a while but I started working on the "BIGWIG" again. Now I swapped out the TEKIN brushless motor and TEKIN ESC. They were junk. Had all kinds of problems with them. I swapped in a HobbyWing 6000KV brushless motor and 60 AMP ESC. Runs good on 2S lipo. Installed a 3S, 5000 mAh lipo this morning and it's crazy fast. Half throttle you punch it and it gets right up on the rear wheels. This is with the lowest setting on punch control. lol!

I started hearing a fun noise and pulled it in. I took the body off and put it on a stand so all 4 wheels were free wheeling. I hit the throttle and I realized the funny noise was the 4X4 driveshaft was getting the "SKIPPING ROPE" effect and arching so much that it was hitting the top of my LIPO battery. Glad I caught it when I did or it would of sliced through my LIPO and caused a good fire.

So I swapped out the differential out drives for some hex shaped ones. Can't remember what Tamiya RC vehicle they came from. lol! I slit them down the middle with a zip blade. I then took a old E-REVO steel center drive shaft and cut it in half and shortened it and re-welded it back together. I have a Kyosho 140MM driveshaft on order. It's 3 times as thick as the stock BIGWIG driveshaft. Hopefully that will cure the problem.

[THE H.P FREAK]

HI!... Well I got the drive shaft done tonight. Took it for a quick boot down the street. Not a lot of room around my house to take it to top speed. It's very fast, probably around 85KPH. Going to go out to a huge arena parking lot later and see what it will do on the radar gun. Here's a few pics.

[THE H.P FREAK]

HI!... This is as far as I have gotten so far. I have since bought some TAMIYA "Dark Impact" after market T-BONE front/rear bumpers and will be modding them to fit on the "BIG WIG". This way I can lose the large aluminum stock bumper clone. Then I'll be tearing it down and going to get the chassis powder coated.

[MelvinsArmy]

Wow, this is an impressive project. You must really want a bullet proof speed demon BigWig. Once you're done the only BigWig part will be the body. Pretty cool undertaking.