Are there any of these floating around amongst the members here?
I am presently working on bringing two of them back to life. I never had an opportunity to race these cars back in the day, but I always thought they were awesome in both appearance and design. The fact that the Super F1 was HPI's first actual kit brings a certain cool factor too.
It's useful that the front half is compatible with the Tamiya F103 and the back half 1/10th pan cars, and any bodies and wings for the F103 will fit straight on.
I had one back when they came out. I've only ever sold off two cars that I've had and that was one of them. The carpet track where I lived closed so I sold my F1 and Bolink pan car. Wish I could have them back! Looking forward to some build pics of yours.
I had one. It was a very cool car but I really wasn't into onroad racing at the time. I've added it to the list of things I shouldn't have sold back then, especially now that I'm really into F1.
I cannot tell for sure, but the picture makes it look like that is one of the fiberglass cars. If it is an "FRP" car and not a "graphite" car, I would love to see some additional pictures of it. It always seemed to me that the graphite kits were far more common, and the limited number of available pictures on the Internet seems to support that as well.
I cannot tell for sure, but the picture makes it look like that is one of the fiberglass cars. If it is an "FRP" car and not a "graphite" car, I would love to see some additional pictures of it. ....
And I would love to see pictures of the Dahm's body that goes with the stickers.
Speaking of bodies, were can I find some suitable replacement bodies for my two cars? I have been looking on eBay, but the vintage Tamiya body kits all seem to be going for over $100. There are several significantly cheaper bodies listed from a seller in Hong Kong, but something tells me that they are cheaper for a reason. I am also assuming that finding any HPI bodies will be almost impossible.
Speaking of bodies, were can I find some suitable replacement bodies for my two cars? I have been looking on eBay, but the vintage Tamiya body kits all seem to be going for over $100. There are several significantly cheaper bodies listed from a seller in Hong Kong, but something tells me that they are cheaper for a reason. I am also assuming that finding any HPI bodies will be almost impossible.
Do you know if the Kyosho F1 bodies fit? I may have one or two of those sitting around.....
Alex
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I have an HPI Super F1 also. It is really a trick piece of machinery. I ran mine around a bit and with a mod motor it was blazing fast and the best part is that's it's compatible with some pan car stuff. The tires are all dry cracked but I have a set of Tecnacrafts and new thicker foam tires slated for this car
Speaking of bodies, were can I find some suitable replacement bodies for my two cars? I have been looking on eBay, but the vintage Tamiya body kits all seem to be going for over $100. There are several significantly cheaper bodies listed from a seller in Hong Kong, but something tells me that they are cheaper for a reason. I am also assuming that finding any HPI bodies will be almost impossible.
You're a week late...a seller from France had 2 original HPI bodies listed.
shodog wrote:I have an HPI Super F1 also. It is really a trick piece of machinery. I ran mine around a bit and with a mod motor it was blazing fast and the best part is that's it's compatible with some pan car stuff. The tires are all dry cracked but I have a set of Tecnacrafts and new thicker foam tires slated for this car
I cannot tell for sure, but the picture makes it look like that is one of the fiberglass cars. If it is an "FRP" car and not a "graphite" car, I would love to see some additional pictures of it. It always seemed to me that the graphite kits were far more common, and the limited number of available pictures on the Internet seems to support that as well.
HPI also made chassis parts from graphite without the CF pattern, which this looks like. Their FRP parts all are white on the edges.
shodog wrote:I have an HPI Super F1 also. It is really a trick piece of machinery. I ran mine around a bit and with a mod motor it was blazing fast and the best part is that's it's compatible with some pan car stuff. The tires are all dry cracked but I have a set of Tecnacrafts and new thicker foam tires slated for this car
That F1 car looks sweet, shodog.
What is the rear wing from?
I have no clue as I built this car more than 10 years ago. I think it's one from a Tamiya F103. I'll take a look and see if there is any molding marks.
These are listed as for JRX2 . Does anyone know did HPI make wheels for specific applications or are these universal if using the HPI bearing/wheel adapter set(s)? If I track down the adapters, could I slam these on a TRX series buggy?...
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Soak them in a strong degreaser, chrome will come off.
2nd this. purple power overnight and they were white the next. All chrome in the bottom of the container.
back in the 90´s almost every kyosho Lazer ran the five spoke wheels from HPI does any one sitting on an extra upset of wheels???
It is possible to order them from HPI but they only cary the rear wheels and not the narrov front.
mvh Isobarik 8)
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Yeah i have seen that the HPI letters are missing.
I just hope that the offset is what it used to be since i have ordered a pair, time will let us know.
Does anybody know whether the 'chrome' versions were just painted metallic silver?
I have my original set of these - lovely deep dish on the rears and it look like the finish is rubbing off the fronts very slightly in a few places. I was...
Not sure where to put this so since the wheels are going on my JrXT I’ll ask here…. Got a set of front HPI super star wheels with the purchase of the JRXT, but the 3/16x3/8 bearings from the stock front wheels are too small for the HPI wheels….The...
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Could someone please provide information on the front wheel bearing size for the HPI MT Super Star? Thanks!
It depeds on which adapter you have to use. Look at the above pictures.
Well this has been in my head for a while ( 2 yrs LOL) and over my holiday break i started it.
I was so surprised on how well the tamiya DT01 chassis went . ( Fighter buggy, Mad Bull, Rookie Rabbit) In our insect class at Boondal I lapped the field...
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see this modded hornet perform, a huge improvment as are all your fine buggies mark 8) 8) great job mate :wink:
So I found a milk crate full of RC cars this weekend. This is one of them, but I'm not sure what it is? Any help would be grateful and thank you in advance for any info.
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I'll second the Super nitro RS4 Identification. I always thought these were a better and more stable platforms for those high horsepower .15 power plants
The carpet track where I lived closed so I sold my F1 and Bolink pan car. Wish I could have them back! Looking forward to some build pics of yours.
