Showing posts with label hop ups. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hop ups. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

How to decide which Lunch Box hop ups to do?

So one of the frustrating things about searching for good resources on hop-ups for the Lunch Box is how internet indexing works.  Basically there is a difference between "Lunchbox" and "Lunch Box"...and its important.  I started out searching for 'Tamiya Lunchbox hop ups OR upgrades', and that gave me one set of links.  Then I tried 'Tamiya Lunch Box hop ups OR upgrades' and that gave me a second, different set of results.  Part of my goal here is to help anyone else out with finding the good resources for articles, how-to's, etc. on vintage R/C cars, whether they be originals or the re-release (so called "re-re") versions.

One of the best resources I've found so far on the Lunch Box is RCknowhow.co.uk.  This site has a wealth of information from a webmaster that *loves* R/C vehicles in general, and Tamiya kits in particular.  I highly suggest checking out his article on "6 Essential Tamiya Lunch Box hop-ups," as it gives a great overview of the simple modifications that you can do to this classic bashing machine to make it handle just a wee bit better.

Anyways, thought I'd share the love, so to speak.  I didn't get to finish the front end of Lunch Money tonight as I was having quite a time with the Horizon Hobby website this evening; I was trying to order a new Spektrum DX3C, which I was finally able to do after figuring out a glitch on their order form.  I also ordered up some Deans Ultra Plugs, as I want to get all the juice out of the NiMH batteries I plan on using, as well as another battery, running at 3500 mAH, which should give me quite a bit longer run time than the old 1500's I used to run as a kid. 

Cheers, and happy bashing!!