RC Autopsy // Episode 5 // Masami Hirosaka ‘s Worlds-Winning Schumacher Cat XLS 1/10th scale buggy
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- RCTV Heroes get to see this FIRST! Our highly scientific series with Dr Lee Martin unearthing the secrets of famous scale racing vehicles from the past continues with another Championship-winning car, this time it’s the first Schumacher World Championship-winning car, the Cat XLS driven by Masami Hirosaka!
THANK YOU to Schumacher RC for allowing us to make this first season of shows, and to Lee's assistant Dr Tristan Neal!
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What do you think of this episode? Whose historic RC racing cars would YOU like to see Autopsied?
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😅This is a glimpse into the future, where the people who grew up with these cars are dead and the next generation doesn’t have complete knowledge of them. Thanks for the video
Those connectors were the OG Deans connectors. That was the most popular connector at the tracks I raced at in the Northeast USA at the time. I love these videos, thanks for putting them together!
I was at Romsey in 87’ to see Masami win. Hugely impressive. Cat builds were very tricky, used to take me all Saturday afternoon to strip and clean it prior to race day on Sunday but done properly there was little to touch one and the drive chain was very efficient. The diff’s were a pig to keep adjusted though. The tyres were very good too compared to what other cars had. Good times!
Thanks for the plug again 😘
Interesting that the shocks didn’t have diaphragms in and used an o ring instead.. also it’s not an XLS it’s an XL which hop ups 😉 XLS came out after the worlds.
Wonderful. I remember the short wheel base and I brought the xls and raced the nationals. Came second to Jason Varley in modified, then we called the top class superclass. When Cecil gave masami his cat xls masami's father promised not to touch or change anything on the car. Fantastic memories. I made my own chassis to fit saddle pack batteries...
The composite washer on the rotor goes on first to insulate the comm from the metal washers to prevent a short. Raced against many of these back in the day with my Optima Mid.
My first Schumacher was the CAT XL in '87 and I wanted it because Masami won the worlds with it lol Plus you didn't see them much in the states at the time so I found that pretty cool. Not so cool was getting parts for it, especially having to replace the undertray quite a few times before my dad suggested using duct tape along the length of it for a bit of extra protection, worked like a charm. Loved that car, love my L1R and LD3 as well, still making great stuff!
Another great episode, cant tell youhow much we enjoy these🤩 would be awesome to see an rc autopsy on a nitro car, maybe one of Elliott Boots race winning cars 🚗 🥇🏁🇬🇧 great job once again guys👍👏
Another great video thanks! Could the motor have been 2x15t?
I think some cars are best left in the past and this is one of them. Can you imagine working on that trackside. 😂
I think Cecil was an interesting person to come up with some of these ideas like no forward drive while the diffs working !? That cant be right surely !? . You would have to coast every corner .
Still have the KO Propo FET servo's fitted to my classic RC10 and Schumacher CAT XL. And yes, the original drive system still copes with anything I can throw at it, Even a 11.1 Lipo with a hot motor. Being that the splines are encased in the bearing, the torsion is tempered by the inner bearing wall, clever design. Nice to see Masami's car again.
"I wonder how legal that was?..." very entertaining. Thanks for posting.
Great episode! Yes, of course those are Schumacher shocks.
Great Show, thank you !
Thanks a lot ! I was waiting for this video !❤❤❤
I think the wing wires are supposed to be fixed behind the rear suspension strap rather than the shock mount. Other pictures of this actual car have it that way and so does the instruction manual for the rerelease.
Love the autopsy series. Could end up with hundreds of videos with all the historic cars and brands out there.
Maybe some classes or brands which have "died", like a Corally pancar from the 80's?
It’s an early FET servo where the servo motor was boosted to improve speed and torque. The BEC voltage would have come down the servo wires from the speed controller or ESC. For the day the KO Propo speedo would have been quite advanced, but without any reverse at all.
I remember a fellow racer who had the first fet servo I had seen, it blew me away with it's speed and response.
@@alexpeacock3870miles better than a Acoms servo lol
lol makes me laugh, two youngsters not sure what they have to look at :)
Excellent, but that car would have raced against the new Optima Mid and prototype Yokomo 870c cars not Tamiya Hotshots.
Maybe a P.B. Mini Mustang here and there
I worked abroad for a few years, on my return my parents casually told me that they had taken my car's tools spares, basically my entire rc collection to the local tip. Hundreds of tyres four complete cars with spares . Twenty plus motor's, the lot, Tamyia Boomerang, P.B Mini Mustang complete spotless, Yokomo Super Dog Fighter 2 complete and spotless, Schumacher Cat xls complete and spotless.
I would first demand my parents to pay the collectors price of everything and then disown them 🤨
What an iconic car, i was lucky to get the last one from the schumacher factory and it will never leave my collection. It gets raced a lot and is a great car to drive. Did i see an o ring in the shock and not a bladder ?
the motor is a 15 double, I typically ran a Reedy red dot 16 tripple
ariel tube would have been in the rear bulkhead up high.
I need to build my rere still 😅🎉
I did have a bit of a cringe watching a multi million pound car being taken apart though. 😬