Tamiya Terra Scorcher First Drive
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- I was finally able to get out with the Tamiya Terra Scorcher I recently built and drive it around! It drives well and was fun both in the yard and on the track! Thank again to Keith from RC Icons for gifting this to the channel, truly awesome and Keith, you need to build one for you track for sure!!!
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Totally makes sense the astroturf with higher traction made the car want to flip, it would benefit from a harder rear sway bar on high traction but then you’d slide too much on the dirt. Awesome video!
Overall I think it does very well and I just have to spend more time learning to drive it better around the track. Not too bad for the first dozen or so laps with it!
Every time I see one of these I wish I had one. The track is so cool. All the best.
Thanks! It is a pretty cool buggy and the most feature packed of the TS line-up. I would change a few things about the track but overall I am very happy with it! It is nice to have something right here at home to go out on but all the track maintenance is my problem so it is a give and take!! Take care and Happy Holidays!!
Nice to see it running. The close up angles at the end coming off the jump are great.
Thank Trey! I just thought of setting the cell phone down there to get some possible crashes but it is cool to see the car react and all the suspension travel you don't catch in real time! I had fun with it and the buggy ran great for being box stock!
Great run on both the grass and the track. It's pretty quick on the silver can motor. I can't wait to see it om the sports tuned motor. Thanks for sharing. 👍👍👍👍👍🤜🤛
It did do very well! I think the sport tuned motor is going to be good in there and about the most I would want in it for my little track. Any more than that I'll be fighting wheel spin too much. I am a bit heavy handed on the throttle!! That is why I let you run all the 6 and 8s stuff!! LOL!!
Looks great in the grass and on the track
It is more fun on the track but does well in the grass. The power slides on the track are always great!!
I thought the car looked great! I was surprised how it floated across the grass sections before you went to the track. It handled well on the track and looked very smooth on the dirt sections. I am very tempted to buy one the cars in the series. Thanks for sharing.
It did very well out there! That rear sway bar did make a noticeable difference on the track. It kept it very laid down in the corners and made it very stable and predictable. If you look to get one this is the most feature loaded one! Thanks as always for stopping by and checking in!
Yeah that is another good one for your collection for sure. Awesome donation from Rc icons. Been checking him out lately. Has pretty great content as well. Enjoyed it brother. :) Some pretty great shots at the end there bud. Liked the front tire tip one. lol
It is a great buggy and runs very well! Keith is a great guy and has some amazing kits in his collection!! The slow shots were fun. Just had the idea to set the phone up to catch any crash shots!!
Hi Addam and great to se the Terra Scorcher out and running. I'm glad it isn't just me, as I was a bit underwhelmed with the speed from my stock motor, too! I was also thinking of the ST to pep her up a bit. Good times all the same and I loved those extra shots at the end! :))
It did well but a.ithink a little more pep would make it a little more fun. Might be a bigger handful on the track but it drives so well I think it will be fine and fast! I need to get it into the 9 second lap times and stay in the low 10s and I think that will be a ton of fun! The ending shots were to catch any wrecks but ended up getting some cool shots coming over the mountain!! I think that will be a regular thing!!
@@AddamsPlayground Look forward to more of those ending shots then! As for the motor, I think that as you said it drives so well and is so easy to control is the reason we both feel it could handle a little more oomph! :)
Yeah, just enough to get slideways a little!!
Cool track. Enjoyed the video... Keep the great content coming...
Thanks Ari! I appreciate you stopping by and checking it out! Much more stuff coming!
Great run, Addam. The rear sway bar does make a difference. I noticed it when I put one on my Thunder Shot. Tamiya should have just included it on these chassis from the beginning, but we know that's not their business model.
Thanks! It really does help the rear end stay flat and makes it much more stable and predictable. Still got a bit squirrely on the carpet a few times but overall did great! Tamiya is not one to give features away! Even the "free ball bearings" usually increase the cost of the kit by $25 or more! LOL
@@AddamsPlayground the Terra Scorcher is the same price as the Thunder Shot, and has more features than it (bearings, universals, sway bar, upper links).
Looked great Addam and ran really well on the track dude nice.. 😊👍👍🤩🏅
It is a wonderful looking car and it really is the best handling of the whole TS chassis series! It was a fun and predictable one to drive!
Great run Addam I love this buggy it looks so good
Thanks! It is a great looking buggy and runs very flat. I was surprised to see how much that rear sway bar does help with cornering!
Nice! Terra scorcher is a great looking car for sure.
It really is and runs well too! Being completely stock it did very well!
Great track run Addam👍the slow mo shorts at the end looked great👌🦘🇦🇺
Thanks! I set the phone to catch some crash shots and ended up with some interesting ones. The next run video has fun shots at the end as well.
@@AddamsPlayground
That was a great idea, you got some really cool action shots alright👌
Hey Addam, looked really good out there on the track dude. I am excited to see how my Thunder Dragon goes next year and maybe I will still build and run this beauty in the future. Other than the rolls on the jump it looked very planted. 🙌🏻🙌🏻
It drives very well and you should look to see about getting that Terra Scorcher rear sway bar, it helps out more than I thought it would. The wonkiness from the jump was I was lazy and did not clean up the jump face and had gotten chewed up and developed a little kicker at the top. I cleaned it up after the run, you know, doing things the right way! LoL!
Looks great ripping around. Great job
You need to have one of these ready to go for your track! It will be a great fun runner out there for you!! Thank you for this and I had an absolute blast with it!!!
@@AddamsPlayground I have an original to build for the shelf and 2 rere to build and run. They are a great platform.
Nice run Addam! It looked pretty smooth on the track!👍😊
Thanks! It ran really well and nice and flat which really helps on that infield section of carpet, many want to roll over or unload the rear tire through there. This stayed flatter than most!
Great run. Looks great!!
Thank you! It is a beautiful buggy but scoots around the track really well for a stock kit!
Looks really cool Addam! 🙂👍
Thank you! It looks great and drive really nice. I will get it back out once the track can dry out some and I think it will be really good!!
Really nice track
Thanks Michael! It was a lot of work but it is really nice to have somewhere to run at anytime. I do need to go out and do a spring cleaning out there is is pretty ragged after the winter and all the rain!
Nice first run Addam, it´s a darn good chassie and fun to run, buggy looks good too.
Thank you! You are right, it both looks great and drives very well! It is one of the better buggies I have gotten from them for having looks and really great parts and performance right out of the box. I love them all though!
Same here, love em all in the series but the Thunderdragon is my top choice 😃
Great run and nice track..
Thank you!!! Time and weather have not been on my side but I was finally able to get some cars out running the other day! Some a few more run videos coming!
Great run Addam
Thanks! The weather here and time has been fighting me lately! between the rain and the sun going down so early it has been hard to get out!
@@AddamsPlayground it sure is I haven't took any of mine out in awhile
All of the Thunder Shot chassis buggies are great, but the Terra Scorcher just has that little something extra! 👍Great video as always!
It really does well! That rear sway bar made a very noticeable difference on the handling in the corners! I knew it would help some but it really helps a lot, especially on the carpet inside corner.
Dammmm straight it drove well how it cornerd on those burms 👌 that was really impressive how well it handled the track another great vid bro 👊
It did pretty well! It drives better than the other Thundershot chassis do, that rear sway bar really does help! Thank you!!
Nice running video! I need to build one of these….
Thank you! It is a really nice kit! Goes together well, looks fantastic and drives really nicely! You would have a blast bombing it around in the park!
Hey! It looked pretty smooth and looked like it handled decently. I know nothing of buggies besides my only one (Wild one BHM). Cheers
Thank you! These run really well. The chassis is the next evolution up from the Hot Shot chassis and they are similar in layout and gearboxes but the chassis was made to be stronger and more durable. The suspension works better and is more tunable as well versus some of the HS kits. I love them and if you get a chance pick one up, they are a lot of fun!
Hey Addam it looks like it's running really well. I'm just building mine while I'm watching yours. Like you say a Sport Tuned will pep it up. I've gone brushless which might be too much but I'll see. Lap times were pretty decent 🙂
For just romping it around something faster than the sport tuned would be fine and I am sure tons of fun! For the track anything more than the sport tuned and I'll be fighting wheel spin issues as I am too heavy handed on the throttle usually!! Have fun finishing up the build and I am sure it will be shredding some grass very soon!!
Argh, come on! You need to crack that 10 second barrier soon, ha ha!
This one did really well and it looked cool, too! Those last slow motion shots were really pleasant, also the colours were better, I'm guessing you used a different camera.
LOL, the track was just a little too wet to crack the 10 second mark! The tires were getting caked up and causing it to be a little slippery on the carpet on some laps and other it wanted to hook up too well. On a drier track it would probably shed those few tenths an get into the 9s! It has rained all day yesterday and one and off for the next two or three days so it won't be any time soon! yeah the main track camera is the good Sony camera I use in the shop to record the videos and it tends to desaturate the color a little and the corner camera was my Goggle Pixel which takes wonderful pics and video. All the still pics I take now are on the cell phone!
Solid and petty quick car Addam! Handled the grass and track like a boss! Really impressed with this!🙌🏽😃👍🏻
It did really well and I am impressed by it as well. That rear sway bar really kept it laid down in the corners and I had a great time running it! I was having so much fun I didn't even flinch when it wrecked!! LOL!
Nice running footage, wish i could have my own track. But only got a small garden 😭 i’ll have a terra scorcher one day 😎
It is nice to have it out back to run them on. We don't have any tracks near me really. There is only one local and it is more suited for the 1/8th scale and big bashers to run on so I never go out there! The Terra Scorcher is the best featured one of the TS line-up for sure! It drives better and looks great!!!
@@AddamsPlayground im lucky to have a few fields near by, and the field we use for racing is only 5 mins away 😁 but unlucky to have uk weather. Rains a lot 😂 there where a few being raced at revival this year. They went pretty well. And i think swapping the blue to my notmal fluro orange the car will look sweet with kit decals. Might just have to pull the trigger and buy one 🤔
@@lo2713 We are getting our small dose of the UK rainy weather here for the last few weeks. More grey and rainy days than not. It has been tough to get out and drive!
Track is holding up well bud. Great work!
I need to get out and burn off some weeds but it is doing well! It will need some attention after the winter months but it is doing well. Nowhere near as groomed as yours is!! LOL!!
@@AddamsPlayground Man...mine is a disaster right now! North East issues...lol.
@@VINTAGEBACKYARDRC that frost will.make a mess of things!!
Looks planted mate, fast too
It drove really flat and predictable! I am very happy with it and I think with drier track it will get into the 9s and consistent 10 second laps!
Hi there Addam, the Terra Scorcher does handle very well and will certainly handle more power and with the sway bar, the handling should remaining predictable, well until that ‘tipping point’. Looks cool. Take care and best wishes to you all for the holidays 😊😊
Thanks John! It does very well and I was happily surprised with how well that rear sway bar kept it laid down in the corners! On the inside corner it did lift and unload the right rear tire a few times which slowed it from carrying too much speed and tipping over. I am very impressed and think a torque tuned or sport tuned may work well in there but anything more than that and I would be fighting the wheel spin too much. I am pretty heavy handed with the throttle!!! Over all an A+ kit from the bit T!!!!
I'm surprised how close all the times are. Would have thought the Plasma Edge would have easily dusted the current competition.
It might come down to my terrible driving too! It is hard to do these accurately as the conditions of the track change from run to run and also my driving may be more in tune to 2wd since that is mostly what I run and the change to 4wd takes a while to get used to. It is all for fun and just a fun thing to have the leaderboard of sorts. In better hands and better conditions I am sure it would be a whole different leaderboard!
On lap 4 nice jump!! Ciao Nanni
I had a big rut on the face of the jump that was messing me up but occasionally it came off of there well! plus combine that with the first run of the car and my generally rough driving skills it is amazing it stayed on the track!!! LOL!! Thanks Nanni and thank you as always for checking in. I am terribly behind on videos and I am working to catch up! I saw you had a new one out and I will get to it!!
@@AddamsPlayground Always a lot to do with our channels. Ciao!
Nice job man! Some solid times out down! Is it my imagination that the car sounds more chattery or loud than previous videos. Are you using a better mic and camera than before?
Thanks! I left the audio of the car turned up a bit more. I have had some folks say the music is cool and all but they like hearing the car too! I am trying new stuff to see how well it works! It is you average Tamiya kit sound from it just not as muted as previous videos.
😁👍Nice test run, I was thinking after I got my chassis finished that the rear sway bar kind of buggered up the rear suspension travel it makes the other side A arm move when you compress the opposite sides up? I think tamiya made it a little to stiff it should have bent more easy (softer) I though it would make the buggy a bit bouncy because of it. also this thing stock the shocks are way to over dampened I for one eventually am going to swap my stock shock oil out for like 10 or 15wt I don't know why tamiya makes you make the shocks like they do the oils so thick the shocks rebound comes back way to slow to react over bumpy surfaces that's why in stock form most of there RC's always just bounce around over everything. I hope my body comes out the way I am planning it should look super cool! Stay tuned!
On the bench it does feel a bit stiff but it really worked well on the track. It kept it nice and flat and it does allow the inside tire to lift and scrub off speed without tipping the car over. For general running around it may not be super great but for the track it really helps a ton in the cornering. I think with a little drier track it would be in the 9 second lap times and consistent low 10s. I do not like the stock oil either, I have been building most of the kits with light oils for the last year. I usually go for 15-25wt, depending on the shock piston. I have noticed the 10-15 in some make them move too much and it gets bouncy like a friction shock would be. Sometimes it works rights away and other times I have to change it out after a run to something thicker or thinner. The stock oil is rarely a good choice. Now in the Fighting Buggy it worked perfectly but that is a really heavy rear end and loose front shocks to begin with. I am very curious to what the body of yours is going to be!! If you are nervous it is probably going to look epic!
@@AddamsPlayground Yeah I noticed that too some of the shocks work great even with 10wt then others 15 or so works better, I think your almost better just drilling out the shock pistons holes a hair larger this way you can use the stock oil so you don't have to buy new oil or waste the kit oil all the time!
@@ShenRC True! I have almost a gallon of the kit oil sitting around here!! I think I have about a dozen of the tall bottles and at least a dozen of the small ones!!! I have tried to consolidate them as much as possible!
Hi Afdam awesome run and great results. I'm curious where it'll be on the board after changing the motor
Thanks! It ran really well, I am very happy with it. I think it may get some faster laps with the sport tuned but there is a fine line of power and traction out there so too much and I'll make a mess of it and be slower. We will see what happens!!
@@AddamsPlayground Sport Tuned is a good choise, just the right humpf for almost no money.
Ran good from here and here is northeast Texas. Turned real good. I was curious, do you have a Dark Impact? Mine runs great.
Thank you and it really did pretty good out there being bone stock. I have not gotten the Dark Impact yet. It is on my list to get for sure and near the top. I have always thought that one looked awesome!!
If you were to compare this to the TT02b which one would you say is better on your track? Thanks, oh nice course
This one has more suspension travel and drives almost as flat. The TT02B is more tippy this one will lift a rear tires and scrub off speed before tipping. Time wise they are very close. I think on a rough track this one would have the advantage. My track maybe fairly even.
What do you do with all the silver can motors you take out
I have a pile of them sitting in a tote, you need one or 5???
@@AddamsPlayground no lol I have extra motors too My local hobby shop gave me some used motors that were in their track cars that they rent. He used to buy RC cars off of people and resell them and he would give me the brushed motors because apparently I'm the only person that likes them lol (stop upgrading the silver can motors lol)
What motor did you put in it I could use more speed man I'm putting a 3600 in mine.
This was on the stock silver can. Too much more motor and it would be spinning all over the place on the track so this is actually a really good amount of power to keep it stable and predictable. A sport tuned is all I would upgrade it to, if I upgrade it all. Fast motors don't make fast laps
@@AddamsPlayground hey I've seen them run on 4000 KV motors just fine.
@@bradkalman2353 sure you can put a fast motor into anything but can you actually drive it around the track with a ridiculous fast motor faster than a tamer motor? Most of the time no, as you end up going past the usable traction of the tires and end up going slower because you are fighting the car the whole way around the track. Of course you can put a fast motor in it but the usability on the track diminishes after a point.
@@AddamsPlayground Great point Addam, I totally agree, I found exactly the same when racing with Rob around our little test tracks. The other downside of fitting a crazy motor is that you're gonna wear out the drivetrain and tyres like there's no tomorrow, it all gets very expensive for no actual gain in lap speed, only straightline speed!
Your terra got scorched! I hope you have insurance...
Slight mishap but all is good so no claim needed. It was the loose nut behind the wheel that caused it!!
@@AddamsPlayground I was thinking more that the Terra Scorcher "burned up the track". You know:
terra = earth
scorcher = burny-burny
The jokes are not funny if I have to explain them...sheesh! 😜