I love the cab forward bodies now after hating them for years

for the cutting out issue i had a similar issue on my noble receivers. with some high powered gear. feel like it draws too much power then cutting out. I added a capacitor to the receiver and it solved the issue

Wow!!!I'm totally jealous. That associated is looking good.

Ceramic bearings and diff balls Reduces the rolling resistance massively, better punch out of the corners due to better smoother and the diff balls keep temps down significantly in the gesr box Also it helps with stress racing on the electronics with overheating

Loving all the upgrades but most of all the body. Just hope it goes well for you.

I am impressed, looking forward to see it on track 😀👍

You sound really excited about this project, which has made this a really enjoyable watch 😊

That body does look good! And I really like the first body with the turned up front end it looks really cool. And I agree with those colors will bring it all together. But I wouldn't change the wing to the one that's on the Schumacher. I would keep the slim wing on there. But either way. Can't wait to see the finished version and running video👍

Looking forward to seeing this develop

What a beautiful rig Gavin! I love the liverly, the tyres, just so sweet.

Wow this will be an awesome buggy 😊

Looking good Gavin

I tried the cougar 2 body on my LD2 and was allmost a perfect fit, but looked 100 times better 👌 get some brass up front if you need more over the front, easy to remove when your strip cleaning the car 👍

£143 for the titanium screw set! Did I read that right. Holy moly😮

I kind of like the cab forward body on the B6.4, especially in those colours! It will definitely be interesting to see how well it goes with the 'retro' style body on it, it's been designed for the modern body so may not be quite as good, but we'll have to wait and see....

Kev goes to that track!!

To reduce understeer we cu5t spikes off and glue down front tyres, makes them much more responsive on carpet

This cougar body would easily accommodate a fix I seen a video about a cooling fan and motor interference, and to install a fan further away from the motor, looked like he had to remove part of the body. This cougar body would easily accommodate fix.

Only issue with throwing that many parts at it at once is you're not going to know what changed how it handles. You could set everything up the same and it handle completely different to than before and you won't know which part did what. Handling can be a minefield and is recommended that you should make notes on your setup, make a single adjustment then test , if it's better note the adjustment, if it's worse reset to what it was and adjust something else , test rinse repeat. It's long winded but that's how you learn.

I like the original shell colours reminds me of Rothmans race cars

Try a +1 bulkhead or shim it. More steering immediately

I thought your car performed exceptionally well and the setup you copied worked really well. I hope the changes you made make it better. I have always been told and I've read in many places to make one change at a time. If the car performs better then you are ok. But. if you make a few setup changes and it doesn't work you may not be sure what the issue is. I think the Schumacher body looks good and I am looking forward to the body experiment at the track. Good luck.

My friend runs a Cat XLS shell on his B6.2 which fits surprisingly well. Looks a million times better than the kit body.

I’ve heard people say the Dyna Storm body fits the B6.x cars? Also, I cut the chassis rails to get the battery even further forward but the biggest difference to steering response and understeer I found is tweaking the front roll centre by changing the height of the inner top camber link ball studs. Will speed do a -2mm front section for this but I found that to be way too aggressive for my taste, no sign of understeer

U can try steel bulkhead instead of alum one..I got more steering now.. 😂

I used to run a Schumacher Fireblade 2000 back in the day. I rarely ever see them in any vids. Body looks really similar to the Cougar there but maybe just different enoughto work well 4 u? Can't wait to see it painted up!

So ali rear hubs actually add unsprung weight and make it handle worse (add under steer) If you use only 2 gears in the diff you only use 1 cross pin. If you leave the 2nd cross pin in it will destroy the diff

hi, mr-hobby paints has the metallic colours to use in airbrush

I think it’s funny how a ‘team’ car requires so many upgrades. Maybe they should sell it as a ‘race’ version, and do a proper ‘team’ spec with all the upgrades. Still on the fence about getting this car or the Xray XB2. 🤔

Stoked on the Schumacher body fitting man, the rear cab just looks so much better! Other than the signal issue I’m keen to see how much you feel the mods actually shave time off or add consistency, I’m just getting into buggy racing (2wd stock) and can’t see where upgrades would improve my times more than track time.

7:46 what about going full on vintage 90’s style? Neon yellow, neon pink, and light blue? Would be cool to have a retro look for a new chassis. Just a thought

Trim your rear wing down, the gurney flap is huge!

With all the added weights up front, why not upgrade to a brass or steel bulkhead?

Would you add front weight like you did to front of servo for dirt?

That cougar body looks so much better Gavin! Like you, I hate the modern cab forward mumbo jumbo..... and am very interested to see if there is actually any performance gains to be had, cool experiment. I'm a vintage guy, but do own a RC10B 6.2..... the chassis /engineering is a true work of art, but boy that is one ugly body, it reminds me of krytens head from red dwarf! 🤣 😂

won't the wider cougar body rub on the ground during body roll in the corners, causing handling issues?

Still interested in getting to the bottom of why the modern buggy is faster out of the box. Was wondering if it’s just due to the efficiency of the drivetrain? Basically if it has more wheel horsepower than the Schumacher? Otherwise it must be more aerodynamic / drivable, just can’t square that away in my head given how similar at first glance the chassis look side by side.

How many turns motor do you advice for carpet on 2s. Is a 6.5T motor a good option? Im not doing prof races but just for fun at the local carpet track.

the alloy diff half is not going to do anything to the leaking... proper assembly is :)

Runnin rear sway bar on dirt high bite track?

Add a capacitor for the power cutting.

5.5 is too much, a 7.0/7.5 will be spot on, add some turbo if you want some more speed down the straight

Not a good idea to put TS paint in a airbrush unless you clean it really well. Yes you can get Met blue in Airbrush paint or mix your own.. could thing with water based paint.

Remove the front anti roll bar

What it is is you need a bigger ESC they can handle your draw current I use the fuse a scale ESC I usually use 1/8 scale on a 10 scale I think it's a 70 amp and you're right about going down on the pinion you're going to get the motor not as hot what would you have to do is get a better battery sometimes whenever you buy a battery brand new you think that is brand new most of the time you don't know how long these lifeboats were stored our what materials they used to make them I'd stick with the z brand and you might have better luck on your ESC it's probably made for a 2-wheel drive buggy but it draws too much current battery can't handle it cuz it's might be a little old Gavin is the new Shelby of RC cars that is that he created his own style which is awesome Gavin sat and thought there for a while 😁🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Gavin don't do it it's like wearing a dress to be going to be a ninja could you imagine all that body slap that's what I call a judo chop another thing don't do it with the paint you have to have a special airbrush for that doesn't stick well unless he use Tamiya to back paint is rubbery and you have to buy the thinner if you're using the lighter colors and you had to measure the drops perfectly they won't spray out right I wouldn't do it I would not do it

All this extra work to make this thing work properly is why I won't touch modern Associated or TLR race cars. You shouldn't have to spend hundreds beyond what you would on the kit itself just to make it raceable, especially since the kit prices themselves are ridiculous these days.