Had a little bit of a home emergency today. We appreciate the support and will chat back with you this week.

All the Tamiya lovers love an upgrade series! I loved the opening too, freakin awesome! haha

Good to have you guys back, I do love a good Tamiya hornet, maybe as a finale to this series you could put a hobby wing brushless system and send it!

Awesome video, great to see some track action again! And the track is looking excellent bro! Looking forward to phase two of the hornet upgrades!!🤘👍👍

Another great backyard vid man. Keep 'em coming.

It'd be sweet to see the front tires get an upgrade too. I really feel that the smoothies are a miss when it comes to trying to hook into corners and hang into it. I'm excited as heck to see the 380 being tossed in this ol girl! Thanks for the conrent

My first kit was a 1/10 Panda buggy. It had a captured ball where the diff connected to the frame. It had lots of articulation like this setup. Nice to see hop ups for the old hornet. Great vids. Keep 'em coming!

Brilliant! I'm doing similar suspension upgrades to a Hornet at the moment. Great fun, keep the videos coming.

That was pretty cool. I like the modified rear end. If you happen to have a TRF off road buggy around, borrow a set of front shocks off it and put them on the rear of the Hornet. I did that once, made quite a difference.

Nice run, the 380 sport tuned is a great motor and it will be perfect for the Hornet.

Springs are to firm. Looking good but... I did a nice 3D rear shock,body and wing all in one mount . Print in TPU the mount and wing protects it so much.

Great idea bud. Looking forward to seeing the 380 Sport Tuned going in there and seeing the difference. The fact it is a fast as a frog now is impressive

Nice project with good results! Such beautiful quality images!👍😊

Brilliant i love this Do more upgrade an comparisons 👏👏👏☘️

Great job those 3d printed parts work a treat 👌

Very cool suspension and great run with it. That is not bad at all for time considering the 380 motor in it! Thanks for all the hard work!

Good stuff man! Hope everything is ok with your home emergency!

So good to see you again! Watching 1:28 now. You went into the first corner hot, and it hung in there. That's awesome. Maybe a little softer suspention in the rear but let's see what those tires do! Foams in there would be sweet.

Tracks looking great love the Horent classis for sure.. Like the suspension addons..

great idea for a series.. i have a soft spot for the hornet as thats what i had way back when.. looking forward to further installments .. just 1 thing tho, please only test 1 change at a time.. you changed the springs and shocks in this video as well as the 4 link and this makes it tricky to see where the improvement came from..

This is really interesting, I think the Hopper chassis has a better balance than the ORV with modern electrics in them. I shall watch your progress with great interest!

Doesnt look half bad. Well done.

That looked like it ran very well, can’t wait to see how it is improved through the series

Happy to see you back making videos. I might have to copy thar Kenny Robert's body scheme on my grasshopper

Great upgrade!

Nice piece of engineering for sure, and great vid'! Be sure I do love and appreciate all the work on the channel, and I hope I won't be too much controversial, but a solid "motor-on-axle" with shocks behind the axle just can't work suspension-wise. When the torque from the motor is ON and the tires grip, under the counter-torque, the axle can't do anything else but blocking onto the suspension upper stops, extending the shocks, and... That's it! You've got your fully rigid rear-end. The only way to have it working I think is to mimick Kyosho's design on the Rampage, having the shocks INSIDE a very large four-links system. On a Grasshopper/Hornet/DT-01, no matter how you upgrade the linkage to the chassis, the rear suspension "works" only when the car is not running. But I repeat: great vid', as usual, so thank you for sharing! :)

So glad that you come back with (as usual) an another awesome video ! Honestly i love the Hornet because is so hard to correctly handle it and that makes a lot of fun. I'm looking for the run with 380 motor 'impatiently' (not sure if i can put in this way in English). Big thanks for sharing ! 🙂

Looks good. I feel like the rear suspension was still bound up somehow watching the slow motion and hearing it bounce down the long straight away.

Still bounces around like a hornet to me just not as bad.

Just needs softer rear springs and foam in the tyres.

First time attack, lets go!

Yes thanks for posting love your videos

Looking forward to seeing the 380 and how that goes

I’m pretty sure this kit was originally designed by ampro

Kyosho made a really nice 380. Would be a cool comparison video to the sport tuned.

I think you might have to go lighter on the rear springs. From the slow mo' clips it doesn't look like the rear suspension is moving much and is causing the rear to bounce. The tires contribute a little bit to that but the dampers should be damping that more.

Good to have you guys back! I love a good hornet!

oh hell yea z new vid

Great stuff mate.!! 👍 👍 👍 Stay safe out there & the very best wishes from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🙏 ❤️ 📻 🕹️ 🔋 🚗 🚖 🚕 🚔 🚚 🚙 🚘 🚓 🚒 🚑 🚐 🚎 🚤 🚁 🛩️ 👍 👍 👍

So was this TT done with the 540 or 380 ST? I think if you played about with different springs and shock oil for the rear it would be to stiff, could hear that familiar hornet rear end skip. Great to see you back BTW, I really enjoy your videos 👌

Did I tell you I put a GT tuned in mine that's all I did to it?