Cheap & Fun RC Car Kit! Tamiya Subaru BRZ ZD8 TT-02 Quick Look| RC Driver
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ก.ค. 2024
- Sometimes simple is better and when it comes to a fun on-road kit to build up, Tamiya is a great company to turn to. We managed to get an early release of the new Tamiya Subaru BRZ ZD8 TT-02 Kit. The TT-02 chassis itself is not new. It’s been around for a while and has proven to be a fun build model that performs really well for it’s simple design and suspension set-up. We actually recommend the TT-02 a lot for those looking for a kit to build. Luckily there are a number of body options for TT-02 kits and here’s one more with the BRZ body. This video is a quick look at this car and how much fun it is to drive stock out of the box.
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TT-01 and -02 are great entry-level kits, and I agree they have their place. Not everything needs to be top of the line racing grade. I started with a TT-01 I bought used for $60. Upgraded to brushless, adjustable suspension arms, changed diffs and driveshaft, oil-filled shocks, changed bodies & wheels... still hasn't cost me much over all!
I just finished up a RX7 TT02 drift kit as my first rc build and it was easier than I was imagining. When I first opened the box it seemed pretty daunting but once you get working it goes by super smooth. On par with putting together a Lego kit.
Great content as usual! Love all the Tamiya coverage, I’m a huge fan.
I like it. Its fun for me. Great way to start out in rc.
Great video. I'm wanting to get my first TT02 kit soon. I'm really liking the look of the mustang.
Wow, just from looking at it I'm genuinely impressed with it's out of the box performance. Subaru's last gen BRZ is one of my favorite cars and I recently stumbled across this kit on Amazon around the same time I was looking to get back into the R/C Hobby. Ahhhhh! I'm love! 😍 About to order a kit rn!
Best reviewer on TH-cam! Great kit, love the TT02, awesome video as always sir! 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸
That is a fun platform and really easy to build!
✌🏼😎👍🏼
TT02 is a great kit, i have a brushless one i use for rallying and it rips. it even does low fast jumps nice!! i would recommend this car to rally fans as well.
I think this is a good project this winter season.
Such a nice looking car ..love the vid
Thanks for the great review! I was gifted a TT02 for Christmas and looking forward to putting this road car together, after being away from R/C for almost 20 years.
Brilliant kit. Agree with everything you said.
cool rc and awesome run brother
Looks lovely
Another thing most people don't realize, with a set of hard plastic tires, these cars make for great beginner drift cars! I bought a set for my GR Yaris TT02 (same chassis, different body) and it slides just as good as my friends AWD drift cars, for easily half the price they paid. $10 will get you a ball bearing upgrade for your driveshafts and axles, and another $15 will get you some oil filled shocks for the car. Fun to rally around in the dirt, on the road/concrete, and especially fun to drift on a track or around the driveway!
The TT01 EURO Truck is awesome 😀👍👍💯
Ima pick this one up later👌👌
Looks fun
Very nice blue subaru
I would love the 1st gen BRZ TT-01E version to match my 1/1 car 😍 although this new BRZ is quite the looker
The TT02 are great fun kits and Tamiya's bodies have great details and looks 👌
And moving to the 1060 ESC is awesome as I always replaced the stock one
It looks like a decent rc car to play with.
However, it would be better if there was no problem even if the motor and battery were upgraded by increasing the durability.
It's a great video. thank you.👍👍👍
One of my go to parking lots for street bashing surprised I've never ran into u there
Im going to order 2 of these to add to the fleet. I have an HPI Racing and Jada Toys car in the fleet but I want to go with another brand for the low. I understand its easy to upgrade these as well.
Great video. Thanks for sharing it. Question, what series of Tamiya RC's would be an intermediate level for someone who's still new to RC's but wants the best speed and performance with quality parts right out the box. Also, can you recommend a beefier remote controller with LCD status screen?
Nice to see someone genuinely enjoy a stock TT02. Most of them are highly modified. I would really like to see you do a simple comparison, since you have 2 of them. Stick to a simple track layout and give one of them ball bearings, after that an upgrade for the steering and the next time some oil shocks. Then we could see if these upgrades really does make such a noticeable difference in performance.
Ball bearings I think yes always but the stock friction shocks work great for this kind of chassis
TT-02s are a hoot. Like you said most of what you're buying is in the gorgeous lids. I built a '99 WRC Imprezza a while back. The kits practically fall together and while performance isn't stellar, they're a riot to drive (my only real grievance is steering angle and there exists remedies for that) and near impossible to break. And of course the dirt cheap price point really seals the deal. Probably the best entry level 1:10 tourer out there. Thanks for the awesome content, Greg!
P.S. I actually have a time lapse of my build on my channel.
I would really appreciate it if you could take a look at the new 1/8 HPI rally (electric) when you get the chance, thanks & don’t stop what you do bro,it’s the best…
Makes me miss my HPI RS4...I still have the car (w/ McLaren F1 and Porsche GT1 bodies)...but it's been idle for 20 years. I wonder if the 4wd belt is still good... Another plus for a shaft driven 4wd chassis. 👍
I just restored my 1997 RS4 Sport and the original belts are there. Hell even the old AM RX-TX still work.
Good day. I was wondering if you had a good idea for a new chassis build to go with a body that I acquired. The body is an Austin Healey 3000 that I want to make look like my grand fathers car(which my parents still have). I am thinking either a rally car or street car(not a drifter). I am not sure which chassis would be best for it do you have any good ideas? Thank you
What about a brushless system in this? Recommendable? Ore maybe too much? I have a 3s system in an HPI Firestorm I'm gonna probably sell and I could maybe sell it as a roller and keep the electronics for a kit...
Can you somehow disconnect the front drive if you wanted this as rear wheel drive?
Seriously fun. I have to ask. How do you have snow everywhere & a dry car park?
Thanks for sharing 👍🏻👍🏻🙃🙃
Because dry and sunny. Just cold. Not like England where it rains all year long
@@munterboy9298
I'm not from England but anyway thanks.
Does anyone know why the Tamiya Toyota GR86 kit costs $20 more? Is the TBLE-04S that much better than the Hobbywing ESC?
Can the ESC take a 2s?
Nice video, I have not built this platform before although I have built several Tamiya cars. Quick question for you, my son got me the Comical Frog for Christmas. For painting the body I want to use the White Tamiya paint. If I back it with the black pain will that look bad or should I use a gray paint to back?
I typically back my white paint with silver and then back it in black.
Ok that helps I appreciate that advice!!
Buy two cans of the base paint. I’ve had a defective can once and that made covering my car that much harder. Usually you can get away with using just one can but yeah, I had a defective can of paint that didn’t have as much gas inside as the other can I used so I recommend getting two cans to ensure you’re getting the proper amount of coverage BEFORE you back it or the backing color WILL bleed through.
I don't see the link for the bearings. 😐 Am I missing it?
6:56 can we use lipo in it?
If we order thru your link do you get credit for it?
Great Video! According to your link however that price states it does not include the ESC.
I checked with my Tamiya contact for you. The Horizon site is incorrect. The kit does come with the ESC.
I was going to ask you that today. If I use your link do you get some sort of credit for it?
@@rcdriver thank you!
is this 1:10 scale??
Sweet kit! Can it handle brushless upgrade?
Yep! Even with plastic gears i havent even damaged a gear yet!
If you’re going brushless, you’ll need a brushless ESC.
For me, I’ve built a TT-02 with the Tamiya ESC and another with the Hobbywing 1060. The 1060 might seem like a better ESC but is limited to brushed motors. The Tamiya ESC, namely the TBLE-02S, is capable of running a 10.5T sensored brushless motor up to an equivalent of 8.5T with advanced timing, though good luck finding the Tamiya fan unit for the TBLE-02S for cheap, if at all. TBLE-02S was superseded by the 04S which has provisions for aftermarket 25x25mm fans. Neither of the Tamiya ESC’s can run on LiPo without having to manually check the voltage manually. The Hobbywing 1060 can run 3S LiPo with built-in battery detection and low-voltage cutoff.
As for if the chassis can handle brushless, it absolutely can with those plastic gears! Just use a 27T 42P pinion with the TT-02 high speed gear set though or the car will seem slow. The standard gearing for the TT-02, excluding the TT-02B and Type-S variants, is slow with the Torque Tuned and the Sport Tuned isn’t any better either unless you add at least the high speed gear set.
All the places I see to purchase says requires an esc??????
If the part number has “-60A” at the end, it comes with the Hobbywing, despite what the item description says. Even Amain has the incorrect info.
My problem is my favorite part is building them. Lol
gr86 version?
Yes it’s available too if that’s the body set you prefer.
Are tt02's any good/fun
They are. I've been researching them for about 6 months, Greg has some awesome videos. From what I've seen, it's a fun and easy build, the hop-ups are everywhere, with tons of body options for the chassis. You can set them up to drift, rally, and road bash.. As soon as I have the cash, I'm buying one.
The TT02 is, definitely, a fun build. However, our of the box, it does NOT handle "really, really well", despite the claim in the video. Truth-be-told, out of the box, it handles quite horribly - the 'friction' shocks are garbage, the included ESC is a total joke (at least the Tamiya ESCs are...the Hobbywing ESCs being included in many newer kits is considerably better), and there's so much 'slop' is the steering iI'd dare/bet anyone to drive it in a straight line for more then 15-20ft at full throttle (you can't, as it WILL vere to the left/right - notice, in the video, it's always being turned).
However, all is not lost, as you CAN turn the TT02 chassis into something worthwhile. Tamiya produces a huge collection of "Hop-Up" parts (oil filled shocks, aluminum turnbuckles, etc) that can turn the chassis into a highly-drivable chassis. On top of that, there are plenty of 3rd-party parts that can make the car even better. Yeah Racing even had a complete "conversion kit" ($200), which towns the TT02 chassis into a very competitive RC chassis (something you could actually compete with in GTA & USGT classes).
The point is, out of the box, while it's an incredibly fun build (over this past Thanksgiving, my step-Dad & I built two of them, side-by-side (his with several of the aforementioned 'Hop-Ups' & 3rd-party parts, mine with a combination of that Yeah Racing Conversion Kit & Hop-Ups)), it's not very drivable...but, with a few Hop-Up parts, you can easily turn it into something very drivable. Out of the box, the Traxxas 4Tec 2.0 Chassis makes for a better, more-drivable, car...but, with a selection of Tamiya & 3rd-party upgrades, not only can the TT02 equal (or be better than) a stock 4Tec 2.0, it'll cost you less than that 4Tec. For someone who wants a fun (albeit, not very drivable) kit that's easy to build, and very inexpensive, any of the TT02 kits is a great way to go. Then, you start adding upgrades, and, over time (or, if you can afford it, all-at-once), you can turn it into something semi-great. 🤙🏼
@@philthyco1 I figured on spending about $500 after buying some tools, paint, hop-ups, and electronics. That way I'll have a good work area and an awesome running car.
Ask I guy that has two of them and built a third for his nephew. I like them a lot. Sure, there are a few things about them that put people off about them but anything negative come from people who actually own them. I have a TT-02R clone which I call the “TT-02R (Plus)” because mine is literally a clone of the TT-02R which is an absolute beast of a car but mine has a few other upgrades that take this chassis to the next level.
Point is, they’re an affordable chassis to get into the hobby and you won’t have to worry about it if you decide that RC isn’t for you. But if you do like RC, this chsssis is easy to build, easy to maintain and upgrade.
To base a decision on whether it’s “fun” or “good” isn’t accurate because that all depends on the person driving it. I like mine and I do think they’re good. Your mileage may vary.
I'm 32 years old, and I want to buy and drive RC cars. I am afraid my woman will hit me the "act your age" line. Am I too old to be buying rc cars?
...just do it. Who cares what others think. Buy it, build it, run it. There is no age limit on being a hobbyist. 🏁