Difficult car to restore but a great end result.

I originally set out out to build a fully hopped up chassis for the Porsche 911 GT1. It's taken a while but today I am finally happy. An awful decal set to apply, it's taken me two weeks on and off as I lost interest a few times. This is one body that I grew to hate while doing it. The following was done.



The Chassis.

The chassis was completely stripped, degreased and hand cleaned. All the screws were ultrasonically cleaned in meths and then checked. Any non Tamiya rougue screws or damaged ones were replaced. The plastic parts were replaced as required. As many Tamiya and non-Tamiya period Hop-Ups that I could find were then fitted, the list below details some of them.



The Body

The bodyshell is an original Tamiya 1/8 scale shell that came to me from Japan used. It was complete however so I set about removing the decal set, cleaning it, painting the parts that were meant to be black and then re-applied a new decal set. The wheels and tyres are brand new Tamiya items that were painted at a local body shop in gold paint and then laquered.



The Engine

The engine is very special. It was once a standard OS Max 12LD but it has been tuned , balanced and lightened by M-Speed in Japan. This includes a new head and rear cover plate, it sings on full revs!



I hope you like it.



Tamiya Hop-Ups



53171 TGX Up-graded brake disc

53368 Aluminum brake arm set

84084 4mm Aluminum Flange nut (Pink)

53242 TGX Aluminum Engine Mounts

53157 Aluminum King Pins

53353 TG10 Urethane Bumper

41005 Tamiya fuel filter

53377 TGX Racing chassis

53208 Lightweight Flywheel

53289 TGX Hard aluminum front suspension arm set

53290 TGX Hard Aluminum rear suspension arm set

53376 TGX Carbon Upper deck set

53159 4mm Aluminum flange lock nuts (blue)

53596 Aluminum servo stays

53280 Low Friction Aluminum Damper Set x 2

53201 TGX 2 speed Transmission

53199 TGX Stabilizer set

53244 TGX Carbon Propellor shaft

53252 TGX Rear aluminum upright set

41013 Fuel Indicator (For Tamiya, Futaba, KO

45017 Tamiya RC Failsafe unit RSU-1

53245 Tamiya Ball Diff

53200 Tamiya 4WD Front One-Way Diff unit

Various Tamiya Titanium Screws

Tamiya TP-R132JR Receiver




Non-Tamiya Hop-Ups



Cross TX-35 Alloy Front Hubs (Blue)

OS E-1000 Exhaust

OS 12LD Nitro Engine

Futaba Servos and switch harness



A few more to find but getting there!