Tamiya / Carson Audi (Sport) Quattro S1 #58447
Got this one from Frank Baldermann (E-bay.de ID = 'Hobbyhaus') in Germany (since this kit is NOT available in England where I live) for about 125 Euro (about 85 GBP) excluding postage. Postage for this and the #58448 Audi Quattro GR4 that I also bought from him at the same time was 23 Euro (15 GBP). The box was quite a bit dented on the front at the top where the name 'Audi Quattro S1' is printed, picture on the front was not affected by this. Otherwise perfect condition. Frank said that they were both perfect boxes but they were not.
Both were slighty bashed, as it were, the GR4 was only very slightly, but the S1 Quattro box was dented more... I think it was the way that they were packed in the large box that they both came in? Maybe they were like that already? There's no way that I am sending them back now, I love them too much to part with them now!!
The Sport Quattro S1 has a Polycarbonate bodyshell with separately moulded Polycarbonate front and rear wings that you add on if you want to add them, this kit came with a Carson 27 Turn ESC with proportional forwards, variable (proportional?) brakes, and proportional reverse (with 1-second delay, i.e. you don't have to put the stick back to neutral on the TX first, after you have been braking, in order to go into reverse), TL-01 chassis, bevel gears in both diffs, 4 chromed steel wheel axle drive shafts and a chromed steel prop shaft, 4WD, slick rubber tyres, grey plastic wheels, friction damped shocks, full instructions for the chassis and NO instructions for the ESC, Johnson 540 motor, full Carson decals set.
This one will get to be an indoor runner only since the ground clearance is not enough to run it on my patio without scratching it, I think. The supplied Carson ESC works very very well with my 16-turn double motor in no load test conditions, motor is very nice and controllable at almost crawling r.p.m. 1 KHz drive frequency, 10A continuous fwd, made in Yorkshire, completely hermetically sealed and thus waterproof, and 1-button setup but with NO LED...
This Sport Quattro S1 kit also goes well with my 1980's rally car DVD's from Duke Video!!
Update : I got some instructions for the ESC from a club member, see ;-
http://www.tamiyaclub.com/xforum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=14182
Also I tried this Carson ESC in my KBF and it is very nice and controllable at very low speeds, but it has weak brakes (just like my TEU-101BK) when trying to go from fast forwards to stop by pulling back hard on the brakes. Also the Carson 27 ESC is very nearly as noisy as my Tamiya TEU-101BK ESC when used with the same motor in the same KBF truck, but the noise is different when going forwards compared to when going backwards, and also the noise when going forwards is a noticeably higher in pitch compared to the Tamiya ESC.
UPDATE:- It would appear that this car has an issue either with being overscale (seems to be 1/8.5th scale approx) or with it's wheelbase being too big for 1/10th scale... If it is the former then I don't mind too much as it would still be an accurate scale model but just with a slightly bigger scale [1/8.5th] than the one printed on the box [1/10th]. See ;-
http://www.tamiyaclub.com/xforum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=14994
UPDATE:- OK here is a list that I just made featuring all of the clips that there are on the Audi Sport Quattro on the DVD 'The Greatest Years of Rallying - 1980's' from Duke Video, so interested parties can find them easily;-
see the link in the topic in the forum, a few lines back.
Yes, I am nuts about the Sport Quattro, maybe you can tell...
UPDATE : 18th December 2005 ;- I see that Modelsport have the Sport S1 Quattro shell ;-
http://www.modelsport.co.uk/?CallFunction=ShowSpecification&ItemID=17258
...28 GBP!!, including decals.
Chevron of Japan also have a Sport S1 Quattro shell, but better looking. They sell the decals separately.
This S1 car is not the original Sport Quattro, that one is not made (yet) ;-
http://www.tamiyaclub.com/xforum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=14994
...see page 2 of this topic for my picture reference, which is here;-
http://www.geocities.com/prescotmes/Sport_Quattro_DVD.JPG
...now that's what I call a cool car. 5 Cylinder engine with KKK Turbolader (German for 'Turbocharger'), 400 BHP on tap, depending on boost setting (pressure). More power
means more turbo lag since turbo has to spin up the blades faster to boost the charge throughput. The S1 car had 600 BHP in it's final form but I prefer the original Sport Quattro without all the daft wings on it!
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technical.burP
I would never buy from Hobbyhaus again, he sold me a broken charger and wanted me to talk to the manufacturer first, but I bought the item from him so he had to send me a replacement.
Live Steam Mad
Looks like I got away relatively lucky out of this one then, since I got 2 NIB cars and 2 ESC's and postage from Germany all for 200 GBP... The car kit components and the shells and decals and ESC's are all in perfect condition. From what you say, and from my slightly bashed boxes, the guy does seem to maybe be a rogue!! I am sorry to hear about your charger being broken, that must have felt annoying, you have my sympathies. Oh well, good job that I did quite well out of my experience, I am happy with my 2 ace cars!
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