William Wild

Yellow Flames and Wild Willy.

DIB Upgrade.

My DIB has received a minor upgrade.

Twin Willy Detail.

Recently, I updated my driver profile.

RE-Xtreme Street

A little update from the street. RE-Xtreme Street!

STREET JACK MAX ONE - 86

Here's a look at a few Tamiya Toyota 86 Bodies. You can decide what works and what doesn't.

For the Street Jack event,  I fitted these +9 Spice TE37 SL in Hyper Bronze. The tuck a long way inside the guards even though the spacers are +8 on the rear and +7 on the front.

Some usage marks are starting to show, but that's RC.

Overall it's still looking insane. I think the result was good starting from an unknown.

One thing that ties this body together is the driver.  The Wild Willy II driver is awesome... Repaint in white is coming soon.

The DRB is also packing a moveable camera for onboard shots. These are linked to two rearward mounted servos. the driver has a movable head and I can raise the right arm for waving or gestures.

Inside it looks cool. The metallic red covered straw cage adds to the details. Camera roof mount is simple.

I'm not the only one with a 86 though. Here is another that's just as cool for many different reasons.

Inside you can see a full interior with Initial D style Anime character. LED lighting is a major feature on this "Base Model" 86 

Like my car, the front and side are wearing some signs of good drifting. The decision to use the black stock bumpers is thinking outside the box for sure. it makes the car look more "86".

The two contrast the 86 look in totally different manner.

But both are totally attention grabbing.

 Painting the rear bumper has made the car look longer in the back. This is the main strange point of the tamiya body.

I think mine is sitting about 4-5mm lower. There is no doubting that Work Kiwami are the best match for stock 86.

LED set includes the full controller with hazards, turn indicators and front and rear headlamps. However there are a few additions. the additional turn indicators on the fender and the LED day lighting look superb.

In the rear I am using the tamiya semi transparent decals while the silver car uses some custom LED and small indicators.

The results are great on the silver car.

My day lights are uninstalled. Just sticker option but I have driving lights in the lower mounts.

Here is another comparison. Normal body with Yellow bumper and lower wing. some Supra looking light buckets and FMIC. 

The body sits quite high for asphalt attack... Gymkhana Rally SPL?

All different, All Cool.

Wilder Willy

Do you remember back in 27-Nov-1982 when the Wild Willy came out? I do. I used to build them in my father's hobby store for customers. Fun beasts but the handling was always somewhat flawed with that High centre of gravity. The willy's wheeler tried to correct that.

This machine is off the dial. Its a petrol 4-stroke engined beast on a totally custom alminium chassis with super cool suspension design. I encountered it last week at the Tamiya Festival in Ikebukuro Tokyo. Then again today at Super Rajicon.

Now I have to get and finish my wild willy 2 driver. Here is an awesome paint tutorial.

Wild Rusty

Lets have a rough look at Wild Rusty.

I didn't spend long on this. It really was a rush job in an hour or so.Driver is a Wild Willy II driver set. Cost is about $5

Servo is high tec. cheapest available. I was just lucky the blue matches the chassis. I had originally planned to mount the servo inside the body of the driver, that's why there's a bug cutout in the back. 

But mounting troubles led me to simply locate the servo off the chassis and use a weak bell-crank to operate it.

I had already started to hollow out the head, so it was pretty easy to make a little adjustment to the servo horn.

The driver has a post mounted to the arm. It's in a favourable spot for the drb. First mounting with a tapping screw and plastic post was not secure, so I used metal mount and spacers to get the height I needed.

So there it sits with uncleaned up wired looking pretty ugly. I later added the stickers for visibility.

 But the chassis needs a clean up.

I have a small plan for another channel so stay tuned for the super Wild Rust.

ps. please excuse the poor photos...