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03-07-2013
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Tomy the intruder of the 4wd world!
You could say tomy were intruders of the 4wd rc world. I don't think many people at the time expected them to enter the competitive arena. Nevertheless, I think their entries were commendable but unfortunately short-lived.
I never knew about Tomy's cars until quite recently. Anyhow I picked up a runner on eBay from down under. It was being used as a tourer or carpet buggy on foams. It needed a complete strip down before I could get working on it. I also installed hop up options including Kose wheel hubs and universals all around, yz10 black rims, cf upper deck and rear gearbox stay and a new shiny screw kit. I won't bore you with countless build pics. Here is where I've reached so far.      Sorry about the grainy look of the pics...I'll try to sort out some HD shots later. I think it's looking pretty trick so far. Tranmsision is really smooth. Not much to go now! 
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04-07-2013
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Great build you have going here. I am still yet to witness one of these cars on a race track. They certainly have all the potential of a fine vintage racer just begging for a sniff of dirt.
I watch your thread with anticipation.
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04-07-2013
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Yes you are right. This is how you adjust the belt tension but it's a little fiddly as once you have achieved the desired tension you need to use a screw to fix it in place! As you can imagine, the screws are really small.
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Probably the same deal as found on all the early Schumacher buggy diff eccentrics.
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04-07-2013
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Naushad when I sold my new Intruder I kept the set of mounted foams - the wheels won't fit anything I have, do you want them?
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04-07-2013
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Naushad are those wheel hubs standard for this car? They look like Yoke adapters. Either way, me likey
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04-07-2013
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I sold one to Keith on here a while back, mine was a totally standard original intruder. This one seems to have a fair bit of CF and looks like it's coming along great. The wheel adaptors do look yokomo, the originals had a fiddly large wheel nut and a plastic molded spanner. The diff adjusters are the eccentric cam types as seen on early schumachers as you say and had silly little retaining screws. The overall design I thought was very good, transmission and centre one way similar to the ys870 dogfighter.
Keep it going 
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04-07-2013
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This is my Intruder ready to run, I have run on grass at my local club but split a front wishbone, i seem to remember they were a bit weak along the moulding line.
It ran quite well, I,am going to try it without the epicyclic spur gear as it was a bit weird, kept turning in really sharp off power 
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04-07-2013
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Looks cool Naushad. I've never really seen one of those properly.
Looks pretty good. Dave
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04-07-2013
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Ok guys. A little more progress.
    I'm now looking for some attachments for the front shock shafts to attach to the ball ends on the suspension arms. I'll then get the servo in place and cut the body to size. I've only got the Adonis repro decals, but littlevette on rc10talk has original intruder ex decals which are probably a better match.
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04-07-2013
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Hey ken, nice one there. I have a thicker frp tower on mine. Kinda beefy.
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