B5 and B5M... - Page 5

mattr · #81 01-01-2014

Yes, they are metric. Someone commented earlier in the thread.

PaulRotheram · #82 02-01-2014

Confirmed metric from Jason Ruona.

NeilD · #83 02-01-2014

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Originally Posted by PaulRotheram

Confirmed metric from Jason Ruona.

I confirmed this five days ago mate. Cav posted it on his fb page.

PaulRotheram · #84 02-01-2014

I wasnt aware it was a competition?

NeilD · #85 02-01-2014

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Originally Posted by PaulRotheram

I wasnt aware it was a competition?

It isn't, but if it was, I won

mes · #86 04-01-2014

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Originally Posted by PaulRotheram

It has all the blue parts which every previous FT car has had, alloy servo mounts, blue motor mount, blue shock collars etc.

On any previous AE team car they have always been full black aluminium, no bling parts and room for improvement.

The car, with a pre RRP at £240 seems very good value. and if I was in the market would be interested in this.

At least it has threaded shocks and aluminum servo mounts, agreed. However, compared to the FT the team kit lacks titanium turnbuckles, titanium nitride coated shock shafts, aluminum hubs, wheel hexes and steering bellcranks. On second thought that's not that bad, I'd replace most of the aluminum items with Yaiba/Avid/RDRP/whatever parts anyway. Although I'd recommend the Yokomo 2WD to erverybody, blinging up my SC10 was so much fun (if expensive), I am contemplating getting a B5M. Hopefully it will not have as much slop as the B4 family.

andy05 · #87 07-01-2014

More pic from AE
http://www.teamassociated.com/cars_a...ctures_videos/

Someone on rctech has posted the manual to
http://www.rctech.net/forum/electric...thread-19.html

SLEENAD · #88 08-01-2014

The direct links so you don't have to go through rctech:

https://skydrive.live.com/view.aspx?...DZGyUzQ1sdc414

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9Aa...b28/edit?pli=1

mes · #89 09-01-2014

Thanks, also available on petitrc.

Lee24h · #90 09-01-2014

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Originally Posted by mes

At least it has threaded shocks and aluminum servo mounts, agreed. However, compared to the FT the team kit lacks titanium turnbuckles, titanium nitride coated shock shafts, aluminum hubs, wheel hexes and steering bellcranks. On second thought that's not that bad, I'd replace most of the aluminum items with Yaiba/Avid/RDRP/whatever parts anyway. Although I'd recommend the Yokomo 2WD to erverybody, blinging up my SC10 was so much fun (if expensive), I am contemplating getting a B5M. Hopefully it will not have as much slop as the B4 family.

Slop in a b4 mine dont have hardly any

racingdwarf · #91 26-01-2014

Just listened to a long interview with the designers and watched model car actions test drives.
Found it quite interesting,The US racers still really don't appear to want to like a mid motored car,they admit it's sharp handling,jumps well etc but still lean towards the rear car, I also felt this with the lead designer, I got the feeling he almost designed the mid car kicking and screaming,preferred the thought of redesigning the legendary rear motored B4 making it better/more refined.
Also find it quite interesting that it appears that no testing on any high grip astro tracks was carried out,from reports the reedy race was the 1st place a lot of team drivers including Neil Cragg actually got their hands on the car

Will be interesting when the car gets released as here in the uk I imagine it will be all about the mid ( a car that has done no UK testing), in the US I think more club drivers will head for trusted rear motor.Also interesting to see how it compares to the Centro as The top US boys seem to have fallen in love with theirs, shame the didn't sample the dark side earlier

Think this could actually be one of the most interesting cars released this year, and it's great it's from AE as the last few cars have made us …well yawn a bit