Tamiya Grasshopper! GPS Speed Run 😂👊🏻
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- In this video we have some fun with leftover parts to see if we could make a standard Tamiya Grasshopper RC Buggy hit 40mph?
I’m using a old Brushed Peak Motor 7x2 with Nimh, then 2 & 3s Lipo...
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That was great; never thought the gearbox would hold together under that type of power.
The standard modification in the 80"s was upgrading to the 540 silver can, and we thought that was quick lol.
Having said that, when teenage interest peaked in that era - somewhere around 1988 - and higher end 4wd models (Hotshots, Boomerangs, Thundershots, PB mini Mustangs and Kyosho Optimas) were common place, also the king of 2wd - The RC10''s - you'd be sent to play on your own if you turned up with a Grasshopper. It was like having a hole in your shoes lol. But we can now all reflect on what a wonderful & iconic car the Grasshopper is. Definitely one of my favourites.
Thanks for another great video Glen. Much appreciated.
Eddie Bottoms
I love this post Eddie, you got that spot on 😂👊🏻
@@TAMIYALegends lol Thanks Glen. It's nice to reminisce about the old days.
I ran some super hot brushed and brushless sets on it. I can for sure tell that it is nearly bulletproof.
I ran the Kyoshoa 240st Le Mans back in those days in a Hornet and it was blistering, nobody could touch my car when we would drag race. I then went onto the Trinity Slot Machine and that was even faster. 2 great motors for the Tamiyas. The 360ST Le Mans was a great motor for trucks, ran that in a Blackfoot.
I had my confidence absolutely shattered when I ran my humble stock Grasshopper against my friend's all original, gold pan RC-10. I lost a part of my soul on that fateful day.
Wow! My Grass Hopper in the 80s had a 6v battery and 380 motor. Upgraded to the 540 motor and a 7.2v battery. Happy dayz
5 Minute Man
Oh those were good days my friend 😍👊🏻
As far as i'm concerned, the Gh and GH2 were the best all round bashers, in terms of speed, cost of repairs, maintenance, availability, popularity, etc etc etc. I'll never forget getting my first GH way back in 91, with a 540 silver can, and on xmas day ripping it around the gravel n dirt on a patch of wasteland we kids knew as the "Wastey" haha the things kids say! we got dirty, oil on our clothes, and we had so much fun! AND we learned basic mechanics n problem solving whilst also getting out the house n not stuck on computers n phones like nowadays! win win win! haha Awesome vid!
wesley donnelly
I love this post my friend 🤩👊🏻
I had a Grasshopper when friends struggled with nikko stuff. I ruled! The Grasshopper and Hornet are the best bashers ever. I have collected and restored all the RC I dreamed about as a kid. Bruiser, brat, frog, Wild Willy, hotshot, Boomerang and Wild one to name a few. I always come back to my original GH. It's still the best fun out of them all by a garden mile and it's not just rose tinted specs or nostalgia. Parts are rugged, readily available and cheap.
Love mine, and I would never be without at least 1 GH or Hornet in my collection.
@@Rich77UK LOL I bet you sure did rule with your Grasshopper while your unfortunate friends only had Niko's!
Aww thats awesome, I too have bought many rc cars I dreamed of as a kid too. And I could not agree more, the GH's unbeatable for all the reasons you mentioned. I recently built a GH1 for a family friends son and he absolutely loves it, which makes me all the happier! My memories of being a kid, the excitement of owning and running those rc cars, is literally priceless and I cherish every second of those wonderful times way back...
can you imagine taking that set up back to the 1980s
Heh, some of us did stuff like this back then. I took a Graupner Speed 600BB which was a 550 can motor, a Power Mos 48 ESC from my boat, and two packs in series and stuck it all in my Hornet. It completely redefined undrivable - especially considering the fact that the ESC did not have reverse or a brake lol. Later I tired that set up in a Bush Devil and a Bear Hawk. Needless to say it didn't go very well.
LOL 43MPH Grasshopper! Nice work Glenn. I would have expected it to 💥 before that. Great fun and who doesn’t love some pointless project just because you can 👍🏻
RCKicks
Completely pointless but fun 😂
Thanks buddy 👊🏻
Thanks for the honest intro ! Even with the wind i could hear the difference in RPM's. The 3s was much higher in pitch. It might not haved looked faster but it sure sounded faster.
bravobob1
Yeah I thought it was better to say straight from the off it didn’t look like 40+ mph 😞
But I’m happy with the comments so far, really positive 😊. Thanks for watching my friend 👊🏻
YES!!!! That reminds me of my HORNET and the mission of trying to make it fast... Great starter cars.... I remember flipping the front A-arms left to right, and then upside down, to lower the chassis, and lowering the rear.... I had the 30's looking vette body on it, the one from Dirty Harry / deadpool.... That was when I wanted my first RC-10 gold pan.... See what your videos do? all sorts of fun memories .... Thank you
Dru Bradley
Excellent 😍👊🏻
Thanks for watching buddy
69 kph, that’s a fast GH 🙂 Think I managed +40 kph with a standard Hornet on 3S. That parking lot is a good place. I had the Hornet on a narrow road with no Dual rate steering option on the transmitter. Didn’t go Well 😂
Nordic RC Visions
Thanks my friend 👊🏻
Yeah that carpet is huge and more importantly always empty 😊👊🏻
I don't know why but the Grasshopper is My favourite Car of all time, to this day?
Unreal speed attempt, amazing You kept in straight.
Beauty TL.
Jono Edwards
It’s a classic and it really is a Tamiya Legend Jono 🤩👊🏻
Im building a grasshopper speed runner right now. Im going to try for 100mph. My previous Grasshopper did 60mph.That was a vintage one that had some miles on it. The 100mph Grasshopper Im building (hopefully 100mph) is a re-release i just bought. Ill be starting a channel on YT and the speed running videos will be featured there. Thanks for the video. Well done.
Not pointless at all. It’s entertaining.
Great Experience with a Grasshopper. The Grasshopper was my first RC car. Fun to see one drive again.
Cor Abbring
Thanks for watching buddy 😊👊🏻
Good effort - my brother in law has just tasked me with building a Grasshopper for my nephew! :)
Excellent enjoy the build my friend 😎👊🏻
That was a lot of fun. Nice to see what they can do.
Thank you. 😊👍🏻
Dave Pearce
Cheers Dave, hopefully on my next attempt I won’t have as many issues 🙏🏻
Thanks for watching buddy 😊👊🏻
That was cool. I have been wanting a Grasshopper simply because it reminds me of my childhood.
@Tamiya Legends,
I had two Grasshopper1, i buy and build the Grasshopper in the Jear 1990 and their still running today!
In my first Grasshopper i had a very old Vintage Brushed Motor "Graupner Speed 500 Race",
and i must say the Motor is very Powerful and the Grasshopper is Really very Fast with this Motor!
But in my other Grasshopper1 is a Very old Vintage Brushed Kyosho MEGA-MOTOR 12x2 Paved Oval, and the Motor goes 37000 RPMs. When i drive with this Grasshopper on the Street the Motor Killed the Backtires, and the Grasshopper is VERY VERY FAST!!!
But i must say my favourite Motor is the "Graupner Speed 500 Race"! This Motor is 30 Jears old, and it runs and runs and runs and runs!!! I Love my Grasshopper with this Amazing Motor!
Well, you did it! You hit 40mph and some. 👍
RC Hobby Shed
Thanks Mick, it just didn’t look like 40mph on the video 😞
But we’ll try it again at some point buddy 😊👊🏻
Thats still pretty good great to see old school brushed still packing a punch, thats a rare motor you got there too look after it.
Chris Nolan
Cheers Chris, Brushed Motors are much more fun to use than Brushless, but unfortunately a lot more temperamental 😂👊🏻
Sweet gotta love a 40+ mph grasshopper 👍
John Bailey
You certainly do my friend, thanks for watching buddy 😊👊🏻
Love everything about this video. Who cares how it looks, you've tossed a GPS speedo on there. It's right there in writing. Makes me want to see what I can get my Hornet to do.
Fist Full Of Throttle RC
Excellent let me know how it goes buddy 🚗💨💨
Thanks for watching 😊👊🏻
Nice to see the grass hopper with some speed sounded fast too , 💪🏽😎👍🏽 all your videos are worth watching .
CMW Chris woodward
Thanks so much for your support, it’s much appreciated my friend 😊👊🏻
my very first rc car....and loving it, if you can drive a mod upped grasshopper, you can drive everything!
fleppie75
Very true my friend 😍👊🏻
That hopper is shifting dude..
Pleased u uploaded💪 💪
Hyperdude
Thank you that’s what I want to hear 😊. I think looking back now, if the camera had of been closer, it would of looked better!
Thanks for watching buddy 😊👊🏻
I can't help but giggle watching this! hahaha
That was a good vid, I enjoyed it. In fact its inspired me to see how fast I can get my lunchbox. Keep em coming👍🏻
M Cook
That’s awesome, keep me updated on how you get on with it buddy 😊👊🏻
Lunchbox can be made to go fast. The tires are much bigger than the grasshopper. It can go really fast in a straight line. Just don't even think about turning.
Grest video!! Thanks for posting.
I think that second round was the fastest looking. either way, hot damn! :D
TheStuffz
Yeah I totally agree buddy, thanks for watching 😊👊🏻
Guilty as hell - I am a bad person and skipped straaaaight to the end, right to _"pointless"_
Made my day, you're so right (but it had to be done by somebody who appreciates the dumb)
Thanks!
That gearbox was screaming! I stripped out a couple of Grasshopper 2s back in the day. Borrowing a mate's Dynatech 01R for a weekend usually finished it off.
Wow what a machine that is. Loving the vid, can't believe that the car handled that without blowing to pieces lol 😂😂. Keep up the good videos and stay safe 🤘
That was so easy for the Grasshopper that's probably why it looked slow, amazing speed for a kit that came with a 380
Nice run bro. That hopper was flying. And the speed runs are great...keep them up.
Kaizer Test
Thanks for your support my friend 😊👊🏻
@@TAMIYALegends 👊😀
really enjoyed the vid can you imagine taking that back to 1980s
Mark Hollinshead
Lol 😂. Yeah putting it up against another with the 380 motor and 7.2v Ni-cad 😂👊🏻
man that's crazy it must look sick in person! Nice run!
Shen RC
Thanks buddy, got the camera distance completely wrong on this one 😬 another six foot forward and I think it would of looked much quicker 👊🏻
Still a cool video my friend and it looks like it was pretty quick😎🇬🇧😊👍
Leons rc hobbys
Thanks buddy, yeah the feedback has been great tbh, maybe I’m too critical of my videos 😬👊🏻
🤣 That's one fast Hoppa!
Cosmo 1:35
Oh yes 😍🚗💨💨
During the 80s, i ran a hornet with technigold motor, and a fire dragon body, no ESC, almost as fast as yours, around 40km/hr I believe, grasshopper and hornet body are just too light , need extra weight to put it stable for a fast run ... BTW, you should try out the Fox with high speed motor, it should be more fun !
Star Chang
The Technigold is my favourite motor of all time, there’s not a more iconic motor out there 😍👊🏻
So glad to see this video about to buy a used one on eBay can’t wait to Turn up the heat
Love it well done👏
Low turn motors, like low gear ratios (higher number). So, more RPM out of motor, don't overgear it. Use a smaller pinion, will allow the motor to spool up.
Wow fastest grasshopper on the planet!
STEVO D 313
Thanks for the support Steve 😊👊🏻
Enjoyed the video.
Aro800
Thanks buddy 😊
I was at the same point as you. Try swapping in the mad fighter gearbox. I did the same on mine. With the right combo this thing is unstoppable. But due to the shocks you need to use the hornet body.
Marcel W.
That’s awesome my friend 😊👊🏻
Drives smooth👌👌
tamiya frog
Yes that was the biggest success of the day, I have to say I thought it would be all over the place 😂👊🏻
Very nice! 👍😃👍
Wow back in the day I had a Revolution Insane Mod motor on 7 cells and 30-35 mph was ballistic and a handful on pavement. Couldn’t imagine faster.
That looks like 40mph to me. I think the distance from the camera throws perception off a bit but looks about right to me.
I always try to compare it to what a full size car would look like going by at whatever the claimed speed is. It's a much easier frame of reference.
Do RC
Thanks buddy, the camera was too far away from the car which didn’t help 😬👊🏻
The video is fine man
Hi there
I’ve got a re-release grasshopper and would like to do the same to this as you did to that one, could you please let me know what the make and model
Of the 3S is? I’m sort of new on the rereleases but did have a Tamiya madcap back in the 90s and have purchased today on eBay an original grasshopper 2. So a reply on the 3S would help greatly and as far as the vid goes, it looked fast enough, I’m running a 380 motor in my current grasshopper but received today a 540 sport tuned motor and am awaiting the 18T pinion gear before swapping the engine.
Looks quick
If you cut off the front plastic suspension mounts and put metal L brackets on the front and then put dampened shocks on it becomes way more stable
My grasshopper is 2s brushless with a 550 motor
I agree.. the top speed is irrelevant. It's the "fun factor" that counts! 😊
You need a 7 turn brushless on 4 cells...
Gene H
Yeah that would make for an interesting video 😊🚗💨💨
Hi Glenn,
Can I pick your brain on the Tamiya TBLE-02S.
I have fitted a 540J motor but it feels as though it isn't at full rpm.
Do I need to program the ESC? I thought they were plug and play.
Any help appreciated.
Mikey C
No you’re correct there plug and play, but maybe you could run the programming stage again to set you throttle end points again 🤔
@@TAMIYALegends Ah thanks Glenn,will give it another. Maybe I am expecting too much from the motor.
Great really enjoyed, 3 s lipo to much, brushless will eat the gears I bet 👍🏻
Cam row drone
Yeah I would imagine a hot Brushless on 3s would kill the car, but saying that you probably couldn’t get it to go straight long enough to hit full power 😂👊🏻
TAMIYA Legends I will try, just Grasshopper gears all plastic
Great video, but I am curious to see what would happen if you put brushless in it.
AWSOME
David Turner
Thanks David, it was just for a bit of fun, I don’t really do much of that kind of stuff 😬👊🏻
What is a "7-double wind" motor?
Nice!
rc guy
Thanks buddy it was something different to try 😊👊🏻
..Much faster than
BRUSHLESS - POWERED FROG!!!
karma shift
Really? I guess the Frog is difficult to keep in a straight line too 😬👊🏻
@@TAMIYALegends
Yes. Indeed!!!
hi mate u have sand tires on the grasshopper use the grasshopper 2 tires for on road
good to see a hopper can go too
what is tamiya fastest car? and what is top speed thanks
bruce benner
Hi buddy,
My top speeds so far have been 48mph with the TRF503 on 2s Lipo and on 3s, I got 54mph from my Terra Conqueror 🚗💨💨
What about a 280 sized brushless? Maybe 4300 kv on 3s.
Eric Zajac
Yeah that could work Eric, it’s the torque and initial acceleration that’s hard to get right buddy 👊🏻
Are these the grasshoppers from the 80s n 90s I had one when I was kid they were fast I'd love to see them with today's tech
Jet Raven
It is buddy, although this is a re-release of it but pretty much identical. Today’s tech is a little too powerful for it unfortunately 👊🏻
Well, you could stick a Hobbywing 10BL120 ESC and a TP Power 3630 4D motor. The result would be, uh, interesting. The original setup was what, about 110-120 watts peak. The above will be around 1600 watt peak.
For sure I figured the gears would explode if they were going really fast.
David Cotter
Yeah I think if the motor wire hadn’t come off, something might of gone bang 😬
Thanks for watching buddy 👊🏻
@@TAMIYALegends I restored an original grasshopper , while I was on the mend from a kidney transplant, and you're right I put a silver can in it for him, he was really happy and kept telling me how fast it was . Sorry the for him part was my brother-in-law. I needed something to while I was on a medical leave from work so ,I asked my father in law if I could take it and restore it for his birthday. Was a great project for me and helped pass the time .
Is it ok to use a brushless motor in a 4 wheel drive car like a big wig?
padistedor
Hi buddy,
Yes it’s fine to go Brushless, the car has to be fully ball raced and I wouldn’t go too high on the motor kv, something like a 3300kv using a 2s Lipo would be perfect for the BigWig 😊👊🏻
You should check out Stewart Mac he got a hornet to do 43-7 I think on a brushless motor you should check it out
Brad Kalman
He’s my buddy Brad,
I’m on a few of his top speed runs 😊
The next Speed run you’ll see on here will actually get me into his overall Tamiya Top 10 Speed runs which is cool buddy 😎👊🏻
I've made a car do 40, seemed faster than this, but that was in person not on a camera. Perhaps running the car past a stationary camera at a low angle would look more representative of the speed it was doing?
Pablo668
Yeah you’re absolutely spot on buddy, the camera distance from the car was poor 😞
I’ll definitely improve on that on my next attempt 😊
Thanks for watching 👊🏻
Was this the stock electrics
Hi there, I am a single dad with very limited amounts of money. I want to get into RC cars and have my mind set on a grasshopper or hornet as that’s what my brother had as kids and would never let me play with!
I want to be able to upgrade the car with better motor ect do with that in mind which one would you recommend I get or do you have another suggestion for something similar that would be better.
Thanks for taking the time to read and hopefully reply with some advice.
Rich.
mavos1211
Hi Rich,
I’d probably go for the Hornet as it has better shocks and it comes with a 540 motor. The only upgrade you need is the full bearing kit for it, very cheap on eBay. And you’re good to go and have some great fun 🚗💨💨
TAMIYA Legends thank you so much for your quick response and advice. I will absolutely do that and am going to check eBay now.
Thanks again much appreciated.
Does anyone remember the Diablo n I think there was a dobo too
Put on 6s, gear box will handel IT.
I’ve never heard of a “Seven Double-Wined brushed motor before!”. Or more accurately, I’ve never hear the phrase ‘Double-Wined’ for ANY motor! Can anyone enlighten me pls?
Whew 😀
Ron Bernard
Thanks for watching Ron 😊👊🏻
Is it running a 540 motor?
Pichardo Gabriel
No it was a 7x1 modified motor 🚗💨💨💨💨
I can assure you your gps is accurate that was definitely a little over 43mph
Jesum crow that is danm fast. 69kph
LandCruisers,Games & other stuff
Thanks buddy, I appreciate you watching 😊👊🏻
how to blow up a Grasshopper transmission..... who will be the first to do it?????? Glenn Challenge Posted.
Gene H
I have a 5950 kv Brushless set up + 3s 🚗💨💨
Think that would certainly kill the poor little thing 😂👊🏻
Can I get one of those shirts? I'm from the USA
eskimo joe
Hi buddy,
Unfortunately I can’t do them because it would get me into trouble with Tamiya 😞😞😞
Looked like 40mph to me.
Flying Solo
Thanks buddy I appreciate your feedback 😊👊🏻
@@TAMIYALegends your welcome. I am doing the same with a lunchbox for shits and giggles. You can always tell. 👍
Lol Wow !!! GO GRASSHOPPER !!!
Glen your way to hard on yourself. It defo looks quick. You just had crap time doing it I guess.
Matthew Ridgewell
Thanks Matthew, your right I’m my own worst critic 😬
I seriously need to learn to chill out with my videos. I really appreciate your comment thanks buddy 👊🏻