Fujimi Rims on the Tamiya Car???
kiki
08-27-2002, 04:55 PM
How tu put Fujimi or Aoshima Wheels/Rims to a Tamiya Car???
Tamiya´s System is a bolt and Fujimi has a cylinder!!!
Tamiya´s System is a bolt and Fujimi has a cylinder!!!
Lownslow
08-28-2002, 12:08 AM
can you specify car?
Honoturtle
08-28-2002, 12:30 AM
Wowzers! I posted something similar way back. I did the conversion on my brothers 1999 Celica, well here is what I did.
First of all, don't use the brakes that come with the kit because it'll make you wheel sick out a lot. Then I grinded the suspension piece with a Dremel. Make sure to not grind so much that you would lose the turning ability(unless it dosen't matter, but if it doesen't matter, you might as well do what TinyImports (www.tinyimports.com) did just without the motor). Then you test fit to see if you need to grind more or not. For a Celica, I decided to put on Brembo brakes which comes with some rims sets from Fujimi which usually includes 1 PAIR of axels, not 4. It depends on the design of your Tamiya kit. Hope this helps in some way.
First of all, don't use the brakes that come with the kit because it'll make you wheel sick out a lot. Then I grinded the suspension piece with a Dremel. Make sure to not grind so much that you would lose the turning ability(unless it dosen't matter, but if it doesen't matter, you might as well do what TinyImports (www.tinyimports.com) did just without the motor). Then you test fit to see if you need to grind more or not. For a Celica, I decided to put on Brembo brakes which comes with some rims sets from Fujimi which usually includes 1 PAIR of axels, not 4. It depends on the design of your Tamiya kit. Hope this helps in some way.
pkw1
08-28-2002, 08:26 AM
all i can say is PAIN IN THE BUTTTTT :mad:
Lownslow
08-28-2002, 10:04 AM
another way is to carefully grind the back of the wheel then glue to the tamiya hub but not all tamiyas are alike
erix7
08-29-2002, 05:57 AM
Originally posted by kiki
How tu put Fujimi or Aoshima Wheels/Rims to a Tamiya Car???
Tamiya´s System is a bolt and Fujimi has a cylinder!!!
It depends on the shape of the hubs and wether there are one
or two bushings to be fitter inside the wheels.
I did this once sofar by reducing width of the cylinder in the wheel
and by trimming down the outside of the hub assembly. If you can
do that, you can just fit one bushing inside the wheel and one
in the hub and use a piece of 1.5mm brass rod for axle.
If you can't trim the outside of the hub then you probably need
to drill out the hub so the cylinder fits partly inside the hub.
'haven't tried doing that but it sounds like quite a bit of work...
HTH,
-- Eric.
How tu put Fujimi or Aoshima Wheels/Rims to a Tamiya Car???
Tamiya´s System is a bolt and Fujimi has a cylinder!!!
It depends on the shape of the hubs and wether there are one
or two bushings to be fitter inside the wheels.
I did this once sofar by reducing width of the cylinder in the wheel
and by trimming down the outside of the hub assembly. If you can
do that, you can just fit one bushing inside the wheel and one
in the hub and use a piece of 1.5mm brass rod for axle.
If you can't trim the outside of the hub then you probably need
to drill out the hub so the cylinder fits partly inside the hub.
'haven't tried doing that but it sounds like quite a bit of work...
HTH,
-- Eric.
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