e280: Tyco/Taiyo Fast Traxx - The Buyers Guide Series

[@ravey1981]

Ahhhh memories. I got one of these as a kid for Christmas. I took it straight outside, crashed it and broke the windshield. I cried.

[@AMPROEngineering]

OH NO! Man you sound like me! I cant stand when something like that happens.

[@jhawk1985]

Me and my brother got these for Christmas one year. I will never forget my fasttrax. Mine was the 90s body and my bros was the truck. Im still lovin the rc hobby today👍

[@AMPROEngineering]

That is great to hear!

[@messagedeleted1922]

I had the blue 4×4 offroader back in 86 or 87. Today Im waiting on a 1/24 rc crawler from banggoods. Those rcs and probably the awesome commercials got so many kids into the hobby.

[@LiquidSSSnake]

I found one at a thrift store a few years ago, (black and pink Hardbody, my favorite scheme) the transmission housing is cracked on one side. The gears are fine and it drives, I drove it in the snow one year, it's a trooper. The electronics didn't work, so I transplanted electronics from a "wrecked" Scorcher and I just use the Scorcher's remote. The Scorcher was my first 9.6V Tyco, Christmas of 93, at least part of it lives in the Fast Traxx.

[@AMPROEngineering]

Nice! That is a good way to salvage it!

[@jerrysmith7166]

I just bought a SuperFastraxx a few months back, it's in good condition! Couldn't believe I found it!

[@AMPROEngineering]

That's super lucky!

[@EyesLikeMiyagi]

I had a few versions of the Bandit, but I was always interested in this vehicle. My buddy had a few... I so appreciate this nostalgic video man. Thank you for your uploads bro

[@AMPROEngineering]

I also had the Bandit. I knew of these when they were new but never saw one until I snagged these two. Glad you liked it!

[@JREVY22DECEPTICON416]

These look so great! Classics are fun

[@AMPROEngineering]

For sure!

[@vcpornelos]

Childhood memories right here. I had the Nikko Fast Traxx with the aerodynamic spaceship buggy body. Absolutely a blast when it was snowing where I was in Japan. The other Nikko I had was the Alligator (I think) that was an amphibious one. Blue truck with a hull chassis and a shrouded prop.

[@AMPROEngineering]

Oh yeah that is a much more popular body for it. These are really neat for sure!

[@joelcreech8309]

I had one back in the 90's you've brought back childhood memories lol thanks

[@AMPROEngineering]

Sure thing!

[@guillremogarcia6823]

Always wanted one when I was a kid I just got a Road Shredder by Nikko unfortunately do not have a remote control for it but I do have a tyco fast track that I’m hoping for it to work with it Awesome videos like always

[@AMPROEngineering]

Very nice! I was blown away by how good the car actually was given how old it is!

[@maynarddrivesfast804]

Ah, the nostalgia. My brother and I started our love of the rc hobby with the Fast Traxx. We also ended up owning (breaking) the Bandit, Eliminator, and Hammer during a 3-4 year period. How did we get to own all of those different models? Well we'd bash them until something broke, then we'd return them to Walmart to trade for a different model. What? We were poor back then ;)

[@AMPROEngineering]

Hahaha! Amazing how expensive these were back then when you compare what you can get now.

[@Josekekillo83]

They work with two 370 Mabuchi motors. Thanks to your video I decided to look for one of the space ship version one year ago and eventually I found one in really good shape for a reasonable price. Thanks man!!!

[@AMPROEngineering]

Very glad to hear it!

[@Josekekillo83]

Thanks for the Video Alberto. It's nice to see these buyers guides back. I can imagine how busy you are with the Fiat and the Ford.👍

[@AMPROEngineering]

So busy...lol

[@joehrudkaj]

I'm watching this and can remember the feel and sound of the antenna on the car.

[@AMPROEngineering]

Haha! We never forget stuff like that.

[@brsrc759]

I've got the fluorescent green one also. Unfortunately it has a common problem for these vehicles. The transmission housing is cracked on both sides right where the Tapered part of the housing meets the transmission case. It would be really cool if you designed a 3d printed transmission case/axle assembly for shapeways.

[@AMPROEngineering]

I wish I could but it would cost hundreds to develop. I have a lot ahead of that but with scanning technology you never know!

[@semperatis]

It was certainly a lot faster than I was expecting it to go,an interesting little blast from the past.

[@AMPROEngineering]

Me too!

[@PabloGonzalez-hv3td]

About compatibility with Bandit bodies - it depends. 1st gen Bandits - pre-date the FT and do NOT have the FT rear body mounts or the LED hole in the bed. 2nd gen - Direct swap. Rear FT mounts go unused on the Bandit but they're there. The LED bed hole is also there and simply covered with a plastic sticker that can be punched out from the bottom. (It can take substantial force but it's just a sticker). 3rd gens - Also have the rear FT mounts which go unused but the LED hole is molded shut. Its location is however marked and would mount directly if the hole was drilled out. Hope this helps!

[@AMPROEngineering]

Indeed it does! Thank you!

[@jerrysmith7166]

Mabachi 380 motors. Super ft has somewhat suspension in the from 2 little pins with springs. Mam I wish you were my neighbor lol hard to come by people like us who love these things

[@AMPROEngineering]

Im lucky, a few of my neighbors have RC cars!

[@j.davis1007]

I’m looking to get back into RC cars. I had the neon fast traxx. Couldn’t keep up with my cousin who had a bandit but the fast traxx could go over any terrain.

[@AMPROEngineering]

I was blown away by how good this was

[@mariomozie2102]

Oh I remember this. I always wanted one of those. Tyco 👍

[@AMPROEngineering]

I remember seeing them all over!

[@hermansanchez8512]

Me and my brother got them for xmas. Mine was black. I absolutely loved it. I want to find a broken one and put hobby grade electric-tonics in it

[@AMPROEngineering]

Oh man I love hearing stuff like that!

[@aaron-uo9gr]

One the best ole rcs around coolest ride if you had one as a child or teenager then you was really all you needed if you didn't really have friends played mine everyday till the battery have be charged then ready go again

[@AMPROEngineering]

It was a seriously great RC!

[@IndigoXRS408]

Man, I totally forgot about the Typhoon until you mentioned it! :D

[@AMPROEngineering]

Honestly, i always got mad at mine...such a good idea but I had nowhere to play with it.

[@mattypow82]

These are awesome I had the tyco bandit and my gi joe's had the best vehicle on the block lol

[@AMPROEngineering]

Oh i hear that!

[@NordicDan]

I had the red "buggie" style in the early 90s. Trying to find one for my son's upcoming 7th birthday that we can restore and upgrade together. LiPo battery, brushless motors, restore and beef up the plastic at the common breaking points and of course extensive cleanup.

[@AMPROEngineering]

Oh very nice! My only suggestion is to leave the stock motors running at the original or lower voltage. The gearboxes cannot withstand more power, they will grenade.

[@wackyrc1394]

Thank you! Awesome, colourful machines and a brilliant 'Buyers Guide' episode 😁👍

[@AMPROEngineering]

Thank you! Glad you liked it

[@mikeymike3240]

Hi there, I haven’t had the pleasure of a video from you for a while, I’ve missed them, cause I like them lol 😂. They are quite nippy for what they are, and they look like they are tricky to control, especially at high speed. Nice video man. 😎👍👍👍🇬🇧

[@AMPROEngineering]

Oh sorry I have been busy with 1:1 builds! Yeah they were fun to drive!

[@mitymike]

These are pretty cool I had a radio shack wild cougar when I was a kid they are similar but with a knock off black foot body. I'm currently gathering parts for a hobby grade upgrade possibly brushless power 😎

[@AMPROEngineering]

Oh that will be a change!

[@LiquidSSSnake]

I always thought the Hi-Jacker was the beginning of the end, it was the last of the " Hopper" chassis cars. Next came the Mutator, the last 9.6V I believe. Then everything after became 6.0 jet turbo... I found a Mutator for a few bucks about 8 years ago, it's actually not bad. It's built like a tank.

[@AMPROEngineering]

I agree. From there...then stuff got more gimmick-y.

[@vastianocara1792]

I had one of these as a kid..If someone made one today hobby grade with a lipo battery, brushless motors and maybe some sort of kevlar/rubber tracks for a bit more speed ;) , I would buy it instantly...

[@AMPROEngineering]

I have seen people whip that up . It would be killer.

[@ericpancone2552]

I run my stock fast traxx on a 3s lipo and it does 19.8 mph. And I have one I modified with brushless motors and it does 34.1 mph with 2s lipo still have 3s testing to do but 50 mph is looking good.

[@AMPROEngineering]

Wow, that is pretty fast! Hard to believe those trans gears can handle the friction between them and the shafts.

[@rcsnapon2132]

Hay your back I missed watching your videos thanks for making more videos my friend 💯💯💯💯💯

[@AMPROEngineering]

Sorry man, I know I have been away a while. Building a real car and a garage so time is at a premium!

[@slv-mf7ui]

Should I get one of these if I'm not much of a collector and just think it looks neat to drive and would be different from all my wheeled cars?

[@AMPROEngineering]

Well...It is a car to play with lightly. Nothing too crazy as they are getting fragile in their old age.

[@myshihtzudontstink]

I have a couple fast traxx motors with pinions sitting around I got out of a yellow fast traxx buggy with a bad transmission. Looks to be normal Mabuchi 360 motors. I’ll keep them around in case I got another tuck truck with a bad motor.

[@AMPROEngineering]

They certainly may be, Mabuchi was everywhere for a time.

[@NordicRC]

Hi my friend. Cool little things. I like them. Grasshopper-Tanks 😅🙂 The end of the silver age ... Ugh. Reminds me: Did we talk about the yellow Turbo Panther’s rarity once? Have you seen one?

[@AMPROEngineering]

Yes they are pretty interesting little cars! We did talk about they yellow one but I have never seen one

[@jerrysmith7166]

I had the black truck body ft when I was a kid didn't want the jet, unfortunately they didn't make a super ft in truck version

[@AMPROEngineering]

No, that was too bad

[@weldenmad7197]

My old neighbor told me to come over and look at some rc he had as a kid cuz he kept them all and he had one them it was brand new. And he gave me a Radio shake van that i had as a kid before i got my king cab. Its was the green jungle van and that was like new.

[@AMPROEngineering]

That is good luck!

[@WheelchairRCEscape]

Thanks for the memories

[@AMPROEngineering]

Of course!

[@craigpoer]

Thats pretty fast. Cool car

[@AMPROEngineering]

I know, it was faster than I thought it was going to be!

[@ShenRC]

cool! tracked vehicles are awesome! didn't they make a larger one also?

[@PabloGonzalez-hv3td]

The Super Traxx!

[@AMPROEngineering]

Yeah the Super Traxx...as Pablo mentioned!

[@bmg321wtf]

I got one of these for xmas when they came out. With in 2 minutes i knocked over our xmas tree. 🤣🤣🤣think i have to find one now.

[@AMPROEngineering]

HA! OMG!

[@Mini-z1994]

Any plans on checking out the tokyo marui ninja ? Perhaps designing some 3d printed parts for that would help people put them together a bit easier again as they are great looking buggies but unfortunately a bit fragile, specially with age, its a buggy from 1987 & 4wd.

[@AMPROEngineering]

I have a Thunderbird and need to cover that one soon! I need more Marui parts for sure!

[@stickmandrifter]

I just came in possession of a Mini traxx pickup. Model number 2342-49. Brand new in box and I'm hearing it could be a prototype. Idk how else to find more info on it. It's got an black eliminator body and pink wheels pink lower chassis. There's a sticker that reads "1st production 9-20-93 sample sent to portland" help! Lol

[@AMPROEngineering]

No kidding! I would love to see it! Shoot me an email at [e-mail]

[@MrCaprinut]

Nice to see a video again from you. Any plans for more modified Tamiya videos? Oh, I wonder why this video has so low resolutions? 360 is the highest available for me... Cheers from Norway :-)

[@RC-ty5ym]

LoL, I didn't even notice the video is in 360p

[@AMPROEngineering]

Oh yes! I have the Hornet, Lunchie and Tamiya FF01 coming up! Sorry about the res, it was my fault!

[@AMPROEngineering]

It defaulted into that for some reason!

[@DeadnCold]

I would assume it didn't have the front bumper so that you could use the tracks to climb up stuff like curbs.

[@PabloGonzalez-hv3td]

True

[@AMPROEngineering]

oh! Good point!

[@mgshock]

Their high pitch whine and high speed made these great for terrorizing cats and dogs.

[@AMPROEngineering]

Oh i bet!

[@jeschreindl]

New video! Hope you’re doing well Alberto 👍🏻

[@AMPROEngineering]

Thank you! All is well here, just building 1:1 cars. I post on the AmproAutomotive instagram so you can see what I am doing.

[@NESADDICT]

Very cool

[@AMPROEngineering]

Thank you! Love your channel BTW, I subscribed.

[@ayden.t3459]

I wanted to ask a question how do you get your steering on the lunchbox/pumpkin to work right on mine only one tire steers and the other doesn’t move

[@RC-ty5ym]

Did you connect the steering link?

[@ayden.t3459]

rc guy al links are connected

[@RC-ty5ym]

@@ayden.t3459 Make a video, I have literally no clue what it could be since one wheel turns and the other one doesn't

[@ayden.t3459]

rc guy I’ll make a video and upload some time on the weekend

[@RC-ty5ym]

@@ayden.t3459 The Servo Saver is completely mounted on the servo?

[@Perich29]

could build a cybertruck as well.

[@AMPROEngineering]

Very true

[@rgsaxo]

A friend had one and a friend had a tamiya manta Ray. Amazing the fast traxx was quicker

[@AMPROEngineering]

No kidding! This was surprisingly quick when I got it going.

[@zurbannsaito1984]

Do you know Taiyo from Japan was version very vintage same Tyco become Taiyo all R/C very quality very cheap too also had Tyco Slot Racing in Japan have different version

[@AMPROEngineering]

Yes, Taiyo was the contract manufacturer. Tyco bought their products from them and just repackaged them.

[@cliffordmcgraw8740]

I have one brand new un used in black in a box still lol

[@AMPROEngineering]

Nice!

[@katana9x4]

Sell it to me

[@alibanana]

What was the difference between this and the Super Fast Traxx? I can't seem to get a clear answer.

[@AMPROEngineering]

According to RC TOY MEMORIES, the super Fast Traxx was a bit bigger and had a 7.2V pack with a higher capacity.

[@chadsummy2336]

Super fast traxx is 1/10th scale, and I good bit bigger and faster. The transmission is far more robust, no stripping the high/low gear. Being bigger it wasn’t as peppy off the line as the 9.6v, but that probably helped save its gears from stripping too I have a picture of you want to see a size difference

[@alibanana]

@@chadsummy2336 thanks. Yeah love to see a pic. Haven't seen any videos on it either which would be interesting. Wouldn't 7.2v be slower? I don't know much about electronics but remember the 6.0v jet turbo cars being much slower than the 9.6v ones

[@dillingereast652]

Does any remote work

[@AMPROEngineering]

No, you need a skid steer 27 band taiyo radio.

[@zacharyblanco6780]

How do I connect my car to my other fast traxx any one know

[@AMPROEngineering]

These do not bind to a radio like modern cars do. If you have a 27mHz radio, it will control all 27mHz fast traxx cars.

[@zacharyblanco6780]

The red fast traxx 9.6v car and and the green fast traxx is 9.6v so is the remote

[@zacharyblanco6780]

Don’t know how many mhz that is

[@jorge8915]

Cool

[@AMPROEngineering]

Thanks!

[@messagedeleted1922]

Traction was less important than being able to spin the tires (or tracks) and make rooster tails for us 80s kids.

[@AMPROEngineering]

Exactly!

[@TimeLapseCarGuyBruno]

I left my fast traxxx out in the sun one afternoon and the trax completely disintegrated.

[@AMPROEngineering]

Oh god that's awful

[@williamshakespeare7952]

What sucked about these is after 15 mins you're waiting another 2-4 hours to play with it for 15 mins again. Loved fast traxx though

[@AMPROEngineering]

OMG that's the truth. That was awful just waiting...

[@silviamills5218]

new bright makes an rc similar to this now. it definitely looks cheap and won't have that nice quality feel, but aside from ever so slightly less top speed, it looks pretty similar performance wise. might even be able to fit a Fast Traxx body on it so you don't have to be so worried about breaking it. Mr.Random Reviews made a video about it if you wanna take a look kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJaUgnWkr7llqqs

[@AMPROEngineering]

man that is awful looking....lol

[@christopherdeguzman1137]

I remember I had a Tyco turbo hopper and what I noticed with the tyco turbo hopper and the other RC’s after it, the 49mhz variant of each model had the turbo feature. The 27mhz on the other hand didn’t. Why was that I don’t know why Tyco didn’t add the turbo to the 27mhz version. So I’m sure if you had the 49mhz version of the fast traxx I’m sure it will have the turbo feature. My friend had the 27mhz of the turbo hopper also the turbo aero hopper and it didn’t have the turbo feature. So technically, the 49mhz version was faster. I know the 49mhz version of the turbo hopper and the turbo aero hopper was faster. My friends had both the 27mhz and 49mhz and the 49mhz was faster. My 49mhz turbo hopper was faster than my friends 27mhz red turbo hopper.😂

[@PabloGonzalez-hv3td]

I have both Fast Traxxes and neither have the separate turbo function. Well technically they ONLY have the turbo feature as the vehicles without conventional steering and the boats are always in turbo. I also have a few 27 mhz Hoppers and all have turbo but I did find a 27 mhz Hopper remote that does not have it.

[@AMPROEngineering]

Interesting, I had not noticed that on my other ones but I am no expert.

[@benjaminaagesen7697]

Dude? Why is nobody explaining anywhere what everything means? When you are new to the hobby you got no clue what "9 turns or 16 turns" means.. And I don't even know if I can use an old vintage motor and how i make sure the gear on the motor fits to my gear box? And how I find out how to fit it? Especially when going from a 380 to 540 motor.... So when buying and restoring an old vintage car and trying to fit a new motor, you got nobody on youtube explaining all this stuff. At least I have not found anyone! What size of Servo do you need? How many kg does it need to pull? So I don't know WHAT to buy? You are not making me any wiser! All you talk about is how good a motor runs etc. But you never explain how you fit it and how you found the right gear for it and about the technical specs and what it means? So how do you expect new people in the hobby when nobody explains them "how to do"? You think everyone is an expert on RC-cars and Electrical components and Gears and know exactly what you mean? HOW do you find all these parts? How do you decide? and WHERE do you find information on it?

[@RC-ty5ym]

Google answers the question about turns, Almost every rc car ever made in 10th scale uses Standart size Servo, Every Tamiya equipped with the 380 adapter plate can use a 540 (Grasshopper for example) Information can be found on the internet

[@AMPROEngineering]

Hmmm, I think you are right. I will need to make a "Basics" video for sure. I guess I assume a lot in my videos. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

[@LochKT]

May I ask, where should I go to find a battery for it? As I got one but it came without the battery pack. Thanks btw, Loved the vid