Tamiya FF01 Chassis

Summary

• Galleries: View
• Introduced: 2003
• Scale: 1/10

• Primary use: Onroad
• Config: MA
• Driveline: Shaft-drive

• Body: Polycarbonate
• Susp. front: Wishbone
• Susp. rear: Wishbone

Leave it to Tamiya to again introduce an unnecessary but much-welcomed level of scale accuracy by creating a front-motor, front wheel drive chassis for RC to don bodies of real-world FF-layout vehicles. The FF01 uses a tub chassis with transverse battery mount lifted straight from the TA02 with which it shares a number of parts. A 2WD offroad-style motor & gearbox are mounted up front, leaving plenty of room for steering components behind the axles. Behind the battery there's not much going on, with a narrow, empty box structure providing some rigidity and TA02 rear hubs sporting special floating axles with no drive cups. Those hubs provide 1 degree of toe-in for stability, but are reversible to create toe-out for racers on tight, technical tracks trying to combat the inherent on-power understeer of the FWD setup and its light rear end that generates a limited amount of yaw inertia.

Pros: Realistic FWD driving experience, simple, well-protected drivetrain Cons: Inferior handling to 4WD chassis with better weight balance