because, its worth it.....
 

to have a good car with a good controller, because its sucks to have a car that cant do $#!+. Plus i heard its a 8,000 rpm motor- haha lmao

Tapspring mod
 

Ok gang. I took my Z-car and swapped in a Tapspring board. It requires basic small wire solder skills. I'm using the digital controller from MicroIR. The Z-car charging dock is soldered to the pads inside the controller. Works perfectly. The car itself has the 2.4v battery mod, micro springs for the front suspension, upgraded steering magnet, 3.8 motor, Z-car cruise gear (yellow), micro switch for on/off. Runs like a champ!

That's great news... How does the throttle perform??? Is it bad to the bone or what? More details please... Welcome to the forums..

silla

The throttle works great. I dialed down the steering and acceleration to make the car handle to my liking. It does take 10 minutes to charge and I'm getting about 10 minutes of run time. I think I can get a longer run time if I swap out the 3.8 motor for something more mild.

Hi docphi,

Cool mod.

But How much has cost U ?

I put a 2x1.2V nano (12x6mm each) cell plus a 3.0 motor on my smartland.
It run like a hell !
It has cost me just:

12$ Car & controller.
3$x2 Bat
5$ Motor.
3$ Bit Tires set.

= 26$ !

e_lm_70

Cost was $20 for the board. The controller is $47, but, you can get a standard one for $19. The benefits are longer run time and proportional throttle. Plus, there's always the "Hey cool! It works!" factor. ;)

Smartland controller are not compatible with Digi-Q controler !

Why spend 20$ for a PCB when for 12$ you can have the full car ???

If you don't like the smarland car, just take out the PCB and put on your Bit. The Smarland PCB is smaller then Bit PCB

With smarland you also gain a 100mAh NiMh battery that can be putted inside the car !

No sense to spend 20$ for a PCB !!!!

BTW I payed less then 40$ for my Digi-Q Special Controller !

The Digi-Q is fast just for the double engine and dual battery !

Just got 2 iRacer, it is a cheap version of Digi-Q, I hate that the controller doesn't work with recargable AA battery !
Payed just 15$ for each full set (Car+Controller) not bad for increase my collection:

1 OEM
Some Tomy Bit & Booster Bit
4 Smartland
1 Digi-Q
2 iRacer

I'm till looking for some OEM with 40 and 49MHz.
Looking for the Atomic Z-Cars (but difficolt to find in EC)
And maybe the Yokomo Puchi Maru

To each his own...

It might be a good idea to consider why one would pay for a substitute IR deck. It has flashing lights, turn signals and whatever on the board already. I like the quality of Bits. Combine that with the Digi Propo and an IR deck and you have an incredible toy. If only steering was proportional also. BAE

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm
 

Would be neat if Tomy ditched RC in favor of IR for longer indoor range and proportional speed control. I have a few smartland IR cars and there pretty good.

I myself am contemplating getting a few tapspring IR pcb's and converting all my bits to IR. Of course I would need a Digi Propo controller, but I love the DIgi Propo special controller:D
This will probably be a winter project for me.:eek: