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Ceramic Grease

* Original
* HG

The **Ceramic Greases** (Japanese: セラミックグリス, *Seramikku Gurisu*) are a series of greases released by Tamiya since 1986. Although most releases of ceramic greases are meant for R/C vehicle, they can be used for Mini 4WD cars.

## General info

As its name implies, the ceramic grease contains the hexagonal boron nitride ceramics. This particle is what allowed the ceramic grease to lubricates the parts while protects them. The performance of the ceramic greases is above that of the normal, kit-supplied grease.

However, earlier ceramic greases were known to increases its friction force as the parts moves faster. This is due to the inconsistent, mismatched sizes between the boron nitride ceramics in the grease. The Cera-Grease HG, released on January 18, 2009, solves this issue by having the high-grade boron nitride ceramics which have consistent size with each others.

It should be noted that the ceramic greases are sensitive to temperature changes; In cold temperature, the ceramic grease will become dry and stiff, making application to gears a bit harder.

Only a tiny amount of ceramic grease is needed to apply to a single gear.

## Gallery

### Packaging

Earlier version of Mini 4WD Ceramic Grease.
## See also

* Titanium Grease
* Sliding Damper Grease Set
* Anti-Wear Grease
* Mini 4WD F Grease
* Mini 4WD Oil Applicator
* Mini 4WD Bearing Lubricant Oil
Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! MAX

***Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! MAX*** (Japanese: 爆走兄弟レッツ＆ゴー!! ＭＡＸ, *Bakusō Kyōdai Rettsu Endo Gō!! MAX*) is a manga series created by Tetsuhiro Koshita and published on Shogakukan's *CoroCoro Comic* from January 1998 to September 9, 1999. It is the third series (after the original series and the WGP arc) in the *Let's & Go!* series.

A TV anime adaptation, produced by XEBEC, was aired on TV Tokyo from January 5, 1998 to December 21, 1998.

## Overview

The third series follows the Ichimonji brothers, Gouki and Retsuya, as they races against battle racers from the Borzoi School in order to eventually triumph over Borzoi and his Academy and their immoral ways of racing.

The TV anime adaptation is notable for being having different storyline than the original manga itself, especially for the later part of the storyline. Also, the anime adaptation introduces Marina Ogami, an anime-original character who is a daughter of Dr. Ogami from the original series and is the owner of the Mini 4WD car Fire Stinger.

## List of Mini 4WD cars

* Max Breaker (Gouki Ichimonji's machine)
* Shadow Breaker Z-3 (Retsuya Ichimonji's machine)
* Beat-Magnum (Go Seiba's machine)
* Buster-Sonic (Retsu Seiba's machine)
* Beat-Magnum TRF (Professor Tsuchiya's machine, manga-only)
* P'keta (Sakyou Majima's machine, anime-only)
* Vise-Intruder (Jin Kusanagi's machine)
* Phantom-Blade (Zen Kusanagi's machine)
* Fire Stinger (Marina Ogami's machine, anime-only)
* Knuckle Breaker (Retsuya Ichimonji's machine)
* Adean (Akira Sakurabayashi's machine, anime-only)
* Red Sword (Kazuma Daizen's machine, anime-only)
* Blue Sword (Chikara Daizen's machine, formerly Kazuma's, anime only)
* Storm-Cruiser (Tappei Hattori's machine in both media, Daigo Kusunoki's machine in the manga)
* Phoenix Stinger (Marina Ogami's machine, anime-only)
* Blazing-Max (Gouki Ichimonji's machine)
* Rising-Trigger (Ryo Takaba's machine)
* Lightning-Magnum (Go Seiba's machine, manga-only)
* Spin-Viper (Tokichi Mikuni's machine, manga-only)
* Vanishing-Gazer (Team Astro Rangers U's machines, manga-only)
* Desert-Golem (Kareem Hamed's machine, manga-only)
* Diomars-Nero (Nero Stella Borzoi's machine)

## Gallery

### Promotional

Anime series poster.Poster art for all 3 series
## See also

* *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go!*
* *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! WGP*
* *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! Return Racers!*
* *Let's & Go! Tsubasa: The Next Racers*
Baja King Jr.

The **Baja King Junior** (Japanese: バハキングJr., *Baha Kingu Junia*) is a Racing Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya on July 9, 2003. It was based on the Baja King R/C buggy by the company.

## General info

Inspired by the racing buggies in the Baja 1000 race, the Baja King featuring the open-wheel, blocky racing buggy design, with the 3-window canopy. A pair of exhaust pipe props were protruded from the side cowls, and a rear spoiler was attached on the rear. Headlamp was placed just below the front window. The damper props were placed near the wheels.

It is mainly in two tone colors of yellow and silver, with black, pink and blue highlights with white trim.

It was equipped with the white large diameter flat dish wheels paired with the black Avante-type tires. Both the chassis frame and A parts were molded in black.

## About the Baja King 1/10 R/C buggy

Released in 2002, the Baja King is the entry-level four-wheel-drive R/C buggy released by Tamiya. It utilizes the TL-01B chassis, which was debuted with the release of Baja Champ R/C buggy back in 1998.

The TL-01B chassis, which is the off-road buggy variant of the on-road TL-01 chassis, featuring the compact monocoque chassis frame, and has the shaft-driven four-wheel-drive drivetrain. It is support by four independent double wishbone suspensions, with one coil-spring damper per supension system. The 540-size motor was mounted transversely into the rear of the chassis frame, and the battery was placed transversely into the middle. The chassis is lighter than other R/C buggy chassis since many parts are plastic parts.

Despite being the entry-level R/C buggy chassis, it has its own weaknesses; Due to the design of the chassis frame, it is very difficult to maintains the chassis, especially the gearboxes. The power transmission efficiency is very poor due to large number of gears were being used for its drivetrain. The supension arms and battery holder parts can breaks easily due to being made of soft plastic.

The chassis was supersedes by the TT-01 chassis.

## External links

### Tamiya Japan

* Baja King Jr. at Tamiya Japan (Japanese)

### R/C buggy That the Mini 4WD Car is Based On

* 1/10 scale R/C buggy Baja King at Tamiya Japan
* 1/10 scale R/C buggy Baja King at Tamiya America
Baron Ghost

**Baron Ghost** (Japanese: 幽鬼 男爵バロンゴースト, *Baron Gōsuto*) is a character in the poster manga *The Wind Racer! Otokogi Gaiden*.

## Biography

Baron Ghost is a mysterious person who is a rival racer to Hakurou.

## Synopsis

Following the event where the Little White Dragon was shattered to pieces after a head-to-head collision with Ryou's Poseidon-X, Baron Ghost shows up and reveals the shatter car's secret to both Jingi and Ryou. Before he leave, however, he told Hakurou that they will have a race tomorrow.

In the following day, both Baron Ghost and Hakurou (now with the Shao Bai Ron) race against each other on a mansion that is filled with Mini 4WD tracks. Baron Ghost won the first race against Hakurou, but eventually lose in the rematch.
Mini 4WD Hyper Dash Grand Prix

***Mini 4WD Hyper Dash Grand Prix*** (Japanese: ミニ四駆超速グランプリ, *Mini Yonku Chousoku Guranpuri*) is a smartphone game developed by Dimps and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment for Android and iOS. It was released on January 15, 2020.

## Gameplay

The gameplay is similar to another Mini 4WD game title, *Mini 4WD DS*, where players can do various customization to the cars such as lighten the bodyshell and chassis, painting the color of the bodyshell, replacing the stock parts with Grade-up Parts and more.

As with *DS*, player cannot control the Mini 4WD cars except the starting line part where player have to release his/her car earlier (but not too early to count as jump start) than his/her opponents to gain a head start. Customization made to the cars, as with in real-life, will change how the cars behaves. January 11, 2023 update saw the Magnum Tornado gimmick added to the game, though only with a limited selection of body and can only be performed at specific sections of the track.

The online-orientated mode, the Hyper Dash Grand Prix mode, have player races against other players on either the existing circuits or player-created original circuits.

Player can race against characters from various manga series, as well as race against real-life celebrities in the single-player Mini 4WD World mode.

Works that appeared, or were confirmed to appear in the game are:

* *Mini 4 Top*
* *Dash! Yonkuro*
* *The Wind Racer! Otokogi*
* *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go!*
* *Shin Dash! Yonkuro*
* *Dash Boy! Ten*
* *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! MAX*
* *Mini 4 Kids*
* *Future Racer V-Twin*
* *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! Return Racers!*
* *Hyper Dash! Yonkuro*
* *Mini4King*

## Characters

Note: Only notable characters first debuted in this game were listed here.

* Chassis-chan
* Frill Chassis-chan
* Kaizou Todoroki
* Rola Hoshino
* Heat Masuda

## List of Mini 4WD items

*See also: Mini 4WD Hyper Dash Grand Prix/Parts List*

## References

1. ↑ Finalized title, as revealed in 2019 Summer issue of *CoroCoro Aniki* magazine.

## External link

* Mini 4WD Hyper Dash Grand Prix official website (Japanese)
Lord Guile

The **Lord Guile** (Japanese: ロードガイル, *Rōdo Gairu*) is a Mini 4WD REV car released by Tamiya in November 2018 in oversea regions and on February 23, 2019 in Japan.

It was featured in *Let's & Go! Tsubasa: The Next Racers* as Baron the 2nd's machine.

## General info

The Lord Guile features the long nose, short deck classical car design, with large front fenders with the circle-type headlamps and the large air intake on the front.

It was in light gun metal color, with the gold/blue stripes and white highlight. It also sports the blue windows.

It was equipped with the black, small diameter low-profile Super X-type wheels paired with the black low-profile slick tires. Both the chassis frame and the A parts were molded in black.

## In media

### *Let's & Go! Tsubasa: The Next Racers*

Baron the 2nd, the son of the notorious Phantom Thief Baron and a phantom thief himself, owns a Lord Guile.

Baron's Lord Guile has the unique wheel system where it can act as a four-wheel-steering not unlike that of Diomars-Nero. The wheels can be used as propellers when rotated outward, allowing to hover.

### *Mini4King*

Futoshi Nukumizawa, an minor character and the son of the owner of Nukumizawa Onsen, own a customized, gold-plated Lord Guile which he named Golden Rich. This Lord Guile has the stabilizers attached to all four rollers and has the powerful Million Voltage motor which Futoshi ordered for a million yens. Despite having performance advantage, Futoshi ended up losing the race in the 100m straight track against Mota and his Lord Spirit.

## External links

### Tamiya America

* Lord Guile at Tamiya America
Kakeru Takagami

**Kakeru Takagami** (Japanese: 鷹神 駆, *Takagami Kakeru*) is one of the two protagonists in the manga *Mini 4 Kids*.

## Biography

Kakeru is a boastful individual who keeps winning at Mini 4WD races at the school. However, his record of consecutive victories was stopped at 102 when he was beaten by Kit who had just transferred to the school.

Kakeru is a son of an unnamed dad and Shizuka Otonashi, who are flower shop's owner and actress respectively. He also owns a dog named Road.

## Synopsis

*This article or its section(s) are incomplete. You can help Mini 4WD Wiki by expanding it according to our Quality standard policies.*
## Other appearance

### *Mini 4WD Hyper Dash Grand Prix*

Kakeru first appears in the time-limited event "Historical Racer Gather 2024", added on January 10, 2024.

## Mini 4WD cars

* Rayhawk-Gamma
* Dyna-Hawk GX
Dash-CB2 Blazing Sun

## In Fictional Media

### **Owner**

Dankuro Toda

The **Dash-CB2 Blazing Sun** (Japanese: ダッシュCB2 超太陽ブレイジングサン, *Dasshu Shībiｰtsū Bureijingu San*) is a fictional Mini 4WD car that appear in *Shin Dash! Yonkuro*. It was owned by Dankuro 'Tankuro' Toda.

## General info

Compare to its predecessors, The Blazing Sun has the low-drag, smooth body design.

The 'bolts' on the rear of the body was placed longitudinally instead of transversely, and the canopy has been enlarged, occupies the bodyshell from the front to the middle. Several key features of its predecessors (such as the armor-style front and side fenders) were re-arranged.

Like Neo Burning Sun before it, it was a FM machine.

The bodyshell is mainly in orange.

## In media

### *Shin Dash! Yonkuro*

In the poster manga, it is one of the Dash Combine machines along with Geo-Emperor, Proto-Emperor Coretank and Command Saurus. It is the right wheel part of the Dash Combine.

Much like the other Dash Combine machines, it is unknown that who create the minicar.

## Gallery

### Manga and anime

Tankuro and his Blazing Sun, as seen in *Shin Dash! Yonkuro*.
## See also

* Dash-2 Burning Sun
* Dash-02 Neo Burning Sun
* God Burning Sun
Basic:Motor

* Gearing
* Wheels and tires
* Chassis
* Bumper
* Rear stay
* Side guard
* Roller
* Bodyshell

* Shock absorb parts
* Reinforced chassis
* Stabilizing parts
* Mass damper

* Degreasing
* Break-in
* Friction reduction
* Battery dropping
* Custom stay
* Advanced mass damper setup

* Qualifying race
* Time-attack
* Elimination race
* Endurance race
* Street Mini 4WD

The **motor** (Japanese: モーター, *Mōtā*) is a important component for a Mini 4WD car. It acts the 'engine' of a Mini 4WD car.

## How the motor works

A motor was breaks into five parts: The outer endbell cap and the metal housing, a pair of arched magnets placed inside the metal housing, the commutator brushes and a 3-pole armature that is connected to a shaft.

In normal operation, electromagnetic fields are generated on around the 3-pole armature as soon as the coils that were wrapped around the armature is powered. Since the armature was inside the metal housing which has a N magnet on one side and a S magnet on the other side, the electromagnetic fields will pushes the armature from the N magnet and pull it closer to the S magnet, thus the armature rotates. As the armature is rotating, the commutator on it will reverses the direction of electric current at every half rotate cycle and reverses the magnetic field in order to maintains the rotation of the armature.

In endurance races, it is recommended to choose the motor with less electric consumption, as they have more running time before the batteries runs out, thus reducing the time loss induced by the battery changes.

## Wears and overheating

As the armature rotates, it will, overtime, wears out the brushes and the commutator until they can't deliver the electric current to the coils on the armature. For motors that are using the standard copper brushes, they wears out sooner than the motors with the carbon brushes and their performance will suffers while they are overheating. This can be reduced by installing either the aluminum motor support or the motor cooling shield into the car.

## Motors that cannot be used in race tournaments

Under current Mini 4WD race regulations, there are the few motors that cannot be used in the race tournaments due to either being a limited edition product or having overpowered performances. They are:

* The original Hyper-Dash Motor (Single-shaft variant)
* Mach-Dash Motor (Single-shaft variant)
* Jet-Dash Motor
* ZEN-Tuned Motor
* Turbo-Dash Motor
* Ultra Dash Motor
* Plasma-Dash Motor

## What motors my Mini 4WD car has?

Most Mini 4WD cars were equipped with the single-shaft motor. The exception to this is the Mini 4WD PRO cars, which were equipped with the double-shaft motor.
Large Diameter Low-Profile 6-Spoke Wheel Set

* Normal
* Carbon & Hard Tires
* 40th Anniversary

The **Large Diameter Low-Profile Tires and 6-Spoke Wheel Set** (Japanese: 大径ローハイトタイヤ＆６本スポークホイール, *Daikei Rōhaito Yaiya to Roku-pon Supōku Hoīru*) is a Mini 4WD Grade-up Parts released by Tamiya, first released in April 2017 in oversea regions and released on June 17 in Japan.

## General info

The wheel set was designed by Takayuki Yamazaki of the pdc\_designworks, being designed for the DCR-01 Mini 4WD car (Which is also designed by Yamazaki). The overall dimensions of the wheel and tire design are the same as the normal low-profile tires and wheel sets.

The wheels has the futuristic, 6-spoke design that has 3 main spokes and 3 sub-spokes to supports the wheel rims, and the rims are designed to be extremely thin, thus the wheels are lighter than its dish-styled counterparts.

Much like the low-profile dish wheel sets, the inner side of the wheels has the ring-like parts protrudes from the axis arm, reducing the frictions that causes by touching the bearings.

### Regular set

The standalone regular set, unlike the set comes with DCR-01, comes with the wheels molded in white instead of gun metal. It also comes with the large diameter low profile tires molded in elastomer.

### Carbon set

The limited carbon set comes with the wheels molded in carbon-mixed nylon and the white, hard-compound low profile tires.

### Mini 4WD 40th Anniversary set

Released to commemorate the 40 years anniversary of Mini 4WD, this set comes with the wheels molded in gold and the black Super Hard tires with sideprints.

## External links

#### Tamiya Japan

* Large Diameter Low-Profile Tires and 6-Spoke Wheel Set at Tamiya Japan
* Hard Large Diameter Low-profile Tires and Carbon 6-spoke Wheels at Tamiya Japan (Japanese)
* Mini 4WD 40th Anniversary Super Hard Large Dia. Low-Profile Tire & Wheel Set (6-Spoke) at Tamiya Japan

#### Tamiya America

* Large Diameter Low-Profile Tires and 6-Spoke Wheel Set at Tamiya America
* Hard Large Diameter Low-profile Tires and Carbon 6-spoke Wheels at Tamiya America
* Mini 4WD 40th Anniversary Super Hard Large Dia. Low-Profile Tire & Wheel Set (6-Spoke) at Tamiya America
Mercedes-Benz 280 GE

The **Mercedes-Benz 280 GE** (Japanese: メルセデス・ベンツ 280GE, *Merusedesu Bentsu Nihachimaru Jīī*) is an Original Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya on April 18, 1984.

It was based on the modified, 3-door variant of the first-generation W460 Mercedes-Benz 280 GE that was used in the 1983 Paris-Dakar Rally (Now known as Dakar Rally).

## General info

The 280 GE has the more compacted, super-deformed form of that of its real-life counterpart. It sports a 3-door sport utility vehicle body design, with a circle-shaped headlamp on the front.

Its bodyshell was mainly dominates by white color. Various sponsors, including Texaco, Havoline, can be found on the bodyshell.

It was equipped with the standard gray Comical-1 wheels paired with the black Comical Block-1 tires.

## About the Mercedes-Benz 280 GE

The modified Mercedes-Benz 280 GE, made for the 1983 Paris-Dakar Rally, has many modification made for the race.

First, the 2.8 liter Mercedes-Benz M110.994 natural-aspirated Inline-6 engine has been modified to increase the power output from 154 hp to 220 hp. In addition, the front axles of the car has been modified and stronger springs and special absorbers has been fitted into the car for the harsh rally raid. It was equipped with the sand tires supplied from Michelin.

Despite the sandstorm during the rally raid, race driver Jackie Ickx and his co-driver Claude Brasseur, who driven the 280 GE, won the 1983 Paris-Dakar Rally in the car category.

## External link

### Tamiya Japan

* Mercedes-Benz 280 GE at Tamiya Japan (Japanese) (Archived)
K4Tasche

The **K4Tasche** (Japanese: K4タッシュ, *Keifo-Tasshu*) is an upcoming Mini 4WD REV car to be released on July 8, 2023 by Tamiya.

## General info

Just like the K4 Gambol before it, the K4Tasche featuring a small truck body design, but unlike the former, it features the vintage retro design.

### Standard variant

The standard variant sports the light green body with the Green Pack decals.

It was equipped with the white, small diameter low-profile Super X-type wheels paired with the black low-profile tires. The chassis and A parts were molded in black.
Hyper Dash Circuit 2015

The **Hyper Dash Circuit 2015** (Japanese: ハイパーダッシュサーキット2015, *Haipā Dasshu Sākitto 2015*) is a Mini 4WD circuit built by Tamiya for the 2015 season of Tamiya Japan Cup.

## General info

Compare to the Super Glide Circuit, the Hyper Dash Circuit has more technical sections.

Following the two straight line parts after the starting line is the Proud Mountain section, followed by the tilt-placed Glide Bank 45 section. The Proud Mountain is a large, jump slope section, while the Glide Bank is a 45-degree bank corner section. Landing stability is the key for these sections as the Mini 4WD cars could course out if it didn't landed properly.

After a reverse S-corner, two straight lines and a left U-turn is the combination of an upper slope, a reverse S-corner and a down slope. Again, stability is the key point as the cars could course out on the corner following after upper slope or down slope.

Following the left U-turn is the Shooting Wash Board section. There, multiple wash boards were placed on the fences and the lanes and they could slowing down the Mini 4WD cars.

After a S-corner is the Mobius Changer, a specially designed lane-changer with the last lane being in the mobius symbol like shaped. This put the Mini 4WD car in the last lane at disadvantage due to the last lane's travel length.

Following the lane-changer is the Digital Bank Corner 30 section. This corner slowing down the cars due to its linear corner shape. This can be countered by using the slide damper parts. After the left corner is the Mohican Staight section, which has the thin board on the center of the road surfaces on two of the five lanes. This can be a problem for cars with low ground clearance as it could slow down and even stops the car.

After the right corner, the finish line will be crossed.

## Trivia

* The circuit was named after the manga series *Hyper Dash! Yonkuro*. Incidentally, the Shooting Proud Star, a cover car for the 2015 season, was featued in the manga.

## External link

* Tamiya Mini 4WD Japan Cup 2015 (Japanese) (Source: Tamiya official website)
Mini-F Chassis

The **Mini-F Chassis** (Japanese: ミニFシャーシ, *Mini Efu Shāshi*) is a chassis of Mini-F cars released by Tamiya in December 1991. It debuted with the release of Lotus type 102B.

## General info

The Mini-F Chassis features a one-piece chassis frame, with the usual rear-motor and mid-batteries setup, but longer compared to a Mini 4WD chassis.

The underbody of the chassis is mostly flat, with the front wheels and front driveshaft being supports by the fixed, sandwich frame. It has the rear-wheel-drive drivetrain, with gearing is similar to the bigger 1/10 scale R/C F1 cars. The change of both pinion gear and spur gear are required if user wishes to changes the gear setup. The motor was mounted onto the rear with the motor mount.

The chassis' body attachment method is similar to those in Mini 4WD cars, with the Mini-F car's rear spoiler doubling as a body catcher.

Due to the chassis frame design, the chassis itself is somewhat soft and fragile. The front sandwich frame that holds the front driveshaft and front wheels is also fragile, meaning it can break easily under heavy impact. Furthermore, it is impossible to lubricate the pinion gear and spur gear without ruining the fair play as they were exposed to the circuit even with the body shell attached.

Since the chassis was not four-wheel drive (only rear-wheel drive), the use of the chassis is prohibited in Tamiya official race events.

## Technical info

 **Weight** | **Without batteries:**119 g
Cobalt-Gunner

The **Cobalt-Gunner** (Japanese: コバルトガンナー, *Kobaruto Gan'nā*) is a R/C Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya on July 9, 2003. It is a color variant of the Lindwurm-Rider.

## General info

Being a color variant of the Lindwurm-Rider, the Cobalt-Gunner features the low-height, aerodynamic, fully-cowled body design, with the rear spoiler being integrated into the main bodyshell. Two jet engine props were intentionally placed on the rear of the canopy as the bodyshell was designed with the fitting of the R/C unit in mind.

It is mainly in blue, with white and red highlights and gold canopy,

It was equipped with the red, small diameter RC-type wheels with the black RC slick tires. The chassis frame and A parts were molded in black and gray respectively.

## Trivia

* It is one of the two R/C Mini 4WD cars (The other being Lindwurm-Rider) to not based on any real-life vehicles.
Brake Sponge Set

* 3 Type
* 3 Type LE
* 1/2/3 mm Red
* 1/2/3 mm White
* Mild 1/2/3 mm Blue

The **Brake Sponge Set** (Japanese: ブレーキスポンジセット, *Burēki Suponji Setto*) is a Mini 4WD Grade-Up Parts released by Tamiya on March 26, 2011. It is primary uses to provides braking, preventing the car from flying out on the slop sections and lane changer sections .

As of 2015, there are at least 3 variants available: the regular 3 types variant, the strong 1/2/3 mm variant and the mild 1/2/3 mm variant.

## General Info

Both variants of the Brake Sponge Set comes with one FRP Reinforcing Plate Set, sponges, washers, screws, spacers, lock nuts (all depends on the sets) and the 50 mm x 100 mm double-side tape. By install the FRP plate with the spacers onto the rear stay, it acts as the brake skid bar.

The 3 types variants, as its name suggest, have 3 different pairs of sponges made with different sponge materials. Each of them are in different colors, so the racer can identifies what sponge type they are.

The 1/2/3 mm variants, however, provides total of 5 sponge tapes of the same material with different thickness. However, most racers found that the braking power doesn't varies much than the 3 types variants. The red sponge set as well as the white sponge set that replaced it has the same friction as the gray sponge of the 3 types sets, while the mild blue sponge set has the same friction as the green/blue sponges of the 3 types sets.

The sponge tape can be attach to anywhere underneath the chassis.

## Gallery

Installation example of the Brake Sponge Set.
## External links

### Tamiya Japan

* Brake Sponge Set (3 Type) at Tamiya Japan
* Brake Sponge Set (3 Type) alternative color at Tamiya Japan
* Brake Sponge Set (1/2/3 mm white) (Formerly 1/2/3 mm red) at Tamiya Japan
* Brake Sponge Set (Mild, 1/2/3 mm blue) at Tamiya Japan

### Tamiya America

* Brake Sponge Set (3 Type) at Tamiya America
* Brake Sponge Set (3 Type) alternative color at Tamiya America
* Brake Sponge Set (1/2/3 mm white) (Formerly 1/2/3 mm red) at Tamiya America
* Brake Sponge Set (Mild, 1/2/3 mm blue) at Tamiya America
Dancing Divine Doll

The **Dancing Divine Doll** (Japanese: ダンシングディバインドール, *Danshingu Dibain Dōru*), also known as **DDD** (Japanese: DDDダンシングディバインドール, *Danshingu Dibain Dōru*) in the manga, is a Mini 4WD PRO car released by Tamiya on December 8, 2018.

It was featured in the manga *Hyper Dash! Yonkuro* as Rinko Sumeragi's machine.

## General info

As with other Hyper Dash Machines, the Dancing Divine Doll features the modernized and sharper design based on the original Dancing Doll.

The side, stylized vertical fins were protruded from the front nose, with small head lamps on them. Taking the design clues from both Rise-Emperor and Shooting Proud Star, the top fan and the horizon fins on the rear were now a merged, separate piece from the main bodyshell, and incorporating the intake on the front of it. The canopy is now much tinner compare to the Dancing Doll.

The stylized '5' mark and the CoroCoro Dragon decals can be found on the bodyshell. It was mainly in red, with violet, yellow and deep brown stripes mixed onto it.

It was equipped with the white, large-diameter 4-spoke MS-type II wheels paired with the black Avante-type slick tires. The chassis frame and the A parts were molded in olive grey and violet respectively.

## In the manga

In *Hyper Dash! Yonkuro*, Kaidanji Sumeragi shows the Hyper Dash machines to the Dash Warriors members, however, he thinks it's not the time to give them to his team, much to Yonkuro and everyone's surprise.

It was only after Dash Warriors passed the first course in a race against the Dark Dominion in Shinkuro's house (which was taken over by Dark Dominion, much to Shinkuro's dismay), Rinko finally got the new machine along with other remain members. Rinko first used the machine against Hell Crow and her Dancing Bloom Doll.

During the race against Hell Crow's Dancing Bloom Doll, it was revealed that the bodyshell of Dancing Divine Doll is made of softer elastomer rubber (the very same material that was used for making stock Mini 4WD tires) and thus allowing the car to absorbs any impacts.

## Gallery

### Artworks

#### Base design

Earlier artwork by Hiroyuki Takei.Earlier artwork by Hiroyuki Takei.Lineart by Hiroyuki Takei.
## Trivia

* Interestingly, the Dancing Divine Doll shares the initials with Dash-05 Dame the Dancing Doll, another Mini 4WD car that Rinko owns in *Shin Dash! Yonkuro*.

## See also

### Rinko Sumeragi's machines

* Dash-5 Dancing Doll
* Dash-05 Dame the Dancing Doll

## References

1. ↑ PHASE 2 of *Hyper Dash! Yonkuro*
2. ↑ PHASE 4 of *Hyper Dash! Yonkuro*

## External links

### Tamiya America

* Dancing Divine Doll at Tamiya America
Chassis-chan

**Chassis-chan** (Japanese: シャーシちゃん, *Shāshi-chan*) is a recurring character in *Mini 4WD Hyper Dash Grand Prix*.

## Biography

Chassis-chan is a fairy(?) whose appearance resembles the pink-colored VS Chassis. She can't be seen by anyone except a selected few (notably the player). She often speaks in Kansai dialect.

In the races, she use the customized Fire Dragon.

## Synopsis

### *Mini 4WD Hyper Dash Grand Prix*

Throughout the game, Chassis-chan works as a navigator and supports the player by giving out advises (either by the talk events on the maps, or by selecting the advice menu after the player lose the race or coursed out). She can be challenged in the races in several world maps.

### *Let's & Go!* series

In the one-short story, Chassis-chan travels to the past to get help from Go and friends as Frill Chassis-chan is causing havoc in her timeline inside the Hyper Dash GP app. She then teleport both Go and Retsu to inside the app to race against Frill and her battle machines.

Chassis-chan becomes a bit afraid during the moment where Go and Retsu were at pinch in the race, but was motivated by Ryo who told her that they are Mini 4WD racers that going all-in and moves forward no matter the condition of their cars, just like what the Seiba brothers is doing. The motivated Chassis-chan then decided to take matter into her own hand by providing the ultimate, all-in modifications to the Seiba brothers's car, leading to their cars defeating Frill's battle machine.

After the incident, both Chassis-chan and Frill were travel back to their timeline.

## Trivia

* Chassis-chan's resemblance of the pink VS Chassis is a nod to a memetic image of an actual pink VS Chassis posted on social media.
Fully Cowled Mini 4WD Factory

* Regular
* Limited

**Fully Cowled Mini 4WD Super Factory** (Japanese: フルカウルミニ四駆スーパーファクトリー, *{{{2}}}*) is a Mini 4WD video game developed by Mediaquest, released for the Sega Saturn console. The story is based around the WGP arc in Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go!.

The Special Limited version includes a Gun Bluster XTO blue metallic body set.
Dash-W1 Wild Saurus

The **Dash-W1 Wild Saurus** (Japanese: ダッシュW1号 ワイルドザウルス, *Dasshu Daburu Ichi-gō Wairudo Zaurusu*), also known as 恐竜ワイルドザウルス in the manga, is a Wild Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya on December 19, 1989. It is the first Wild Mini 4WD car to not based on any R/C trucks.

It was featured in the manga and anime *Dash! Yonkuro* as Genta's machine in the Mini 4WD Championship arc and as Dankuro 'Tankuro' Toda's machine in the Black Mistral arc. It also made a cameo in *Hyper Dash! Yonkuro*.

## General info

The Wild Saurus featuring the asymmetrical body design that was inspired by the Maneuver Combat Vehicle and the Tyrannosaurus.

On the right side, there's the attachment parts which is for attaching 2 batteries onto the bodyshell. There's the 'Saurus' and 'W1' decals on it.

It is in pale, with red highlights and white trims on it.

It is equipped with the standard wild-type wheels with monster truck tires.

## In media

### *Dash! Yonkuro*

The Wild Saurus was created by Kaidanji Sumeragi with the design that Genta got from Zaurus. (who residents in the 2nd floor of Genta's house) The body and chassis were made of Carbon-mixed nylon material, while the driveshafts were made of stainless steel in honeycomb structure.

Before the semi-final, Genta receive the Super Emperor from Yonkuro and swaps his Wild Saurus's Wild Chassis with Super Emperor's Chassis, effectively turning the Wild Saurus into a Racing Mini 4WD car. After the Dash Warriors was disbanded, Genta exchanged his car with Tankuro's Neo Burning Sun.

## External link

### Tamiya Japan

* Dash-W1 Wild Saurus at Tamiya Japan
Mad Laser

* Std.
* P-002

The **Mad Laser** (Japanese: マッドレイザー, *Maddo Reizā*) is a Mini 4WD PRO car released by Tamiya. It was first released on August 9, 2017 in oversea regions (specifically, Thailand) and was released in Japan on October 21, 2017.

## General info

The Mad Laser features a stylish, low-height, concept-car design, with a front flat bonnet and a pair of LED-like headlamps on the front. In addition to the fixed rear spoiler connected to the rear fenders, there are airducts on the rear that were designed to dissipate heat from the motor and batteries. It resembles a few supercars with similar body design, namely the Aston Martin Valkyrie supercar.

### Standard model

The standard Mad Laser comes with a dull silver color bodyshell, and is decorated with some red and orange strips, and carbon fiber-styled decals.

It was equipped with gold plated, small diameter fin-type low profile wheels paired with black low profile tires. The chassis frame and the A parts were molded in gray and light gray respectively.

### AOMG Peaches P-002 Matrix

The South Korea-exclusive kit was released in June 2021, available exclusively at the Peaches official shop.

While it's mostly the same as the standard model, it comes with two sets of hologram decals. In addition, it comes with a pair of Peaches-brand alkaline batteries.

## Gallery

### Boxart

Boxart of standard model.Boxart of P-002 variant
## External links

#### Others

* Mad Laser AOMG Peaches P-002 Matrix at Peaches official site (Korean)
Basic:Friction reduction

* Gearing
* Wheels and tires
* Chassis
* Bumper
* Rear stay
* Side guard
* Roller
* Bodyshell

* Shock absorb parts
* Reinforced chassis
* Stabilizing parts
* Mass damper

* Degreasing
* Break-in
* **Friction reduction**
* Battery dropping
* Custom stay
* Advanced mass damper setup

* Qualifying race
* Time-attack
* Elimination race
* Endurance race
* Street Mini 4WD

The **friction reduction** is a type of modification that can be made to the Mini 4WD cars.

## How it works

Inside the drive train of a Mini 4WD car, there are several gearing and shafts that driven it. However, those gears are not completely fixed in one position, and will moves slightly even with a small amount of force and results in those gears touching the drive train compartments and causing power loss.

The friction reduction modification is used to prevent this from happening. This is done by either sandwich the gears by using washers (preferably small washers), bushings, spacers and ball bearings to fix them in one positions or shaving part of the gears (usually crown gears) or both.

For the crown gears and the MS counter gears, it is advised that those gears should not be too tight while making this modification, as it may cause power loss and more wears to the gears.
Hong Kong Racing Taxi

The **Hong Kong Racing Taxi** (Japanese: 香港レーシングタクシー, *Honkon Rēshingu Takushī*) is a limited edition Mini 4WD REV car that was released in Hong Kong in June 2018.

## General info

As its name implies, the Hong Kong Racing Taxi is based on the taxi car used in Hong Kong. Specifically, the Toyota Comfort sedan. Unlike most Mini 4WD car bodyshells that are based on real-life cars, its bodyshell consist of two components: The main bodyshell molded in red and the cabin parts molded in silver.

In addition to the English word and Chinese words 'Taxi' (Japanese: タクシー, *Takushī*, Written as '的士‘ in Chinese.), the words 'Racing Taxi' can see found on the bonnet.

It was equipped the white, dish-type low-profile wheels paired with the gray super-hard compound low-profile slick tires. Its chassis frame and A parts were molded in black.

## External link

### Tamiya Hong Kong

* Hong Kong Racing Taxi at Tamiya Hong Kong
Chevrolet Pickup 4x4

The **Chevrolet Pickup 4x4** (Japanese: シボレー・ピックアップ, *Shiborē Pikkuappu*) is a Original Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya in July 13, 1982.

It was released alongside Ford Ranger 4x4 Pickup in the same date.

It was based on the 2nd generation Chevrolet K5 Blazer pickup truck that was produced from 1973 to 1991.

## General info

The Chevrolet Pickup has the 4x4 pickup body design, with the rectangle-shaped, mesh-styled air intake with headlamps on the front and the rectangle-shaped signal lamps on the rear. There's the flareside around the rear wheels and the black-colored bullbar that is attached to the silver-colored front bumper, complete with the additional square-shaped headlamps.

It has several manufacturer and OEM decals on the bodyshell, such as Goodyear.  It is mainly in red, with orange and white highlights on it.

It comes with the silver Origin-1 wheels with the black Origin radial tires.

## About the Chevrolet K5 Blazer

The 2nd generation of Chevrolet K5 Blazer, which supersedes the first generation model, was produced by Chevrolet and General Motors from 1973 to 1991. The K5 was also rebadged as GMC Jimmy in 1990.

The new K5 Blazer was powered by the 4.1 liter and 4.8 liter Chevrolet-sourced straight-6 engines and the 5.0 liter, 5.7 liter and 6.6 liter Chevrolet-sourced small-block V8 engines for the petrol models and 6.2 liter Detroit Diesel V8 engine for the diesel models. It has the 2-wheel-drive models and 4-wheel-drive models. The engines were mated to either the Muncie-sourced 4-speed manual transmission, both Turbo-Hydramatic 3-speed automatic transmissions and a Turbo-Hydramatic 4-speed automatic transmission.

The second generation K5 Blazer has the half-cab design, which allows user to remove the rear cab.

## See also

* Sunny-Shuttle
* Clod Buster Jr.

## External link

### Tamiya Japan

* Chevrolet Pickup 4x4 at Tamiya Japan (Japanese) (Archived)
Honda City Turbo

The **Honda City Turbo** (Japanese: ホンダ シティ ターボ, *Honda Shiti Tābo*) is a Original Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya on February 25, 1984. It was the first Mini 4WD car to be equipped with the Comical Chassis.

It was based on the Honda City Turbo (AA model) subcompact hatchback.

## General info

The City Turbo has the more compacted, super-deformed form of that of the real-life City Turbo car. It sports a 3-door hatchback body design with the circle headlamps and wide flared fenders.

It was mainly in red with orange/yellow highlight.

It was equipped with the standard gray Comical-1 wheels paired with the black Comical Block-1 tires.

## About the Honda City Turbo

Released in September 1982, the City Turbo is the high-end variant of the Honda City (AA model). It sports the more sportier design, with the additional air dam and the fog headlamps added to the car.

It was powered by the modified, 1.2 liter inline-4 Honda ER turbocharged engine that can produces about 100 PS (99 bhp) at 5,500 rpm and 108.5 lb·ft (147.1 N·m) of torque at 3,000 rpm. The engine has the PGM-FI fuel injection system and the 8-bit digital computer control unit, results in a more efficient engine with less turbo lag. It was mated to either the 4 or 5-speed manual transmissions, a 4+3-speed Hypershift automatic transmission or a Hondamatic automatic transmission with 2-speed plus overdrive, which then transfer the torque to the front wheels.

Compare to the normal City, the City Turbo has the more refined chassis structure. The four-wheel independent suspension system used the progressive rate coil springs, with stabilizers equipped into both front and rear wheels. Braking power is provide by the front ventilated disc brakes and the rear semi-metallic shoe drum brakes.

## See also

### Honda cars

* Raybrig NSX 2002
* Beams Integra
* Honda e

#### Related

* Braun Tyrrell Honda 020
* Footwork FA13 Mugen Honda
* McLaren MP4/7 Honda

## External link

### Tamiya Japan

* Honda City Turbo at Tamiya Japan (Japanese) (Archived)
Hollow Drive Shaft

* 60mm
* 72mm

The **Hollow Drive Shafts** (Japanese: 中空シャフト, *Chūkū Shafuto*) is a series of Grade-up Parts released by Tamiya since 1992.

## General info

The hollow drive shafts has the center material removed to reduce the overall weight of the driveshafts.

Although it has less weight than the normal driveshafts, the hollow structure of the hollow shaft presents a problem: Since it was connected to the wheels, it tend to bend under heavy land impacts. This problem is more apparent with the now-discontinued 60mm Hard Hollow Drive Shaft, which has thinner structure than the other hollow driveshafts.

## External links

### Tamiya Japan

* 72mm Hollow Stainless Steel Shaft at Tamiya Japan
* 60mm Hollow Stainless Steel Shaft (Limited II) at Tamiya Japan
* 60mm Hollow Stainless Steel Shaft (Regular) at Tamiya Japan

### Tamiya America

* 60mm Hollow Stainless Steel Shaft (Limited II) at Tamiya America
* 60mm Hollow Stainless Steel Shaft (Regular) at Tamiya America
Classic Circuit 2018

The **Classic Circuit 2018** (Japanese: クラシックサーキット2018, *Kurashikku Sākitto 2018*) is a Mini 4WD circuit built by Tamiya for the 2018 season of Tamiya Japan Cup.

## General info

The Classic Circuit was based on a Japan Cup circuit used in 1988, the Ultra Great Dash Circuit. As such, the circuit layout is similar.

Following the starting line is the special Vortex Changer section, in which the last lane is in the vortex-like shape. In addition, the cars in the other four lanes will have to passing through the Rocking Straight section after the right curve, where wash boards were placed onto the fences to slows the car down.

After the Vortex Changer is the left digital U-turn curve section, This section will slows down the cars due to its linear corner shape, but can be countered by using the slide damper parts. Following the digital curve and a straight line is the New Era Turn U-turn curve.

Following the long straight section is the Summer Wave 2045, which is the combination of the right Glide Bank 20 section and the left Glide Bank 45 section and the right 30 degree bank U-turn curve, all of which were tilt-placed. For cars that enters this part with fast speed, stability is the key, as one wrong move will potentially cause the car to flip over.

What follows is the Fujitsu Climax Road section, which consist of a single Dragon Back slope and a long Mohican Straight 2018 road. (Where all of the lanes has the thin board on the center of the lanes, potentially slowing down the cars with lower ground clearance.) Stability is the key here, as the car will course out if it going too fast and didn't land properly before entering the right curve. After that, the start/goal line will be crossed.

## External link

* Tamiya Japan Cup 2018 at Tamiya Japan (Japanese)
Basic:Bumperless setup

* Gearing
* Wheels and tires
* Chassis
* Bumper
* Rear stay
* Side guard
* Roller
* Bodyshell

* Shock absorb parts
* Reinforced chassis
* Stabilizing parts
* Mass damper

* Degreasing
* Break-in
* Friction reduction
* Battery dropping
* Custom stay
* Advanced mass damper setup

* Qualifying race
* Time-attack
* Elimination race
* Endurance race
* Street Mini 4WD

The **bumperless setup** (Japanese: バンパーレス, *Banpaaresu*) is a type of advanced customization that can be made to the Mini 4WD cars.

## What is bumperless setup?

The bumperless setup referring to a car setup where bumper and rear stay of the car are being substituted by the reinforced plates.

Bumperless machines generally lighter than the normal ones, as the bumper and rear stay were removed and the reinforced plates are lighter despite being stronger than regular plastics. Another benefit is it allows the possibility of more advanced bumper and rear stay setups, as the chassis's default bumper and rear stay has been removed and no longer being factor into. An example of advanced bumper and rear stay setups being the Autotrack Bumper.

## How to do the bumperless setup

The process usually involves destructive and irreversible modification where the bumper and/or rear stay had to be removed partially or completely, with the attachment holes intact. This part of the process requires the use of cutters and saw tools.

After that, attach the suitable reinforced plates onto where the bumper and/or rear stay were used to be, and attach the rollers, mass dampers and other GUPs onto the attached plates.

It should be noted that this modification can only done on cars with Super X Chassis and newer.

## How to do it without using destructive methods?

For a long time, the front bumper and/or rear stay are fixed to the chassis frame itself, thus necessitating the destructive, irreversible modification to the chassis if one want to do the bumperless setup. MS Chassis had somehow avoided this due to its modular nature and the release of the N-03 and T-03 units (which doesn't has bumper and rear stay), but Shaft-driven chassis remains needing the destructive modification for bumperless setup.

However, 2020 saw the release of the VZ Chassis, which is the first shaft-driven chassis to feature a user-removable front bumper. This, along with its user-removable rear stay, makes it an ideal platform to make a bumperless car without resorting to destructive modifications. With the right GUPs, it is now possible to modify a VZ Chassis car into a bumperless setup with ease.
Baron Viento

* Std.
* JC2019

The **Baron Viento** (Japanese: バロンビエント, *Baron Biento*) is a Mini 4WD REV car released on February 24, 2018 by Tamiya.

Although it was stated for February 24, 2018 release, the Tamiya Plamodel Factory Shimbashi Shop has began selling the minicar immediately after announcement on January 4, 2018.

It was featured in *Let's & Go! Tsubasa: The Next Racers* as Phantom Thief Baron's machine. Baron would later modified his Baron Viento into the Japan Cup 2019 Limited for a rematch against Team Pegasus.

## General info

The Baron Viento features the 2-door, chop-top custom classic car design inspired by customized 1937 Ford Coupe Hot Rods.

On the front, there's a pair of circle-shaped headlamps protruding on top of the front cowls that are sandwiching the front nose. There's even a front, large vertical air-intakes. It resembles the Street Devil, a 1/10 scale R/C car released by Tamiya back in the 90's.

### Standard variant

The standard model featuring the light green bodyshell, with a blue rooftop (which the builder must paint) and blue/silver graphics on the flanks.

It was equipped with the small diameter low-profile Super X-type wheels that were molded in white, paired with the black low-profile slick tires. Both the chassis frame and the A parts were molded in black.

### Japan Cup 2018 Limited variant

The yearly Japan Cup-limited variant featuring the black bodyshell, with dark magenta graphics, gold stripes and brown rooftop on it.

It was equipped with the pink, small diameter low-profile Super X-type wheels paired with the black, super-hard low profile tires with white sideprints. Both the chassis frame and the A parts were molded in black and white respectively.

## In media

### *Let's & Go! Tsubasa: The Next Racers*

The notorious Phantom Thief Baron owns a customized Baron Viento which he used for stealing precious goods. In the series, he planned to steal the gold Avante Jr. (Made by Kitaro at the request from none other than Professor Tsuchiya) but his plan was thwarted thanks to the effort of Team Pegasus.

His Baron Viento, being used for stealing goods, has numerous features that he built into it. The car has the retractable magic hands, which he mainly used to grab things. It also has the retractable side-wings which allows to fly.

Baron later modified his Baron Viento into the Japan Cup 2019 Limited variant in attempt to fool the Team Pegasus. Other than the change in coloring, it is still the same machine.

## Gallery

### Boxart

Boxart of Baron Viento.Boxart of the Japan Cup 2019 variant.
## Trivia

* The Japan Cup 2019 variant was chosen to be the cover car for the 2019 season of Tamiya Japan Cup.

## External links

### Tamiya Japan

* Baron Viento at Tamiya Japan
* Baron Viento Japan Cup 2019 at Tamiya Japan

### Tamiya America

* Baron Viento at Tamiya America
* Baron Viento Japan Cup 2019 at Tamiya America