PzPabst:
Posted the spring reduction to one of the US boards, no interest at all. Did see it as innovative though... just wrong focus. Some have tried adjusting the torsion bars though... usually with lighter spring-steel.
The idler arms need much more attention, as the ones on the KT are badly done, and the ones on the Tiger 1 have no give at all.
As for prices, most of the German stuff is vastly overpriced. We can usually have a similar item custom made over in America for less cost... the metal-cast tracks are a prime example... under $200 here, and they are ~how-~ much in Germany?
As for reductions, Willy Loewer has that in hand, and at a MUCH lower cost. For $85 US and shipping, you get two reduction modules. You pull your motor, mount these where the motor was, and then mount the motor on them, and finally reverse your motor wires. Willy's have become the accepted norm over here.
As for stiffening, we've generally gone to 2.5mm aluminum hull plates. You use sountersink replacements to the tamiya's but all the pre-existing holes, and so far, the guys say its prolonged gearbox life (used to get ruined due to chassis-twist)
Dunno about the speaker diagrams, the nomenclature for the wiring doesn't come trough properly (don't know of any component calibrated in miliHertz (mH))
And I wondered why Tamiya dinna go with microswitch endstops in the first place, though their method is probably cheaper (lately Tamiya has been getting stingy: look at the Kubelwagen's radio)
WhiteWolf