I saw that there was a model car thread, I figured i'd make an RC Drift Car Thread..

Now I dont have one of these, but I may pick one up just to bring out to local meets and **** and dick around. If you've never heard of these before check out these 2 videos

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MZE...lated

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8PGNFEvmvGw

Some of the cars are legit as [freak]! Any of you guys have one of these?

 

I didn't even know they did RC drift stuff

I used to be big into gas on road racing in the late 90s, early 00s.

Went to the ROAR Nats twice, all sorts of regional and local events.

RC racing is the ****

 

Yeah I found out about this a few months ago just browsing youtube.

I think its pretty freaking cool! Some of the cars are badass with working brakelights and headlights and ****!

 

 

are there any videos of them actually drifting... sounds sweet!

 

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I posted 2 videos in my opening post

 

Pretty cool. Alot more expensive than I thought.

 

holy **** didnt even see them... lol

 

I've found a few EG and RSX bodies... You can drift them bitches

 

damn! that S15 is hard!

Subscribed.

 

hahah check this out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...lated

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...lated

 

RC BMW with car stereo...it's just an iPod and some speakers.

so much details......I want one now.

 

That Rx7 is sick. I'd like to have one of those

 

this is gay and you suck.

 

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RC racing is unbelievably expensive if you want to compete on a national level.

Id show up to events with about $1500 worth of foam tires that would be trued/shaved to about 3mm of usable rubber. New set of tires for every qualifying round, usually 2 a day, plus another 2-3 sets for practice. Metal briefcase with 5 backup engines, about $200 a pop, pre broken in, ready to roll. 3-4 extra bodys, enough parts to build another car, plus another actual car. Setup boards with levels, camber gauges, tire durometers, tire truers, engine break in benches, notebooks full of setup sheets.

You can adjust everything on the cars... spring rate, damping(via oil weight or piston size), rebound, shock mounting position, caster angle, ackerman angle, roll center, toe... different shores of tire durometer, some tires with rings of different shore. Body style, wing type and angle. Clutch engagment point, how hard it engages... gear ratio, both pinion and spur, in a 2 speed centrifugal clutch shifted automatic transmission (where the shift spot was adjustable as well). Differential action, both slip and friction. Overdrive ratio in 4wd vehicles via gear size(in belt driven cars) and tire diameter. Not to mention the different engines and exhaust setups... everything is adjustable.

The kind of racing that we did was pretty fun.... gas on road is competitive! Lap times within a 1-2 tenths of each other. The only thing more fun is racing real cars

 

Hardcore sh*t

 

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