RC Drift thread!

Firestar_3x

Firestar_3x

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Me an EL (Paradigm) took several RC cars out over the weekend to make a quick RC Drift vid.

Some interesting cam angles, note the RC drift roof mount cam :D

Features :

Our matching Blue Honda NSX's, Orange is mine Yellow is El's
My Nissan 350Z (TC3, with drift tyres)
My Savage 25SS (Which lasted 2 mins before the radio gear turned off and it hit a wall :(
El's 4wd buggy.

http://firestar3x.com/OCUK/Videos/RC.wmv - Save As...

Enjoy :)

Mark
 
It was overcast and starting to rain :p

The surface is a 'generic tarmac road', i have about 7mm ground clearance at the back and 5mm at the front it scrapes sometimes, which is bad mid drift, its hard to get across how well it drifts on a video without a fixed point to drift around, will sort this out for next vid :)
 
Thats a industrial estate since it was a sunday no-one was about :)

My savage is silly loud i've taken out the plastic restrictor in the purple header / exhaust joiner :)

The savage does have a failsafe but the main battery connector came off meaning no power for the failsafe to work meaning it kept on going, nothing some glue and plastic won't sort out need to make a custom battery box ontop of the radio gear box.

I took a Tripod mounting plate put a little hole in the top of a shell and used that to mount a full sized JVC DV camcorder :D

And the last bit is just spooky, perhaps we are living identical lives :p
 
saitrix said:
You thought about using a throttle return spring?
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Yea, the 21 has one has standard but i removed this when i go the truck new since the weedy 4.8v hpi servo was having problems keeping it fully open.

Now i have the K4.6 i aint even thought about fitting one back on, running 6v it should work fine now, good idea :)
 
It is quite sensitive, i can limit how much range the steering can give (How much it can turn) but when going sideways you really need to wack on quite a lot of opposite lock to balance things out, its hard to explain and i'm still learning the technique :)

Other thing is i've got some drift tyres on my car, so it slides even on limited throttle :)
 
I've just got myself a KO Propo EX1 Mars R, should be with me in the next few days, should have chance to play around with all that sort of stuff, standard hpi controller sucks!

Sorry about the bad download speed think quite a few ppl have grabbed the video now.

Just as a note you can click the link and play directly in media player, might work better than waiting for the full thing to download.

Cheers for the comments guys, we had a right laugh :)
 
Modelsport are great, top notch service and next day delivery on my orders :)

Sounds like the wheels i got, just use it in a wide clear area at first cause otherwise your car will meet a hard object side on.
 
lordrobs said:
NOOOOOO.

Thought it was odd that there was no confirmation email when I got home so I checked my order history to make sure it had gone through "ORDER CANCELLED" :(
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Nah it will be fine, when i ordered my RS4 i went for the scooby shell but later in the day i got a call saying it was out of stock so they changed it for another shell, my order online said cancelled but i got it next day, think they have to cancel it to amend the order ;)
 
Good looking shell Mohinder :)

190mm shells fit on a 200mm car, a 190mm NSX shell is currently on my RS4 and the wheels stick out a little looks mean as :D
 
paradigm said:
Well my split rims are now done (chrome lip with black spokes), the drift rubber is on the way, and I am trying to track down a Silvia shell (also got an S2000 on the way) :D
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:D pics of the split rims needed !
 
Yea a little oil down the shell is fine imho, i have a temp gun and anything around 250 - 270f means its running about right.

Think you can pick up a gun for 15 - 20 on e-bay.
 
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