volcomx31

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LiL C

canaryrx8

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I have a spare Rx8 body (from my first attempt, window tint paint bled through and ruined it) I bash around with, I'll look into it. Quite honestly, I don't think it would be hard to do, probably just trim the front bumper differently with different stickers to replicate the openings and it'd probably be pretty close
I'll look into it for you, bodies run about 20-25 bucks, paint's about 12 bucks for a few cans, if it's nothing to complicated I could help you with the body at least for maybe a hair over the cost of materials, if you want a running one I could help with that too, but mostly I'd just point you on where and what to get for your stuff.

edit: going off the look of this pic: https://www.rx8club.com/attachment.p...3&d=1158629328 I don't think it'd be that hard at all, the MS and the Auto Bahn are pretty similar actually.

Jbill21

Sweet car man. Also like the shoes.. It was weird, I was looking at this thread before I went to the mall earlier and I thought, "nice shoes"... so I make my trip to the mall and see them sitting there at Rack Room Shoes...Gonna pick em up for christmas. Thought it was purty funny... Thanks man

perks11

canary if you could get it to look similar to the autobahn i would be extremely interested, im planing on showing my 8 next summer and think something like this would look nice in my trunk just a little show piece. but i do see what you are talking about with the MS and autobahn. i dont know how i would do the wheels, but i could figure that out down the road i guess

canaryrx8

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shoot man, there's TONS of wheels out there, HPI has several different Work wheels and others, Tamiya has a bunch of different ones, Yokomo has Volk's, Enkei's etc., there's a Japanese company called Speedway Pal that has ridiculous stuff. I'm sure it wouldn't be very hard to find something similar, all I did on mine was buy the HPI ones and hand paint the centers black like my real ones. I also found some tires recently that look like my BFG's, HPI makes little Toyo's and Direzza's, but not G-Force I was running dorifto tires when these pics were taken, not much good for anything else other than sliding around The pic below gives you an example, it's from Speedway Pal's website, the Japanese don't mess around when it comes to R/C drifting.

http://www2.ocn.ne.jp/~sw-pal/ALUBUM/Alubum_TOP.html



You'll find tons of stuff on Ebay, just type in r/c drift or r/c wheels for your search

3DZukini

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I've never owned a "nice" R/C car, only the cheap ones. I'm looking at the Sprint 2 Drift Sport RTR kit, good choice? Also, how do I know what's a good radio to get, not too expensive?

lepichichi

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that's sweet where can i get one??????

CompMan

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Thats cool as hell.
Needs tint but other then that it resembles your car exactly!

perks11

ill have to check out ebay canary thanks, maybe they will have something similar to the autobahn front...hey one can wish right

canaryrx8

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That's exactly what I'm running, with the 200mm HPI Mazda Rx-8 body.(I went with the wider one for wider wheels) I got the rolling chassis off ebay, came with everything except for the motor,battery, and electronics. I found a nib Traxxas Vilineon brushless motor/esc for less than 130 bucks, picked up a venom lipo and lipo charger locally, got my radio/receivers locally too. Radios can range from 80 bucks to over 300, just depends on the technology/features.

As far as getting a kit, there's a ton of intro/beginner level kits out there that are nicer than the "toy" ones and are a good place to start if you want to play around and see if it's a hobby you'd be interested in. Tamiya has the TT-01, HPI has the Sprint2, and Hot Bodies makes an E10 (same thing as HPI). I got most of my stuff used or new off Ebay, I've been into R/C for a long time, but quit messing with it for a while, saw a video of the drift comps and thought it might be fun to try since I used to do that bashing my awd stadium truck in the dirt etc. I actually taped up the street tires on my truck and played around in the driveway for a while, then after I figured out it would be something I was interested in I pieced my car together being frugal online.

The kits really aren't that hard to build, and for those who don't want to build their own, I know there are several rtr packages out there that come with everything, towerhobbies.com has specials all the time where they'll throw in whatever's missing at a discount etc.

There's a couple of drift specific sites out there as well -

http://www.drccentral.com/
http://www.groovydrift.com/
http://www.rccartips.com/RC_Drifting.htm
http://www.driftrczine.com/
http://www.rcdriftnetwork.com/net/

My local buddies - www.atxdrift.com

a few vendors -
www.towerhobbies.com
www.genkidoridori.com/ - love this place!

There's links and info for the beginner to advanced all over those sites, feel free to pm me as well.

(p.s. I tried tinting my first attempt and it bled through and ruined my paintjob, this time around I just left the windows alone, I'll probably just use actual automotive tint in small pieces and see how that works, much safer for my paint )

3DZukini

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Awesome, thanks for all the info!!

canaryrx8

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hey all, didn't want to start a new thread, but I've been up to some shenanigans lately.

For Christmas I received an R/C Jada Toys Corvette ZR-1 in 1/10th scale, sure these cars are fun for the average kid, they go about 8-10 mph and are fun to dink around with if you're 10 years old....but if you're in your thirties and have 2 other R/c cars that are capable of real car like speeds, 8-10 mph isn't acceptable, it needs to go closer to 40-50 mph, or at least have the capability to do so.

So I had an extra brushless motor setup (a Mamba sidewinder used in my 1/18th scale HPI micro rs-4), I had a few servos lying around, some other random extra parts not being used, figured out that the motor would fit, managed to find a pinion gear that works that small and the drivetrain was on its way, my next challenge was the steering, the steering that comes on these toys is very primitive and driven by a small dc motor. I tried a few different methods for keeping it intact, including making my own "servo" etc. (yikes!) but in the end I decided to scrap it all and build my own. I found a Traxxas Slash steering assembly on Ebay for about 6 bucks, figured out a way to mount it, figured out a way to connect the wheels using custom fabbed shortened turnbuckles, got it working for the most part but couldn't figure out how to get a servo mounted, I modded the battery tray and attached it there after a few other ideas didn't quite work. Everything works just like a "real" r/c car, it has crazy power/speed, and with the lipo/brushless setup I'll have plenty of time to play with it before it has to charge.
There's a few things I could probably go back and clean up, the front end flexes a bit since I cut out some of the side to clear the steering turnbuckles for example, but since it's all scratchbuilt and it works awesome I'm leaving it alone for now.

I took a few pics:

Here's a top few prior to cleaning it up a bit etc.


My front steering setup, I put those metal pieces in there to raise it up a bit, and angled the two bottom ones to brace it a bit as well.


A quick shot of the steering angle


Close-up of the rear and where I mounted the receiver, power switch got mounted right before I put the body back on.


The other side houses the battery, I had to smooth it down a bit but it fit perfect afterwards.


Another close-up of the top once I got it all sorted out


This is how the bottom turned out, if I wanted I could notch the cover that went here and put it back as well, but that makes battery charging a nuisance, plus these wires don't hang down etc. anyway.


Finished shots of the car all put back together and ready to shock the crap out of unsuspecting r/c racers

jjc3925

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these are soo cool

dozer

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oh man, thats fcken badddd asssssss

canaryrx8

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thanks man, just to give everyone an idea of what I did, just picture the jada toys rx-8 with about 5 times the power it comes with, about 5 times the top speed, easier steering and better battery life too

So I got drive it around today, I did some donuts with it and got to stretch the legs a bit too, just holding the car up and flooring it I can throw the back tires off the wheels, and I actually got the small tires to smoke a little, not quite sure how, but I definitely saw some tiny white smoke it's fun as crap to play with too as the gearbox that makes it move consists of 3-4 different gears so when it's driving it's loud just like a real car

I still have the 8 too, but now it has a faster motor and slightly larger battery, I did a Pagani zonda body for it as well as the Ae86 the kit came with, at some point I'll have to get pics of everything again.

To do the 8 I recommend the HPI Sprint2 Drift kit, they have a version that comes with everything you need except a battery, and the HPI Rx-8 body is already setup to fit the chassis perfectly which makes it super simple to do, best thing to do is check Ebay or towerhobbies.com etc. as they have specials on those sometimes.

3DZukini

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I'm still thinking about getting one of those kits some day. Have you tried that D-box thing yet? The videos make it look like it turns it into a perfect drift car.

jptalky

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Funny that I just found my old RS4 Pro 3, some minor upgrades are needed...

canaryrx8

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I drive without one, it's just more fun to me that way as you really have to learn control and really "drive" the car to get it to drift properly, the d-box is kinda' like cheating, it's basically a gyro-scope that helps keep the car in the drift, it would probably still be fun with one, but me being a car geek and a bit of an r/c nerd as well I prefer the r/c dorifto action without one, it's actually a satisfying feeling watching them slide around knowing I built it up and it's me driving and not the d-box helping me along etc.

Hicks

i got me a hpi sprint 2 back in February and a rx-8 shell...thanks to canaryrx8 for his help with my questions.....i love the little thing, it looks just like my car (i painted it gray)...i already broke a couple of parts with my driving but it was only a $10 fix....i'm ready to buy me a new shell and paint something else..my sprint 2 came with a shell and i painted it but i didn't like the outcome so i decided to soak it in water with paint thinner for a few days..that was not a good idea..oh well lesson learned...i'm hoping soon to go brushless.....i might post some pics up if i can find the ones that i took of it back when it had less damage on it...still cant get the hang of it..but i'm getting better

lepichichi

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thats hot!