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Between work, and getting ready for scale nationals and Cali trips knew I didn’t have time to play with it, so was easy to not spend that stack of money lol. Def favorite trail rig, easily. Its big, so seems a lot more “scale” driving it.

 

Tundra body is too short. Not going to make the sacrifices needed to make it work. Going to work on making the Peterbilt body (same mfg) work next.

 

So, in an effort help keep this thread breathing… here’s a couple of bodies I painted lastnight. MST LBMT(Mustang) and a Proline Metric for a project I’m building. It’ll be on a flat rail chassis with 4ws AR60’s. I’ll post up some shots of it when I get it closer. Mustang body is for a Sakura D5 drift chassis.

 

Finished up the sideways slider today. Pretty pleased with it so far. Now, time to learn how to drive it.

 

Nice... Do you drift at DARC? I've been there a couple of times. I need to finish up the body for my RMX 2.0 and I'll venture up that way sometime.

 

So far, my driving experience is limited to my kitchen…. I just bought the kit to build so I could learn how. I’ve been looking for a place to practice other than my garage. I’ll look into this place and might check it out soon.

 

Do it! Once you get in the groove of the slide it's hard to keep away. LOL. I'm just now getting back into racing 1/8 ebuggy at Thornhill after a year and a half hiatus. But if we had a drift track locally who knows if I'd come back to racing.

As for crawlers, my wife and son did get me an Enduro Knightrunner for father's day. I'm printing up a bunch of Knight Customs parts as I type this.

 

Those are cool rigs for a scale accurate build. Especially for 3rd Gen guys. I had a few RC cars growing up as a kid, but had gotten away from it because life… I found this thread when I joined TW and figured out there was a whole world I’d missed out on. Now I’m waaaaaay down the rabbit hole… I have done wood working, and metal work for years, but this is a hobby I can work on in the ac with the family, so it’s been a cool journey. And the dudes in the thread are super helpful, though a few of them might poke fun at our drifters. It’s cool though.

 

LOL, understandable. Many of the drift crew here in the Austin area have scale detailed crawlers, though. A few are into rock racing, which is awfully tempting, too. But yea, many of the folks dedicated to a particular side of the hobby rarely get to see the other (ie. none of my racing friends know anything about the drift side). My drift car, which will have a Toyota Starlet body on it, will be fairly well detailed, but I'm not building an interior for it. One of my buddies builds his drift cars to the same level of scale detail as his crawlers and has won a bunch of awards.

Oh, here's a quick vid I found from DARC on the 'tube:

https://youtu.be/3j6lyeauVeA

 

I never could get down the driving technique for my RWD drift chassis, so it's now just a shelf queen. I'm just keeping it scale in all aspects. I never drive the 1:1 version either.

 

I definitely have a lot to learn. The main thing I’ll be fighting is getting the gyro set up right since I don’t know how it’s supposed to act. But I’m not in a hurry and will figure it out eventually. I start projects to learn something, I rarely learn a skill then go do it. It’s always the other way around.

 

Don’t have a drift car, but went to DARC once…

 

Finally purchased a laser timing system for the bouncer comps. Program should run a lot faster and times more accurate. Comp is this Sat at 5:30, followed by random draw team comp at 8. Both at duck.

 

we can change that

 

Nah. No appeal

 

Will be at the creek tomorrow evening, prob 6-6:30ish if anyone wanna dust em off.

 

Cornholio’s backkk

 

What updates did you do to it?

 

Whole new setup. Chassis is from the pheonix kit (vs410), brx90 axles (scale Toyota), dlux nod2 trans and shocks, TNT links. Boom racing probuilds on BFG KM3. Went with spektrum 2n1 2300kV, and NSDRC servo and winch.