RC Cars Drifting OMG just WOW

[Small_Fryz]

http://videos.streetfire.net/Player.aspx?fileid=C88B04CE-6EE0-4391-9989-0A1D419C1D68&p=0

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[Gen.]

They've been around for awhile... I've always wanted one, but 400 dollars plus is a big ask for something so small.

 

[eliseracer]

I did that for a while. I drifted mine as well, it's a lot of fun as well. I quit just before the PVC drifting craze, I'm old-school: electric tape (or plain ol' torque with crappy tires).

I had a very fast car, went like stink. Recently sold it to a friend, who never uses it.

Yokomo makes a cool RC Drifting/beginer friendly kit/RTR I think, check their site.
www.yokomousa.com

 

[JFM92_GTRacer]

^awesome site there eliseracer! 👍
dang i want my R/C car to drift like that.

 

[Taurine]

My nitro drifts when I hit the 'holy ****!' throttle point.

That's also when I'm not stripping gears, snapping drive belts, frying receivers, ripping foam tyres apart, breaking servos or loosing three engine mount cap screws..

The $500 odd you spend getting the car in the first place is tiddly-winks compared to the amount you spend fixing it everyhour of running..

 

[Jay]

I spent a fair bit on a Nitro RC car 4wd 2 speed trans whatever shafts blah blah blah, It has never broken down because I hardly ever use it lol.

 

[el flexo]

there's one in the uk called the z drifter

 

[eliseracer]

^awesome site there eliseracer! 👍
dang i want my R/C car to drift like that.

Buy Yokomo's drift tires, with the plastic "drift strips" and you're sideways in no time. Or just tape up the back tires completely with 2 layers of electric tape, then camber out the fronts (-3 or so is reasonable) and put electirc tape on the outside half of the front tires. Get a stock motor with a bunch of torque (I used a Trinity Monster Stock Pro for this kind of drifting), or get a low-turn motor and just go all out power-drifting (if you have the right suspension setup, I had used a Trinty SpeedGems 13T tripple).

I had a lot of repairs to do as well, but I enjoyed it, diff-rebuilds and crap like that. I could take apart my Yokomo MR4TCBB30 with my eyes closed and not lose any screws

Man I can't believe I remember any of this...

 

[xXSilencerXx]

That was awsome. Never seen that before.

 

[TURBO (@)....]

Who that was some of the best drifting ive seen in an rc car and it was smooth to i wonder if you can do it with an electric motored rc car ive herd you can but ive naver seen it done only with gas motor's...But anyways cool video. 👍

 

[eliseracer]

Electric is far easier and way more popular than nitro drifting. Check out the online forums for help with tuning 👍

 

[Dougboy]

PVC is grey so it looks unrealistic. Black ABS plastic tubes are the way to go.

Eletric drifting is popular and not much ppl would drift a nitro car because nitro engines require airflow in order to run cool. Drifting is slow and it makes the engine rev very high so it dies fast. I knew a friend drifting with a OS18 and it overheated. So only way to drift nitro is either to run it in cold(der) climate or run it richer than usual.

Also, electric cars have a lower center of gravity 💡

i've used yokomo drift tires before and not very pleased with them. They wear out really fast for something so expensive.

 

[a6m5]

Very nice! They are quite skilled.

 

[eliseracer]

Try electric tape.

It never runs out, and when you want to take it off the adhessive stays on the tires, not ruining them but making them ultra sticky for normal driving for half a battery pack, then they're back to normal.