RC Drift car

[projects2k]

Hi i recieved my RC Drift car today and would like to know what i could do to improve it.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-10-LARGE-DRIFT-RC-RADIO-CONTROLLED-CAR-ELECTRIC-PRO-/300538991331?pt=UK_ToysGames_RadioControlled_JN&hash=item45f98512e3
This is the one i have

 

[bevo]

Judging by the price of it probably nothing. You might be able to put a lipo battery in it to make it faster but that will probably burn up whatever motor and servos are in it. I really can't imagine a car at that price having any upgrade parts for it or really anyway to get more power to it.

If your wanting a decent starter on road 1/10th scale battery car your looking at around at least 300-400$. If your wanting to go cheaper you could get an awd mini z. You could get into that for around 150$ or so used with a controller and some parts and bodies. It's a much smaller scale though 1/27 but they are a blast to run.

 

[projects2k]

The motors not an issue this thing gets up to 40kmh.Its just too much of the power is at the front, the distributions like a 50/50 so its hard to get the tail out.

 

[bevo]

The motors not an issue this thing gets up to 40kmh.Its just too much of the power is at the front, the distributions like a 50/50 so its hard to get the tail out.

The first place to start would be tires. Most of an RC car's setup is in the tires. Find tires that you like and then tune your suspension and diffs from there. If you can get some better tires (most RC cars have junk tires on them out of the box) start with them. Then depending on what kind of shocks it has you could try softer springs in the front and stiffer in the rear to help get the rear end around. Then you could go with heavier oil in the rear and lighter in the front. After the shocks are right you could start trying to tune the oil in the diffs. In all honesty though I have no idea what kind of car that is or if there are even any ways to tune it. It might just be spring shocks with no way to buy different springs for it. You could always take them apart and measure them and then try and find springs that are the same size of different stiffnesses from team associated, kyosho, HB or other RC car companies.

Maybe take a picture of it with the body off of it so we can see what the shocks and diffs look like. A shock spring kit though is going to cost more then that entire car. If you're are really wanting to get into RC car drifting look for some used big name cars on ebay. Maybe something from team associated, hot bodies, kyosho, losi, etc. I just can't imagine a car at that price range having any after market parts being made for it or even having diffs or shocks that can be filled with oil.

 

[projects2k]

 

[bevo]

I doubt you can buy any springs to stiffen the rear and I doubt there is anything you can do for the diffs. Try and just stiffen up the rear shocks by putting something in the springs so they can't travel as much. You don't want weight transferring to the rear of the car as much if you want the rear end to slide out. I don't know what you could do, maybe take some rubber bands and wrap around the inside of the springs so they would prevent the springs from going up and down as much but they would still absorb some of the bumps.

I really don't know. that's the only thing I can think of. I would say you will just have to play with it as is. If you can figure out how to stiffen up the rear shocks though it should help a lot but it's going to make it really hard to control a slide. Without oil diffs or a center diff there is really no way to control how much power is going to the front wheels. If your wanting to have a car that you can tune and actually drift you will need to buy a higher end rc car. Probably something at least in the 300$ range. Go to RCtech and take a look around their forum there is everything you would ever want to know about RC cars there.

 

[projects2k]

I used tooth picks to jam into the rear suspension so its really stiff, and ey presto! It worked like a charm sliding everywhere and holding long drifts, though i need some new tyres now.

 

[tengomac]

The Japanese regard the Tamiya TA-03F as the world's best RC drifter. Tamiya knows this and will be releasing the TA-03F Pro Drift Spec sometime this month.

 

[projects2k]

The Japanese regard the Tamiya TA-03F as the world's best RC drifter. Tamiya knows this and will be releasing the TA-03F Pro Drift Spec sometime this month.

Dont have the money for that yet
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