official Stanceworks RC drift thread

[bataangpinoy]

mainly for looks and to get my rims to fit. but it helps the car break loose. less contact patch.

its drifting and you tear that shit up anyway. might as well look good doing it.

and i only pay 1 dollar per tire.

[grippymonkey]

RC drifting has alot to do with looks as does real drifting. If you look at the countersteer RC videos from Japan they are running tons of camber at the professional level.

Everyone still driftin on ABS should really upgrade to HPI t-drift tires. They are the best tires I've drifted on, and they also are used in most of the RC drift events.

[Digitalwave]

mainly for looks and to get my rims to fit. but it helps the car break loose. less contact patch.

its drifting and you tear that shit up anyway. might as well look good doing it.

and i only pay 1 dollar per tire.

Hmm, I guess if you are really under powered or have a poor setup it might help. I always wanted as much traction as possible.

[grippymonkey]

You wanted as much traction as possible for drifting RC's?

anyways...


here's a couple new pics of my daily beater

[bataangpinoy]

under powered? helll nahhh! i drift on grippy pavement and porous concrete. the last thing i need is grip. i do want to try hpi drift tires but the price sucks. and at 1 dollar a tie, i buy in sets of two.

i run a cheater 19t motor. by cheater, its using "stronger" magnets(can from a 27t) for more torque and its got alot of rev and top end too.

i run this same motor in my sc10(2wd) and even at full speed i manage to loop it out on hard packed dirt.

with the camber, suspension setup, tires motor etc, my car reacts to throttle very much like a rwd car. more gas, equals more angle and it will not correct itself. you need to steer to get it back in place.

you would have to drive it to see what i mean. alot of people will say ahh its all talk but my car drifts better than the yokomo kits because of my tuning. im more than willing to pass my setups along to others with tt01-d's or or for the traxxas 4tec.

[bataangpinoy]

Ive been meaning to get one of those things

now all i have is a traxxas sportmaxx with a 3.3 in it

there is no reason not to. they are hella cheap and the tamiya kits come with an esc and motor with a good bit of torque for drifting.

all you need are abs or hpi tires and you have instant drift car. its the little driver secrects in tuning and skill that really make the differences.


for example, i use a castle creations mamba max esc to control my drift cars because i can adjust my throttle and brake curves via laptop to make the car drive more realistically.

and i have a way to make an lsd out of your stock gear diff, but its very meticulous.(and if done right feels very nice)

[Digitalwave]

You wanted as much traction as possible for drifting RC's?

Yes, I wanted more traction than bare ABS tires gave me so I could carry more speed. As much possible traction with ABS tires = still no traction.

It was a bit different with Yokomo drift ring tires, but I didn't like spending the money on those.

[grippymonkey]

^ I kinda liked the single rings but I could only get 5 runs or so out of a set. The HPI T-drift tires seem so much better to me. They are pretty solid and should last easily twice as long.

I have a Ko Propo Vfs-fr ESC coming in along with a 17t Reedy motor. The Ko Propo has no motor limit and is designed specifically with drifting in mind. I already got used to the power of the upgraded 27t I bought. I think this should hold me off for a while. I drove the other TT-01 kit I bought for my friend which came with a nice upgraded ESC and an expensive Reedy 19d spec motor and that thing is fast! Almost too much power. You have to really go easy on it once you open it up. I think it has alot to do with the gearing too because the main gear was changed to a hopup part and the pinion is a 25t which needed the motor mount to be modified to fit. I am going to mimic that car and one up it with the motor.

[Digitalwave]

A little unrelated since it's not drifting but I what the hell, it's the only r/c thread we have. These are some pics from the last state race I went to.

Me wrenching on my Serpent S400. The Novak GTB has been replaced by an LRP SPX and I'm currently testing a prototype speed controller for another company.



My pit area:



Car on the track during one of the heats:

[bataangpinoy]

lol i dont have a stomach for much on road. drifting and dirt racing are my thing.

[schroedin]

I wish this shiz wasn't so esspensive, otherwise I'd be all over it in a heartbeat.

[bataangpinoy]

its really not. base model tt01. uesd to be 99, have not looked in a while. includes decent motor, esc and decent body.

you need a battery. 40 for a decent hi capacity nimh.
radio you can find them for under 100 for an am or fm and a 2.4ghz system can be had for 110.

charger 60.
initial start up sucks, but its ez pz after that.

towerhobbies.com is a good place to get started. them move on to a forum based site like groovydrift.com to find all the swwet deal parts bodies etc. its alot like what we do to e30's.... but hella cheaper.

[schroedin]

You wanted as much traction as possible for drifting RC's?

anyways...


here's a couple new pics of my daily beater

Hale yeah mang.

http://fatlace.com/hellaflush/theflushness/hellaflush-rc-drift.html

[Digitalwave]

Bumping this thread back up with pics of my Yashio Factory-inspired S15 body. It's for RCGT racing and drifting. All paint, paint masks designed and cut by myself and sprayed myself! I am pretty proud of this body.

[schroedin]

Baller! Nice paint work.