Bought the chassis with no elecs for bout $190 with most of the alloy and carbon already on it, spent about another $80 getting it to look how it does now, HPI RX-8 shell is cheap as are decals and lightbuckets.

Yeah, its got a bit of weight thrown out the front, I ran a TA03f last year, almost certainly the best drift car ever produced, the weight is there to help it handle a bit more like an 03f, try it, it works

The TA05 is a reasonable drift car out the box, just needs rear spool, soft springs and a bit of weight to make it better.