HEY DRIFTERS... I'M MAKING A LITTLE SURVEY... PLEASE TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK.
WHAT IS THE BEST NITRO R/C CAR FOR DRIFTING?
AND I MEAN DRIFT LIKE SPEED,HANDLE ETC...
HPI, TAMIYA,.....ETC
PLEASE LET ME KNOW!

None..

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I have a Kyosho Spider MKII set up to drift...

I have a hobby pro .18CX (3.0cc) bolted in it...

Other than not being able to keep TM17 belts in it I'd say it rocks. Drove it almost every day for 3 months and 2 gallons of fuel with only my belts tearing up cuz of the debris in the parking lots and streets...

If you DONT throttle the snot out of it, then it should be fine. I use an HPI Celica body that I cut the side windows out for air. I increased the carb needle settings to keep it cool and to produce more smoke effect. I have the exhaust exiting just behind the rear shock tower, but still under the body so it rolls out the back and off the tires for realism. I use ABS tires just like the E-Drifters. And I used some nitro fuel line for my shocks so it wont bottom out and give it gives it a nice tight feel.

I cant recommend the Spider since its too old to find parts for, I will soon hafta retire it for this reason... I am looking at an HPI RS4 for my next nitro drifter, I like the shaft drive setup, no more smoked belts!

Id say go with a shaft drive system car just for durability, and run the carb near-stalling rich , and dont use more throttle than it needs to keep a drift, even if it looks and sounds sweet, cuz thats how it got its bad reputation in the first place, lol. Once and a while is fine, just not every time, all the time.

Not trying to start anything, but good luck getting any more support for nitro drifting here, no disrespect to anyone intended, its just a fact. If you use the search and look for "nitro+drift" you will see all the negative comments about nitro's not working well enough (ie: blowing up ) to be worth it, but its not true. I do it, but I dont own a video camera or I would show you that it works and wont blow up if you do it right... I tell you, ya just cant beat the smoke and noise that a nitro drifters make, its just too sweet to miss out on!

Now to go make that nitro rock crawler that cant be done, I wonder if a custom made, oversized flywheel with some holes carved into it to resemble cooling fan blades would work... hehehe.

i dont know about nitro, i prefer eletric

yea. i hate anything nitro eccept for my boat.

Nitro Does have its Place in RC, Just not in Drift...

yeah i know magnat, but he didnt say anything about electric, he didnt ask which was better, he just asked the best nitro for drifting.

and i would have to recommend the hpi rs4 3 evo with stage D kit, if you ahve the $$$ if not, any 4WD car and buy drift tires

you guys are electric geeks if you are not going to answer the question don't respond!

I have a hpi rs43 basiccally the same as the evo but I have the os18 cvr and it drifts well no matter what kind of tires I put on it but I agree ABS is the best of both worlds. I do not have the stage D kit. They have started a drift track at my LHS and most of the guy's drift with the associated team kit and have the os tz engine with ABS tires. they say this kit comes with most of the features that yo would upgrade to. I am no guru but any nitro 4wd nitro car will drift just watch your engine temps. It is in the tires that you choose that compliment your driving style

MY 2 CENTS

here is a video [link=http://216.227.214.60/videos/stage_d_rc_drifting_a.wmv]hpi NITRO stage D drift[/link] this is drifting with the hard compund tires not the ABS or PVC

sorry if I offended anyone with the electric geek thing I am just a nitro geek lol

Much better drifting that electrics IMO. I think drifting is drifting when performing high-speed slides. I drifted a nitro, and found it more fun than electric. This is just my opinion, some may thing otherwise. But I will tell you this - there is no such thing as 'none' when it comes to the overall best nitro drifting car.. If nitros can drift nicely, there is obviously a 'best' one that drifts overall the best vs all the other nitros..

Thats right! There is a difference, in the cars drivetrain. Unless you got covers over all your belts then considder them toast.. I have a belt drifter, and I have replaced all my belts a few times this summer ( 3 - tm17's and 2 - sp53's) and it wasnt easy to do with an obsolete 8 year old car.. I know that the e-drifter cars have the same issue with rocks and other debris, but consider the burnt nitro fuel residue that covers all the belts, and the dust and other road crap that builds up on them, it kills them fast. In a stright line, belts are fine, but as soon as its sideways, smoke covers the car and everything in it...

Belt drives will work, for a while, but Id hafta recommend any 4wd SHAFT drivetrain model, you wont regret it.

I havent used my Tamaya e-drifter since I got my spider... I love the realism that nitro brings to scale drifting, makes it much more enjoyable, and everyone stops to watch, too sweet!