Just dropping in to say hello. I recently picked up a Tamiya TT-01D. Its my first r/c car. Today I bought a Futaba 2PL-FM radio and a 3300Mah battery with quick charger.

I plan on assembling it tonight and I might have a few questions.

I already built myself a simple handle for my camcorder to help get it low to the ground to follow the action.

Pics and video should be up by tomorrow.

Welcome to the drifting world! Good luck with the build!!!

already ran into a snag. I forgot to buy a servo and I am missing a very small part from one of the bags. In the mean time I will get the body ready and assemble as much of the chassis as I can without that part.

hello dude!!... welcome!

i drift tt01's and yoko so ant problems are annoying things post and im sure everyone on here will help you out...

welcome fellow drifter

I got the servo and found the missing part so I was able to get it up and running today.

I went to a huge parking lot at a nearby high school for its maiden voyage. It did well considering nothing was dialed in. I used a digital caliper to set the tolerances when I was assembling the adjustable suspension bits but I'm sure I can get it dialed in to slide better.

The most surprising thing was the battery and charger. I bought a 3300Mah battery and quick charger from Radio Shack. The battery was $24.99 and the charger was $40. The charger stopped charging after 10 mins and I thought it was broken or just a POS. That battery lasted over 40 mins. With that kind of charge time/ play time I can get away with 2 batteries. I can have one charging in the car via a power inverter while I am using the other.

Next up will be to apply some decals and figure something out for tires. The stock tires are hard but I was not able to get a nice long drift going with them.

glad your having fun dude..

hpi make amazing drift tyers as you can see buy my video, they keep a nice drift but barke and you keep control of the car..lol

WELCOME TO THE SLIDWAYZ CLUB![8D],

sorry thats just my ritual to almost all the new drifters!,

P.S- What body are u using and what paintshceme??

Its a Subaru WRX body. I took it easy on the decals so it looks more like a street car than a WRC car. I painted it metallic red.

I'll get some pics up later.

I'll look into those HPI tires. Thanks for the tip.

not a prob dude.... i like the sund of the wrx in red.. hummmm....will look nice !!!..

Here are a couple of shots of the car.




Not exactly the best decal application.

nice man i hate the cars that you can't even see the paint cause of the decals but it looks kleen. is it just me or can you see thru the front fender and see the wheel spokes.

Usually when your shooting a metallic paint you use a darker base coat. Since you paint the inside of the shell you can't do that unless you do the base coat on top and I wasn't too worried about it. The only downfall besides it the obvious is that when your out in the sun it makes the car look pink.

can you back it woth black or will it make it too dark?

I could. Red would be a better choice though. Either way, I will eventually destroy the shell so I don't want to put any more effort into it.

like it dude... looking nice...

Today I went to the park down the street to practice drifting in the tennis courts. The local Highschool lacrosse team was at the park practicing. As soon as I started warming the car up with a few laps I got a funny comment. "Isn't that guy a little old to be playing with that?"

I thought that was rather amusing. I wish I had $300 to buy a car like this when I was a kid. LOL

I'm 29 but I look closer to 39 so that doesn't help much.

I did manage to beat the hell out of the car and it is holding up very well. I managed to flip it over and it eventually landed on the wheels.

I hit the fence head on and the car pushed itself halfway under the chain links. Fun stuff for sure.

I get the same Comments when I drift and I am 28..

Who cares what other people think, if your having fun..then they can go jump..

Your Never too Old for RC..

Cant wait to see a Vid of Your Sliding..

I'm not very good so I am not going to take the time to shoot any vids just yet. I really need to get some better tires. I keep reading about the locked rear diff so I am going to give that a try as well.

The funny thing about me r/c drifting is that real drifting does nothing for me. Its a waste of tires and cars IMO. I can appreciate the talent though.

Driving an on road r/c car around a parking lot can get boring pretty fast too. It took a combination of two not so interesting things to make it interesting to me.