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I'm into the autoX and drifitng my real 240, when iwas younger i loved rc cars. is till got a couple, but i was reading up on this rc drifting stuff. what do you guys use as far as cars to buy. nitro or electric, and are these cars 4wd or rwd. i know on my 4wd car i tried to take the front drive shaft off and it just spun in circles... but i dunno if electric will do this. and with the pvs wheels... do you use the pvc as a "tire" or up some rubber around the pvc. thanx alot...:D

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and yes.. i know where the search button is

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yes. its either PVC piping (usually a 2inch coupling) around the wheel or ABS plastic.
Electric is the best to drift since nitro can overheat your engine by not gaining ground traction.
to get some more grip out of the PVC or ABS wheels, you usually put electrical tape in the inside of the front wheels and the center of the rear ones.
www.rcdrift.com -> Tutorials -> Deep Dish Wheels
and check their forums

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actually i wasnt going to say use search :)



i use the pvc just around the rim.

people also use electric because of the torque and power, with nitro it has to build up, electric it dosent need to build up

some cars of 4wd some are Rwd. 4wd is easier to drift with though

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any kits u guys can recomend, i was reading about the yokomo ones.. seems sweet, ne others?

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Tamiya TT-01, the rtr kit costs as much as just the kit for the yokomo drift kit w/out electronics. Personally, I bought my radio, esc and servo for 62.99 (hitec lynx), the tamiya impreza kit for 74.99, HPI 200mm Silvia GT body (great widebody look!) for 19.95, venom fireball 21T motor for 17.99, a set of cheap 26mm wheels for 8.50 and a 2 foot section of 2" abs from home depot for 1.28 and it drifts like a champ :D

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I drift (www.driftday.com and www.justdrift.com) and race my S14 (NASA and SCCA). Who do you drift with?

I also drift both nitro and electric r/c, and I much prefer nitro drifting. People who claim that nitro drifting is hard because a nitro engine doesn't have the instant torque of an electric motor, have clearly never done it. The only thing about nitro drifting is that you'll need to richen it up to keep the temps down, and be careful with the throttle (you don't want to hold it at WOT for long). The danger to the nitro engine is the result of prolonged high-rpm running, and relatively little airflow over the head to help cool it, but I've never had a problem. Its all a matter of tuning.

4WD r/c drifting is the way to go. If you want to know why, search. But esentially it boils down to the fact that an r/c car and a 1:1 car have virtually nothing in common in terms of weight distribution, power to weight, throttle response, steering input sensitivity, etc. It just doesn't directly correlate.

ABS is better than PVC, its softer, and its black, so it even looks right. 2" ABS pipe fits directly onto bare 26mm touring car wheels, couplings are only used when you want to put the plastic over wheels that already have tires on them.

The yokomo "drift" car is just an MR4-TC with drift tires. Any 4wd touring car with ABS tires will drift just as well.

And you could heave learned all of that just by reading half of the threads on the first page in this forum, you didn't even have to search. But you might try it next time.

BTW, who do you drift with in CT?