FG COMPETITION drifting....
 

<span style="font-size: medium;">LARGESCALE GAS DRIFTING.......NO MODDS set up for proper on road use.</span>

Here is an attempt from me with a non drift car,car here is a proper onroad fg competition with a proper non drift spec diff.

not as easy as it looks with a car like this
:D


http://www.vimeo.com/6931830

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sick....very cool hey when you burn those tires get some pvc and make some drift tires then you'll be in business.

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nice one bud......

i use worn down GRP RACING TYRES worn to slicks.

but i will keep that in mind man,what would i do with the pvc? what type of pvc??

any other suggestions as i have another largescale car i want to convert to complete DRIFT SPEC...

rare i believe in largescale cars......

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lol. Nice idea Kevin, but these cars make a LOT more torque than electrics. With PVC tires the car would stand still, I've seen it done on a 4wd MCD, it just stood there on the spot spinning its pvc wheels and making a lot of noise. lol.

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Dan, drift cars are all about body and looks. I had a project to turn one of my MCDs into a drifter, but got side tracked with other things, I may get back to it eventually. 4wd is much better than rwd for drifting, much more controllable. It was going to be a police viper. You can see it in this video, running on race tires, not even worn down and it still wanted to drift. lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCwQ4...e=channel_page

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take an old rim and measure the width then cut just regular white pvc to the width and glue and then you have a drift tire super simple and cheap lol i also use a hpi dbox it will allow you to go side ways at a higher speed and not wipe out also stiff front springs and soft rear that will get you sideways a little easier to. i love the large scale cars im looking into getting one within the next year

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hey foxy i know they got more power then other cars but i also drift my 3.3 4 tec and trust me its faster then any large scale and i use pvc its about control and skill too i bet you could drift a large scale car with pvc ill try it on my buddies baja and let you know how it goes i also use my hpi rs4 3 evo that i converted to rwd and its not to much hard you just cant take such sharp angles im not trying to sound like a dick but anything is possible if you put effort you know

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you do sound like a dick because the RWD discussion has come up before... and after many attempts with a few of my cars It cant be done.. you may get one or two nice drifts but nothing consective you cant repeat the same drift... and its not a question of if i can drift i tried this for three days and nothing... 4wd drifting I placed first in my local comp. Im not trying to sound like a dick but Pvc is ****house for nitro's also.. they overheat or dont go very far very fast at all... I suggest HPI type A drift tyre. they are built for nitro and high powered brushless cars... would def. get you in the right direction

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Yeh, no, with the greatest of respect, I'm afraid you are mistaken. You'll see for yourself if you really do plan to try it on a 5b. It won't go ANYWHERE, trust me. Also the baja is a rear heavy RWD car, it won't drift even if you put the perfect tires on it, the chassis balance is all wrong. Actually, the best way to drift a 5b is to leave stock tires on it and put it in the dirt. Good luck with that though, it's a biatch to drift because there is no weight on the front wheels, I had a 5b for a couple years, sold now. I drift in real life by the way, every day. I drive a Honda S2000 for my daily, a notoriously difficult car to drift, so I know a little about RWD drifting dynamics. ;)

As for your 4tec, I don't see how that's relevant. A 1/10th $300 budget car park basher compared to a $4000 1/5th scale race car...The gasser is 7 times heavier, and the engine generates 10 times as much torque. Do you see why this is not gonna do it? Imagine putting pvc tires on a 300hp real car. It would just spin on the spot. My vid above is of a 4wd gasser drifting on rubber race tires, as you can see, just like the smaller scales it is much more controllable. I never said you can't drift rwd, of course you can if you have an unbelievably skilled controller hand, but 4wd is much easier, and pvc tires are a total waste of time.

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thanks for the feedback lads.

foxy i like your drifting also,you are a touch of a "jack of all trades" lol

ah not to worry i will have a video coming soon that will wipe that other one of mine away. http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/js/f...sn/biggrin.gif

there is nothing i cant do with a largescale car lol

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Thanks Dan, yeh, after 20 years in this mad hobby, I've tried most things once or twice. ;)

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so anybody else around here try drifting with a l/s car???

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I'm so sick of hearing people say that it's impossible to drift a RWD. It is possible. It's just not easy. You can be consistent with it too. It just takes time (more than a mere three days) to get it down. When I started drifting RWD's it was long before I had money to dink around with. I wanted to drift because I thought it looked cool. A Rustler was all I had. So I lengthened the chassis to make it more proportional for drifting, cut some ABS tires, and PATIENTLY learned the art of RWD drifting. Anyone can drift a 4wd rc car; and with little time, ANYONE can learn to do it well. Not everyone can drift a full scale real drift car. The same is said for a RWD RC car as well. But it CAN BE DONE, and it can be done WELL.

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i agree with you man.

i have a video coming shortly that will make this one look silly,and this is an fg evo set up for proper racing..... http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/js/f...wink_smile.gif

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INSIDEout mate... All I can say is do a little video mate.. you think your so good at RWD... stop talking **** and prove it or shutup

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well aus drift rwd isnt easy.

so i have to agree bring on the vids lads.....http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/js/f...sn/biggrin.gif

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Guys don't get upset, just because some people can't do it, doesn't mean it can be done. If I had a digital camera I would post it on youtube and prove it can be done!. besides I can make a school bus DRIFT, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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First of all, learn how to keep your comments civil and show that you have some sort of maturity. Some people need to learn how to take criticism appropriately. Giving up after three days doesn't exactly show patience to learn an art. I'm just saying that it CAN BE DONE. If you take that as "talking ****," that's your problem. But you aren't going to get very far in life with that attitude.

Second, as far as video goes, that Rustler/whatever you would call it is long gone. I did that about 12 years ago. I beat that thing to non-existence.

As far as RWD being enjoyable, I would say that it's more work than it's worth, but it sure does look cool to see a true to scale RWD RC car drifting like the real thing. Once I got my first 4wd car though, I never looked back

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i suggest you look at the ne wyokomo d-max.... check out rwd drifting action