nitrohead5300

I live in a area where their is no club close for onroad racing so I usually just bash on the parking lots with some friends. We usually run 1/10 scale onroad cars like the Nitro TC-3 ,V1RRR etc, etc. But in the resent years the parking lot we use to run on have deteriorate to such a degree 1/10 scale cars can't run on them anymore because the surface is just to bumpy. So I stop running for a while then 1 year my wife surprised me with a 1/5 scale MCD Rally car that I discovered could run quite well on these surfaces that were too bumpy for my 1/10 scale. I have been doing somethings to it to try to improve its performance, like lowering the suspension and narrowing it too and putting different tires on it were designed for on road racing. I also put a longer chassis plate on it so I could put a Fg BMW body on it and I have been thinking about laying down the motor to inprove handling. Here are some pictures. [img][/img]

nitrohead5300

Whats your Ultimate parking lot Basher?? Put up so pictures

Mudgy

This would be mine, and a lot of others too I suppose

proanti1

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Is that clock made with spoons and forks?

I want that.

nitrohead5300

Man my wife got that clock I don't like it because I have a problem seeing it . She purchased it from a local Wallymart.

nitrohead5300

You Aussies are kinda wacky. I am talking about RC Cars not carts that runs into your car while it is parked on a parking lot. My definition of a Parking Lot Basher is someone who get togather with a group of friends to do some non sanction racing on a unprepared parking lot surface. Most of the cars used for this type of racing , at least locally are not the high end expensive race cars but the cheaper ones you don't see any FG's but you do see Redcat Rally's HPI Baja etc, etc.

Mudgy

I know mate, but it's monday...........ya have to have a giggle on mondays, right?

alvinm

And you open yourself up to quirky comments when you take pics with an interesting backround such as the inside of your kitchen, as opposed to a boring garage.. lol.

Nice car by the way..I want to get me an onroad ride myself.

nitrohead5300

Right mate !!

nitrohead5300

If you think the kitchen is funny you should see my wifes entire flower collection Welcome to the gosh -dam jungle!!![]

wyattroa

I like how the picture really makes the kitchen pop

wyattroa

This is what I run in the parking lots

MCD X4



Also
F1 competition

nitrohead5300

Wyattroa beautiful cars but i would not run that FG on a untreated unprepared parking lot. The MCD can handle it no problem they are like little tanks!!

wyattroa

The parking lots I run on are smooth with no issues..

nitrohead5300

Lucky !!

nitrohead5300

Wyattroa how do you like the handling of the Rally x4?? Got any videos of it running?? It is so clean I wonder if you have ran it yet it not a shelf Queen??

alvinm

The beauty of onroad cars, they clean up well..

wyattroa

Those pictures were taken after I had just put it together, I can assure you it does not look that clean anymore..I do not have any film of it running yet. It takes some getting used to, it really depends on the surface you are running on. The tires grip on some and others it just drifts like crazy. Love the thing though... I also love my f1..Nothing of mine is a shelf queen.. they all get run

nitrohead5300

I was just messsing with you dude about the shelf Queen comment!! You are right different surfaces have varying degrees of traction you might want to change your tire compound or change your amount of camber, toe-in or toe-out , change shock oil and spring etc, etc.

nitrohead5300

Here is a short video done by Demon RC of their prototype 2 speed tranny for the MCD. Here is the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOZRW...eature=related

ByronRC

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you said you put a longer chassis plate on to fit the bmw body. is that custom homade chassis of an option aftermarket part?

Lars from Norway

I guess he changed from 510 mm wheelbase chassieplate to the 535 mm chassiplate, both of which are standard parts from MCD.

nitrohead5300

No Byron it is a MCD 535mm plate from largescale rc . My 535mm plate is the regular one it cost $132.00 dollars the competition 535mm plate cost $300.00 + but it has been lighten.

nitrohead5300

The GRP tires really grip!! I had to change my camber setting on the front and put in a little more toe in on the rear then my car was planted!!

nitrohead5300

It took me a while to finish painting my car body because my dog ate the decals. Lucky for me I was able to find someone to make me some more decals. I also ran into a problem with the rear body mount it was not secure enough so I had to redesign one. Body finally mounted on my MCD . Making me closed to completing my conversion from a Rally Car to 1/5 scale onroad parking lot basher.