My RC Sileightey Drift Car (yeah, I'm a dork)

[Sean1978]

Here it is, a Tamiya TT01 with a ABC Hobby Sileightey body:
http://c.myspace.com/Groups/00012/62/73/12183726_l.jpg
http://c.myspace.com/Groups/00012/55/73/12183755_l.jpg
and here's an action video, maybe I'll get a better setting later (so I you can see me following race lines)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CakWMcQx7-s

[OdessaS13]

sooo, what happens when you hit a pothole :rofl: (sarcasm)

[khmerguy618]

nice ride man lol.

[articdragon192]

Hey, I've seen your car in the RC Dori and Groovy Drift forums.

[Sean1978]

yup that was me. I need to adjust my camber and springrates to drift the car a bit better.

[HyperTek]

my z33
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v72/streetphase/100_0513.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v72/streetphase/100_0510.jpg

[Sean1978]

sweet! I guess I'm not the only dork around here...

[Ricks15]

Nice sileighty and Z33:D

[Muzzy]

real men drive gas!!!!

[Lost_DriFter]

i still want one i love these cars but they cost to much

[Ricks15]

Gas is cool but shit you got to have tremendous skill to drift those.

[Muzzy]

lol no u dont. i think correction...i know it takes more skill to drive 4wd mod elec on road or gas 4wd onroad then any other cars.

and they are far from expensive.....compare the cost of a real car part versus an RC car part. u can get a RC car for teh price of some car parts.

[AllenRPS13]

nice cars man!!!

[95Blue240sx]

What chassis? I remember the good days when i was spending money on ESC, batts, wires, gas, engines, motors, ahhhh. Now i spend money fixing a real car.

RC is way more affordable.

[Muzzy]

lol yea that was me too 95blue240sx. i may have to get back into it. a real car is killin my pocket. so now i wont bitch about R/C tires. lol

[HyperTek]

mines an ancient tamiya ta02 that i had for 10 years.. last new model i ever got.. I always pull it out every now and then.. i just put a new novak gts esc into it.. wish i spent the money on something else tho cuz im super broke that i put my s13 into the body shop. Oh well.. I want to pick up a super rs4 nitro on ebay and play with that.

[Muzzy]

Super RS4?? thas so....5 yrs ago. lol

i've got a gas truck and elce truck i can sell u. motors, esc, engine, starter box, tons of extra parts and extra wheels. PM me if u are interested. only askin 250. and i have pics.

[HyperTek]

my car was gas years ago..
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v72/streetphase/Dsc00142.jpg

[sidewayzs13]

where can i get a good rc drift car besides ebay? i really want to get a s13

[Muzzy]

lol yea thas old skool. that thunder tiger motor is old as well as those tires. and those tire are backwards. where is your air filter???

its pretty clean though

[!Zar!]

I'm glad I'm not the only one on here who blows money on rc. I just need to stop. Between racing rc and racing my real cars. I'm nearly broke.

[HyperTek]

haha that was long time ago.. cool u recognized it was a thunder tiger conversion for the ta02.. i didnt really drive it too much when it was gas.. those tires where soo shity... even with the foam inserts they seemed to collapse in the middle.

[Muzzy]

yea i had those tires once. they did suk, i drifted on those with my RS4 b4 it was cool lol.

maybe u should buy my trucks so u can get into off road. off road is way funner lol.

[!Zar!]

If you want fun, you should get into rc heli. That's where the fun is.

[Muzzy]

lol its fun but cost a grip more!!! and takes more skill!! and blades arent cheap. unless u are talkin about that little norvel.

[!Zar!]

Norvel no. I'm talking .50 size. But now a days you could get a small electric one for only $210.00.

[Muzzy]

lol damn a .50!! dude thas serious bank!! thas not 4 kids lol. thas for folks with money who can afford blades and like balencing them. bunch of servos and a gyro. big bad radio too. and u gotta be able to tune it.

[iwishiwas-all*]

back like 5 years ago i had a serpent impulse which was a great gas 4wd car, until this cocksucker stole it. I dropped like 450 i think on it ( this was before i had a car or liscense mind u but haha in retrospect, it was a good investment for someone who wants to tune cars and work on suspensions, before u can even drive a real car,
nice drifter there bud

[importnut]

Cost of real vs toy is obviously pretty significant. I worked, on and off, at a hobby shop for about 10 years. What was interesting, was that when I got back into scale racing, after having done real car racing for several years, the dollar amounts for the toys didn't seem so bad. With that in mind, spending a grand on a complete car didn't seem so bad. In retrospect, I probably should have saved that money, and done something worth wild with it....since all of the new stuff sits right along with the old stuff collecting dust.

Plus, as with anything, you'll never get your money back out of it. I've been saying that if I could get enough money out of selling the RC stuff, to at least by a turbo, I'd be happy. Alas...I doubt it...:bash:

-Alex S.

[!Zar!]

I know the way you feel, I've been racing and in the hobby for years, and my "toys" have taken 10k that could've gone twards my real car. Haha Sad thing is I'm into it all, rc heli, planes, boats, cars. It's sad really.

[importnut]

10k? I don't know that I got to that point, but I wouldn't be surprised!

one thing I could never do, was get my RC off the ground. I just looked at flying RC stuff, as a more efficient way to lose money :)

I've been trying to get myself to drag some stuff with me to autocrosses, to kill time between runs! I'm sure the safety steward would have something to say about it...

[Muzzy]

aw i used to want an impulse back in the day!!!! yea..i thin i will get back into RC sooon enough. far cheaper, safer, and funner!! lol