Rc Drift Cars

[x2shy]

Shop on Union road in box hill sells the already setup drift rc.

otherwise, just get the basic RC car and put PVC piping on the tyres.

sorted.

[Skyhigh33]

Hey my brother owns his own business and he specialises in RC cars. He has all types from drift to off road buggys. Nice and affordable too!! He has all upgrade parts available and he even runs in your car and tunes it for you too depending on which car you like. PM me if you would like any more details. He currently has Electric Drift cars going for $199. Here is his website :

http://www.plaig.com.au

Edited June 10, 2008 by Skyhigh33

[HIZOKU]

Alright there is alot of people saying things on here with out facts

DO NOT USE PVC tyres they dont drift at all you need ABS and then better yet dont get AUS grade ABS you need imported GRADE ABS from the USA

Ebay RC cars are crap you can not buy hopups for them when they brake you can not get spares

best bang for buck car is the tt01 this can be had for a RTR package for as cheap as 300 in a shop and if you look around about 220 online and these can be done up with full carbon fiber chassis and oil shocks you want a shaft driven electric RC car but you can drift any 4WD RC car

Dont buy any cheap crap we had many people apart of our championships sell there ebay items or chuck them in the bin after they find out how crap they are compared to just your basic tamiya,hpi or yokomo car

you also goto look into things like charger and radio and how much you want to get into it for example my battery system cost in total around $400 this included a charger a power supply and a battery but i would get 2 hours run time from my motor if you ran it with a stock motor you could prob get ALOT more then that

the cars above are fake HPI cars well copys of there old sprint 2 chassis the motor on them can not be tuned you will notice when driving them that the wheels dont sit firm they will move around a bit this effects handerling ALOT just think there 1:10th the size so 1mm of movment is 1/10th of that of what a real car would be like

[shanusr33]

I still stick by my guns!... if you aren't a competitor or a full on RC champion who spends crazy $$$ on tiny cars then eBay is still great.

I guess it depends on what you want out of an RC car!?

I didn't know if i'd enjoy the hobby or if they'd just be something i stop using after the novilty wears off, so i decided on the cheaper option and if i loved them enough to race them i could upgrade later. If they were just something i'd get sick of then whats the point i'd rather spend $500 on something for my real car so the eBay option weighed up better for me and they have been awesome, and being so cheap i was able to get two for $200 so i can race against my mates cheaper than you can pick up a 'real' RC car for. "the fakes are great!"

i got them last November and have had no problems with either of them. I've only broken one small plastic part and by visiting the hobbyman they have no problems selling me stuff and over time you can upgrade also

[Skyhigh33]

I spoke to my brother about where the cars originate from, he said the nitro version of the drift car is a copy of the HPI RS4, they then converted their version into an electric. He agrees with some things you have said, the wobble in the wheels was a real problem to begin with due to brass bushes, he replaces them with proper ball bearings now so the wobbly wheel problem is no longer a problem. We have had hours of fun with these and he has all replacement and upgrade parts in stock, he even sells brushless motors & speed controllers, I don't know what that is but its very fast!

[FATAZZ]

2hour battery sounds crazy, whats it weigh? 15kgs? LoL

my biggest battery is like 4200 some well known blue colour brand.

Anywho, check out www.srcd.com rc drifting website for sydney folk,but plenty

of info on where and what to buy and even a few online shops located in japan

trade on the site.

I have a HPI E10,, crap when they first come out,but now theres a few hop ups for it and

with a decent motor makes 1 nice drifter.Like someone said above,im not going for world champion

so don't need anything too spectacular.

It does what i bought it to do and it does it with style.

Oh yeh and theres a guy on the srcd forum who sells ABS tires.

i got like 6 sets for $30 and not sure if its yokomo or HPI but i got some proper drift tires that

run plastic rings on the tires.their awesome for upfront.

Note : 100% smooth surface is a must.

Goodluck with it.

[HIZOKU]

well your wrong the biggest battery you can get is now a 12000 and i was running 6000s in my RC car it took 1 hour to charge so i had two of them and they weigh less then a normal battery pack and you dont have to run them flat and recharge them again you can use them when you feel like and charge them when you want the good thing about LIPOS

if you want to check out australians biggest drift forum goto www.rcd1.org it is also melb based but caters for all states and has the guys who run everyother state on there to it also has many international people on there helping out

the BEST RC drift car bang for buck is a TT01 2nd hand these can be had dirt cheap and new there only around 230 RTR (ready to race) tt01s can be done up with all the pro items to make it a world class chassis with carbon bits and alloy bling

e10 would be good once they bring out more hopups as there so cheap but tt01 you can go from your plastic tub chassis to a full carbon it is the best RC car as you can use it as a starting out chassis and if you do get bittin by the mod bug you can do it right up

and also the vic champ used a tt01 and the guy who came 1st at the aust champs had a tt01

[Skyhigh33]

A TT-01 is not really a cheap option unless you come across a hopped up one 2nd hand thats still not going to be cheap, they don't even come with adjustable camber unless you buy the upgrades for it, at least the cheapies have that already fitted. The HSP ones also have carbon fibre chassis, upper plates & shockboards available, there are complete alloy front ends & rear ends, CVD Driveshafts, there is even a PBS version to allow for more adjustments similar to a Kyosho V1RRR, arguing about this is like holden vs ford, your obviously a Tamiya supporter so there is no point arguing with you, anything I say will be wrong from your point of view and I understand because its easy to assume that everything else is crap when you own the best. As with everything there is a cheaper option and in many cases that cheaper option can be as good. EG a highly modded skyline vs Ferarri, we all know which is cheaper and which will win, but tell that to a Ferrari owner.

Sorry I forgot to mention that my sister gave me her login info to answer some PM's about this.

Edited June 11, 2008 by Skyhigh33

[HIZOKU]

but with RC drifting you dont need to adjust the camber and so on 90% of people who run real drifters try to get there cars as normal as possible or the parts are for bling as you are using ABS the tyre has to grip as much as possible camber adjust is only for soft rubber and foam compounds

and a used tt01 can be had cheap i sold my one for 200 with everything RTR and it had lots of hopups also im not a tamiya fan but bang for buck they rock as everyone sells parts for them there like a nissan silvia there cheap everyone has aftermarket support and knowledge of them and if you want to get into racing there is a tt01 class

but if you want the better cars i would say HPI and yokomo and stick along those lines for drifting at the top end i recomend going to a RC drift meet and see the difference between a cheap ebay item vs a tt01 in stock form and you will see a tt01 is alot better built and if you want to compare a tt01 to a high end car then you look at the PRO series items like the EVOs PRO4 SSgs and LCGs of Rc cars

im not trying to tell anyone what to buy but having run a championship and been a sponsord RC racer/drifter and been doing it for over 4 years just trying to give people a heads up and not get ripped off like many noob people do

[Skyhigh33]

I can see your point of view, everybody can only make their own judgement by their own experiences, have you actually driven a HSP Drift car? categorising it as an ebay car doesn't mean anything, you can buy a TT01 off ebay too. I can only go by my customers feedback, here is a prime example from my forum:

http://www.plaig.com.au/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=4886

The HSP drift cars have only been around for a few months and there aren't many out there yet, I am a sponsored offroad buggy driver, I drive the HSP 1/8 buggy and 1/10 buggy and won our club championship in both classes last year, the 1/8 buggy is a $400 buggy and I was against some with $3,000 buggies, its not always what you drive but how you can drive and setup knowledge.

I haven't got into drifting much yet, I don't intend on competing seriously but I would like to attend a club day and have a try. I have fiddled with the cambers on the HSP car and can confidentally say that it does make a difference, if the standard setup of the TT01 is that there is 0 degrees camber then that is fine for drifting, but if it has 1 or 2 degrees then you would want to adjust it to 0 as I found that the best after putting my car on a setup station and trying a few different setups. As with real drift cars, having more setup options can be an advantage to suit different tracks.

I'm not in the business of ripping people off either, I have nothing but praise from all my customers.

[FATAZZ]

oops, meant to say "The biggest battery I have is a 4200" which was the biggest at the time of purchase.

So you run 2x 6000 batteries to achieve a 2 hour runtime.

I dont like my 4200 anymore,id rather have 2 or 3 1800 batteries.

[HIZOKU]

i have driven the 3 diff types of Ebay speical RC Drift cars 2 with ally chassis one with motor mounted on back belt driven one alloy chassis same design just shaft driven and the hpi copys witch your one is all where poo i will even say the tt01 is poo in stock form but at least there is world wide surpport for it you can be sure that every hobby shop and even some toyworlds will have the parts in stock for one

as for my batt i ran a lipo

Lipo 6000HV 2S2P 7.4V Pack

Guinness World Record Holder- 24 Hour Enduro

Team CRC used this pack to win the 2006 Enduro Championship and set the Guinness World Record for 7869 laps spanning 385 miles in 24 hours!!!

www.maxamps.com one of my old sponsors

12000HV is there biggest one to it about double the size of your normal 7.4v pack how ever where as the 6000 is the same as a stock

[skybox 32]

Thanks for the insights guys.. My budget would be around $500 as I wouldnt want to buy something too much more expensive and crash it as soon as i got it lol.

[Skyhigh33]

i have driven the 3 diff types of Ebay speical RC Drift cars 2 with ally chassis one with motor mounted on back belt driven one alloy chassis same design just shaft driven and the hpi copys witch your one is all where poo i will even say the tt01 is poo in stock form but at least there is world wide surpport for it you can be sure that every hobby shop and even some toyworlds will have the parts in stock for one

as for my batt i ran a lipo

Lipo 6000HV 2S2P 7.4V Pack

Guinness World Record Holder- 24 Hour Enduro

Team CRC used this pack to win the 2006 Enduro Championship and set the Guinness World Record for 7869 laps spanning 385 miles in 24 hours!!!

www.maxamps.com one of my old sponsors

12000HV is there biggest one to it about double the size of your normal 7.4v pack how ever where as the 6000 is the same as a stock

It's funny you say that, I actually sell parts to hobby shops, and one particular hobby shop in bayswater has been selling the cars aswell as HPI & Tamiya and they love them. Once again categorising cars as an ebay car is just ignorant, you can pick up any brand of car on ebay.

Talking about a car that broke a world record is good and all, but doesn't answer the original question of where to get a decent cheap drifter from, like I said above, there are those that buy ferrari's and will argue until they are blue in the face that its the best on the road because they have spent a fortune, then there are those who are passionate about a cheaper car and wipe the smile off a ferarri owners face. Your the ferrari owner, I'm the 600rwkw skyline

[HIZOKU]

yeah but the hobby shop you sell to in bayswater RCGarage is a NITRO OFF ROAD BASED HOBBY SHOP try sell your items to a Electronics based hobby shop like Metro hobbies and see how well you go

if you want i will be more then happy to get my RC car back from the guy and we can see how well your car handles vs my car and we can show people you are trying to say your cheap RC car in fact if you want to compare your car to others why dont you do a drift round? and enter

your 600rwkw skyline will have issues with alot of things i have just named the basics if you want to compare more a cheap ebay item like your has no tuneabilty it has a brush motor they need to be rebuilt ALOT you will need to upgrade it and spend money on it by putting on breagings alloyshaft just to have it half decent from then on you will not be able to run a brushless motor in them as you will need to make it stronger you will need alloy arms alloy motor mount two way locked diff in rear and 1 way diff in front also need chassis top mount brace you will need a better servo

like alot of people who race real cars will even tell you NO point having a 600rwkw skyline if you can not control it and if you want to know more about these go ask the guy at autosalon who tryied to compare these cheap items to a basic TT01 and TA03 they had less steering lock less power where not as responsive

just bekoz you sell items doesnt mean you know about them RCgarage a a petrol based workshop the only electrics they have in there are drifters they come down to the events RCD1 run and they dont use your chassis they may say there good but why dont they back it up by using them?

there is alot of talk here i have offerd to show you and compare the two in real life

here are some items off ebay i would by WAY before i tuched a no name copy

round5 - Monash B Fri 27th June 6pm

that is next round of RC if you want talk and be shown the difference

and for the price 200

you can buy a yokomo SSG for that price

you can by this as a rolling chassis for 200

or you can get a RTR TT01 with bearings and drift tyres AND A RADIO THAT YOU CAN CHANGE FREQ not a radio set to only 4 chans for 240 NEW

your like a used car sales man trying to sell a lemon to a mechanic trying to tell me this RC car is good but the only items you have to back it up are people who have just got there 1st RC car

its like a person going from no car to a r33 gtst yeah they will say it is good but then chuck them in a GTR and they will tell you what they think

Thats all i have to say im giving the guy of this forum a option not to waste his money and get somthing worth while

[RCR33]

There is always going to be room in the market place for both types, the high end expensive stuff, and the cheaper chinese stuff. Everyone has a different requirement.

I have 3 Hobao 1/8 Buggies, Thunder Tiger TS4N 1/10 onroad and an HSP nitro drifter, and as well as some boats.

I would not be prepared to race an HSP onroad but as a drifter it is so much fun.

Tuning the .18 in the is far easier than the .12 in the TS4N.

If Skyhigh33 is who I think it is, then I have bought RC vehicles and parts from him, and saying he is like a "used car salesman trying to sell a lemon" is ill informed and ludicrous. The service and value has been, without exception, brilliant. You appear more like a dodgy insurance salesman rubbishing everyone elses product without any reference to the facts.

Sure the Cheaper stuff is not for everyone, but who wants to spend thousands on what may be a passing fancy and having a little fun in the local carpark once every three months. If you are serious then, fine, buy a top shelf unit, if you want something to muck around with with the local kids, maybe the pov pack will do!

[RCR33]

Oh, and do I regret buying the Hobao buggies - No Way

Would I buy them if I had it all to do again - Probably Not. - I'd start with cheap stuff to learn my way. It'd would have saved quite a bit of money in Engines and broken parts from hitting gutters while learning!

[Skyhigh33]

Obviously anything I say isn't going to sway your one eyed opinion, so I won't bother replying after this. The only thing that dissapoints me is how you call it a no-name car & ebay car, as I have said above, its a HSP 1/10 drift car, yes its sold on ebay and so is every other brand of car, so is every brand of car an ebay car and therefore a no-name brand? you can bag out cheaper cars all you like, but a beginner isn't going to drift like a pro just because they have a pro car, everybody has to start somewhere and thats what I cater for. Of course I'm not going to take up your offer to race a Pro driver with a pro car vs a cheap car with novice driver. Same goes if you were to come and race offroad against me, I could give you a $3,000 pro buggy and kick you with a $300 ebay special. If you have drivers with the same skill level using different cars then it would be a fair contest, personally I wouldn't waste my time if the club is full of narrow minded brand snobs like yourself.

Edited June 12, 2008 by Skyhigh33

[HIZOKU]

Well HSP is a chinese copy have a look on ebay and you will see the same chassis with like 4 diff names all the same cheap item it is like people who replicate bodykits yes its a GTR bodykit OHHH but does it fit well? it is the same with these cheap items im sorry i dont want people being ripped off by cheap items for 250 you can get tt01 ta03 and yokomo mr4 starter kits RTR these items have huge amounts of hop ups and can all be built into world class chassis why would you spend 200 on a chassis that is just a replica?

AHH well your a seller you will always push the product you sell some one

but as a buyer and having seen many people be sucked into these items with false hope like i said why dont you come down to a RC meet bring your chassis and i will borrow a stock tt01 off some one and you can use both and see the difference between a cheap GOOD name item and a china made item with pretty colours

TT01 Hands down best Starter RC drifter it is used by 1000s around the world for drifting in all the SG drifter vids they use TT01 or yokomo MR4tc the groovy drift guys from the USA all use yokomo/tamyia/HPI items not fakes dont you think there is a REASON for this?

but like i have said a number of times just come to a event and use other cars and you will notice stright away how much of a difference there is between a cheap item and a brand name

and im not trying to say his product is bad i have used his cars if it is the items at bayswater and i have used pretty much every other cheap item on ebay there is i have used every tamiya evo from number 3 upto the new 5 i have used all the yokomo chassis and the hpi pro 4 e10 and hotbodys cyclone if i was going to name the better items i would name the best chassis out on the market

im naming the cheapest bang for buck

i dont mean anything personal to anyone at all but i would rather people not be ripped off and i would rather a seller see the difference between a brand name and a ebay item

http://www.genkidoridori.com/index.php?mai...ea6692c4ddba138

here is prob the best RC drift shop in the world and some of the chassis he has aval if you want cheaper items grab a part number pm it to me and i will send it to my old sponsors and get a better deal

[adznight]

As winter comes around I would really like to get my hands on a RC Drift Car.

Does anyone know how much one would set me back and where I could get one?

They look awesome

There is an RC car club with a decent track that meet on Thurday nights on Dorsett Road in Boronia near the corner of Boronia/Dorsett Roads. If you're interested you should go check it out, I drive past all the time, a LOT of ppl there and an RC car shop just around the corner.

I noticed you're not that far from there