[nativepaul]

Quite frankly who wants to spend the time and money BL converting an 1/8th scale then put on plastic tyres and go round at 5mph because you have no traction? Only little girls like the one in pinkpanda's avatar who should be left to their >1/10th scale toys, thats who! You may as well have saved your money and used a 27t 540 motor/ tamiya ESC and 6 cell NiMh pack.

Fortunately you are not that little girl, you came to RCMonster and did a BL/LiPo conversion that has enough power to make a mockery of any tires, so stick your hand down your shorts, check you have a pair, say to yourself "Real men drift on RUBBER!" then go outside and see how fast you can get round that corner sideways.

1/8th scale on-road buggys/GT cars/RallyGame cars whatever you want to call them are practically made for drifting, even the IC RTR ones have bigger engines with enough torque to step the back out at speed, lots come with spools or 2 speeds and no CD, have a look at some videos on youtube, I bet you find more drifting in car parks than using a grip style around them, and all on rubber.

I've never really looked at AE's range, spares aren't available enough over here but if they havent come out with an 1/8th on road yet it is doubtful they will have a centre spool available, however depending on the size of the diff you may be able to fit either the Hot Bodies or Ofna spools in with a little shimming, Kyosho used a 2 speed not a spool and most of the proper rallygame MFGs use belt drive so they are the only 2 1/8th scale spools I know of.