Anyone still make a 1/10th or 1/8th Rally Car?

[Gee]

Haven't gotten all the details figured out. Did find out that WRC stand for World Rally Car or Championship. From the little I've picked up so far. The Rally conversions have you replace some parts like longer camber links and some arms so the Rally seem to be wider and the shocks are either replaced (and shock tower on the TC3) or a longer shaft is installed and the tires are larger. Basically give you more ground clearancve and the suspensions impoved for rougher terrian. I'll post more info once I learn more about them. I am limited around my place for running a Touring car. I've thought about getting a 4-tec of the RS4 evo but unless they are capable of going on some rougher dirt roads. They would end up shelf queens. There's a few paved road but they are too busy to mess around on. Mostly have dirt roads where I go.


Thanks for hte links Modding out. I need to sit down and do some reading and a little more research. THose look helpful.

[othello]

I had the same urge for a rally style car. With 1:10 cars you get a fair choice of realistic looking rally bodys, but those small tires limits their usability to tarmac and well preperad offroad tracks. There is a small amount of 1:8 rally cars: Kyosho Inferno GT, Thundertiger EB4S2 Rally. They are based on buggy chassis but feature reduced shock travel way. Not ideal for rougher offroad tracks. I decided to convert my old 1:8 Crono buggy to get full buggy offroad capabilities, made custom mounts for a rally body i got off ebay. In my opinion this is the best way to get a rally style car which can also be driven on rougher offroad stuff. The hard part is to get suitable bodys. You can find a fair amount of 1:8 touring/Rally car bodys at this place. Problem is: they usually are built for onroad use and might have to be reinforced to withstand hard offroad use. Wheelbase might also differ slightly from the one of your buggy chassis: some trimming will be necessary.

This is what i came up with 2 years ago using old stuff i had laying around: video.