Buggies and drifting?

[reno911]

Nice body, that definitely says drift buggy on it.

I got the one way diff from order on NitroRCX, and go and behold it came with only one output cup. Lame, only 7 bucks so I really dont care.

I promise some vids next time I bring it to the office. I'm up in Oregon next week so bare with me.

[pinkpanda3310]

They look like the right tires for spewing powder freeagent.

Originally Posted by reno911

Nice body, that definitely says drift buggy on it.

Thanks reno. I have a different body at the moment, found a testerossa that used to belong to my brother years ago. Got some vid of it - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3TUUVDLwW4

Near the end of the vid it's running without a body. I was testing a new tire. I managed to retread the rears. I liked the handling with less grip at the back. The retreads are made from strips of rubber I get at work.

I cut the old tire so the bead remained, making the it level with the ribs on the rim.

I was trying to give it plenty of glue near the join and, of course, glued my fingers. This pic was taken after the test run.



I think I will still order wheels for the front.

[nativepaul]

Outside edge worn down completely after 1 run and inside edge untouched, it looks like you need to dial in more negative camber to maximise your contact patches, slightly strange as I had to dial out almost all of my camber when I went from round buggy tyres to flat on-road tyres.

I wasn't going to post as I'm not a competitive drifter but for what its worth I have an on-road buggy and it drifts like a goodun if I'm not gentle on the sticks. It is setup as thus; camber adjusted so theres even wear across all tyres, rear toe-in reduced considerably though it still has some, 50k front, 100k center, 10k rear diff oils, I was on stock medium springs and if i remember right 40wt front/50wt rear oils, I'm now on hard springs and 70wt front/80wt rear oils but my shocks are laying down MUCH more than they were so do less work for small amounts of wheel movement, ride-height so lower arms are level, Medial Pro Tarmac 2 tyres.