Lightning 2 Pro carbon rallygame conversion

[nativepaul]

With the full Asphalt conversion the Ford Focus WRC body was a little out of place, I wanted something lower, racier and with more downforce, so I asked around before Xmas, and come Xmas day there was a ghostly transparent Mclaren under the tree, I had to wait for decent weather to paint it so that was only about a month ago, then it took me a couple of weeks of making and remaking templates but the week before last I finished my light buckets, installed them and fitted a lighting unit to the body.

Last week my Vinyl decals arrived and I installed them all (except the BMW roundels which got the sizes mixed up, but replacements are being made this week)





ps: if anyone wants the Focus WRC body, off-road wheels/tyres, you can have them for the price of the postage. (note, I live in England.)

[Thirdgen89GTA]

Originally Posted by nativepaul

In essence it is on-road for buggies with road car bodies, road racing for those that don't want to have to vacuum the track before running to avoid crashing, that could take place in bumpy car parks as well as specially prepared tracks. It started with people converting buggies with road tires and stiffer suspension but has progressed to specially designed cars, there are quite a few available ranging from the most popular and probably the worst the Kyosho Inferno GT which is still basically a stiffened buggy but done by the factory, to more specialised race bred ultralight machines with belt drive and ball diffs the pinnacle of which is probably the Cronos SP9 which I'm loath to post a picture of because it makes my buggy look like a shed in comparison, but is too awesome not to so heres the pic.

I just have to ask for no posts saying how awesome the SP9 is without mentioning my car too please, I wish I could afford an SP9 but even with all the carbon and if I added a set of titanium turnbuckles it would still be twice the cost of mine at £600.

This is a huge delay in your answer, but the thread was updated back in april so I'll answer it i guess.

Rally Game is the process of converting/designing 1/8th and 1/7th scale on-road cars using standard 1/8th scale drivetrain. Essentially most of the Rally Game cars are simply 1/8th scale buggies that use 1/8th truggy chassis and center drives for a longer wheel base, and the buggy A-arms. They often are low slung and just as indestructable as their 1/8th scale counterparts.

Recently the "Rally Game" moniker has been modified to "GT8" to indicate that these are 1/8th scale GT cars essentially.

Examples of factory GT8 cars would be the following:
Kyosho Inferno GT1 and GT2
Hobao Hyper One Seven Evolution (1/7th scale very modified Hyper 7 chassis.)
Hot Bodies Lightning Street
OFNA Ultra GTP
OFNA DM-1 Pro and Spec
....

[nativepaul]

I prefer my definition from march '10 that you quoted to be honest. While Rallygame did start off with converted buggies as I mentioned, it has been far removed from that for years now, the GT cars you mentioned are similar tech to where rallygame started many years ago, nowadays however the only similarities between a rallygame car and a buggy/those GT cars is the track/wheelbase dimensions, and the size of the wheels/tyres. Here in Europe where Rallygame is still Rallygame you wont find any of the GT cars you listed on the winners podium or even in the race, they aren't competitive and are seen as for bashing only. All the competitive Rallygame cars are made in Europe, mostly in Italy by the likes of BMT/Picco, Schepis, Technokit, Bianchi, Chrono (the most consistently successful mfg in Rallygame), and others all have narrow but very stiff twin deck chassis, transverse engines, belt drives, no centre diffs, and small torsion bars instead of anti roll bars.

I would guess that the first person that takes a Rallygame car to a GT race in the states would cleanup for a season, then the powers that be will come up with an inventive way to ban them for the future seasons.

[Thirdgen89GTA]

Standard 8th scale shaft driven drivetrain is required for gt races here. Even in most of the open classes.

My hyper one seven is illegal in most places too.

[nativepaul]

So Rallygame and GT are completely different animals, and because I cheaped out and did my own half-arsed conversion, mine may be one of the few rallygame cars legal for GT races. Shame we don't have GT races here as although heavier than Rallygame cars, mine looks stiffer and lighter than all the buggy based GT cars.

Think your one seven would be illegal for Rallygame too, if like the lightning 1/7 and IGT2 its got a significantly stretched wheelbase.

[Thirdgen89GTA]

Originally Posted by nativepaul

So Rallygame and GT are completely different animals, and because I cheaped out and did my own half-arsed conversion, mine may be one of the few rallygame cars legal for GT races. Shame we don't have GT races here as although heavier than Rallygame cars, mine looks stiffer and lighter than all the buggy based GT cars.

Think your one seven would be illegal for Rallygame too, if like the lightning 1/7 and IGT2 its got a significantly stretched wheelbase.

Makes for a MUCH more realistic wheelbase though. :)

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[millzee]

very nice build, I'll keep watching here, well done.