08-07-2018, 09:18 AM | #1 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Dec 2016 Location: san diego
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| pan car... drifter?
so a few of you know i have been kicking around an idea. the idea is to build a sort of solid axle RWD drifter, preferably front motor mounted. i have thought of a few different ways to accomplish this. everything from re-skidding an IRS drift car to using a CC-01 with resized rear links. yesterday i was on big squid and there was a new pancar that popped up. 2019 XRay X12 US & EU Pan Cars « Big Squid RC – RC Car and Truck News, Reviews, Videos, and More! ordinarily, i would just keep scrolling since its neither a crawler or drift car. or... IS IT???? what if i used a pan car for a base, and modified it to have better steering angle (maybe just buying aftermarket sakura/MST/yokomo parts) and then removing the MOA rear drive and fabricating a rear platform to hang 4 link and a yota axle off the back??? at that point its not much of a pan car anymore, but it might be a good place to start. or just... custom cut my own chassis from a sheet of aluminum and go crazy??? still trying to figure out how to have front motor (maybe even capability of slipping a 3D printed scale engine cover around the can) and still have room for steering servo/linkage and front suspension. I've been doodling but i think i need to just get in the garage with some aluminum and my dremel... this is kind of what i have in mind but with a solid rear axle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t-Hb1foPVY any pointers?? I've never done any custom chassis stuff and not sure what tools i might need (drill press would be nice). thanks for reading and let me know if you have any ideas! Last edited by Shinchu; 08-07-2018 at 09:39 AM. |
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08-07-2018, 09:36 AM | #2 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Apr 2017 Location: Northeast PA
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| Re: pan car... drifter?
I applaud your ambition! My only contribution is to say that if you don't already have the Yota axle, the rear axle from a Feiyue FY-03 is the right width for a touring/drift car body.
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08-07-2018, 10:52 AM | #3 |
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| Re: pan car... drifter?
thanks but i'm going for a bit of scale too. yota axle is under the AE86 corolla but the feiyu was actually another consideration i had in mind for the base chassis. |
08-07-2018, 12:44 PM | #4 |
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| Re: pan car... drifter?
You may also find inspiration on the Olive RC youtube channel. He does a bunch of custom chassis stuff, and often with a solid rear axle.
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08-07-2018, 01:15 PM | #5 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Dec 2016 Location: san diego
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| Re: pan car... drifter?
seen those and his builds are another inspiration along with this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anJfJvApWEg looks exactly like a pan car turned drift car. their facebook has them listed for $150 RTR but ebay link is dead and their ebay store is nothing but toothpaste now??? |
08-08-2018, 03:28 PM | #6 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Humboldt county
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| Re: pan car... drifter?
I know very little about pan cars but I would guess starting with some drift parts might prove a bit easier to get the crazy angle you'd want. Maybe look for a used/broken drifter for its front end parts. If fitting the motor up front along with a 3D printed motor cover and steering /suspension is too much maybe the motor can be placed back a bit so that you can at least have a scale motor under the hood. I think I'd want to use some chassis rail as a starting point if I were to do something similar. And the link you posted to the Ebay listing has a note on the page saying the listing has been removed because the item is no longer available. When I fabricate the most common tools I use are: Disc grinder, cordless drill, welder, vice, drill bits and various fasteners Last edited by HumboldtEF; 08-08-2018 at 03:32 PM. |
08-15-2018, 03:50 PM | #7 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Detroit
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| Re: pan car... drifter?
vaterra ascender rear axle. narrow it as much as you want. good idea. maybe I should keep my Tamiya pan car.. hmmm.
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08-16-2018, 11:42 AM | #8 |
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| Re: pan car... drifter?
Yeah I mean really you can use any rear axle you want. I just so happen to be building a toyota that needs... a yota axle lol But a muscle car with a... Well damn whats the rc equivolent of a scale ford 9"? Anyway that would be cool too! |
08-16-2018, 03:54 PM | #9 |
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| Re: pan car... drifter? the ascender rear axle isn't 100% scale to any known axle in the 1:1 world. but it would get the job done with what you want. its so easy to narrow its not even funny. I narrowed mine an inch (front and back) and I can fully tuck a set of 1.55 rockbeasts under my yota body with any 1.55 rim. cant do that with a yota axle.
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08-17-2018, 10:43 AM | #10 |
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| Re: pan car... drifter?
but there are "other companies" that make yotas in all kinds of widths... ;) really as long as its less than 185mm hex to hex, it will fit under most touring/drifting bodies. 170mm would be MONEY. or... 148.5 pin to pin (you could fit SUPER deep offset wheels on this! even under Tamiya bodies!) ** ford 9 inch??? (RC Channel CC01 axle so it should be about 165mm hex to hex... BUILD YOUR HOT RODS!!!!!!!) Last edited by Shinchu; 08-17-2018 at 11:27 AM. |
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