Flying Dutchman
Newbie
Okay so I had this RJ Speed Sprint car chassis laying around along with this quite rare Parma Dodge Neon body.
Having been the owner of a modified turbo 1st gen 2 door Dodge Neon, I for the longest time wanted to use that body to build a FWD drag car. Well I got sick of staring at it so off I go.
I started by converting the chassis to power the front wheels. I did not want to use the foam tires because they stink on paved parking lots. After some trial and error with tire selections I came up with using super soft Tamiya F1 tires and wheels. It's also rear wheel steering so it made for an interesting configuration.
I got it all together just to see if it would simply work. Surprisingly the car tracked very straight. The motor I used to test it with was a brushed HPI fireball motor. To keep it from having Forklift type handling, the steering has to be turned down to where the rear wheels barely even turn, maybe about 5 degrees or so.
Yes it has the turning radius of the Queen Marry but it’s for going straight so I'm not worried.
Anyway I took it apart to do some fine tweaking to the chassis and started to put it back together. I want to finish the body with that white, blue and black Mopar theme the factory sponsored Dodge Neon drag cars used to have. Can’t find any Mopar decals that scale so I’m hand cutting all the decals. So far this is how it sits now.
Going to mask it off tonight and possibly paint it as well. Then the plan is to get rid of the rear body wing mounts and to fabricate a more realistic drag wing. Maybe even make a drag parachute as well. Hope it turns out alright.
Anyway, here you go. Hope you like it.
Having been the owner of a modified turbo 1st gen 2 door Dodge Neon, I for the longest time wanted to use that body to build a FWD drag car. Well I got sick of staring at it so off I go.
I started by converting the chassis to power the front wheels. I did not want to use the foam tires because they stink on paved parking lots. After some trial and error with tire selections I came up with using super soft Tamiya F1 tires and wheels. It's also rear wheel steering so it made for an interesting configuration.
I got it all together just to see if it would simply work. Surprisingly the car tracked very straight. The motor I used to test it with was a brushed HPI fireball motor. To keep it from having Forklift type handling, the steering has to be turned down to where the rear wheels barely even turn, maybe about 5 degrees or so.
Yes it has the turning radius of the Queen Marry but it’s for going straight so I'm not worried.
Anyway I took it apart to do some fine tweaking to the chassis and started to put it back together. I want to finish the body with that white, blue and black Mopar theme the factory sponsored Dodge Neon drag cars used to have. Can’t find any Mopar decals that scale so I’m hand cutting all the decals. So far this is how it sits now.
Going to mask it off tonight and possibly paint it as well. Then the plan is to get rid of the rear body wing mounts and to fabricate a more realistic drag wing. Maybe even make a drag parachute as well. Hope it turns out alright.
Anyway, here you go. Hope you like it.
