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1/8 road cars.....
#1
I need suggestions for on-road 1/8 scale cars... I want to go brushless and it will only be a basher/parkinglot racer. The whole ide is to use the old school nascar body I picked up this weekend to build kind of a nastalga racer. Something I can pick up off ebay cheap would be great.... Otherwise Im going to do a full tube frame and build it to "scale"
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#2
Probably OFNA or Kyosho, they both make onroad versions of their 1/8th scale buggies.
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#3
inferno gt. and they make electric kits for it.
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#4
Make a tuber! Way cooler.
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#5
Check out some of the 1/5 scale nascars for ideas. They are tubers I believe.
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#6
thats a good idea!
10/8/1871- the great Chicago fire. Approximately 250 people were killed in the fire; 98,500 people were left homeless; 17,450 buildings were destroyed along with the original Emancipation Proclamation.
Chicago Local 281, protecting lives and property for over 100 years.
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#7
This is pretty wild!

Quarter Scale Car | Disruptor
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#8
tuber was the first idea but... not sure I could get it to handle. its 1 thing to build a crawler, another to build a 40mph car
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#9
Inferno GT or OFNA GTP.

Or if you don't mind spending some moola on a nice kit a OFNA DM-1 Pro. RCdeal.com has them cheap if you don't mind auctions, I think $300 on average for the kits.

The Hyper 1/7 is nice too at $300 but the 2spd w/reverse is crap, and weighs more than the engine.

What is the wheel base on the nascar body? Do the wheels center when its placed on a 1/8th scale buggy chassis? If not, then it won't fit on a IGT or GTP chassis either.
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#10
the body doesnt actually have wheel wells on it, that way you can adjust it to fit... Its the Parma Nascar Lumina body.
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#11
If you mean this body Parma 1/8 Lumina NASCAR Body

I don't think it'll work. I think at 10.5 or roguhly 260mm the body is too narrow to cover the wheels I'll measure the IGT when I get home.

however an Inferno GT is 310mm wide, like a 1/8th buggy, the body is only 260mm wide. 50mm is a fairly large difference.
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#12
slaytanic Wrote:This is pretty wild!

Quarter Scale Car | Disruptor

damn you!!! all last night at work, I looked at the bender and the stack of tube sitting next to it.;.. I could whip one of these chassis out in a week of lunches if I had plans for the thing.. it would be absolutely no problem to make these bends... Sad

oh yeah, and surfing RCU, I found a couple of 36cc (airplane?) engines, kawasaki, for cheap... anyone interested? the only thing that would cost anything would be the actual suspension.. I can build that chassis/roll cage out of scrap (clean the welds up of course)
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