Hungarian newbie drift

[Bara]

Heya!

Just bought a TT-01 tamiya... made some drift "tires" and triing what can I do... Fun in the skies
I like that boys. But i dont know how to get 90 degree corner if i go high speed. and how to drift a cone from high speed...

[Araggon]

ohh wad ur drift tires made of?? pvc?

[GTO]

imagine the corner of 'R' and 'E' are 90deg corners. That's how you take it.

[Bara]

araggon said:

ohh wad ur drift tires made of?? pvc?

Thx for the image! Ill try. I got a coca cola light, and cut it where the coca cola sign on Its good to slide it on my tires. But its wore out to fast. about 3-4 hours by drift, and i must to throw away! :S

[GTO]

Coke? lol.
We use PVC (plastic pipe for drainage-grey color abt2.5"diameter) cut it and slide/press fit to the rims.

[GTO]

cut to the correct width...

[GTO]

this is abt 2mm thick pipe...(but we use abt 5mm now, so need to trim down the rims a little bit instead of using used rubber). Hope this info helps you drift better.

[Bara]

I have 54mm rims and 65mm tire...
I dont know what size of pvc tube will go on it.

[GTO]

PVC pipes are standard sizes, go to the hardware shops that sell them; bring your rim to test.
Anything that is very close to your rim fitting should be the one to get.
Adjust your rim so it can fit.

[Bara]

Donno how to adjust my rims... make them smaller, to smaller pipes? but small wheels, big holes for them LOL
They will look funny

[Bara]

Home made coca cola drift tires LOL

[GTO]

How do you know it will look funny?
Many pictures of cars with PVC on them, i don't think they look funnier than your Coke wheels...lol
Beside PVC having superior drifting effect, improvise on the car looks so that it's pleasing to your taste.

i think the pictures are enough to give you idea how to do it.
How to adjust your rims you ask...lol.
Do you have the PVC and try them to fit already?
I only trim abt 0.5mm of my rims to make them fit, again, how much you trim depends on what rims you're using....hence 'adjust your rim so it can fit'.
OK, OK, if that's still hard to understand, here's a way:
Assuming your rims is larger than inner side of the PVC.
Just drift your car with only rims on for couple of minutes; you should get a smaller rims...same as your Coke getting thinner and thinner when you drift them, are they not?
Now you know how to do it?

[Izdiamond]

gto said:

Just drift your car with only rims on for couple of minutes; you should get a smaller rims...

lol...could'nt have said it better myself.... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Bara]

I understand everything =)
I can make it GTO you are the best

[GTO]

don't mention it.
Send us pics & happy drifting.

[Bara]

gto said:

Send us pics & happy drifting.

OKay. help me: here is the pic:
So: I got black and silver colors.
1: I make the downside, and rims black, the wing and the front mask black.
2: I do this by silver.
3: some mix. Like black downside, silver rims.
hm? help me...

[xJ]

i wld say white doesnt go with yellow as well as black does, but black might not be the best to go with yellow.. if you know wat i mean. ;D

[Bara]

Man, thanks for help
LOL, I know, what ya mean. but silver and yellow dont go together right. or I paint the wings yellow, and the rims black. front mask black to...

[Bara]

My friends and my car. yea yea not painted yet, because its only 3 hours old

[GTO]

here's one of mine coincidentally a Bimmer...the so called white doesn't go well with yellow that doesn't go well with black...

[Bara]

okay, GTO, downside black. front mask black? and the wing? And the rim? black or silver?

[Bara]

So, color problems solved, lets see the finished modell:
And my firends car:

Some light stuff under construction =)

[Bara]

gto said:

it.
Send us pics & happy drifting.

Doing pics, but no reactions =) Yea yea time zones...
So, headlights done:

[Champagne Supernova™]

that's a really nice set up there!
headlights, way to go!
did u DIY or get the ready made ones?
i'm going to try DIY on the headlights.

[GTO]

your bodyshell looks too high off the ground. Move the bodyposts 1 or 2 holes down.
Wheel arc should've cut with curve scissors or pen knife.
Else is looking good.

[Bara]

Teese lights are fully home made =)

Too high is because my drift stuffs are doing scraches into my body. but today I make normal drift things

Yea your right, nor the beautifulest cut out

[GTO]

your bodyshell clearance is what? 12mm ?
and your chassis clearance is 7-8mm? 4-5mm difference, make it 0.
Unless your springs/suspensions are very soft, how can the body got scratched?
Dun tell me you run offroad or do two wheelie flipping stunts...Lol

[Bara]

SO: ground clearance is about 2-3 mm ;D
Bodyshell is about 4-5 mm




And some new wheels on mercedes:

[GTO]

that PVC looks very thin n your drifting surface looks like grind stone wow. tough luck.

[Bara]

I got very goooood surface. smooth asphalt
thin because my rims were very big. So diameter was about 48 mm after drifting down tire holders. but my pvcs inside diameter was about 46. So I got paper thick rims LOL . But its works!