RC Rally cars
 

are the RC Rally Cars any good off road or is it only really loose dirt they are any good on

Schumacher use to do one but it was actually a bosscat with a different chassis mount I think it was an RS Cosworth. The bodyshells shapes really do not lend themselves to offroading just dirt. If you think about suspension movement etc. Hence why any serious offroad looks like a buggy or goes further and looks like a monster truck.

They work perfectly well off road, dirt, gravel, hard, flat sand, short grass, the only surface they really have problems on is longer grass or badly rutted surfaces due to the low ground clearance.

They go really well on any modern 1/10th off road track, Tamiya rally blocks work really well on astroturf and dirt, but they don't fly too well so don't try and launch them over bigger jumps.:thumbsup:

If you ride rally car on offroad circuit, it's not rally, but rallycross... Rally car is best on long, narrow rally track like this

Looks like a fun way to get/keep fit :thumbsup:

Terry do you know when that race took place? Kiddies only up the road from me and that looked like fun.

i could watch them all day:thumbsup:

It was one of the Tamiyaclub meets we had, between 2004 and 2007. We hired the track for one weekend every year so Tamiyaclub website members could get together. No racing was involved, it was just so members could meet up and run their vintage buggies and cars, from the old Sand Scorchers to Clodbusters and everything in between, for example:


Unfortunately the meets were stopped as Kidderminster insisted each driver who attended was a BRCA member, and as the vast majority just bash in their cars very occasionally having to get them all to join the BRCA for one weekend just wasn't going to happen.

im suprised they did ask for life insurance to:woot:........especialy the film crew:thumbsup:

1/10th rally/rallycross is awesome , we used to race indoors on polished boards with rally cars , heats of 5-8 and it was a right giggle , if someone just made a decent rally chassis ( 200mm like the old HPI rs4 rally ) this class would be very cool :-)

or a traxass 16th :thumbsup: my saturday play time

http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._5646727_n.jpg

Wezzer: there are lots of rally cars, because almost every TC can be converted... in Czech republic we're racing with xrays, Tamiya TA's, TB's or TRF41x, Yokomos etc

Dont worry peeps, they are on the way, and this isnt a touring car upscale, A proper off road rally car :thumbsup:

Details

http://www.hpiracing.co.uk/piw.php?partNo=106950

WR8 Vid is 2nd down :thumbsup:

http://www.hpieurope.com/tv13/

Brushless enroute too :D

8th scale :-(

Rally class is a live and kicking at WORM. :thumbsup:

We run a 6 round WRCA summer championship using 16th scale LRP Sharks with Phat Bodies Mini bodies ... its been a really popular championship and last year even saw guys from other clubs attending the madness !!

Some rounds we use foam tyres and some rounds with MB inner tubes over the foams for the Scandinavian rounds (low grip !!) :woot:

A wee vid of one of the rounds - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEGJQIgY6lg

yeah great idea:woot:

mvh Isobarik

@Honza D that is some crazy stuff

now im used to driving buggies how much different or similar are they and what is a decent one to get on a cheap budget just for bashing around but looks good (electric)

@Honza D that is some crazy stuff

now im used to driving buggies how much different or similar are they and what is a decent one to get on a cheap budget just for bashing around but looks good (electric)

sorry for double post

its a shame they havent done what the tamiya did and run the exhaust out the back of the car,they look awsome fun,any idea of price?

Spotted this company at Race Retro last weekend

http://www.rallylegendmodels.com/RLM_-_Home.html

Some nice bodies... Huummm S4! Bit pricey thou.

I saw these at the recent North West Stages rally show and I think they are RTR so the money is not too bad.

The bodyshells were very good, really accurate and the Fiat 131 with the lights was mint.

The chassis looked like maybe CEN or Carisma 4WD units with the stick pack battery down one side and the motor speedo etc down the other.

Not sure how long the components would last if you raced them but just for the odd occasional run they looked ace.

Shame they can only persuade Fiat/Lancia to commission the bodyshells as I know hundreds of people who would buy a Mk2 Escort R/C rally car!

i definitely want one that would fit a Skoda Fabia MK1 WRC shell and be dirt cheap with cheap parts but a strong quality (kinda like Ansmann)

Controlfreax will release a mk2 escort shell soon.

rally
 

Dont 'retroracing' do a mk 1 and mk 2 escort shell

This is the one schumacher sold as a bosscat variation as a full kit not a convertion. Is this Sierra or an early Escort? Unfortunately I only have the manual not the car.

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Some of the videos on the first page are really cool not sure about chasing the car though. :woot:

I think the cars and tracks they have built in some of those youtube clips are great, They are propper rallying, If I did it I would prob stamp all over the scenery,trip over flat on my face:lol:.

It was a Procat chassis and the body was a Sierra Cosworth, made by Parma. Not pretty, here's my example which desperately needs repainting - the original owner used the wrong paints and a rather large paintbrush to do it.:(
http://www.tamiyaclub.com/tc_userima...1054_1_350.jpg


Those 20 year old old converted buggies have nothing to do with modern rally cars though, the modern cars are touring car based so much more realistic and better detailed.

Here is my converted ansmann touring car are-2
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Finally finished my Ford Focus TC3...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...4-01131643.jpg

Hello guys,

Just wanted to show you my rally cars:)

The Audi is the original Yokomo mr4tc with longer shocks, it's not the rally version (those are as common as hen's teeth!) but it works great anyway.

The Renault megane is a Tamiya ta05v2 with scratch built diff covers and a tb01 inner body for added dust protection.

It's a shame that rallying is not more popular, but maybe one day?

I just bought myself a HPI RS4 Rally off a friend with a good Valvoline Focus shell.

Just need to mod it slightly to accept lipos now.

oooOOO pics when youve done mod would be nice, ive got the same shell aswell but still need to rebuild mine and looking at using my LiPos (saddles) ;)

:thumbsup:

the nimh stick pack brackets look like they'll fit fine, but they're too narrow to take lipo. I'm going to drill some new holes in the chassis to widen the brackets slightly and then just drill some holes to allow the power plugs.

Otherwise it seems fine. Might be worth adding a small belt roller just to lift the belt as it's very close, if not touching the leading edge of the lipo case