Mini 8 Rally/drifter

[mrspeedy]

As some of you will know, every year at WORM we run a summer series for micros that have been converted to WRC rally cars.

This usually takes the form of a Shark chassis with a Phat bodies "Banzai Mini" body mounted on top, and a set of foam tyres with MB inner tube "donuts" stretched over to give a kind of drifty/rally car feel to the driving.

We run each race as a specific rally, and try to build a track and surface to match the type of rally that the country runs.

So Rally Sweden would be run on a fully polished floor to give a very slippy feel as if running on snow

Rally Germany would have carpet laid down on a flat track to simulate a grippy type of rally.

Last night we ran "The Monte Carlo Rally" so was mostly polished floor with a few table ramps to simulate the Italian Alps you get the picture

Anyway .... up until now we have only ever used the Sharks as drifters, but I'm a lazy sod sometimes and decided it would be easier to mount my Mini body on my Losi Mini8 cos all my radio gear was already installed.

All I had to do was make up a couple of body mounts front and back with a couple of pieces of plastic sheet, I used some polypropylene I had laying around.

The Mini 8 is a little wider than the Shark so the tyres/wheels do "poke" a little but I like the look.

Have a look at the pics and let me know what you think

Oh and BTW, the Mini 8 makes an awesome drifter !!

[russmini]

That looks awesome !
Another reason to buy a Mini8 :-)

[jaysllim]

Really lik wel the look of tha,wish we did tha style ov racing over here in wales,i put a porker shell on my c4 nd ran it down cobra as a laugh but it hasnt caught on witch is a shame.

[jaffacake]

How COOL is that!!!

[metalmickey0]

Is that what you called the table top in the corner. If you had no speed you didnt get up it. Momentum was deffo the key top it. And i think theyd polished the floor as i would of had more grip running just rims.

[wezzer]

si , you need to do this body in 200mm 10th scale ! indoors on polished boards with a 200mm rally/tourer car this would look ace

[Body Paint]

Originally Posted by wezzer

si , you need to do this body in 200mm 10th scale ! indoors on polished boards with a 200mm rally/tourer car this would look ace

Just make your TC super short WB and you can run the shell as it is

[Danosborne6661]

Cut n shut weezer!

[wezzer]

lol oookk then ;-)

[mrspeedy]

... or just ask the boss for a Carisma GT14b

[WesleyRoy]

Hey Mr Speedy, i really like your idea of a mini 8 rally car, so i copied your idea.

But instead of making new bodyposts holders, i've drilled 2 holes in my rear T-bone bumper and shortened the front T-bone bumper and drilled also 2 holes in it to mount the bodyposts.

I really like the way the t-bone rear bumper looks like a kind of diffuser ;-)

[mrspeedy]

Nice work .. tho so sure about some of those stickers

.... now get some inner tubes on those foams for some proper drifting action ... and let me know what you think it then

[WesleyRoy]

i will post some recent photo's soon, i took my mini apart yesterday due to a worn pinion and spurgear.

I 've put some decals on it. I did'nt tried the innertube yet.