Dog chases the cat conversion

[AdrianH78]

Hi

Just wondering if anyone has an example of the 'dog chases the cat' converted Yokomo?

I'd love to see a photo as an adult, from memory it was a Yokomo with a Pro-Cat or Cat XLS front end - idea being that car would have the best of the YZ-10 and Schumacher cat.

Would have been late eights very early nineties I think!

Cheers

Adrian

[Danf1275]

Chap in Iconic FB group has such a machine

[terry.sc]

That is owned by Jiffy, hand built by his father. As you can see he has recently restored it.

[Peakey]

Yes the Dogcat he was struggling with it at last year's revival he said it use to go well when it was originally made

[DerbyDan]

I think the extra pace given by that brushless motor & the high grip astro was throwing up some slight handling issues. First off the angle of the front steering links was causing some quite major bump-steer (some washers under the ball stud on the hub end helped a little bit). Then the heavily lightened (and already narrow) front area of the chassis allowed the whole front end to twist giving it a kind of 'active-steering' effect! On the whole though, with a little work I would imagine it could be made to work very well!!

Adrian - where would you have been racing in the late 80s/early 90s? Jiffy's DogCat would have been in action in the Northants/Milton Keynes area - specifically the Toddington club.

[Groomi]

The CAT had bags and bags of steering in an age when many cars struggled in that area - which was probably the thinking behind the conversion. That advantage is neutralised by today's high grip tracks though.

[AdrianH78]

Originally Posted by DerbyDan

I think the extra pace given by that brushless motor & the high grip astro was throwing up some slight handling issues. First off the angle of the front steering links was causing some quite major bump-steer (some washers under the ball stud on the hub end helped a little bit). Then the heavily lightened (and already narrow) front area of the chassis allowed the whole front end to twist giving it a kind of 'active-steering' effect! On the whole though, with a little work I would imagine it could be made to work very well!!

Adrian - where would you have been racing in the late 80s/early 90s? Jiffy's DogCat would have been in action in the Northants/Milton Keynes area - specifically the Toddington club.

I raced at Silverstone Buggy club. What a small world it is, as assuming it is the same person, I purchased Jiffy's Cougar 2 team off him around 91/92 I think from memory (just after the advent of the Cougar 2000), and ironically I am getting his original shell reproduced for my modern(ish) SV2 as I still love the paint job! (still own the Cougar2).