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1/8 road cars..... - Jetboat - 05-12-2008
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"
1/8 road cars..... - BJoe - 05-12-2008
Probably OFNA or Kyosho, they both make onroad versions of their 1/8th scale buggies.
1/8 road cars..... - firesprink281 - 05-12-2008
inferno gt. and they make electric kits for it.
1/8 road cars..... - slaytanic - 05-12-2008
Make a tuber! Way cooler.
1/8 road cars..... - slaytanic - 05-12-2008
Check out some of the 1/5 scale nascars for ideas. They are tubers I believe.
1/8 road cars..... - firesprink281 - 05-12-2008
thats a good idea!
1/8 road cars..... - slaytanic - 05-12-2008
This is pretty wild!
Quarter Scale Car | Disruptor
1/8 road cars..... - Jetboat - 05-13-2008
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
1/8 road cars..... - Thirdgen89GTA - 05-13-2008
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.
1/8 road cars..... - Jetboat - 05-13-2008
the body doesnt actually have wheel wells on it, that way you can adjust it to fit... Its the Parma Nascar Lumina body.
1/8 road cars..... - Thirdgen89GTA - 05-13-2008
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.
1/8 road cars..... - stratcat - 05-14-2008
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...
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)