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I used to be heavily into racing when I was a teenager - mainly electric powered stuff (indoors) with a circuit made from filled fire hoses. Entered quite a few tournaments and did pretty well.....

I have a Tamiya R/C car here, but rarely use it.

Besides a 4 year old boy +RC car= broken RC car :P

Shame because if I had more time to race I have a decent sized, specially built race track not more than 10 minutes from place...

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I was really into R/C as a kid. Still have one that I race at my local track and empty carparks for kicks, nothing competitive just a few friends racing. Had a huge crash in April and I'm almost finished fixing it up. I have an old Tamiya TGX chassis(and 350Z body) with OS15CVX engine with all the possible hop-hup options. Can hit 90 km/h with the tall gearbox. A pic:

tgx-1.jpg

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OOops no what I meant was to me there is ONLY drifting RC cars... none of this off road or circut rubbish :)

I use a tamiya t04 chassis with a nomuken skyline r34 shell, a 1 way front diff, locked rear diff, remove the sway bars and running pvs tubing for tyres. This is the standard setup here.

Here are some pics of the track and the guys I stuff around with here (yes that is the D1 driver Kuroi LOL) When we arent out drifting we are usually at Radio Tengoku (sad I know)

ps. Please ignore the shocking pics of me

http://crazymax999.web.infoseek.co.jp/publ...html/8-26-1.htm

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monzaro - yeah... they also do all kinds of silly stuff like mount lighter flints into the piping so you get sparks when you are drifting also they get those drift yokomo tyres and take the plastic rings off and mount fencing wire instead LOL

The setup of the cars sounds simple but its actually quite tricky to get the right balance between oversteer and understeer.

Too much understeer and obviously the car is just ploughing everywhere, but too much oversteer and the car isnt controllable.

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