T&E Advan RS-D

Whats black, has 10 spokes and deep dish.

Ueno's T&E Vertex RC Advan RS-D wheels.

 Quite expensive seeing as the competition for cheap rubbish has arrived in Japan.

they look good on all my RC bodies. Not sure about these speed way pal tyres yet, but I guess we shall try them out.

Hpi Wheel Holders

Finally some organisation. instead of 32 round things floating around in my box, now theres only 8.

300 yen for these basic items makes life easy.

They have a spring on one end. push down and hold. the slide the end straight and the wheels fly off the shaft.

Benri desu.!!! thats easy.

Shoot to Kill.

Here's a little shoot I did today when practicing.

This body still is the one I use most. and the Work XC8 Wheels with HPI are also the best for handling.

My setup is not super dollar. Just the basics.

But the image is bold. speedhunters.com sticker on my real car. 1/10 looks small.

Here's a little video... Lowriding.

Russ.

RP-01 Carbon

 Ok, My real car has RP-01, so I decided to replicate the future direction.

I'll be painting the real wheels black. So I found these Tamiya re-inforced Carbon RP-01 for 500 yen

I got a set of 45 degree Street Jam rubber to try out. I'll be going for some stretch.

The dummied up result is awesome. Can't wait to try them out tomorrow.

Russ.

Whats the Diff?

This is a new Speed Way Pal diffuser!!! iTS AWESOME.

$7 or so, but sooo much better than the ABC Hobby Lexan one.

Now, I can pick up the chassis by the diffuser, the other one was always going to break off.

Bolts straight onto the rear of Yokomo Dift Package chassis

Hard to see in this image, but it's there. Swapped some wheels around.

Doesn't quite fit with the Wide body mazdaspeed rear bar, but it may get cut to accomodate the new item.
Or I'll just leave it on the display chassis forever.

Russ.

Limited Space track design

With limited space. Most drift tracks end up looking basically the same.  This is due to the requirement for side by side and radius corners.

But that soon gets boring. So making the track flexible is the key to long run interest. just a few variations can lead to endless combinations. this is 7m x 6m

A little more space doesn't necessarily mean the design changes. It just gets faster. this is just 7m x 8m

if you implement a real "straight" you need space to straighten and turn in. so the length shout be at least more than a simulated 100 meters. 1:10 = you need space.

once again... trace a line here and see how many different ways you can go until you find a similar way.

Shafted one way

Can't wait to stick my new shaft in.

It's in,

Very different. Gotta get used to it.

I might go to Akiba on Friday to test it out and spend a bit of time on setup.