strangest mod to an RC car?

hks_kansei · #1 03-31-2005, 11:01 PM

OK, what is the strangest mod you've ever made to an RC car.

i made one into an RC boat.

ToyTundra · #2 03-31-2005, 11:40 PM

I tried to put 4 wheel disk brakes (from a 1/5) on my 1/8 buggy, but i had no way of affordably machining the new drive hubs so i gave up.

mike@af · #3 04-01-2005, 10:01 AM

Put some of my truck A-Arms on a pan car and try to make it a lifted stock car.

sarbjr138 · #4 04-04-2005, 08:49 PM

here's mine:
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=328788

hks_kansei · #5 04-09-2005, 06:50 AM

that's my boat.

mike@af · #6 04-09-2005, 12:10 PM

Kansei,.....I think you won...easily.

speedthrill · #7 04-10-2005, 08:26 AM

how fast is that "boat" going? lol
pretty cool

hks_kansei · #8 04-10-2005, 09:03 AM

well after putting in my immense sum of $5, it can reach about 50cm/sec

or 0.5 metres/sec, 0.03km/h or 0.019mph

it was built from scrap, car had buggered diff, so it became direct drive, to a propellor (the driveshaft is a mix of the old rear axle, and a shrink wrap plug connector).

the hull is plywood and gutter seal

the packing box (thing that stops the driveshaft leaking water in) is a penlid with rubber in it

rudder is a coke can that i smashed until it was flat.

and the prop is scratch built by me. (coffee tin flattened, cut into circle, hole drilled in centre, cut slits about 2/3 in, bend with pliers)

it's actually pretty fun, i'll get pics of it in "action"

oh yeah: it's got a two speed engine!!!!!! (go, and go faster)

mike@af · #9 04-10-2005, 12:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hks_kansei

oh yeah: it's got a two speed engine!!!!!!

Slow and slower...

sarbjr138 · #10 04-10-2005, 10:42 PM

I like the boat. I have another possibly "stranger" mod to an r/c car. This was a Toys-r-Us special that I built a custom belt drive gearbox for - I loaded in a Mabuchi 550 motor (from a "power wheels jeep", no less) - and fed it with 19.2 volts! -it was sick and twisted- and never really became a true r/c...as I could never steer it. It threw the tires off though and my son thought it was cool...lol.
here it is (at the bottom of the thread under "sarbjr138":
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=31725

Blacklabel21 · #11 04-14-2005, 11:22 AM

I tried to put a fan on mine lol.

PSYCHORACING · #12 04-23-2005, 01:27 PM

Strangest was to use those MIP boost bottles. All it did was take away power.

Ferrari TR · #13 04-25-2005, 07:12 PM

I had 'howard the duck' as the driver of my rc10 truck years ago.
It was just the head, a candy container from when the movie was out.
All the 'pros' thought it was stupid, while the kids thought it was cool.

uranium235powered · #14 04-29-2005, 02:08 AM

Lights on my x-mod. They fucking drained my batteries....I ended up frying the resistors when I tried to go 8 cell.

I rarely touch my xmod any more, my TT-01 is not my best buddy.

2.2 Straight six · #15 04-29-2005, 02:01 PM

my friend's old kyosho car was a bit more powerful than stock, his brother has a company that builds race cars, and he made a custom turbo with wastegate and BOV but it was prone to problems since it wasnt the easiest turbo to make and it gave up and broke about a month after being installed. it had the front drivshafts removed for rear wheel drive only, but it kept spinning out on sharp bends, neither of us can drive R/C cars to save our lives..... he sold the car on ebay a while ago.

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