A little Fiesta Snowdrifting

"NoahthePorscheGuy" (porsche) 02/02/2015 at 11:12 • Filed to: None

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I said it was a little Fiesta didn't I?

Meatcoma > NoahthePorscheGuy 02/02/2015 at 11:28

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That's not the real size? Looks pretty close.

NoahthePorscheGuy > Meatcoma 02/02/2015 at 11:30

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1/5th scale, so still pretty big. What did you think of the video?

Meatcoma > NoahthePorscheGuy 02/02/2015 at 11:37

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Looks like it's harder to drive it straight than it is to do some donuts lol.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > NoahthePorscheGuy 02/02/2015 at 12:00

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oh, that brings back memories.... I used to take my Corolla WRC-bodied HPI RS4 Nitro (1/10 scale) ice racing. I made my own ice spikes with upholstery tacks driven through the tires from the inside and then coated with spun-balanced 5 -minute epoxy... Worked great =)

Then one day I'm racing along on lake Dunmore, engine screaming (.15 OS with slide-valve carb), rooster-tail of ice chips obscuring my view of the actual car.. and *BLOOP* silence. no car.

I ran over to where i last saw it and there was the freshly augered ice-check hole. the water was only about 4 feet deep and I could see the car sitting on the bottom, on it's wheels... I had tied a loop at the top of the antenna aerial (this is long before 2.4GHz radios) and was able to snag it with the button on the end of the controller antenna (unscrewed from the controller) if I got my arm into the water up to the shoulder.... a few bobbled attempts and I finally fished it out!

drove home immediately to dry myself and the car out, disassembled the engine completely (wrist pin out, crank separated, the whole shootin' match) and dried it and lubed it, the radio was in a rubber bag and it had nice water-resistant servos... two days latter I was back on the ice and much more careful about scouting for holes in my chosen area. I still have the chassis, but with a newer engine and an Alfa 156 body with full working lights... I haven't used it years, but can't bear to throw it away... anyone want an outdated 1/10 scale nitro touring car with a good OS .15 ABC (Made in Japan not China!) engine, old futaba 27mhz radio and a bunch of accessories/repair parts for the cost of shipping?

'Wägen, EPA LOL > NoahthePorscheGuy 02/02/2015 at 12:00

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"Needs more snow" says the north east.

NoahthePorscheGuy > Meatcoma 02/02/2015 at 12:05

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meh, its not bad, mostly I just didn't have space to do anything but drift on my driveway

NoahthePorscheGuy > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 02/02/2015 at 12:30

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oh man, thats real tempting. I've never used nitro before. It works/ is running? How much do you think shippnig would be?

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > NoahthePorscheGuy 02/02/2015 at 13:27

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It last ran about 6 years ago... but the engine is a 2-stroke compression-ignition dealie, super simple. Spares for the chassis may be a little sparse these days, but the lower plate is basically the same as HPI's current RS4-EVO3 and most of the drive-line components are readily available... not sure about the belts, but it;s actually cheap to convert to shaft drive if you want. It's a project only. I would guarantee nothing... except that all the lights in the body work ( I tested them last week... the beauty of lithium photo batteries ;) )

UPS Says it would probably cost about $40-50 shipped to the west coast from Vermont... that's with a rough estimate of box size and weight.

NoahthePorscheGuy > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 02/02/2015 at 13:49

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hmmm. How hard do you think it would be to get it running? I have no experience with Nitro. Also I thankfully only live in Ohio, so does that cheapen the shipping at all?

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > NoahthePorscheGuy 02/02/2015 at 14:42

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yeah, should make the shipping cheaper... I can put together a real quote if you want... find out how big (small) a box I can actually fit it in. Ohio might be closer to $25 by UPS ground...

If there's no internal rust (there shouldn't be, I used after-run oil religiously) there's only three gaskets in the engine, two of which are synthetic-aluminium sandwich, and glow plugs are about $1 if it needs one... it should be quite easy. they're even simpler and more robust than a weedwhip. just a single jet and needle on the carb, idle is adjusted by servo trim. This is a REAL ringless-ABC-ballbearing engine, not one of the current crop of "ABC-Type" Chinese-made engines so it's durable as hell. This Link talks about nitro engines for aero-modeling, but 99% of it transfers to cars.

NoahthePorscheGuy > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 02/02/2015 at 14:50

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Yeah, i'm really interested and would love to give it some new life!