Good morning everyone, first off, let me say that I'm a HUGE drag/street racing fan. I'd like to step up and get into the RC drag hobby. I currently have an Associated TC3 electric sedan that right now is 4WD. I've been toying with the idea of pulling the front differential and drive shaft out of the car to make it RWD. How well would one of those 8 turn drag motors do in the car? I realize the car probably wouldn't run with alot of the purposely built drag cars......

Another question I have is......I've seen a few people take a 1/10 pan car/carpet racer and turn it into a drag car.........how well do these cars perform??? Anyone have a suggestion on which style chassis to use??? If anything I'd like to run in the Pro Stock class.........that is IF I ever make it to a drag strip to run......since Houston doesn't have an RC drag strip. Most of my racing would be heads up against friends....in a large smooth parking lot.....like a street race.

And lastly, this question is for the nitro crowd.......Do you guys use (or have used) the nitro Superchargers from RB Innovations???? I'm curious as to how well they work......

THANKS for any and all help and info,

Brian

OOPs, sorry for originally posting this in the wrong forum :(

Why not leave it 4 wheel drive to see how it does???
No reason why you could not pull the diff and shaft. Weight transfer is not a good with a stiff tubbed chassis like that.. but if they are running bracket races.. any vehicle can be good to go!

Good point... I am sure it would run better with 4WD.

Why not leave it 4 wheel drive to see how it does???
No reason why you could not pull the diff and shaft. Weight transfer is not a good with a stiff tubbed chassis like that.. but if they are running bracket races.. any vehicle can be good to go!

you would lose a considerbly amout of weight making it rwd and it would be more of a dra car. and would prob. need a wheelie bar, too. the nitro supercharger is crap i heard. why dont you sell it and get a tc4?
just my 2 cents

You wouldn't lose much weight at all, a touring car doesn't weight enough to be 2WD.

well thats true but i bash nitro off road so hey i do backflips and you do well what do you do besides run around in circles

There is a guy at our local track that has been playin with the TC3 and its capabilities. The best performance he has had is in the 4wd state. Either 2wd setup (front or rear drive) has proven uneventfull. wont be the fastest car there but thats what bracket racing is for.

I have built a pancar dragger myself using an old RC10L onroad chassis and a RC12L rear pod. With 6 cells and a 8turn mod motor it will run 2.20's all day long which makes it excellent for bracket racing too.

As far as the Supercharger, i havent used one but a freind from work has one on a TMaxx. It tends to stumble in the mid range area if cruising along and goin full throttle, I would think it would work better on a drag car since your runnin wide open the whole run. I'm tossin the idea around to put one on my Nitro ProMod car to see what can be gained by it.

Check into Litespeed Engineering, they have a track in texas somewhere but unsure of how close it would be to you.

Good luck in what you plan to do

Texas

Check out this page for a nitro TC3 drag car. Looks very promising with engine setup to a geared diff instead of belt system...

http://www.rcdrags.com/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=399

A/Fuel

You are in luck, Go to http://www.rcdrags.com/forum/index.php?c=2&sid=838554a91e1b2eb8ec47f1b4c3d2e81a

From this forum you can find out what,, were, when, who and how for RC drag racing both nitro and electric.

A/Fuel

While I haven't done any drag racing in years, any rcvehicle could work in one of the classes they have. I built one based on a 10Lss using a composite craft 6x6 chassis, 12L pod, modified an axle by screwing spur to axle. Probably minor adjustments to shocks, and diffs would be all that's needed so it goes straight when you nail the throttle. Motor used would depend on class and probably traction conditions.