Mini 8 Rally/drifter

[mrspeedy]

As some of you will know, every year at WORM we run a summer series for micros that have been converted to WRC rally cars.

This usually takes the form of a Shark chassis with a Phat bodies "Banzai Mini" body mounted on top, and a set of foam tyres with MB inner tube "donuts" stretched over to give a kind of drifty/rally car feel to the driving.

We run each race as a specific rally, and try to build a track and surface to match the type of rally that the country runs.

So Rally Sweden would be run on a fully polished floor to give a very slippy feel as if running on snow

Rally Germany would have carpet laid down on a flat track to simulate a grippy type of rally.

Last night we ran "The Monte Carlo Rally" so was mostly polished floor with a few table ramps to simulate the Italian Alps you get the picture

Anyway .... up until now we have only ever used the Sharks as drifters, but I'm a lazy sod sometimes and decided it would be easier to mount my Mini body on my Losi Mini8 cos all my radio gear was already installed.

All I had to do was make up a couple of body mounts front and back with a couple of pieces of plastic sheet, I used some polypropylene I had laying around.

The Mini 8 is a little wider than the Shark so the tyres/wheels do "poke" a little but I like the look.

Have a look at the pics and let me know what you think

Oh and BTW, the Mini 8 makes an awesome drifter !!

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[russmini]

That looks awesome !
Another reason to buy a Mini8 :-)

[jaysllim]

Really lik wel the look of tha,wish we did tha style ov racing over here in wales,i put a porker shell on my c4 nd ran it down cobra as a laugh but it hasnt caught on witch is a shame.

[jaffacake]

How COOL is that!!! :woot:

[metalmickey0]

Is that what you called the table top in the corner. If you had no speed you didnt get up it. Momentum was deffo the key top it. And i think theyd polished the floor as i would of had more grip running just rims.

[wezzer]

si , you need to do this body in 200mm 10th scale ! indoors on polished boards with a 200mm rally/tourer car this would look ace :thumbsup:

[Body Paint]

si , you need to do this body in 200mm 10th scale ! indoors on polished boards with a 200mm rally/tourer car this would look ace :thumbsup:

Just make your TC super short WB and you can run the shell as it is :thumbsup:

[Danosborne6661]

Cut n shut weezer!

[wezzer]

lol oookk then ;-)

[mrspeedy]

... or just ask the boss for a Carisma GT14b :thumbsup:

[WesleyRoy]

Hey Mr Speedy, i really like your idea of a mini 8 rally car, so i copied your idea.

But instead of making new bodyposts holders, i've drilled 2 holes in my rear T-bone bumper and shortened the front T-bone bumper and drilled also 2 holes in it to mount the bodyposts.

I really like the way the t-bone rear bumper looks like a kind of diffuser ;-)

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[mrspeedy]

Nice work .. tho so sure about some of those stickers :p

.... now get some inner tubes on those foams for some proper drifting action ... and let me know what you think it then :thumbsup:

[WesleyRoy]

i will post some recent photo's soon, i took my mini apart yesterday due to a worn pinion and spurgear.

I 've put some decals on it. I did'nt tried the innertube yet.