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| Here's my R'C car |
| It's all stock but here the list of stuff i'm adding to it: 1.graphite shock tower and tray 2. new springs 3. tuned pipe and header 4. diablo body (modified into a police car) 5. any other stuff i can afford |
| Some pics of the car will be coming soon Check back soon |
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| It's not my car, but the races are cool |
| Directions for building your own roll cage 1. Go to your LHS (local hobby shop) and get some STYRENE TUBING. It's white tubing, probably found with the model railroad stuff. Get whatever size you think you need. I use two different sizes for mine. 2. Get a candle and use this to bend the styrene tubing. Styrene gets very soft when you heat it up. Roll the styrene over the flame about 1 1/2 times, while slowly puting even pressure on it. Once it starts to bend, take it off the flame. The styrene can be bent many times. 3. Make sure that you bend the styrene so that it is flush with the roof of the body, as well as the front A-pillars. On the back C-pillars, it should not touch and there should be a small gap. You'll need to make two main supports for each side of the roof. Make sure that you measure everything and are making sure that it fits. 4. As for the cross-members, this is up to you, but i make an x-pattern across the roof, as well as an x-pattern for the back window. You should put at least one cross member at the roof and back window. 5. Now, to attach all these pieces, you can use super glue, or something else that is very strong. I used super glue and test dropped it from 6 feet, and i worked fine. You should make some kinds of c-cuts in the styrene tubes so that they mount flush with the other tubes. 6. As for attaching it, you can shoo-goo it to the body of the car, or somehow attach it to the chassis or shock towers, or whatever else you can think of. |