Sometimes, although very rare, a project gives me the tingles.
And this ten scale Ford Rs200 drift build is doing just that.
Look at it.
Our goal is to make a drift able
but very scale caged RC build with just enough realistic 3D accessories
to push all the right buttons to give us those tingles.
And what better way to drift away from the JDM
than to hit up some fantastic group B action?
Put that to 240 down and let's go obscure.
Why, why, why?
Who wouldn't want to have the scale as shitaki rally sport
200 as their tiny, nimble drifter.
The rally soul of this thing will make you a drifting legend
at the track.
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Welcome back to the Scale Drift Project.
On this episode, the Rs200 gets fleshed out with a cage.
We lock into a chassis design, redesigned battery placement
several times, and push the firewall around.
Hopefully ending this episode with something that looks like
we know what we're doing.
But first,
a massive shadow goes to all the people that invested in this project.
Very soon will be raffling it off to one of you guys.
So come and hang out on Tall Can Tuesday.
A livestream that happens every Tuesday at 9:30 p.m.
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the RS 200.
My favorite car ever.
This is my Fiero Slade It's the sexy Italian curves.
It's the sexy Italian curves.
The aggressive stance that turbocharged whistle
paired with that delightful ungodly
waist gate screech.
Unfortunately, its projected
future wins never materialized when Group B was scrapped.
You know, all of those deaths
just as the last batches of the 200 run rolled off the assembly line
and by line, I mean hand-rolled off the line.
Oh, and apparently they didn't end up selling well,
you know, which is
kind of crappy, man,
because like, he can't even can’t even dream about buying one now.
Like, I mean, it's just out of reach for everybody.
Unless you're like, you know.
You know what I mean?
You know, I'm saying go.
We started with the sakura D5 Lite chassis, but like most RC drift
chases, they don't they don't look like,
you know, like real race car chases.
You know, I'm saying they don't look like, you know, like what we all drool
over, you know, with, like, the
the coolest part of a race car is like the naked
chassis of all the wicked ness That makes it so awesome.
Come on.
I mean, let's be real.
So, obviously, this rs200 build
needs to be as scale inside as out.
First thing to do was to recreate the holes of the stock
chassis in some kind of painful, torturous 3D software.
Because that's how I roll.
You know, learn some obsolete software win.
Yeah, Wind torture.
Torture.
I scanned in the old chassis using a 90s
piece of technology called a document scanner.
The problem with cheap scanners is they can't guarantee against scale
shifts on the axis the scanner head moves.
So it's a rough guide.
You're going to have to use some digital calipers to verify points
on the real chassis to get, you know, close measurements.
You can see how off the scan is on the overlay.
If I were smarter, I would have laid down a ruler alongside the chassis
and scanned them together for reference.
If you need some digital calipers, a tool you should have
if you're into RC, whatever.
I put a link in the description for a cheap set of budget calipers
that will, you know, work really well for anything RC related.
The goal
is to be able to create my own chassis to fine tune and adjust the wheelbase
of that chassis while including mounting provisions for structural scale
components being rear wheel drive and having the powerplant
attached to the rear bulkhead makes this a fairly easy thing to do
using some architectural style images from the internets.
I started to
loosely plan where I needed room for scale-ness
and where I had no way of avoiding
massive spur gears.
The chassis had to be split into two parts
due to the print bed limitations.
The limitation also influenced how I supported the frame rails
so they would hold everything together.
What I noticed with the Zero flux Hilux
was how rigid the cage made the whole chassis.
We could be, you know, using floppy materials like PETG and,
you know, for printing and still end up with a very robust stiff
chassis, even though
now like the trend is to have really floppy chassis is like that.
You know, people are like starting to cut away material on the carbon chassis
to get,
you know, some like horizontal play between the front and the rear bulkheads.
I guess to kind of simulate and create more body roll,
I'm assuming more body roll. I think that's the thing.
Is that a thing?
I don't know.
All right, let's keep moving.
The idea is to get this sakura
D5 chassis to look as scale as possible.
Like the real thing.
At least from the same mother.
Of course, I scoured the internet looking for reference material.
The RS Monocoque design uses fairly geometrical shapes to create its tub.
It's not a fully tubed race car, which makes it much easier
to translate onto the bloated, wide and sakura chassis.
The RS is a four cylinder mid-engined turbo rocket ship.
The firewall is basically an aluminum
because it's British sheet loft, the main hoop.
The main concern is the RC motor and driveline and where these sit
in relation to the driver and the passenger bar.
You know, it's iterative design, right? So we're going it's going to
make it 100 times and then
keep printing it until we get it right, which is probably not the way
to do things efficiently.
But I don't know.
I mean, whatever.
Yeah, we'll get it done. We'll get it done.
We'll get it.
There are a few versions that I won't bore you with.
Let's get on to, like more noticeable versions with larger steps
and progressions in design.
The first version tucks the battery behind the driver, standing it up on its side.
It's actually a great placement where you can use the posts.
The battery leads as a way to hold the battery in place.
Exactly like the zero flux high looks.
Yeah.
This version also added mounting for the seats
and locations for the main hoop to friction fit into the side rails.
Everything was gravy ours of measuring and printing
and we got ourselves this first version.
But guess what?
That damn spurred gear, man.
I put the battery, I occupied the battery in the same space
as the spare gear.
It's like two steps forward, you know, ten steps back.
So let's just frickin start over.
Let's start over.
Version two.
Version two is a massive step forward.
Fixed wheelbase issues.
The cage got designed, and
so did a sweet lip.
I went all Pikes Peak with that front diffuser, but I think it looks super
rad On the Rs200 there have been a few Pikes Peak Rs200
in the past with crazy Aero and yeah, I'm a fan, I'm
a fan.
My God, it's looking really good.
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I tried to even, you know, make it painless to print
by creating smaller cage sections that can be printed
low to the print bed and reduce massive amounts of support material.
Support material is when we have overhangs
in our 3D prints and we need to like bridge the gaps.
That's done with support structures.
This FDM printing thing is frickin wild.
It just keeps,
you know, it just keeps getting better and better.
Same hardware, modified software, firmware upgrades and slicer updates.
That's it.
It's the best part.
You know, if you're not into it, get into it.
If you're into RC, you should probably also be getting into 3D printing.
It's only going to get better.
The materials are only going to get better
and the printers are only going to get better.
So it's a good time to jump in.
So you have like a good understanding of how it works and you can kind of follow
along as things get wild, wilder, wilder,
Wilder things get wilder Jeeze, it’s the
best, Right?
Right. The battery issues.
The battery issues.
I flipped the battery flat and wedged it behind the seats, adding seat rails
to slide the seats forward out of the way if needed.
I'm trying to think about like, battery leads, access to battery leads.
I think in the head.
The battery slides in via a latch.
Originally designed to have a magnet.
It enters from one side and it can't rattle out.
I don't know if it worked well because unfortunately this version
is riddled with some other issues
that require a full redesign.
Version number three and my current version.
Why did we need to do a version three?
Well, if you look at the Rs200, you can see the main hoop
for the roll cage and the firewall divides the two side windows of the body.
With version two, the hoop was way too far back,
mainly just to accommodate for battery placement.
After some massive brainstorming, I just decided to create a passthrough
for the battery.
It's a tunnel passthrough that attaches the roll cage
hoop in in the right spot.
I also added slots to the firewall and the horizontal chassis sections
could fit together for an even tighter fit
for more rigidity.
And here it is, version three in all its glory.
I think it's probably one of the best builds I have ever, ever done.
I mean, it's not even done yet, and it seems like
it is the culmination of everything I've learned in the past.
Scale this shed builds.
I also sent out the chassis to a company called Send Cut send to have it
cut out of aluminum.
I didn't get it cut out or carbon fiber because it was cost prohibitive.
It was way too much frickin money.
So aluminum it is.
And the aluminum does really look frickin dope. So
on the next episode, we're
going to start adding some super scale resin accents, period.
Correct.
Wheels, dashboard and engine accessory.
These, including Intercooler and Turbo.
The paint will get discussed and maybe you will throw in some Hobie
wing power plant action to see how she drifts.
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