Time for me to do an import.

[spitfire]

I have had a long run of projects that have been american. As much as i love american mucles, ive been wanting a new drift car. So i went looking in ebay and found a 1971 skyline. Ive seen a couple of poeple do this car, so i thought id give it a try.

So on with the project. Ive been thinking about painting it silver and painting the wheel wells black.



Got it all mounted up






All the pictures for now. I dont know if you can tell but its getting ready to rain realy hard out side.
All coments wellcome. Enjoy!

[Skv012a]

Try to make it some sort of race deco since its the race body. It lacks mirrors, has much longer fenders and all that.

[spitfire]

So should i do it the way it shows on the box? I realy like the way it looks on the box. The only thing i mite change is the color of the fender flares.

[XMDrifter]

ah shucks, everybody's doing KPG's now...jk
looks good.

[Skv012a]

Originally Posted by spitfire

So should i do it the way it shows on the box? I realy like the way it looks on the box. The only thing i mite change is the color of the fender flares.

Yea, thats what I meant. Maybe do stripes and main trims in color of choice or something like that. Google some KPGs and see what racing ones used to look like.

[spitfire]

Originally Posted by Skv012a

Yea, thats what I meant. Maybe do stripes and main trims in color of choice or something like that. Google some KPGs and see what racing ones used to look like.

Cool, thanks for the tip.

[cowboysir03]

I'm curious to find out what length you had to make the wheelbase...the autoscale body of this type is super short.

[Skv012a]

And based on that it'd be easy to make a rule of thumb. ASC is 90mm, so I'd assume this needs 98+.

[Dr. Kustom]

Welcome to the KPG's club! IMO, if you can put some wider rims, would looks much better.

[spitfire]

Originally Posted by xmod4life

Welcome to the KPG's club! IMO, if you can put some wider rims, would looks much better.

I was woundering how many people have this car on an xmod.

Im thinking about doing that mini-z shaft upgrade. Where you shave down the D-cut. Then ill have a very wide rang of rims to choose form.

[Skv012a]

I'd say go ahead and do that. I like how mine turned out.

[spitfire]

Originally Posted by Skv012a

I'd say go ahead and do that. I like how mine turned out.

Are there any sites you recommend?

Was there ant thing you had to worry about. Like shaving to far or accidentally cutting the threads?

[Skv012a]

I didnt have to worry about anything. I'm sure you have spares if anything too. As far as rims, shop.tinyrc.com is your best bet. Try to get the MA multi-offset kit/set because that will really get you started and will match one another.

[spitfire]

cool site. So far these are my favorit.

maan look at the trend i started

cant wait to see it finished

[spitfire]

Ya i forgot you did the first one here. There should be a comp for the best KPG. JK, but i like the body style of these. They have there own look.

[Skv012a]

Sadly KPG is THE worst RC racing body, so I've let that one go.

[surgeon]

Instead of silver, why not go with a wild 70's color? It is a race spec. I got a 510 I put wide fenders on and sprayed lime...it is looking killer. A yellow, orange or other hotrod color would look great on it and set it off from the other Skylines...

My two cents anyway.

[spitfire]

Originally Posted by Skv012a

Sadly KPG is THE worst RC racing body, so I've let that one go.

this gona be more like a show car, you take it out once in a while just to show off with freinds. But are they top heavy? or just to heavy all togther.

Originally Posted by surgeon

Instead of silver, why not go with a wild 70's color? It is a race spec. I got a 510 I put wide fenders on and sprayed lime...it is looking killer. A yellow, orange or other hotrod color would look great on it and set it off from the other Skylines...

My two cents anyway.

I was thinking about that, but im leaning more tords something suttle.
I think either one would look good, but i realy dont want anything to flashy.

[4G63punk]

do a roll cage! haha