AE RC8 Oval Conversion Kit...

[Team Hoagie]

I'm currently working on a set of bumpers and a rear body mount for the RC8. I have the protos cut out and now I just have to put some holes in them to put everything together and mount them to the buggy. If all goes well, there shouldn't have to be any modifications made to the base buggy to make these work.

I'm going to do some testing with it then to check the durability of the add-ons, and to see if there is a need for different shock towers. I'm hoping what's on the buggy will perform well and be competitive to keep the conversion costs down for the racer.

My plans are to get it ready in time for the Horizon Hobby Shootout at JTech in October. As soon as everything is in line and working well, I'll post up some pics.

Derrick Hochgesang
Team Hoagie Designs (THD)
Custom R/C Products

[AccessRacer]

I'm interested, keep me informed. Thanks

[Team Hoagie]

Everything is looking good so far! I need to make the foam bumper for it, actually mount the body with pins, trim the rear body posts, and do some track testing to see if the standard RC8 Chassis will work for oval racing as is. Hopefully no modifications will need to be done to the suspension. As of now, nothing has to be modified to mount the THD Latemodel Kit on the RC8! Below are some pictures.

Thanks,

Derrick Hochgesang
Team Hoagie Designs (THD)
Custom R/C Product
teamhoagiedesigns@gmail.com

[crazy4wdracer]

The kit looks awesome, keep up the good work!

[D&D Race]

Where do you guys get the 1/8 dirt latemodel bodies? who makes them? need info.

[ahinchma]

C&M Bodies (Clayton @ 704-401-8075) is a great body. Winning a bunch of races here in NC.

[Doug Gaut]

Team Losi also has an 1/8 late model body......RJ Speed has one......Ofna has a new one out as well.

[Team Hoagie]

Yes, lots of good molded choices out there now! This one happens to be a Losi.

[bbs racing]

I hope the marker comes of the outside of your body losi latemodel body does not have film on the outside

[Team Hoagie]

I does and it has Believe me, I tried taking it off before I marked the body up. 90% + rubbing alcohol works well

[jamminnay]

the kit looks neat!

[Team Hoagie]

I'll be running it at the Horizon Hobby Shootout next weekend the 10th-12th

[Team Hoagie]

Well after having a great first heat and having a couple of problems in the next 2, I qualified 10 overall (#2 in the B-Main) out of 19 drivers. I was pretty pleased with that considering it was my first outing with the car and I was up against some of the best drivers in Northern Indiana & Illinois IMO such as Mark Corns, Mark Stetler, Lee Morrison, & Dustin Malicoat to name a few. In addition to running with Losi team drivers Adam Drake and Billy Fischer.

I ran a 41 lap 4:05.585 time, and the TQ was a 43 lap 4:00.719 time. My fastest lap time in the heat races was a 5.635, and the fastest of all the heats was a 5.362. With a more consistant driver behind the radio and some additional setup adjustments I think this car was very capable of doing better. Their were no modified/specialty parts on the car other than the Prototype THD front bumper & rear body mount. All the setup changes were done using the standard RC8 buggy components.

The kit will include an upper and lower front bumper, front body posts and a bumper spacer, 1-1/4" thick front bumper foam, rear body mount and body posts, screws to assemble and mount everything, and some body clips. There will also be assembly instructions included. I'm projecting I could have some kits available as soon as 2-3 weeks from today. If I get enough pre-orders in I could probably get them done quicker. Contact me if you are interested.

I think this buggy has proven that it can be an oval contender with a very simple bolt on Bumper & Body Mount kit this past weekend. I think in the near future I am going to work on some other things to provide more range of adjustments to fine tune it a little better.

Thanks,

Derrick Hochgesang
Team Hoagie Designs (THD)
Custom R/C Products
teamhoagiedesigns@gmail.com

[newbie2]

looks real nice... wish someone wud build a nice oval for 1/8 models here in michigan....We have a outstanding track in fruitport we run tc4's late model outlaw ele. and nitro but no 1/8.... I think it wud go over good.. we also have a indoor dirt oval in grand rapids but as of now its to rough for the tc's.(suppose to work to make it smooth for the tc's).. beleive it or not the slash is a fun oval truck also... martinsville all over.....

[Team Hoagie]

AE RC8 w/THD Dirt Oval Kit, Losi Stinger Latemodel Body, and a TnT-Fx Body Wrap 8)