Eearlyboid

You are right, but limits are what keeps the field competitive. It's not intentionally excluding them. If they want to race, there's nothing to stop them from buying a chassis within the specs. People do it for other classes. I don't know anyone who thinks it's okay to race a 1/8 scale rally against a 1/10 scale rally, everything is different between the two chassis. If you limit the chassis to 200mm wheelbase (for example), you even the field to allow similar chassis to compete. Otherwise, people will be bringing their 1/8 OFNA Ravager mods to race against your little XV-01. Sure, for bashing or trying out the spec there's no reason why everyone shouldn't bring what they have; our choices for rally are limited, afterall. But for competition there's no need to allow just anything. Every rally club who's forum I've read, has a limit on the wheel base for no other reason than to even the playing field.

Eearlyboid

That's interesting. Perhaps when they release more information we can see how they modified it from an SC truck. It may just make it easier to create a rally chassis.

dragonracing

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looks like direct competition for the traxxas rally car. if...i were to get a 1/8 rally i would consider both rigs due to price and parts availability. but ill probably stick to the xv01 chassis.

Papi

Just some words from Czech fellow

One reason why rally is so popular here is that it has very few limits, compared to other classes:
You can have any chassis with width 200mm or less which can fit 1:10 scale body (only scale rally car based bodies are allowed). You can use any electronics, mostly 2S HC and 540 motors are permitted, but some local cups have more free rules. Only limit on tires is 75mm diameter and 30mm width. That's all.
This keeps rally racing really cheap and gives you huge space for experiments and homemade modifications - some people enjoy modifying their cars more, than actual racing

I would recommend you at least scale/width limit, because it's difficult to get different scales on one track - rally track should be slow and technical - if you make track for TC-based cars, it will be too difficult for Slash-based cars and too easy for 1/16.

vwjuice

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I would love a rally class in Portland. I think a 1/10 and a 1/8 class would be great.

Any 1/8 buggy with a rally car body. Or the Traxxas, losi, AE, or kyosho vehicles would work.

For 1/10 class you could use any 200mm sedan and it would be fun. Even the cheap exceed or redcat cars could be used and it would make for a very inexpensive and fun time.

metalnut

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Do I smell some potential neighborly meetups? 3 hours of driving for some rally action is totally doable

Eearlyboid

I'm down for a trip to P-town!

Not trying to be a downer, just thinking here... I'm beginning to think that racing 1/8 size chassis would be easier, since there are simply more options. It's easy to put a rally body onto a ST truck, or lift a buggy and rally with that. Thing is, Papy has a good point; rallying 1/8th on a 1/10th track is simply too hard.

vwjuice

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If we are setting something up in an old parking lot, then we could easily set something up that would work well for both 1/8 and 1/10. However finding a place like a park that's already setup would be ideal and 1/10 would be be easier to run then since it's smaller. At a park we would just need a trail leafing to a dust covered dirt parking lot.

vwjuice

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Honestly I am thinking it would be pretty easy to build a temporary track that could be setup and taken down easily. Some jumps built with plywood and a 2X4. The jumps would have to be high to be scale. Then use some rope to define the lanes.

dragonracing

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check this video out. 1/5 cars on ice with spiked tires. wait for the guy with the subaru body. he can drift that thing well.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sCx...t=HL1399061790

metalnut

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That is so awesome. I've been pricing out and virtually putting together a 1/5th gasser for sometime in the near future, looking at the Losi 5ive with a customized mod engine. I wonder if I could get a rally body and some good tires for it

Eearlyboid

So, I decided to turn my TC3 into a rally car, because last weekend I happened to get a TC6.1. From what I can find, the TC3 should rally good but it's going to take some work to get it properly functional.

vwjuice

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For any of you guys that race, topgear hobbies in Portland is moving to a new building over the next couple months. They are also changing from a clay dirt track to an off road carpet track. They've ran some good layouts that would be easy in a rally car.

We have 4 people already talking about a rally class and even a class of the old Tamiya pertinent TA-02 trucks with silver can motors or something cheap like the hpi 15t fire bolt motors. This would keep cost down and keep it an even field.

MOmo

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BITD the old Amain track in vancouver ran a Rally class.

Scott K (DKOV) was and still is heavily involved in full sized rally (Anyone attend the OTR this weekend at PIR and Dufer?) and started a Rally class back when the RS4 Rally, Losi Rally Weapon, Yokomo rally and TC3 conversion were popular.

The rules were pretty simple. 200mm body, motor limited to 540 stock (pre brushless folks!) motors. People had either hopped up cars or practically stock. we raced on the same track as offroad. Race was started and run just like rally. Points awarded for all spots finishing. even if you broke, and could still drive, you earn points. It was a BLAST! I think the record was over 23 cars.

I know I've been eying my RS4 rally and working on a few updates to try and get it out to the track.

I'm intrigued by the new AE rally, but it and the losi and the traxxas because of their size, don't do it for me.

From the bash factor of a moderate outdoor track, i say Ya! but I really appreciate the Scale aspect of the 10th scale platform.


MOmo

vwjuice

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I sold my rally rs4's last year, but I want to get a new Tamiya rally. I like the scale of the 200mm sedans, but I love the size of the traxxas, Losi, and AE rally cars. Wish there was some realistic bodies for those.