hello everyone and welcome in today's
video I'm starting a build that I've wanted to do for a while now and that is a
rear wheel drive drift car using this 3Racing Sakura d4 rear wheel drive
1/10 scale drift car kit I bought a few months ago and now I'm finally getting the
opportunity to put it together I want to keep this build as budget-friendly as
possible and the Sakura d4 seems like a good place to start to my knowledge this
is one of the least expensive rear wheel drive drift kits on the market and from
what I've heard it's a solid option for beginner and intermediate drifters who
want a rear wheel drive drift car but don't want to completely empty their
bank account minus the cost of the body I intended to the total costume build to
be well under 300 u.s. dollars especially since I picked up this kit
used with the box and some parts bags open and some components partially
assembled buying used and half finished RC vehicle sometimes be a bit of a
gamble but I bought this one in person from someone who assured me that it was
all here and hey why would he lie right? but it ended up being complete and in
fact it even had a bunch of hardware and a few plastic parts I don't even think
fit this kit so looks like I scored a good deal here so this video is going to
highlight the assembly of the Sakura d4 chassis
I really enjoyed putting this kit together and I like the simplicity of
the design I didn't run into any issues during assembly
I only critique at this point is the quality of some of the plastic parts one
of the steering knuckles has a pretty large void in it it I assume from a bubble
that formed during the injection molding process
also I found it a little tricky to thread some of the metal hardware
handling into certain plastic pieces I ended up per-threading some of the
plastic parts using a tap to make sure everything screwed together correctly
of course I'll share more of my thoughts on this vehicle after it is completed
and after driving it I've done quite a bit of drifting with
all wheel drive vehicles but I don't have a lot of experience with rear wheel
drive drifting so my knowledge on driving and setting up the car is pretty
limited so if any of you watching have any tips and suggestions please let me know
in the comments section I think that's all I have to say about the chassis at
this point as always if you have any questions feel free to leave a comment
and I will do my best to answer it although as I said my knowledge is
pretty limited at this time so sit back and enjoy the rest of this quick
build montage afterwards I will show you the body I'm using and talk a little
about my plans for building it for the body I chose of an ABC hobby
Nissan 180sx, not the most original choice for a body but they're popular
for a reason, as tempting as it is to go all-out with detail on this build by
adding an interior body kit inner fenders elaborate paint job and engine
bay I really want to keep things simple at least for now I really don't want
another lengthy project with a ton of custom part so I'm going to focus on
getting the exterior of the body looking good mounting it to the chassis and
doing some drifting and then possibly come back later on and do an interior
and some other custom details but that's all for this video thank you
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