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you get two entries to win the zero flux Hilux Cage. The dirty i30 wagon, you know,
I started this damn epic i30 wagon build, I'd say, a few years back already,
and it's a serious love hate relationship.
You shut your mouth
when you're talking to me. On one hand, it's a beast. Its scale and shape, it looks super cool,
it's packed full of cool features like the MacPherson style strut front end. Open hood exposing a super nice turbo s 54
BMW engine, working headlights, tail lights,
all controlled with the K-pop bus. The bobs and overengineered wiring harness
traversing across the whole chassis. A styrene cage replica from a real E30 wagon race car. Even that turbo compressor
wheel was visible through a cut out front headlight pure fire, right? I like a lot and Oh, i'd agree with you. A few years back, but here's the catch.
It's an impostor. Watch your mouth, young man. Yeah. Maybe I've been watching
too many sema recaps and hearing most of the builds
at Sema are non driving cars. Let's talk about the Bulldog chassis. This is an antiquated four wheel
drive drive chassis, a dying discipline of RC
drifting, one that never quite worked out an aggressive style of driving that meant lots of risk at the track
bashing walls and other cars, all to try to gain some kind of controlable
four wheel drive skid. This build was already doomed to begin
with just starting with this chassis,
and I don't get me wrong, it can work. People have made it work,
but for the amount of time and my limited experience and to be honest, lack of motivation
to slap some lipstick on a pig.
This is called Crimson Sky and try
to convince everyone on the internet that they should also dress up
a pig in lipstick is probably not the best way to go. Who are you? Now, let's add scale as fatness, otherwise known as scale density, the amount of extra mass that you're
willing to put up with knowing full well , the more you add, the less capable
your car will drift. This is a straight up balancing act. A give or take. Cramming that pig in lipstick with more and more kitchen scraps
is not going to help the cause, the cause being sliding some serious corners
while looking cool as folk act. And I really, really, really don't want to build an RC drift project
that semas along looking pretty in lipstick,
but never actually slides worth a dyck, Dyck with a Y.
So were and by were I mean, I am going to pivot, let's pivot this built. Last November, I started to actually go to the drift track, started hanging
with a good group of drifters and started to learn the ways of true
RC drift enlightenment. A lot of people nowadays started with a
Suck Your Cure D5 chassis, a cheap three racing chassis that is extremely capable
for its price, and to be real, a highly recommended chassis for anybody
who wants to get into the hobby. As the popularity of this budget chassis
keeps growing, so do the hopper parts. A dude at the track dropped over five bills on his,
making it a serious contender. Did I go that route for this iteration
of the E30 Scale Drift Project wagon? No, no, no. I slipped on some serious ice, a term coined by the scale science
Colorado Drift Posse. Slipping on ice means making poor financial decisions
and purchasing impulsively to cement a hard foundation of mental health
when coping with a world full of shiitake. tractor beam sucked me right in. What did I buy? Pencil for scale, pencil for scale.
Not really. Not really. Damn. Get myself organized here. Well, as a patron of a drift track
that sells tons of parts, you end up ogling the complete chassis
that are displayed in class cabinets full of drool
worthy merchandise. The track, otherwise known as the pushers
of financial ruin balanced with pure joy, sold me a YD2 SX 3, a bastardized chassis
with gobs of hop up parts, making it worth the six Canadian bills
I spent on it. All right, so this is all right. So this is kind of a bastard child of YD2. So this is a yd2, but it's a bastard YD2t. It's just a hodgepodge of generations,
a whole bunch of generations of parts
and and that's what you get. You know, when when the track
kind of throws together a chassis from just like spare parts, although,
you know they are very good spare parts. So for the price
that I paid for this thing, I did quite well. From a slide rack steering system to an
active rear tow system in the rear, too.
BL-RS4 ESC. All right. Look at this. Look at this. Yeah, we also got ourselves a upside down yokomo V4. dp302 gyro. That's right. This this guy is the Cadillac of cars, the Cadillac, the Cadillac of Fricken gyros. And we got one. That's right,
we got one awesome run in my high tech, my high tech radio system
that has telemetry. So we will also be monitoring
the engine temperature through the radio.
That's right. The list grows. And to be honest, let's not dwell too long
before I start to count the cash spent
to bring joy back into this cold hard. So I slipped on some ice, a little birthday present to myself,
I started to get it going. We're going to tune it
tomorrow at the track. And yeah, and then once it's tuned, then I'm going to be working on this super sweet, super sweet e30 BMW three Series wagon. I learned a few things after getting the Adam LZ cream colored
240 drifting, the major lesson being not to mount your body
until your chassis is set up. Get it going body less. Let's go skinny dipping. What are you crazy? Unless you want it. Monster
truck in the front. And make it look like garbage
as it drifts, even though it's basically a no,
no drifting bodyless, at most RC Drift tracks the guys is strictly sideways
here in Toronto.
Knew I was tuning it and by I mean Trevor. And Nezo do you need help, man? Oh yes, we got it sliding consistently. And man, what a dream. This thing slides naked, sensualy. Nice to find other guys
who are comfortable with their naked city. Like me, I always champion getting into chassis
that are the most popular at your track. The dudes here at Strictly Sideways
know their way around most chassis, but I would say are very familiar
with the Yokomo yd2 chassis. So massive shout out
goes to Nezo and Trevor, who took some time out of their busy
track days to set me up, right? Yeah, Amy does feel pretty good,
better in the rear end. See, all right, so now that we have this
suite capable chassis ready to slide some corners, let's get this thing
dressed in a fine suit of lexan, Keeping with the theme of this dirty
30 build, I, of course, whipped out my spare
a plastic E30 wagon shell. I don't know why
I'm such a sucker for sporting wagons. I had to make this one special,
being tired of seeing the same two forties with their played out Rocket
Bunny widebodies, glorious.
But, you know, played out. I really wanted to try to make something
a little different, something that might be
the only one out there at the drift track. So I asked myself what cooler than an E30
who's cooler than me? Well, of course it's the m3
e30 with those sexy box flares. Sure. Knowing that BMW didn't make an M3 wagon E30 variant, I fell down a deep, dark Google Pit, checking out all the custom
i30 Wagon M3 bills. And you know,
there are many seams that I wasn't the only one with that thirst. We to choose,
you know, whizzing the juice. That's it for this part of the dirty
i30 wagon build. But don't you fret, you guessed it,
Part two is already live on the channel. If you feel like supporting your boy
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