Our club normally race on-road touring cars indoors in a sports hall but the area that has been 'ear-marked' for us is some rather rough tarmac & a bit of grass... luckily many of us also race 1-10th buggies so we will probably do some kind of rally cross style racing - mixing the grass with the tarmac. But being a Japanese car show the organisers are putting up a prize for a drifting competition.... so rather than scratch-up & ruin my Corally racer - I decided to get one of my old touring cars up & running to drift spec'
Anyway this is my old Schumacher Axis - that I raced when I was a 'B' team driver in the late 90s, this car replaced a 98' SST & probably did one season of National series TC racing with the odd club meet & Schumacher BTCC series race. The car is in great condition... but the decision to use this car hinged on the fact that I had already sprayed up the 200mm wide HPI Skyline shell that had already been drilled to fit the SST.
Onto the pics;
The electrics are all old brushed stuff that I had lying around, the Novak ESC came with a 'Lot' of JRX2 parts & cars that I got from Holland & was pleased that it works great!
The motor is an 11 double so should have plenty of grunt!! This was a control mod motor used for the Corally STCC series here in the UK that both myself & Jammin competed in. My Axis has quite a few upgrade - in fact I think the only part missing from the Speed Secrets list is the lower carbon plate, one interesting upgrade is the adjustable one-way layshaft.
Other upgrades include alloy housings including the one-peice lower one for the front.
HPI Skyline shell - I think this is the sleeker 'GTS' rather than the GTR?
I used to race the SST99 Pro before it was replaced by my last touring car, the Mission. 
And i think there were even a few chassis variations on the same models. 
..... we used to hot-wire these Bitd (solder the red power lead direct to the 7.2v supply rather than 6v through the RX) when we couldn't afford a decent 'quick' servo 
Some of the other club members (including the clubs hire car that was on offer for 'punters') had drift 'specced' their cars but had fully moulded plastic tyres mounted on wheels where as my 'Yokomo' drift tyres are a plastic 'band' mounted over rubber, with the rubber projecting out each side (hence the sensitivity to camber I guess) - the 'other' guys wheels were a lower offset giving more track width - which must help with stability?
