Building a homemade dragster????????

[silverpede-rus]

Has anyone built one?I plan on using copper tubing and solder to "wield" it together.Will this be strong enough?
I have a chassie designed ,the steering and drivetrain have already been designed.
I can't see paying $300 for a rolling chassie and clear body kit.So thats why I'm building my own.Does anyone have any ideas where I can find parts for the dragsters?
Thanks

[pudder]

Or you could go out and buy a BoLINK dragster kit, they are pretty cheap.

I made one for free, more of offraod though.

-mike

[staticx1134]

silver,i was gonna do the same thing but i doubt that the solder would hold..you would have to tack weld it...so i came to the conclusion of just buyin the bolink rail.....for the price you wont have any probs ya knoe?

[InspGadgt]

a lot of guys here built their own electric rails using 2 pieces of either fiberglass or graphie sheet, 2 graphite kite rods, rear pod from the parma Days of Thunder car, pan car rear axle and hubs, and pan car front end of their choice. the 2 plates are for the front suspension and rear pod to bolt to and connected by bolting the kite rods to those. Arrow shafts will work too for this. It's a simple to build dragster that's extremely light and fast.

[mocrcracer]

Mike, you come up with some of the craziest stuff. We'll have to start swapping r/c project ideas one of these days. That off-road dragster looks sweet! How does that thing handle? And how many different cars do you have bolted into that thing?

[InspGadgt]

way cool...I'm surprised you don't need wheelie bars on that thing.

[silverpede-rus]

I started on a chassie tonight at work.Thin aluminum that I will cut down to lighten it up with out taking away the strength.I have a bunh of model rocket engines I'm thinking really hard about :D

[Bob-Stormer]

I built this one. :)

Everything is painted except for the little bitty 1/4" sponsor logos on the bottom edge of the body. The rest were all masked and painted by myself.

I used the pod out of a parma hemi coupe kit. Used black fiberglass for the chassis, the front beam, and the rear upper pod. The battery tray is from a Custom Works sprint car. The wheelie bar was silver soldered together using commercial slot parts. Slot car guys will recognize the parts and technique.


http://www.nemontel.net/~2stormrc/images/castrol_off.jpg

http://www.nemontel.net/~2stormrc/images/castrol_rear.jpg

http://www.nemontel.net/~2stormrc/images/castrol_right.jpg

http://www.nemontel.net/~2stormrc/images/castrol_left.jpg

http://www.nemontel.net/~2stormrc/images/castrol_back.jpg

To fast though, and to little traction.

[FrankW]

I'm in the design phase of a 5th scale Winston Drag Bike *grin*. I'm designing it on SolidWorks (a 3d CAD). I'll show you guys pictures when I'm finished designing the chassis.

-Frank Williams

[silverpede-rus]

Bob,thats is one sweet damn car.And you picked the best driver in the NHRA.How fast have you had it?

How can I get a motor pod from one of these cars?

Thanks

[BuckNaked]

Very nice Bob.

Finally a realistic looking funny car dragster. I give you 10 Bucks for it. LOL

I've seen Jeeps go before. He has had that for years. It goes over 80mph. No joke.

True story:I wathced Jeep take the first run with his 9 turn. The car was flying,,,, well over 70mph then booooom! It was dusk and he didn't see a large curb on the far end or the parking lot.
He hit it at nearly full speed. A bum sitting on a bench yelled out "Clean up on isle five please". I couldn't help but laugh. Jeep laughed too but it was one of those.... I can't believe I just did that laughs". The car was it pieces. The first time I ever seen a motor break.

Jeep, Do you have pics of the aftermath? Or is that still a sore subject?

[BuckNaked]

Sure, After all you are a Modest-erator :rolleyes:

[Bob-Stormer]

I just love to build little race cars. Being as we are digging on drag stuff and you dig a good looking car, thought I'd share some of my drag photos with ya... 1/24 slot draggers though. :) These are all cars I built. The digger I built completely from scratch, along with the Bronco, and the Super Bee. I really enjoy the slot drags because of the level of scratch building involved. The fastest I ever got a funny car on a 55 foot track was a .545@98.89mph Lots of fun.

You never know where inspiration is gonna come from.

http://www.stormerhobbies.com/ebay/slot_drag_57pro.jpg
This was a good 55mph car in the .900's

http://www.stormerhobbies.com/ebay/slot_drag_SB_leftside.jpg

http://www.stormerhobbies.com/ebay/slot_drag_kodak4.jpg
This car was fun, a good mid 6 car at about 85mph

http://www.stormerhobbies.com/ebay/slot_dragster1_top.jpg
super16d digger, best pass 1.024@57mph

http://www.stormerhobbies.com/ebay/slots_bayer_left.jpg

http://www.stormerhobbies.com/ebay/slots_bronco_side.jpg
handled terrible with a c-can 20 in it. best pass was a 1.200 at about 45mph

[pudder]

Those are all too cool! I used the rear half of a DuraTrax Maximum ST and the front half of an ISHIPLA buggy for my dragster thingy.

I made a 2 foot chassis, may start on it again once I have a good nitro engine to use on it.

-mike