Thursday, September 27, 2018

'Drifting' away from Cars to Drones...


The past years have seen a huge drop in RC Drifters locally, and a huge popularity in Drones...

We have been part of it as well, from Photography Drones, Leisure Drones to Racing Drones...

Hopefully, we will be able to update here more often... *guilty*

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Saturday, August 30, 2014

Smoking it R/C Style...

Its always great to see a smoking drift machine...
Sadly, most of the times when we see a 'smoking' R/C machine, it usually burns a hole in our pockets...

That hasn't been the case for one particular individual in Singapore's R/C Drift Scene since 2006...
For most of you, you know who this particular person is...
For the benefit of those who doesn't, its ZHIRONG!!!
Who else could it have been?!?!?

Well, recently, we managed to take a few shots of the updated smoke unit on a RWD...
Smoke releases on throttle for the ultimate realistic effect, with the harder the throttle, the thicker the smoke...
Just perfect...

Cut all the crap...
See it for yourself now!!!



Music Credits: Ellie Goulding -Burn
Video: Alex
Starring: Zhirong

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Quick Compile of Some RWD Drift Practice Clips...

Taken some time in late March & early April...
Few of them just started not too long, so let's try to make another of a more recent practice session and see if they have really improved...

Meanwhile, enjoy this!!!


Thursday, March 20, 2014

Just Another Day, DRIFTING!!!

You can never get enough of drifting...
Its just another session with 2 very obsessed drifters...

Started off pretty calmly, until someone just couldn't figure out why overtaking the other is so damn tough...



The gap never seems to close up, until drastic measures were taken...


Whatever it takes to achieve your target!!!

 


Wednesday, March 19, 2014

"You Spin Me Right Round, Baby, Right Round!!!"

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CAUTION!!!
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Do Not Stare Into This For Too Long!!!
We Will Not Be Responsible For Any Dizziness / Fainting Spells!!!

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Ending February 2014, Drift-Style!!!

With February coming to a close, and a competition coming up soon after...
What would you do if do not have much on hands?!???
DRIFT!!! Of course!!!
Even if you are so darn busy, you drift!!! ;)

Just another one of our fun, exciting drift sessions...










Not much pictures this time, 'cause I'm having a blast myself!!!
Hahaa!!!
Well, definitely will try to show off more of all the cars the next time.
Hope I will be able to forget to enjoy the next time... ;p

Till then...

Monday, February 24, 2014

A Date With SGDrifters on Valentine's Day!!!

After spending a great day with your partners/loved ones, you noticed that something is still amiss....

You start recalling...
"Hmmmmm..........
 Flowers bought were beautiful and she absolutely loved it....
 Dinner went on without hiccups as bookings were made and the special menu were simply tasty...
 Wine & Dessert matched the food served previously...
 Pretty darn sure that everything is right...
 So what's with this feeling of amiss??!???"

You only noticed what's really amiss when you reached home, opened your door, and saw that huge bag that resembles a luggage bag, but its obviously not, and you know it!
Packed inside, your other love, needing that little love on a special day too...

What do you do when this happens???












Hahaaa!!!
Drifting together on 14 Feb 2014 till late...

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

A Look Back at 2013, Days of Giroless...Most of the time...


The Cars...








The Actions!!!



















Venue: SGDrifters Indoor Track

Photography: Alex, SGDrifters

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Just One Of Our Plentiful Casual Drift Session...

We are sharing some of the pictures that we have taken during one of our enjoyable session...
Here's just some very little photos...



 Let's try to add some 'excitement' to these photos...

The Story
One hot, quiet afternoon, a Yellow FD was having some fun with his new setup and tires along the bends and the curves of Mount SG Drift.
Excited with his new turbo and the linear power bend it delivers, he drifts the curves and bends like a kid with a new bike on Christmas Day. Whilst admiring his new found perfect drift setup, silently creeping into the bends of Mount SG Drift came one of the legendary Green FC, branded with "SGDrifters".
 



The Green FC secretly watches his next victim, studying his lines and style carefully so as to ensure himself a victorious battle ahead.
As the Yellow FD passes for the third time, the Green FC starts it engine and went for it, giving the Yellow FD a huge lead.
In no less than 3 bends, the flashing headlights of the Green FC appears on the rear view mirror of the Yellow FD. Confident with this new found performance, the Yellow FD decided to accept the challenge and gave his throttle a good hard step.
After bouts of challenges along the curves and bends of Mount SG Drift, the Green FC finally overtook the Yellow FD with ease and poise.
All along, the Green FC has just been monitoring a little closer on how the Yellow FD handles the road. Disappointed, the Green FC overtakes without stopping and left Mount SG Drift, leaving the Yellow FD behind in its tires and exhaust smoke.
Unfazed by the defeat, he decides to go for more laps around Mount SG Drift and swears to himself that he will improve much, much more by the end of the day.
With too much determination, mixed with disappointment and frustrations, the Yellow FD failed to notice a mysterious S13/15 quietly parked in a corner, watching the whole display all along.

The mysterious S13/15 made a turn around and got ready to enter Mount SG Drift right after the Yellow FD left. Parked right at the edge of the road, the Champagne S13/15 gave his on-board computers and meters a final check before hitting those dangerous and challenging curves and bends of Mount SG Drift.
Just as he was about to complete his final check of his machine running conditions, a striking colored car stops abruptly in front, and gave a good step on its throttle. The beautiful sound of a rotary engine roars and the Champagne S13/15 looks up. It's the Yellow FD that has just lost to the legendary SGDrifters Green FC!

The Champagne S13/15 winds down his windows and gave the Yellow FD a good wave. The Yellow FD winds down his window, ready to ask for a challenge with the Champagne S13/15, only to notice that its his old pal, White S13.
*After injecting plentiful of $$$ into the White S13, the results is the beautifully crafted and tuned Champagne S13/15. In Japan, its also know as 'Strawberry' for S13 with S15 front.
After sharing their new setups on their cars for a short while, the Champagne S13/15 requested the Yellow FD to go for it, while he trails behind. Champagne S13/15 hopes to be able to notice and feel the improvements after investing all of his year end bonus on this new look and setup.

Performance was balance between the 2 cars. One could clearly see no disparity in terms of corner entering speeds and how the cars both negotiate through the corners. Definitely a sight to see for ALL drift fans.
Champagne S13/15 couldn't be happier! Seeing his 'investment' producing such great results, he naturally squeezes a grin from cheek to cheek.
And just at this moment, right before both cars enter their 6th corner, the Champagne S13/15 felt his rear right dropped suddenly and almost right away, the rear was sent into a spinout.

Right after the car stopped spinning, a single familiar wheel rolled passed his car, hit the barricade along Mount SG Drift, and lied dead on the barricade. At this moment, Champagne S13/15 looked through his side mirror and found out what had happened.

Realizing what actually happened, Champagne S13/15 couldn't help but think. Waves of thoughts went through his brain. Different sensors within his body tinges. He could feel grief, wrath, displeasure and confusion all at the same time! He does not know what to do.

After sitting quietly in his car, listening to his newly tuned CA18DET idles for a minute or so, he decides to open his car door and go retrieve his rim & tyre back.

~~~ TO BE CONTINUE ~~~


One of the cast is making corrections to part of the scene.

Thursday, January 17, 2013

R/C Drifting Final Evolution?...Rear Wheel Drifting!!!

At SGDrifters, it has always been our goal to bring R/C Drifting close to the real experience as much as possible. In 2006, the very first Rear Wheel Drive (RWD) chassis was built and back then, we only manage to trial with different tyres setup, but mostly, we spend our time spreading the 'Drift' bug.

In 2009, when CS/OD Drifting is introduced, it reminded us on RWD. Sadly, we spend alot of time learning and developing CS/OD Drifting.

In 2010, we finally found time to trial RWD. This time, many prototypes were built, created and customized. When we mentioned 'built, created and customized', we do not just put in aftermarket parts. We simply meant that we designed, created, built and tested something that you could not simply just get it off the shelves.

Well, in 2013, we hoped to have more fellow Drift enthusiasts join us in the evolution! Not to worry if you are new or have yet to make the conversion to RWD, we are confident that our experience will answer/solve your queries/doubts!

This probably might be the final evolution to the chassis aspects of R/C Drifting, but we believe there are many other areas that could bring this hobby closer to the real experience.
Why do we know?!!
'Cause we are working on it already.

So for now, some RWD actions caught...

 JOIN THE EVOLUTION!!!