Choro-Q Subaru Impreza WRX STi GET~! and Conversion

This post remains here since it’s not going to be long. I just want to clear things that this is not a tutorial since the process of converting this body is simple the same as the basic one I posted before. I just want to post this since this is a good body to match one of my Q-steer which is the Lancer Evolution X.

This is how the car looked like before I converted it for Q-steer use. I didn’t had the chance to perform the conversion immediately since I have a lot of requirements to finish back at school.

First, I need to get rid of the screw area of the body by cutting it off, just like my Evo 7. However, the screw area is really tough that when I forced a small part to be removed, the whole half of the screw area went off. I was scared because I thought the hood will be affected but good thing it was not affected.

Second move was to make sure the rear lock would fit nicely so I filed the lock at the rear. Eventually, I got bored and used a Swiss knife to trim the part.

Last but not the least, I had to open up a space for the front mount. It was tiring since I’m using a partially damaged knife, used for Gundam models. but with a bit of effort, tada!

I posted the conversion gallery for this particular body and the link can be found at the Hangar section. Cheers~!

AECES and ECE Blocks Table Tennis Craze

I’m having Table Tennis as my Physical Education class this semester and I’ve just discovered that the ECE blocks are recently playing table tennis during free time. I also heard of the tournament of AECES which was already done last Saturday. I was hating PE because it makes me more disappointed due to my placement in group A, where bad ass players are placed too. However, playing with ECE coursemates was much more fun than PE. Playing this sport them was really exciting and fun.

Project RX-7 to Q-steer : First Night

Yes, I started the project last night and it was a nightmare. Before I started, though, I backed up the project by buying my first 32g tube of Tamiya Putty white. Just in case I screw up with the body. So I started doing the very basic step which is trimming. I also have the idea in my mind that the front spoiler of the body is not on the body itself but rather on the Choro-Q chassis. So I have t unmount the front spoiler permanently. There are other problems:

1. THE VERY BIG ONE : The terminals used for the motor soldered on the IC were hitting the window area of the body.

2. It seems that the whole body will not make it to the front mount. In short, the body is short.

SOLUTION TO:

1. I have to dig up some space on the area of that window and to get rid of punching a hole, I also have to sand the terminals of the motor. The only worry I have is that the terminals might not work as I might detach the soldered lead from the terminals.

2. This is due to (1). It took me the whole three hours from 9pm to 12am just to get the body lined-up properly

PROBLEM 3: Even if I made the body lined-up properly with the wheels fitting the wheel wells just fine, the front mount of the chassis might be too long for the body

SOLUTION TO (3) – I trimmed the lower part of the front according to the shape of the chassis mount. It fits well now. The only problem I have is how am I going to mount the spoiler without breaking it when I remove and mount the body.

I’ll post some pictures soon.

Preparing the Choro-Q RX-7 Body for conversion

I am still thinking about how am I going to mount this complicated body onto the Q-steer chassis, For one thing, see that front spoiler/ front skirt? That’s not with the body but with the Choro-Q chassis and there’s also a lot of space in front which means it might not hit the Q-steer chassis front mount since the body’s front side is too far from it.

So I think it’s time to fiddle with body molding or creating and modifying body shape using the same method as the one in real cars. Yup, but I’m not going to use the materials used for cars, it’s too heavy and might destroy the light plastic material. I can buy the epoxy in hardware stores but those are for hard plastics. Eventually I found these:

Tamiiya’s Epoxy Putty and Putty White. The epoxy putty it the one I’m going to use for creating the mount for the RX-7 and the White Putty is for finishing touches. I can also make my own bodykits which can be snapped on but that’s kind of too much for now. I’ll see how the project goes and then I’ll modify my own bodykits. (I will get another RX-7 and make it look like Keisuke’s RX-7!! hahahahah!)

Q-steer plans after midterms.

I want to fiddle again with my cars in the garage but this time I want to go deeper. A friend of mine gave me two new cars, a Nissan Skyline Coupe V36 and Mazda RX-7 Spirit R:

He gave it to me with a request to make at least one of them be a snap-on-snap-off body for Q-steer. I inspected both cars if I can do the job but it seems to be a big problem for the V36 since there’s a lot of space at the front. For the Rx-7, however, it may be possible so I tried opening the body and realized that the front skirt or splitter is on the chassis insteat of the body. Rawr.

It seems to be a great challenge. I think I will take the modification one notch up. I’ll try to mingle with putty and other molding stuff to get the body to the Q-steer Chassis. Hehehe~!

I will also try to fiddle with the circuit board which include the soldering of LED’s and other electronics stuff. I’ve had workshop skills training from my course and I guess you’ll just need basic soldering skills. Hope everything goes well in the project.