Rampage on road conversions...they are multiplying

[GoMachV]

Haven't seen one of these in a looooong time. In fact I only saw them in the mags never in the stores. 10L front end with a Rampage transmission and rear suspension. The seller put Platinum shocks on it, I guess they can stay. The current plan is to finish assembly, then tear down, countersink some holes, dye the nurf wings, re anodize the chassis black, and then it's complete. The chassis is unused but pretty scarfed up from storage. Body was taken from another pan car that's getting a facelift so I had to use existing holes. The idiots at duratrax were close but just a bit far away in rear mounts.

I'd like to find an old tuned pipe header for this but I can't recall any other car with a centered engine. I may just take a old header and cut it to extend it out. I have a old kyosho pipe for it already. The old rear facing unit for this car would come thru the back window lol.

The engine is a Prafa .12. Or as we used to call them in the hobby store..."crap"

This also has the old Thorp brake setup. The stock setup was a plastic abortion

Here is how I got it


And bolted together with some new tires, bumper, body mounts...

[LTO_Dave]

Very cool! I've never even heard of these before. How wide is the rear track on that thing?

[GoMachV]

With the wheels flipped its almost identical to a 10L wide.

With the wheels mounted the traditional way it's about half out of the wheel well.

It actually fits better than the pics appear. The outside of the tire is perfect with the body

[Incredible_Serious]

Very interesting kit mate, sort of like what Schumacher did with their Daytona, but with using a 2wd buggy rear transmission instead of a 4wd rear gearbox.

Weakest point would be the small drive belt, as I hear they were weak on the old RS200 and Peugeot 405 with anything bigger than a lazy .12 - but hey, for the shelf, should be fine!

You got that finished in pretty quick time..... unlike my Daytona

Alex

[GoMachV]

The belts were the worst part, a few runs with a CZ-R and they were chunked and shredding. It will work just fine for shelf use tho!

It looks complete but it's just a mock up. It will come apart and get made pretty before its ready for hard core shelf duty! Lol

[romulus22]

Definitely a cool car. Love the old pan car nitro conversions but this is more like a nitro car pan car conversion. Nice find

[proffesso]

hah! love it! I definitely need to get myself a nitro pan car

[highwayracer]

I picked up one of these conversions a few years ago but I haven't built it yet. I really like the disc brake conversion...is that the Thorp kit?

As for the tuned pipe, duratrax made a header and pipe for the Rampage. Here's a pic of my old car:

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Regards,
Roger

[GoMachV]

Good looking Rampage! I remember those but with the stock car body it would be out the rear window the header would be a nice find and would match my pipe (cast unit very similar to the one that duratrax made except different mount)

The disc brake is thorp. There was one on eBay but bit was around $70. That's more than the whole setup cost me

[GoMachV]

Minor update, found a body! I couldn't pass it up, it was hand painted logos and all besides contingency stickers. I can't take credit for the paint (as Obama would tell me, "you didn't build that..." Lmfao!) but I did have to re engineer the front body mount and bumper to fit the holes that he had drilled.

Now I'm off to find some rear wheel adapters with less offset!

[Coelacanth]

What's the length of the dogbones? The rear setup, excluding the gearbox, looks a lot borrowed from the Turbo Optima. It would be neat if the 'bones were 62.5mm long.

[GoMachV]

Yes rear is same as mid from inner hinge pin outward. I have a set of arms for a spider that would narrow it up nicely but I'm one of those people that are into period correctness over aesthetics

[DennisM]

Wauv, cool ride with a lot of quality parts - Looks sharp.
Did You use to drive on of these?

Have You found a header for it, if not try to find a couple of examples that might work for You.
I have quite some Exhausting stuff.

[GoMachV]

Sadly I never did drive one of these as a pan car but I had several rampage, nitro thrasher, and rally cars with the same back half bitd. Took out my fair share of belts!

I haven't had much luck with an era correct pipe- the duratrax shown above would be a tight fit with the window but might be close. I had also considered a few older headers (like the kyosho stinger tuned pipe header) cut and clocked to make it come out correctly but haven't found any spectacular enough deals to make it worth cutting one up. I kind if like the proper exhaust location of the can to be honest, so it may stay muffled

[REMJ666]

Nice car...To bad it has a Jeff Gordon body on it Still a very cool car...