RC-Area – Daily RC Car News

We were contacted by a fellow RC fan called Kenneth Azzopardi who wished to tell us about his homemade turbine funny car, the following is his story – “I’ve been wanting to build a turbine car for about ten years, about two years ago I said to myself I’ve got that dream so why not build it and I started with drawing the body on a piece of cardboard after that I cut the sides from ply then I started shaping the body using balsa then I covered it in tissue then there was a lot of sanding to be done then filling and then spraying then I started the chassis out of an aluminium sheet 8mm thick then put on the wheels of a 1/5 fg car the disk brakes are 1/5 fg as well and the turbine engine is a wren mw54 about 13 to 14 pounds thrust the front steering was made from parts from different cars the servos are Futaba radio and receiver are jr I use a aeroplane transmitter to drive the car well I’ve started testing, we’ve got some small problems that need to be fixed . i should be taking the car to the UK fast rc event if all goes well and my goal is to go 100 mph that is my dream I will be building another body for racing and will be leaving this body for shows if you go to you tube be you can see a lot of videos of the car here is one with the body on”