rebuilding my micro R/C drift car! [Mini Z AWD]

Fixing up my Mini Z micro r/c drift car
I cant find a reliable link to buy these things... best bet is to search eBay for Mini Z AWD.
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-- tunes in this flick --
"Daydreaming" by ALIGN
/ align_music
"Midnight Lovers" by kicktracks
/ kicktracks
"Decent" by Abang Kay
/ abangkay

[@dantecusolito8513]

He made Ashley stand in the rain to get him that shot walking under the car port 😂

[@kreativ_corals]

He's got a winner lol

[@r00kiet80]

Instantly left a like because of that shot so it was worth it. I appreciate more production quality.

[@bentsound]

If you look close you can see the rain on his pants in that shot. I figured it was on a tripod.

[@LeDribFPV]

It was a tripod shot in 4K. Added camera movement in post ;) Although Ashley helped with almost all the drifting shots including operating the boosted board with my camera hanging off it to get the rolling shots 😹

[@dantecusolito8513]

Le Drib I thought it was a tripod at first, but when I saw the shake at the end you had me convinced it was a person holding the camera 👏

[@rinspider]

No mention of tofu delivery, disappointed to say the least.

[@Anthony_underscore]

I bet he spilled the cup of water too. Buntas gonna be pissed.

[@erkimen14]

Shinji Inui winned him

[@Overland_RC]

I would have removed the sticker tbh

[@ShinjuNLG]

he even put tokyo drift music in the video instead of eurobeat

[@soldadoryanbr7776]

@@ShinjuNLG that's heresy

[@rafaeltavares9772]

3 serious suggestions Drew... 1 - ya gotta see Initial D... 2 - stick an fpv cam on it.. 3 - eurobeat intensifies..

[@constent5394]

4 - tofu time

[@sakeun5801]

5 - *Cool Vibrations*

[@dosentmatteranymore9727]

6 - *D A B R U C R A S H I K O Z E*

[@darrkfier7739]

7:JBL

[@DesertFernweh]

Wait, he hasn't seen Intial D? WTF how do you drift a Panda AE86, even an RC one and not watch Intial D. It like being a Hacker and never seeing Hackers.

[@sylaswojciechowski6895]

Yesss, slap an fpv cam on it.

[@gavinvales8928]

and mount it for 3pv like ummagawd did. 3pv is made for this

[@sylaswojciechowski6895]

@@gavinvales8928 ah yes, great idea, literally watching that right now. That would be sick for drifting!

[@slowentropy4531]

@@sylaswojciechowski6895 yeah it's fun to do. I like putting it in the driver's headrest on seat with good RC models as the interior etc is in view. Soo fun the cruise around the house and garden with haha

[@dronereaper772]

Yessss!!!!! For sure slap FPV on it!!!!!!

[@altairibn-laahad9783]

wangan midnight and any initial d arcade series bumper cam be like

[@anthony1994]

You know quarantine is affecting Drew when he rebuilds an RC car...

[@anth0nythapvnk997]

Me seeing ae86: eurobeat intensives. Doesn't mention initial d: eurobeat detensives

[@Zombie100Kills]

Faxxxxxxxx 😢 and awd

[@Marcus-]

Nice Scion FRS :) in case anyone didnt know, the new body he used on the rc car is a Toyota AE86 which is a famous car which is very popular in the drifting scene in japan, and his real car is inspired by the AE86

[@manoman0]

So many youtubers offer so much better content than most TV channels.

[@XYLENZ681]

5:50 my rc car to me 6:10 my parents to me - *he really knows how to waste time.... *

[@jackieaponte167]

Lol

[@aishabibi2628]

so true hahahahaaa

[@aishabibi2628]

@@jackieaponte167 it's actually Trues

[@DamnRandall]

This just came up in my Recommended feed and wow, this takes me back. I got way into my Mini Z in senior year of high school (2002). I'm sure it's still in storage, might be time to dig it out and rebuild it.

[@fullthrottlefpv5616]

"Plugs right into the main electronics board" I dont care if it doesnt fly, call it a flight controller!

[@LeDribFPV]

😂

[@jwilson2536]

Bruh. That was sick. It's just something about a grungie beat and slow-mo rc drifting that makes me smile like a kid again.

[@BlackhawkFPV]

Nice! Pulled my mini a out a year ago and re worked, added an AIO cam/vtx and created a cat chasing drift machine. Nice video!!!!!! 🤘😎

[@ingobehrendt9114]

That was one of the classic ledrib style videos with lots of funny cuts and videoshots. Feels more connected to your videos. Thank you for this entertainment. 👍🏻

[@starsstripesjacket]

Rc drift cars were my intro to rc after high school, i really wish i still had them now x)

[@vagkalampalikis]

5:44 massive montage alert! Pure gold, loving it!

[@jamesordwayultralightpilot]

Florida summers aren't too bad. Just wait 15 minutes and go outside and get some sick storm chasing shots!

[@DroneFanatiX]

Dude! Takumi would be proud of this hachi roku (86) rc scale model! 😃 only thing missing is the plastic water cup in the dashboard. Now put an fpv camera, look for a downhill course and make it drift like crazy! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@jackieaponte167]

He should’ve played the initial-D song when he was drifting

[@tanmay______]

GAS GAS GAS!

[@mjbruh12]

I WANNA STEP ON THE GAS

[@reefy5316]

TONIGHT ILL FLY

[@thecalmplayer6555]

AND BE YOUR LOVER!

[@tanmay______]

yeah yeah yeaaah

[@fasool8215]

this rc gives off some intense initial D vibes

[@MARKLINMAN1]

They are worth the money, I have raced them and drift them, fun stuff for small places! Mini Z’s are amazing.

[@SiamFpv]

Le Drib become Le Drift !

[@zeckzeroed3707]

Man adding the lights just makes it cooler and realistic Good job

[@RCDevotee]

Thanks for the video Drew! I did a similar thing and rebuilt my RC crawler and 1/8th scale race buggies and truggies just to break up my RC adventures. I also had Mini-Zs years ago but went into bigger scale and never really went back. I am sure I will get the Mini-Z bug again as they are very cool micro cars. The AE86 has a very cool lineage.

[@TheCheeksMiller]

Nice. I have a ton of microsizers and Mini Z size cars. love em.

[@orangethesaberguy7638]

I’ve never seen this channel before and just started watching it, and the editing is god tier

[@JavisHD]

I was so into Mini-Z and Blade mCX2 back in the day! Really fun little indoor RC stuff. I would have kept going with Mini-Z but my daughter was chasing it around while I drove and CRUNCH. Maybe I'll rebuild mine now too...

[@kennethellis2666]

"There's no such God-like modder who could rebuild that on the first try!" (gas, gas, gas) "You're right- normally, it's impossible. But I guess the world is big, and there's one moron who can pull it off without any practice. Only one." (gas, gas, gas) "Alright, listen guys- you'd better pay attention and watch what's going to happen very carefully. You don't get to see it this close very often. This is *real* drifting." *snaps* 0:6:00

[@flatbox1416]

That led drop cut was so smooth.

[@kreativ_corals]

Edit was fireeee. Got some reallly cool shots sliding around the studio!

[@kennethdavis1628]

Awesome to play with different stuff once in awhile. FYI HobbyTown has this for $129.00: Kyosho MR-03 Mini-Z RWD ReadySet w/Audi R8 LMS Body (Red) & KT-531P 2.4GHz

[@yannickg6904]

I've been having tons of fun with 1/28 scaled AWD buggies made by GP Toys that I bought for 20cad on amazon. They're really fast for their size and have proportional steering. Best 20$ I ever spent in RC. It's really fun to FPV at ground level and drive under ferns.

[@pthrelkeld090]

Such badass videography! Love everything about this, way to not let the rainy day get you down!

[@pugcommander7561]

I skipped by this video probably 10 times... I'm so glad I finally watched it. This is one of your best I think. Great vid!

[@parthl]

this dude makes insane content for 80k subs, DEFINITELY earned my sub

[@macnsteeze]

The shot with the glasses was dope

[@gavnunns]

I loved the production playground experiment and the build. To be honest I think the overall montage turned out very smooth and professional!

[@BigAlFPV17]

Definitely enjoying the day. Celebrating my birthday today by doin some flyin. Like how you put the F & F Tokyo Drift theme song in there. Pretty cool car!

[@RobiticDuck]

Nice 86! I'm currently watching this in my brz. Bought a micro rc today. 1:64 scale. Going to replace the shell (Mustang GT ) with a S14 metal Hot Wheels one.

[@jcchaconjr]

Mini-Z’s are fun - you can even get track kits that you can assemble to have your own mini-track, if you have the space. Personally, I would go a little bigger - 10th scale is where it’s at. You can find cars by brands like Yokomo, MST... even Tamiya makes a few dedicated drift cars. There’s an entire aftermarket of options available. And yeah, AMain Hobbies, Horizon Hobby, or better yet, if you have one close by a local hobby shop in your area should be able to get you hooked up with whatever you need. Let’s support the Mom & Pop shops wherever possible.

[@indroneswetrust1]

You should put FPV 📷 on your port cool rc car and go drifts it up! Good rebuilding your rc car and I love it when you had your drone armed and your car went around your drone, that one is my favorite part! And other favorite part is your cat!🤗 Good job buddy 👍🏼🙌🏼👊🏼

[@Josh-vu4sb]

Dude I remember those. I remember the ones radio shack had too. I still got my skyline somewhere.

[@robinkesterlives]

Me too! I had all of the extra parts to mod it for max drift goodness. Now I want to find that thing and get it working again.

[@Ludo1986]

Mini Z are very easy to maintain ! I've got a lot of them (more or less 40 chassis). Nice little MA chassis 👍

[@WrongWayFPV]

Great editing!! Loved the sunglasses shot. Awesome video Drew 👍

[@joshuabrodkorb]

that sun glasses shot was fiineeee

[@flygtur7784]

Gt86 and a mini-z Ae86, true Initial D fanboy here and I approve! 😎👍

[@TinkerTweakFPV]

I thought you was supposed to make me spend money on drones. 😂 A few months later, but it is still rainy season! The 3D mini-z circuit terrain is pretty lit for printing.. Nice thing about this scale is you can print your course!

[@DavidBauer38]

Now he just needs a Tiny Whoop to do some epic drift car chase footage!!!

[@Audiotechnical]

Great video. Touched on 2 of my favourite things: RC Cars and nicely filmed video production! I'm actually considering getting back into RC cars.... but now being more grown up dad, I think a little indoor toy like this would suit me! You've been an inspiration! Cheers.

[@JamesMossR33]

Really useful video for me. Got my AWD Silvia down off the shelf to dust recently, probably used it twice from new on the tiled kitchen floor. Noticed how easily the batteries came out as I remember them being really tight to get in (yep, forgot to take them out)...and *#!$, the chassis is cracked across in two places. Found a model shop here in the UK with the chassis for sale and fitted it tonight. Yeah, proper fiddly job..forgot the brace over the steering rocker which was annoying being under the diff cover. They seem really fragile if it broke after about 15 minutes with no impacts. I think it was partly the tiled floor and the stress from the batteries, they feel just a bit too long (Eneloop AAA, a tad shorter than the Duracell and Amazon AAAs I've got.).

[@luanzdark]

I owned one when i was 10 the most fun rc car ive ever played with

[@adrielrincon8640]

love the intro. i like how you show what you do not just sUAS

[@k1ortia]

Sick...let the build commence.

[@midnitejmpr9429]

Now idk what kind of 1/10 rc you have but the space you have based off of 6:11 is plenty for some fun with a 1/10 rwd drift chassis, I’ve got less than that and still manage to squeeze a tight figure eight in, but killer build, also love your car

[@Gouki108]

You can get a one way diff for the front and lock the back to help with the understeer and make the rear break loose a little easier. The one way is cheap and locking the back is free, both will help with drifting around the house.

[@AsthmaQueen]

I remember similar scale ones being sold like 16ish years ago at radioshack were like 75$ each could upgrade them with light kits and all sorts of stuff I remember getting a skyline at the time with headlights and brakelights that added. Could swap out gears or motor for different things and wheels was really cool

[@jpsalis]

I gotta get myself a mini z, they look so cool. I've been getting into micros recently being stuck at home. Love the SC-28.

[@ninersfan9765]

How much do they cost

[@Tokyo_Views]

OMG this looks so effing fun!! I want one. Who wants one?

[@ehrans2]

drive your new Toyota Sprinter Trueno AE86 to Mt. Akina and run some downhils. Awesome rebuild!

[@trevorrobles2535]

I just notice the revive handboard at his back shelf. I watched him all the time and I just realized that he had that handboard in the back.

[@johnvalencia2711]

I love kyosho mini z I've been wanting to buy those

[@MajatekYT]

Now use some Blu-Tack/Plasti-Tac/Tack-it so you can cover up the LEDs on the inside of the wheel wells to give the RC an even better scale look so that the lights don't bleed out from behind the mudguards! You could even get a few props like 1/28 scale water/concrete crash barriers for the track (use the Blu-Tack/etc to hold 'em down onto the wood floor to keep your Mini Z from knocking them out of place), street signs, and random bits of model greenery to give some organic life for future RC drift montages! It's a cheap fun way to spend time (when compared to driving a car in the rain and crashing it for real).

[@ProximoFPV]

best video ive ever seen drew! nice job man. Im gonna try to vlog rampage in may just to try camera tricks hah

[@T.3dwin]

Hands down my fav car , Ae86 trueno 😍😍😍😍😍

[@Bengilmore]

Cinematic video effort: 10/10

[@invaderraven1]

This reminded me of the x mods rc cars radio shack used to sale in the 2010s

[@vtec2977]

I had those before this I think is pretty much the same different name

[@redazemirli]

Sorry the mini z are much better than x mods I got few of them even evo brushless one

[@RockFPV]

Got myself 3 MiniZ, they are just fun. I love to take an US65 Cam/VTX combo just mounted with double sticking (soft) tape and another sticky pad for an 1s whoop lipo. Much better than the EMAX Interceptor, but EMAX is about great ideas for a good price. Kyosho Stuff is quite expensive 🔥🔥

[@derkampfkaese302]

when you are into tiny indoormodels I highly suggest trying some kind of tiny whoop

[@BMR3]

Great video! It’s good to see more people making content about mini-z 😸 I bet that missing screws belongs inside the battery bay & secures your servo tray. The screw hole is right above the center drive shaft, near the front.

[@Ruszek83]

Wow... That shows what descent film editing can do. I watched it all. I find it boring and nothing I would get into, but I enjoyed this video. Thanks.

[@thecreaturefpv9295]

The quality of this video is pretty darn good if you ask me! Thanks for the fun content!

[@spartan-fpv6936]

Gday Drew, nice work mate if you cant fly you have to rc something, your next challange is fpv the rc car mate.👍🛸

[@werewolvesfpv5002]

I think hands down the best part was the Tokyo Drift music montage. Brah, brah! Dope man. That editing was epic! :)

[@rooley123]

I got one of these on order and just found your video ! Hell yeah

[@lando9378]

You should put a little prop glass of water on the inside.

[@SCFPV]

You definitely drift that car better than the full size version🤔. I didn't see any fender damage on that one🤗🤣. Good job on the creativity man!👍

[@syntheticmedic3140]

I love the editing and camera tricks you used made the video pretty awesome. Love your vids, look forward to your next one!

[@bankruptmoto5769]

I used to have one of the OG mini z's when they first came out when I was maybe 12. So like, 20 years ago lol. They've come a long way and they are still so much fun

[@pimpedoutstereos9747]

Wat an awesome edit drifting past the quad and stuff

[@DooSum_FPV]

Loved this! I have been thinking about getting a RC drift car for a while and you just sealed my fate. Can't wait to do some chase cam with a cinewhoop! I miss your old vlog style vids by the way.

[@alexisvargas4243]

Is anyone gonna talk about this guy’s reflexes

[@firenado4295]

nope cuz it makes me sad that my reflexes are so pitiful

[@bwasfpv]

4:09 me everytime i take some screws out, comeback with a spare..haha

[@davidheiser9792]

Totally need to put a fpv camera on it and drive it around the house!

[@squintus8140]

take the rear wing off the old one and put it on your new body

[@Mosfet510]

I work in the electronics area and I have had my share of 'spare' parts left over (a big reason I stayed out of medicine lol) Great video!

[@corv6005]

you sure made some dude standing his room playing with some toys look pretty cool

[@PropagndaX]

The intro felt like I put on Blues Clues 😂😂 🔥

[@aarong1687]

I still dream having this type of RC car.

[@pocketrocket6494]

The beat up S15 body is actually rly rare!

[@LetsFlyRC]

LeDrift.... sick cam shots, bud. Cats have to love that thing. 😆

[@The_RC_Dude]

Is that a silver Toyota 86? My favorite small coupe "sports car"!

[@imperson8ed480]

Nice toyota ae86 treno its soooo coooool i first saw it on initial d

[@sea_neilartala]

That 8/6 is superb 🔥👊

[@timm1065]

probably my favorite editing of all your vids. This one was slick as goose shit...

[@DrMacca]

Great video and awesome editing, particularly with the montage! Keep up the great work!

[@InvertFPV]

He made a RC Initial D car, E P I C !

[@MuhsinunChowdhury]

This needs an FPV camera and goggles setup! That would be so sick!

[@gazvlogs7459]

That was one of the coolest drift montages I've ever seen!

[@Blazer-mq9mt]

This dudes editing is insane!!

[@WKfpv]

What a nice camera work Drew 👏