Slot car chassis focus. My race winning Hardbody slot car! Scratch built!
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- čas přidán 25. 07. 2024
- Tuning tips:
1-make sure the car moves as freely as possible, with the body on. It is extremely important that the body fits loosely.
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Wow. This brought back memories of when I was a teenager in the 80’s. My dad and I would build these chassis. He made a custom track in the garage. Very nice.
Nice chassis build!!!!
This was excellent 👏 perfect timing as Im thinking of a a hinge chassis 👍
Glad you enjoyed it! Best of luck on your build.
Man I'm not even a huge slotcar fan but this is interesting!
Thanks for watching!
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I love your scratch built chassis! How did you spring load the front piano wire axles? I see the short tubing in the center of the chassis for the pivots for the left and right axles. But I don't see how you incorporate spring tension to keep the tire/wheels in the down position. Is the silicone sealant/goop you used to hold the lead wires down purposely placed over the rear portion of the axle pivot to create the elastic tension? If it is, that's very clever. I'm thinking of chassis for 1/32 and your chassis gave me some ideas.
Thanks for the comment. There is no additional spring loading in the front end other than the .062 piano wire in this case. The weight of the car compresses these around .010" inches, and in turns they flex a lot because of the weight of the chassis. To adjust the amount of the tension you can move the pivot points in or out on the chassis to achieve a different leverage amount. For a light 1/32 car you would likely need something like .047" wire etc to achieve the same effect. I do use silicone or shoe goo to fine tune the spring tension by placing it over some length of wire near the pivot points.
Hope that helps.
@@morganmotorsports4220 Thanks for the info. So, then, when setting up the front end...do the front wheels touch the track? Or do you set the front wheels to barely touch the track? I'm assuming the guide flag and braid are carrying the weight of the chassis along with the rear wheels in a tri-pod configuration.
I race real asphalt oval race cars late models modifieds and sprint cars and the tips for setup on these cars is really cool and genius in a way. I have just as much fun racing real cars as i do running 1/24 scale slots and tenth scale rc road course and oval both dirt asphalt and carpet. The carpet oval speeds is way faster then parking lot speeds way more grip and the track is the same size it's not a tiny track for the jndllr carpet stuff there is a video of me racing RJ speed legend car break out class on our carpet oval we race at every Thursday and sat and open for practice every day except Mondays. We swap one week oval following is road course. I wish there was a slot car club tracks here near me in mobile Al closest one is in Mississippi and it's a good 2..5 - 3 hour drive and they only race on Thursday nights on oval and road course and drag strip and weekend is strictly drag RACING on Sat.