Welcome to our how-to section! This and several other slot car tutorials, tips and technical articles can be found on our forums. Please use the following link to add comments or discuss this material: https://austinslotcarclub.com/forums/topic/using-a-pressurized-mold-to-resin-cast-an-f1-wing/. Our club was planning on a race series using F1 slot cars. It was expected that we would need replacement body…
For the 4th quarter of 2013, our club voted to race modified Scalextric GT cars. The most basic outlines of the series stipulate that the chassis and body of the car must remain stock, but just about everything else can be replaced.
In this article I will show what I did to setup my Scalextric McLaren MP4-12C GT3 for the series. The car turned very decent lap times on our track, just slightly slower than a prepared Slot.it car … and that is really good for a Scaley, I’m looking forward for the races.
Making resin castings of small parts is probably much easier than you might think, especially if the part has a flat side. Parts with a flat side, like many wheel inserts, can be duplicated with a one-piece mold. The RTV mold compound I most commonly use is Polytek Platsil 71-20 Silicone RTV Rubber.
Welcome to our how-to section! This and several other slot car tutorials, tips and technical articles can be found on our forums. Please use the following link to add comments or discuss this material: https://austinslotcarclub.com/forums/topic/slot-it-car-tuning-tutorial/. The objective of this tutorial is to show how to prepare a Slot.it car for racing, specifically for the Austin Slot Car Club…
Soon after the release of the Slot.It Ford GT I started looking to see what other cars the chassis might fit. The Fly Ferrari GTO, of which there are many variations, is a near-perfect fit. These cars have beautiful bodies but with the front-mounted motors, the cars don’t run well without magnets. Replacing the Fly chassis with the Slot.It sidewinder chassis promised to work much better. The BRM wire wheels really add the finishing touch.
