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I am building a March 701 from a white kit. I don’t know how true it will look to the period with the paint job, but all the parts should be right. And this one is mostly orange… not green. 🙂
Rules are looking good.
I will be campaigning this lovely little BRM in the series.
Build it strong.
Keep it simple.
Make it work.
(Leroy Grumman)Tanner – The series has been approved and will run in Q4 of this year. That means we will have two races every month in October, November, and December. It should be an interesting series as there is not much you can do to these cars other than truing the tires. It will be fun to watch and race.
All, I just took a first look at the car. Out of the box, I could tell something was rubbing inside as I manually turned the rear wheels. The stock stop collar is too wide for the corresponding cavity in the body. As I would rather not grind the body, can we allow aftermarket stop collars? It looks like one could also sand the stock stop collar but I am not sure how much material can be removed/if it would work given the thickness of the grub screw.
Policar has teased a couple new models, available for pre-order from Pendle:
Lotus 72E No.6 Monza GP 1971
BRM P160 No.17 1st Monaco 1972
As of this writing, IF these show up by the 4th quarter, they will be allowed following the current rules.
--Stabn'Steer
Just a heads up to everyone, there is a width jig for the Policar F! series at HQ by Erik’s pit station. If your car drops in without rubbing, it’s legal width-wise. Easier than fussing with calipers. If you would like to print your own, let me know if you would like the file. The forum didn’t like the .stl.
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-Warren ZevonI’m having a big problem with my Ferrari. After truing my rear wheels and putting my car on the track to test the wheels just spun and were not making contact with the track. I then realized what was happening. A piece of the body was poorly installed and was hitting the track, not allowing the wheels to contract the track.
I am writing this to ask the race director to allow me to sand down the part of the Ferrari body that is making contact with the track. Here is more information to support my request.
I trued the rear wheels just to make them flat across the surface and not to remove extra material to lower the car. I removed 0.27mm of material as you can see from the pics. The top pic shows an untrued tire and the lower one shows my trued tire for comparison.
As you can see there is only .27mm of material removed.
The Ferrari body part that is making contact with the track can be seen in these photos. You can see how it was installed at an angle where the back piece of the part makes contact with the track.
You can see that the body part was installed at an angle that makes the back of the body part contact the track.
I am hoping to be able to sand this poorly installed piece so my car will actually run as intended.
Don’t remove the spark trail generator. It will reduce the realism of the car as it accelerates and the rear squats. (Of course this is not from the official class manager)
Thanks for putting this on the forum for those of us who have not tried to setup our car yet.
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