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Carerra Corvette Mods
I built a Carerra corvette this weekend. My experience/recommendations are: Make the mod as simple as possible; use the stock chassis. The HRS2 is too much of a hassle compared to the stock chassis.
25K motor – NSR Shark-25 recommended.
Keep the stock guide and wire – either snip off the connector and solder the guide wire to the motor (double check your polarity with gator clips before you solder!), or use the existing motor wire with connector (on the new motor).
Stock front tires and wheels – request rules exemption b/c the Carerra tires are 5mm? vs the spec of 8mm
Try the ‘Victor’ aluminum bushings with swiveling bushes. Axle is about 52mm. Green, Orange or Blue Crown (with a 8z or 9z pinion) gear.
To help Body Float – trim the edge of the chassis all the way around. Trim out chassis section immediately above/below the sprue for the rear bumper. Shoegoo bumpers as needed to keep them secure. Remove recesses from chassis ‘cups’ which mate with the body posts. Be careful since once the cups are gone there is only 0.5-1.0mm thickness left in the chassis screw recess.
CockPit: Carefully remove drivers head. Find helmeted driver, enlarge hole in Carerra torso for the helmeted head, press in. Trim excess edge and Upper-ridges from cockpit platform. Use ShoeGoo to tack cockpit to body.
Rear Wheels /Tires: 15.8(nib) x 10mm wheels work great – look at Ninco and Slotting Plus for styled wheels not requiring inserts. Slot.It F30s or NSR SuperGrip 19x10s or 20x10s will fit.
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Sammy with MontroseThis template is in Excel, it should work for most series and people.
If you have a format that seems to work better for you please share with the club."... get on your bad motor scooter and ride!"
Sammy with MontroseGoodwood #1 was moved to Feb 4 – which is a double header. Group-C is race #1 on Feb4 followed by Goodwood. The Google Calendar has been updated.
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Sammy with MontroseI hear that the Cobras legal for Goodwood are hard to tune. We need experienced racers (i.e. Randy’s OGs… old guys) to share some wisdom on cars that have proved to be be dogs.
IMHO – we should Not be listing legal cars if they are known by the OGs as P.O.S.
Why list a technically legal car, if experience has clearly shown it is extremely difficult to setup and tune? If the OGs want to spank the rest of us by turning a Dawg into a Sleeper – come one with it! But let’s help each other and ‘out’ the Dawgs – and better yet either not list them as a legal model, or out them in an “advanced” section of the legal list."... get on your bad motor scooter and ride!"
Sammy with MontroseVote of members present was unanimous in favor of allowing voltage adjustment by racer. The issue came up – in part – b/c cars like SCX are designed for 18v and if the stock motors are used to drive the AWD they would be at a disadvantage at a lower fixed voltage. We could go into several details on voltage defaults for various brands etc. but members present were open to the idea, mainly b/c the voltage did not affect any other racers and the racer makes their own choice.
Racers **cannot** complain; they set their own voltage and succeed or fail as a result. If you want low voltage for reliable handling and results are too slow … tough luck; ditto for high voltage for faster laps and resulting fly-offs.
Members present: Ary, Steve, John, David, Alejandro, Roy, Rich, Randy, Russ, Brett, Mark
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Sammy with Montrosetractor pull on a straight of the rally track …
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Sammy with MontroseShawn – great trick with the perspective. Russ needs to experiment with some of his cars and try this trick!
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Sammy with MontroseDibs – Subaru Imprezza – Avantslot Body on HRS2
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Sammy with Montrose917 DIBS needs updating.
Sorry guys something got fubared on the list.
- Russel = #20 Gulf (not on list since its an older model)
- Rich – #3 Piper
I will post as a table
PLEASE SEND ME ANY UPDATES
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Sammy with MontroseGoodWood – Tourist Series
I plan to enter a Monogram Cobra, and Fly FT250 as backup (both HRS-2 chassis)
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Sammy with MontroseGoodWood – Tourist Series
Is the Fly GT250 raced in Targa Floria legal?"... get on your bad motor scooter and ride!"
Sammy with MontroseFor alternatives to Slot.It, NSR wheels work best with NSR tires, and they need to be used with NSR axles. SlottingPlus wheels look great, usually don’t need inserts, and use a 4/440 grub screw (same as NSR; does not strip as easy as a 2mm grub). CB Design has a wide selection of wheels; some are made for inserts while others have spokes or holes like 1×1 “mag” wheels; a few look like chromed steel wheels a’la classic NASCAR (CB Design uses 2mm grubs like Slot.It)
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