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I just talked to Steve at Slot Car Corner and he will be producing CBD wheels in 17×10 and 17×8 for 3mm axles that will work with multiple wheel inserts. These wheels will not work with the RevoSlot inserts as their sizing is so different. They will work with CG Slot Cars to produce inserts that mirror the look of the RevoSlot inserts that will fit the CBD wheels. What could be better? The timing for these new wheels and inserts is September. This will give us time to get some, try them out, and get ready for the next RevoSlot series in 2022.
Randy – I think it’s best to race RevoSlot cars against other RevoSlot cars in a class by themselves. This is the best way to keep the series as even or equal as possible.
The plastic chassis cars like the Mr Slotcar, Policar, Slot It and Scaleuato would be fun to run together and very different in their set ups and performance.
Randy – I was thinking this would be a RevoSlot series but I am open to running a mid-90’s GT series. There are plenty of cars from multiple manufactures that would work in this series. These would include:
Slot It – Ferrari F40, McLaren F1 GTR long tail, Nissan R390 GT1
Policar – Ferrari F40
Fly – Porsche GT1, Ferrari F40, Panoz GT1
Scaleauto – Toyota GT1
There are lots of options to run this series but I have to think people would be up for a RevoSlot series over this one.
Remember GT racing in the 90’s? If you don’t, you should. The mid to late 90’s was arguably one of the best era’s of sports car racing that led to the creation of some the best sports cars ever created, even to this day. This was the period of limited production sports cars that had enough speed to go head to head with sports prototypes and in many cases win. These wins included Le Mans in 1995 and 1998 highlighting how quick and reliable these cars were. Here is a little history into these amazing GT cars.
In 1994 the BPR Global GT Series started and drew the attention of Ferrari with their F40 and McLaren with their F1 GTR. Porsche owned the lower GT2 segment of the series and felt comfortable owning that series, for the moment. When McLaren won Le Mans in 1995 Porsche felt the pressure to reassert themselves and set their engineers to the task of building a BPR Global GT series winner – the future GT1.
In 1997 the FIA decided to take over the series and rewrite the rules and rebrand the series GT1. The new rules brought in Mercedes with their CLK GTR, Toyota with their GT1, Nissan with their R390 and numerous smaller manufactures like Panoz with their GT1 batmobile and Lotus with their underfunded Elise. Ferrari and McLaren’s continued in the series but moved to being run by privateers .
The cars that highlighted this period were the Ferrari F40, McLaren F1 GTR, Porsche GT1, Mercedes CLK GTR and the Toyota GT1. Not all of these raced together at the same time but all represented and amazing stage of the period.
Revoslot has set out to create the most iconic cars of this period with the Ferrari F40, Toyota GT1 and the Porsche GT1. They also have the Mercedes CLK coming out in June and the McLaren F1 coming out by October. These five cars give the club an amazing selection of makes, models and liveries to run a series in 2022.
We have experience with running Revoslot cars as we have run two series within the past two years. The only real issue we’ve encountered is the durability of the rear tires. As of right now we are aware of two ways to deal with the quick wearing rear tires – one is replacing the rear axle and drive line with a 3/32 axle and the other is to replace the wheels with ones designed for the 3mm axle and a wider range of tires.
Replacing the rear axle also involves replacing the rear axle bushings, the axle, the wheels and the crown gear. The cost of this upgrade is around $40. The other option is to replace the rear wheels. Slot Car Corner has produced some CBD LMP wheels for 3mm axles that will allow the use of Slot It F30 tires, NSR Supergrips or even Paul Gage urethane tires. The cost for a pair of wheels is $13. At the moment CBD only produces an LMP version but I have talked with Slot Car Corner about producing a blank wheel that would accept the Revoslot wheel inserts. Let’s hope they will support us by producing these.
I believe these cars would make a great 2022 series and would support getting a couple of cars for the club to try out. Please reach out to me if you have any questions.
This weekend we have the fourth round of the NSR GT series scheduled. There is no other race on the calendar and I wanted to see if anyone would be up for running a NSR F1 practice race or opening up the rally track for some Targa practice. I would also be open for any other practice race that would showcase a possible future series. Thoughts?
Marty
Randy – As much as I would like to think the club would like to run these I don’t think that will be the case. The Slot Wings Porsche 911’s are designed and built like the real 911’s with the motor hanging out behind the rear axle. This makes for a difficult handling car. There are some great 3D chassis made for the cars and they handle fantastic with the 3D chassis. I can bring one of my Slot Wings/Fly Porsche 911’s for the club to look at and run to see if its something they would like to run as a series.
Randy – Did you see the new series of cars that Slot Wings (Fly) just came out with? They plan on doing every one of the Porsche 911 IROC cars. These would make a great series. Difficult to drive but fun.
Russell – I have the spur gears you are looking for. Let me know if you would like me to leave them at the track for you to tryout. We can swap for the ones you ordered once they arrive.
What a great looking track. Thanks for the update. It is coming along nicely.
On the “hump”. It depends if it will cause the cars to de-slot as they go over it. The typical rule of thumb is: The track can not cause a de-slot due to a construction issue. If you can drive over it with just a bump and no de-sloting I think you are ok. If not, you may want to think about sanding it down. I had to do that on my home track. I did the re-routing with a hand held router that was easier to control. I would wait to hear from Russell to see what he thinks.
Marty
I will be running the Audi R8 that I used in the clubs Modern GT series back in 2016. The car has some miles on it but should be up for the test against the large field of Corvettes. Here are the images of the car new and one of the crash that took out the rear wing and caused some additional body damage.
That is a beautiful car. Can’t wait for the series to begin.
Do we know how many people will be participating in this series?
I absolutely love the work Marc does with Immense Miniatures but didn’t see any modern-ish F1 drivers heads in his line up. I have already purchased a driver head replacement for my NSR F1 car from Electric Dreams. They carry a line called Interlagos Miniatures that produces pre-painted period correct F1 and Indy helmets that work great on the NSR F1 cars. Worth checking out to improve the look of your car.
Mark – Thanks for the feedback on the Slot It F30 tires. I think its too close to the start of the first race to allow a new tire in the mix. I am up for having a review of the tire rules and making changes for the following rounds.
The rules would have to stipulate a maximum tire width of 10mm since Slot It tires are only available in a 10mm width for those that would still like to use Slot It tires.
I have been truing Slot It tires for both the Group C series and the Group 5 series and have had to do it slowly but have been able to true them without having issues. I have had to apply more lighter fluid during the truing and I only remove a small amount of rubber at a time. I also use the Wright Way diamond drum cleaner during the truing process. My drum still has some rubber on it that will not come off but it still does a good job. I follow up the drum truing by using 400, 1000 and 1500 grit sandpaper to smooth out the tires.
Russell and All,
Racer Sideways use 17″ rear wheels and 15″ or 16″ front wheels depending on the model. The wheel inserts from Racer Sideways wheels will fit in the equivalently sized Slot It wheels. The rear wheels on some models are 8mm wide and others are 10mm wide depending on the model. I am not going to be too hard on things like the inserts. As long as a car has inserts I will be happy with it.
