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Happy New Year 2018 Series!
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CAUTION ThunderSlot rear wheel on one side of my roadster had the correct coarse thread grub screw and the other wheel had the fine thread front suspension adjustment grub screw. After I trued the tires the wheel grub screws both came out. I did not get the fine screw back in its original wheel and stripped the wheel threads. Then I stripped the other hole in that wheel. Nice. I have looked at both screws and the screws on the wheels I just received in the mail and I never would have guessed they would use 2 different grub screws. The Professor lists two different spare grub screws, but I have not figured out which is the wheel and which is the suspension.
I’d like to bring bbq brisket from Rudy’s. I can pick it up on the way from work at the golf course. Roughly how many people do we expect? If not brisket, what else should it be to make a meal?
Not sour grapes about the 2018 classes, but I think we should reconsider the ThunderSlot class and add the slot.it McLaren. We could get together a couple of the McLarens already in the members hands and a couple of Thunderslots in a pre-season race with comparable skilled drivers and see if they are competitive with each other. The cars would need to be similarly prepared and geared with very limited changes of course.
The NSR GT3 997 Porsches are also all more expensive. Can the club tolerate running the Anglewinder setup for NSR or Revo Slot to keep the cost down? I can run anglewinder.
Attached is a sheet of info for a CanAm series derived from the 2014 specs with updated eligible car info about almost ready to run like Slot.it, others with 3D chassis, and last the ones that have a body but the running gear is not up to par for our racing.
CAN AM! I’m working on updating the 2014 series list of real cars from 1966-1973 and slot cars manufactured for this series. There are numerous new manufactures, cars and 3D chassis that could expand the stable of competitive cars. I’ll annotate the car chart to show which cars have Olifer, etc. available. I am going to recommend that Racer Silverline (1/30) and Vanquish (1/28) not be allowed because they are too large. If someone has a car from those companies that is measurably 1/32 that we can confirm we can add it.
I’ll draft series rules. We should also specify some chassis and wheel rules based on Russell’s wild highly modified Porsche 917/30. Resin bodies were allowed in 2014 so I propose we still allow them.
Since I expect to keep working on Saturdays at the golf course, I could only share Series Manager duties during non-daylight savings dates when I get off work at noon instead of 1:00 like now. So consider being a Manager or co-manager.
This is the Pendle Polo mods which shows the rear tires sticking out of the fenders. I should have noticed. The picture shows the Pendle car stopped by the outhouse.
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sloting plus polo mods[/caption]An article of the online magazine Sports Car Digest has details of an interesting catch all class we might consider for slot cars next year. I think it is group F with a wide range of cars from the Can-Am through Daytona Prototypes. I don’t want to clog the club site with this. How are we going to submit pre-meeting suggestions for next year like the 2 class proposal from Steve?
Randy,
Here is the paragraph describing Group F.
One of the more intriguing run groups was Group F, which combined 1983-2007 World SportsCar Championship and Le Mans Prototype entries along with 1966-72 Can-Am. It is rare to see a 2006 Riley Scott being pursued by a 1970 McLaren and a 2005 Audi R8 Le Mans Prototype, but it happened at the 2017 Spring Classic Laguna Seca. The 2005 Audi R8 LMP driven by Travis Engen won every time he started on the grid, scoring Group F victories on Saturday and twice on Sunday and winning Saturday’s one-hour vintage enduro that was open to all close-wheeled race cars.
I believe these cars were grouped together because they didn’t have enough entries to make a WSC group or a CanAm group. They really do not belong together in a vintage race.
I would be for:
1. A Slot.it or similar Can Am class i.e. McLaren M8 D etc.
2. Modern WEC or Imsa Prototypes.
3. Slot.it Ford GT 40s Mk 1 & Mk II.
John B
I see 1 Ninco 4 wheel drive car, but the Electric Dreams site might not be showing which ones are 4WD. Is Ninco the only brand of 4WD. Is there a more informative site with 1:32 rally car info?
I have the same problem with my MG and replacement chassis, but I suspect the scaley interior with the posts coming down to the rear axle/bushing may also conflict with the new chassis set up. They probably will touch the bushing and stop any chance of float. Can we trim/remove those posts? I suspect all of our cars have those posts and one person told me weeks ago those could always be cut off, but let’s have a ruling.
And thanks to all of the members who have helped me prepare cars. The 917 with the small motor and much skilled tuning is a joy to drive and compete with, now running full blast!
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My favorite 1:1 sports car races were the Trans Am races with the pony cars in over two liter and under two liter european/japanese sports sedans ( later under 2.5 l). We could easily do that type of race with the differentiation of the max motor sizes. Many of you have the pony car already. I don’t remember seeing any of the smaller sports cars running as slot cars during Thursday evenings.
