[JMay]

Scalextric Austin Healey

Picked up a Healey at the recent Cobham show, fairly complete, just a bit dusty as part of my buying shells for conversions projects. Back home and looking over the shell set a target of fitting modern running gear to the shell without modifying any part of the body.

   

Below is the results of a lot of fiddling with dimensions to get a 3dp ‘Power Sledge’ type conversion to fit with provision for a Flat 6 motor. The motor holder locates into the rear prong holes and snaps into the front clip feature (copying the original Scalex motor brackets). Rear axle reuses the original axle bearing supports and the front axle has an insert to control the axle height and movement better than slopping in the original supports.

   

The original pin guide is removed and a custom guide used which locates onto the main motor holder. Will need to evaluate how well the rear set guide post is going to function and if I should look at other options trying to reuse the original pin guide post. To finish off will add some PSR wheels with inset grub fixings at the rear and some plastic wheels to the front.

Cheers
John