[Kevan]

Bernie, no criticism from me, to me a car comes from the manufacturer as a 'first fix'...i.e. thrown together for the sale...race prep should be expected if you're racing any car.

[Graham]

MR Slotcar Corvette day 2

As Bernie says, the car seems to tip up at the front a little, but I found on mine that the guide blade was about 2mm below the chassis. So I have taken at least 1.0mm off the guide holder, and now it is just about even and looks much better to me. I also found that the rear axle / gearing tends to be a little loose which affects the amount of track you can put on the wheels and the car rattled about abit. So I put 3mm brass spacers between the wheels and the bushes to stabilise the amount of movement. Also did much the same with the front wheels.

As I don’t know much about the standard MR Motor, today I changed it for a Predator Slimline, without a great deal of effort I have managed to get a significant improvement in the running of the car compared to my Ninco version ( with the same motor)  

[KensRedZed]

As I don’t know much about the standard MR Motor, today I changed it for a Predator Slimline, without a great deal of effort I have managed to get a significant improvement in the running of the car compared to my Ninco version ( with the same motor)  

Sounds good. What RPM Predator did you use?

Ken

[Kevan]

I keep hearing only good things about the Predator slimlines

[Graham]

As I don’t know much about the standard MR Motor, today I changed it for a Predator Slimline, without a great deal of effort I have managed to get a significant improvement in the running of the car compared to my Ninco version ( with the same motor)  

Sounds good. What RPM Predator did you use?

Ken

It was the 18k rpm Predator, it is measuring a higher rpm on my rolling road than the original

[Gordon Steadman]

This is in no way connected with any previous comment I might have made about The Corvette and other Mr Slotcar products.

I find it astonishing that something produced by a small manufacturer would be compared only to something by Ninco. I would expect it to absolutely destroy it. I've tried Ninco motors and they are.....not the fastest shall we say.

The only modern motors I have really enjoyed using have been NSR's between 38,000 and 50,000 RPM. They go very well indeed in a brass chassis. If this is just the usual case that I know nothing about modern RTRs and my expectations are based on the performance of older, classic motors, I don't know but I find them somewhat anaemic.

I do think that most look lovely though. My wife gave me a BRM Alfa (24th of course) and it is astonishing pretty but I have to say, the performance is way down from my expectations, I have great trouble getting it sideways . Yes, yes, I know that's not the quickest way and I am quite capable of driving fast thanks but I prefer more performance than I need to use rather than something underpowered or only just quick enough. I like real cars like that too. Shame I'm now such an old git that I drive an Audi but I've been lucky enough to have owned a fair selection of Alfas over the years so I can live on memories there as well as with slot cars.

[ARUP]

Thanks for the DArt whitewall tire link! I haven't been slot car active lately as it's bicycle riding and RC aerotow season.

The Corvette is just lovely!

[Graham]

This is in no way connected with any previous comment I might have made about The Corvette and other Mr Slotcar products.

I find it astonishing that something produced by a small manufacturer would be compared only to something by Ninco. I would expect it to absolutely destroy it. I've tried Ninco motors and they are.....not the fastest shall we say.

The only modern motors I have really enjoyed using have been NSR's between 38,000 and 50,000 RPM. They go very well indeed in a brass chassis. If this is just the usual case that I know nothing about modern RTRs and my expectations are based on the performance of older, classic motors, I don't know but I find them somewhat anaemic.

I do think that most look lovely though. My wife gave me a BRM Alfa (24th of course) and it is astonishing pretty but I have to say, the performance is way down from my expectations, I have great trouble getting it sideways . Yes, yes, I know that's not the quickest way and I am quite capable of driving fast thanks but I prefer more performance than I need to use rather than something underpowered or only just quick enough. I like real cars like that too. Shame I'm now such an old git that I drive an Audi but I've been lucky enough to have owned a fair selection of Alfas over the years so I can live on memories there as well as with slot cars.

I think I have unintentionally  mislead you, I should have said that the Ninco is actually just the body, it has a 3d printed chassis with the same slimline Predator motor. I just refer to as my Ninco because it’s based on the body.

[Kevan]

38-50k motors on skinny rubber tyres...I see no point in that whatsoever.

[Gordon Steadman]

   
What's this skinny runner tyres then?

In any case, what you see as pointless is rather irrelevant isn't it?