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Back in 2020 I wrote a ten-part series on the Jadlam blog about tuning a Scalextric car. My aim was to work through the steps for improving a standard Scalextric model by only using the parts that came in the box. I picked the new at the time Mustang GT4, because I thought there might be quite a lot of potential for improvement... And I wasn't wrong!

Jadlams have recently built a brand new website and the blog has gone. So I've dug out the images and text to post on the forum. I've had some good feedback over the years about the blog posts and I want to share the series with a new crop of Scalextric racers at my club, Worthing HO Racing.

There is a post introducing and linking to the blog posts on the SlotRacer forum here. I'll edit that once the posts are up on this thread.

These are the ten posts in the series...

• Scalextric Tuning 1: Parts of a Car
  
• Scalextric Tuning 2: Tweaking a New Car
  
• Scalextric Tuning 3: Maintenance & Repairs
  
• Scalextric Tuning 4: Magnatraction
  
• Scalextric Tuning 5: Fixing Oversteer
  
• Scalextric Tuning 6: Fixing Understeer
  
• Scalextric Tuning 7: Body Float
  
• Scalextric Tuning 8: Using Upgrade Parts
  
• Scalextric Tuning 9: Removing the Magnet
  
• Scalextric Tuning 10: Developing a Race Car
  

I don't have the full text for a couple of the posts, so those will get re-written.