[BAracer]

I received a Pendle FB press release yesterday illustrating a bundle of new cars from Slot.it and Policar.

No idea how to link it to here, but the cars and liveries looked nice...

[BAracer]

Or to put it another way...see the earlier post in the News section!

[TRUCKER]

I got the new Nissan Skyline Castrol and I can tell you that right out of the box track-holding is very very good on my wood track ... this model is very well made happy with it.

[slotloco]

I got the new Nissan Skyline Castrol and I can tell you that right out of the box track-holding is very very good on my wood track ... this model is very well made happy with it.

You may find something useful in here for optomising your setup.
[If you cannot see the pictures, you may be using CHROME as a browser, and have security settings a bit high, thus blocking image references to 3rd party sites.]

As these are designed to run against the European DTM models, I started setting one up. I have found it naturally sits a bit higher, which for us wood track types is not desirable. 
Rear track is "almost" as wide as the Opel and the later Alfas & Merc, the height is 3mm higher than the Opel, 2mm lower than the Alfas. 
So it is well in the mix for competitive proportions.
It comes with a couple of extras under the box. One of these is a single pipe big barrel exhaust, which looks very nice when swapped in for the dual pipe. But once I had lowered the chassis, it could scrape the track, so I reverted to the dual pipe.

The other item is a pair of small sort of triangular plastic pieces, designed for fitting under the chassis. The specified effect of these is to enable the front corners of the chassis to touch the track when cornering and "slide" - That is what they tell me. But due to the rigid way I set up the front axle, with no rock, these cannot touch anyway so make no difference. But I fitted them INSIDE the body, and some way that eludes me, they have improved the way the body rocks, so there they shall stay.  You can see them fitted to the top side of the  chassis in the second picture.
As you can see in the pic below, the black guide is visible through the clear plastic setup plate, and is sitting full depth. I have the front with about 1.25mm clearance after truing down the front tyres, and with the axle set as high as possible in the mounting posts.

The back is lower through, as I have raised the pod up inside the car 1.0mm. To do this raising and ensure the tyres don't foul on the underside of the interior, I trued them a little more than needed, and took a little material off the underside of the interior where the wheels approach the interior.
- That interior already has shaping to create working space for tyres, but needed a little more help 

A few tidy ups to do - if anyone compares my lead-work to that of a drunken free form sculptor, I shall take mortal offense - but agree with you.
It looks like a lot, but it is only 0.8mm sheet.  Car weight is 84 grams.  I could now probably do away with the 4gm square underneath the lead connector, and the cheater -weight extra magnet in front of the motor (1.2gm) . Those will be tested in the coming days.
The pod has actually been raised inside the chassis that full 1mm by the placement of rubber washers between the underside of the pod legs and the upper side of the chassis. I'd have been happier with 0.5mm ones, but I have been unable to source, and the supply from benefactor who gave me some 0.5mm a couple of ears back, is almost exhausted.

I have also replaced the Slot.it body screws with another I prefer for fit of my screwdriver, the amount of smooth shaft, and have replaced the steel washers with rubber ones. I prefer the cushioning effect with the body float.
The front has a little over 1mm clearance, the rear a little under 1mm. The guide is full depth.

It is getting close in lap times to my fully developed Alfas, so when the motor is fully run in, it should be competitive.
In the wild.

 
And hanging with it's mates

[rallyhub]

Great report.

rallyhub