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#1 geardriven

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Posted 07 April 2025 - 08:51 AM

Can anyone advise if there is a bolt-in motor that can be used to retrofit the old school 16D used in the Revell Racing Chassis. Have a few hard bodies that I need power. Looking for something with umph to haul the beans around
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Posted 07 April 2025 - 11:18 AM

I'm not familiar with those chassis but if they used end bell drive 16D motors, then there are an assortment of ProSlot 16D motors that should work. And some of them are quite powerful.



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Posted 07 April 2025 - 11:52 AM

Morning Guys, It may be this one. Its what comes up when you look for  Revell Racing Chassis. But it is mainly for 1/32. 

 

Is this what you have Chuck?

 

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Posted 07 April 2025 - 12:18 PM

Martin,
You are correct on the kit, but it is 1/24 scale
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Posted 07 April 2025 - 12:31 PM

That's what I thought Chuck as you posted in 1/24 section.  But the 1/24 chassis is for a 36D motor, and you said you were looking for a 16D. So can you clarify for us? 


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Posted 07 April 2025 - 12:42 PM

Martin,
Well that is great and the reason I posted. I made an assumption that the chassis housed a 16D.
I have never had the frame side-by-side, but the one I worked on was a 1/32 scale.
If this larger scale frame will house a 36D, Im goldenI have a few 36Ds looking for a home..
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Posted 07 April 2025 - 03:40 PM

Happy to help, this chassis is near and dear to me as it was my first 1/24 slot car. It was the Revell Ferrari 250 kit.

 

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Posted 07 April 2025 - 05:46 PM

Very ironic, Martin.. My first slot car was rhe 1/32 Revell Aston-Martin DB5. The year was 1966slot cars were the rage. I saw Sean Connery on the big screen as James Bond and when I saw the kit, I had to race it at thr local commercial track. I was racing my heart out. I was 12 years old and I was getting my *** handed to me by all the brass sctatchbuilt cars. About 8 years ago, I come across that same Revell DB5 kit and I scooped it up . That kit is the Holy Grail of my collection.
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Posted 08 April 2025 - 01:08 AM

Hey Chuck, we are same age so we have simula slot car experience.  You started young. I was 13 when I was dropped off at a big raceway while my parents went shopping. I was hooked. It was 1967. 

The Revell Ferrari kit was the car my Dad and I put together when we went back to that track. It was not fast and fell over in the turns. 

I should of been put off, but I wanted to know why the other guys were faster.

I graduated to a Dynamic Ferrari 330/P4 kit. Much better. Then to go on to build my own chassis. Winning a few race's along the way. Good times.

Now we search for a reminder of those times. :good:

 

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Posted 08 April 2025 - 09:08 AM

Did we go over this before? Anyway, since the 1/32nd chassis has brackets to fit the 26D, I would bet that those could be modified to put a 16D in the 1/24th chassis. The side rails are the same.

 

 

!/32nd chassis;

 

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Posted 08 April 2025 - 01:09 PM

Pm me I'll see how many I have. Long shaft,red can,correct?

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Posted 08 April 2025 - 05:34 PM

There is a guy on E-bay selling NOS 36Ds in lots. Some can drive. Some EB. 


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Posted 09 April 2025 - 11:39 PM

Hey Sam, yes NOS 36D motors are plentiful in all different colors.

 

Chuck said this " Im golden, I have a few 36Ds looking for a home."


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Posted 10 April 2025 - 03:56 PM

Glad to see there still available. I'm pretty sure that the red long shaf version is a direct swap. Don't be surprised when they arrive with the factory cracked endbell.





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