20 replies to this topic

[geardriven]

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

[Larry Horner]

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.

[Martin]

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?

 

[geardriven]

Martin,
You are correct on the kit, but it is 1/24 scale

[Martin]

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? 

[geardriven]

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..

[Martin]

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.

 

 

 

[geardriven]

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.

[Martin]

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.

 

 

[Dave Crevie]

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;

 

 

 

1/24th chassis

 

[Mark Onofri]

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

[Samiam]

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

[Martin]

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."

[Mark Onofri]

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.

[gluebomb]

The 1/24th chassis Dave posted is interesting in that it's fitted with a can drive motor - I've only ever seen the Revell chassis with an Endbell drive 36D, specifically the early blue one with the large brass bushing carrier and endbell without heat sinks.

So, Is that chassis factory and later or did someone alter it ?

 

Mid America has a good deal on 36D motors on Ebay at present, 3.99 a pop - mostly short shaft can drive for sidewinders, but there's an endbell drive motor there as well, though that has the earlier style endbell, no heatsinks etc...

 

S.

[slotcarone]

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.

 

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Funny that the kit says it includes a 26D motor but the illustration on the top of the box still shows a 36D in the frame. Must have been an earlier version originally.

[Martin]

Finally ( Mike Katz) noticed the artwork for the Dynamic Ferrari kit is just wrong. The second car I got to build as a kid BTW.

 

I have pointed this error a few times with no response, thank you Mike. 

 

My belief is

A) the art department was lazy, and just used that part of the Renegade art.

 

B) The kit plan was to use the same chassis as the Renegade.

 

C) The art work was done before they realized the 26D motor was just better.

 

D) someone gave the art department the 36D chassis they had and nobody cared or noticed back then.

 

I had looked at it for years before I noticed the mistake.

[Flathead]

Martin. Kal-Kar did similar with the ad for their Chaparral, although the blurb correctly states a Mabuchi 26D the artwork shows an Igarashi motor.

Photo courtesy of Pdl.

[slotcarone]

Martin. Kal-Kar did similar with the ad for their Chaparral, although the blurb correctly states a Mabuchi 26D the artwork shows an Igarashi motor.

Photo courtesy of Pdl.

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Also says ball bearings on the rear axle and clearly shows bushings.

[Dave Crevie]

The gist is probably to believe what you read on the box, not what is shown in the drawing. If it was a photo of the actual slot car, I might be tempted to go by that.

[don.siegel]

That 1/32 Revell chassis shown will also fit smaller 1/24 cars, like Revell's own Lotus 23 and Porsche RS61? sports cars. And both of those use the regular Revell endbell-drive 16D. Revell made a very similar chassis for their 1/25 F1 cars, with the main difference being that it's a bit narrower and there's only one rear mounting hole in the rear, instead of the 3 on the 1/32 chassis. The F1 cars also used a 16D, endbell drive. 

 

Revell later made a brass chassis in 1/32 and 1/24, for 16D and 36D motors, in which the front part screwed right on the endbell. 

 

Don