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[Ken Bryan]

We have a retro 1/24 club in Spokane. We have a 30 year old routed track, mostly plywood, but redid the straight in MDF a couple of years ago.

We want to add a 1/32 class to our monthly races. Womps work OK on the track, and my I-32 is great, but we would like to try a hard body class to up the aesthetics. Would prefer a pretty stock class that is not too expensive. My biggest concerns are tires, guide flags, and handling.

What would people suggest?

Ken

[Tim Neja]

Take a look at the SCRRA 1/32 races. You'll find easily built angle winders and inline chassis that would not be too expensive to build--and handle GREAT!! Or--go the 1/32 size flexi route--there's some great F-1 style JK flexi cars that are pretty inexpensive--and will BLOW AWAY any womps with performance.
The small Can Am style cars in the back are 1/32 flexi cars--the SCX Pro Nascars also run great for the money--and in front are 1/32 womps with Hot Rod bodies on them. These are all IROC cars I run on my home track. Performance is best with the flexis--the Nascars are great for hard body cars--and the womps run great too with foam tires and inexpensive TSRF home style motors.
FWIW
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[TG Racing]

Here in the Ohio Scale Racing League we run Scx Nascar with CB Design wheels w/ 1405 Super Tire Silicones. Stock Slot-it w/ Super Tires. and Modified Slot-it w/ foam tires.

[gascarnut]

but we would like to try a hard body class to up the aesthetics. Would prefer a pretty stock class that is not too expensive. My biggest concerns are tires, guide flags, and handling.

Ken, I would suggest taking a look at the Slot.it range, going with a single class like their Group C inlines would give a large selection of cars that all work well on wood. The only change you might need to make to these cars would be to replace the stock tires with F22 rubber. There are lots of other tuning options, but you could easily run the cars competitively without them. At around $60 each, you won't find a better combination of looks and performance.

[tlbrace]

Ken, I would suggest taking a look at the Slot.it range, going with a single class like their Group C inlines would give a large selection of cars that all work well on wood. The only change you might need to make to these cars would be to replace the stock tires with F22 rubber. There are lots of other tuning options, but you could easily run the cars competitively without them. At around $60 each, you won't find a better combination of looks and performance.

You've precisely described a new class we are adding to our club next season. We race on 3 and 4 lane routed tracks.

[Tim Neja]

Dennis is right--if you want to go hard body plastic car racing--you can't beat Slot-its for the $!! They run very well right out of the box--and tires for your individual surfaces are all you really need to have the cars fun and competitive to drive!!
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[flyracing]

Though a little more $$$ you might give NSR cars a try too ! they got some real nice rubber tires !, beautiful liveries & I think better ,more consistant motors !

[gascarnut]

Craig's right that NSR cars are faster, but they should be, they are nearly twice the price of the Slot.it cars!

I guess Ken and his buddies need to decide if they want to spend $60 a car plus a set of tires ($5 or so), or $110 and no tires, but perhaps a guide, as the NSR guides are kind of shallow for old wood tracks.

On my track I think the Slot.it F22 is actually a slightly better tire than any of the NSRs I have tried so far. My NSR Audi R8 GT3 is faster on the F22 than on its stock tire.

[HarV Wallbanger III]

Slot It is the best $$ value and is (Like NSR) a racing car with very little work. There are other cars out there that are cheaper than Slot It's even but then you may have to correct everything on them just to get them to run as good! Motors on some, gears, axles, tires, bushings maybe, guides and wheels just to get them to run as good as a Slot It. Buy that time you may have spent more!

Most of the cheaper stuff has one or more of the above problems but can be made to run very well with $$ and effort. If you see a cheap car type that is your fav and must have but it and build it up!

Look for sales and wait to get the cars you want....

But most of all...... buy what you want and have fun!

[munter]

Slot It is the best $$ value and is (Like NSR) a racing car with very little work

Even down here in NZ, Slotits have made their mark as a great RTR 1/32 racer.

We race the Group C cars with basic blueprinting. We also race the GT cars but with a wider set of rules that allow many more modifications.

We used to use the Slotit silicone tires but recently have moved over to using NSR "ultragrip" tires. These give a grip level closer to sponge tires on a sprayglue track. Our local tracks are all gloss surfaced.

The bang for buck that Slotits give is hard to beat. Not to mention the direct interaction that the manufacturer has with his customers through the SCI forum.

[dan49]

Ken,
You might want to check our club site www.slotcaraddiction,com. We have been in existence for about 10 years and race nothing but hard body plastic chassis cars. The club has 8 MDF 4 lane non-mag tracks that we use on a weekly basis. For the majority of our members we focus on building and blue printing cars to get the best performance possible. As mentioned, NSR which is considered a ready to race as opposed to ready to run car still needs some tweaking to get the most from it. You might also consider entries from Sloter, Spirit, Fly, and Ninco. I think they are often overlooked but can be tuned to be very competitive.

[Justin A. Porter]

Depending on surface, your tire choice is going to be much more critical than the car choice. There are definitely some manufacturers where the cars are simply better out of the box, but cars rarely stay "as delivered" for long as you'll undoubtedly want to alter gearing and so forth.

If the 1/24th scale cars you run are running foam tires, then stick with foam tires (ScaleAuto produces an EXCELLENT foam tire for GT/LMP style cars). Generally speaking it's hard to go wrong with Slot-It, but ScaleAuto, SlotingPlus, Avant Slot, MRSlotcar, and the Ninco Lightning series of cars all make a case for themselves. I very much hesitate to say NSR because the initial cost is VERY high.

[KTM300]

We have a retro 1/24 club in Spokane. We have a 30 year old routed track, mostly plywood, but redid the straight in MDF a couple of years ago.

We want to add a 1/32 class to our monthly races. Womps work OK on the track, and my I-32 is great, but we would like to try a hard body class to up the aesthetics. Would prefer a pretty stock class that is not too expensive. My biggest concerns are tires, guide flags, and handling.

What would people suggest?

Ken

I've had good luck with NSR cars.This video is from BPR.I also like Slot-it.I run them all on the king or the flat track.Scale Auto and Avant also work pretty well.

[HarV Wallbanger III]

Mike are those vids of cars on foam tires or ....?

[Bill from NH]

Ken,
You might want to check our club site www.slotcaraddiction,com.

Dan,I found that link didn't work, but this one does.http://slotcaraddict.ning.com/

[JBriggsK9]

Ken

Like the others I would suggest the Slot-it race cars.. Geart price and they do make very good running cars for a routed track.. I have been racing them for years and they are one of the best for plastic or routed tracks.. They make a routed track guide and you can use either rubber, silicone or sponge tires depending on what works best for your track. If you use traction compound for you 1/24th cars then the sponge tires sized and trued to what fits the car are the real way to go.. That is what I do on my routed track..

You can go with the Group C,Vintage Can-Am or GT bodies.. All work great.. And if you are into NASCAR or Trans-Am then take the Scaley or SCX cars and put slot-it running gear on them with the Orange endbell slot-it motor and they will run almost as fast as the slot-it cars... We just started running the NASCAR and Trans-am classes with min. 90 gram weight and 80 grams for the Trans-Am cars and they are a ball to race.. Quick and good handling..

Chris

[Tim Neja]

The other cars to remember--in 1/32 scale that can be VERY fun on smaller routed tracks are the abundance of "FLEXI" chassis and cars!! We've run an IROC class at my track with the little $100 Thursday night "lights" cars and I think everyone has enjoyed them. Falcon II motors and little GTP coupe style bodies and these cars are FAST and FUN! Yes--their not highly detailed plastic cars--but that wasn't the question. Some of the 1/32 WOMPS are awsome as well---check out the JK Catalogue---look at Roger's Mid-America website or JK's website--you'll find lot's of great cars that will work VERY well on routed 1/32 size wood tracks!!
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