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[Phil Smith]

Nice chassis Ray. The Z bar design is very clever.

[MantaRay]

Phil, Mike Swiss actually started this design while experimenting with The Hot Rod Chassis's we run. He made a winning Can-Am and F-1 design also. This one is a Combo Z-Rail/Torsion design. I recall Mike mentioning that the Z-Rail thing was big with Euro Sports.............Hopefully he will chime in.............
tx
Ray

[MantaRay]

This is an example of one of my Hot Rod...Swiss/Jimmi Bostrom inspired designs ............BTW....The Spec Motor for these beast's is a Falcon II Reverse Motor. Bunch O' Fun

[Dominator]

Here's a new build on smaller scale, a 1/32 retro!

Brass is all .032
1/2" guide lead
3.25" wheel base
.063 main rails
.047 bite bar
total weight minus body 71.4 grams



I wasn't sure how this was going to work as I thought it would be too light but to my surprise it worked quite nicely. The motor is a slick 7 mini brute as that was the closest thing I had to a F-2. The practice body was a Parma Mercedes CLK. I have a couple of retro 32 bodies on order.

[Tex]

Nice, Dom! I'm takin' notes for my first 1/32 build.

[Phil Smith]

Phil, Mike Swiss actually started this design while experimenting with The Hot Rod Chassis's we run. He made a winning Can-Am and F-1 design also. This one is a Combo Z-Rail/Torsion design. I recall Mike mentioning that the Z-Rail thing was big with Euro Sports.............Hopefully he will chime in.............
tx
Ray

Still, a very nicely built chassis Ray.

So if I'm understanding the Z railscorrectly, the stops prevent the rails from flexing down, but allow them to flex up. You also get a lot more twist flex, correct?

[MantaRay]

Yes Phil, That is correct.............The chassis"Loads" under acceleration and "Unloads" when you get off it..........

[MSwiss]

After buying a nice car from Manta Ray Price, it inspired Graham Climpson to build
his first scratchbuilt chassis ever.

It's a similar build to Ray's, but has something I've wanted to try,
3-.078 pcs. of wire on each side for the Z-rails.

The car not only looks nice, but handles well.
It's about 6 grams heavier than his Manta Ray car, but has plenty of spots to lighten it up a bit.

[fester]

greg jaime ,fowler,and burrito are far thee best in the west imho!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!norcal rocks!!!see ya soon!

[Cap Henry]

CHR Chassis #009
Quad .047 Rails
Shaker Pans
R-Geo Samurai 2.2 Kit
105 Grams Complete

[Mopar Rob]

Cap:


Cool, I was thinking of doing something similar with a Samurai 3. Actually the front piece has been modified for the additional rail width, I just haven't had time to build it.

[One_Track_Mind]

Hi Cap,

Looks really good!
Thanks for sharing your build, btw is that a TSR motor in this ride?

[Cap Henry]

Rob, it works really good on our swoopy king. Will be testing at Route 93 Friday/ Saturday and TSS Sunday. The way Rick did the 2.2 samurai you could just simpply remove the split rail spacer, and the 4 .047 rails fit perfect with a 3/4" Bracket.

Brian, Yea I just sent all my PD's to Ron H, and that was all I had to test with.

[MantaRay]

Cap Is it a shaker

[Cap Henry]

Ray, Yea, I really like the shaker cars, they all seem to work good

[team burrito]

Just finished a couple of new 1/32 rides for SCR; a Porsche 917 & Porsche 917-10, both painted by Uncle Frank.











Got two more chassis to build, back to the bench.

[Tex]

Very nice lookin' cars, Russ... both the chassis' AND the bodies!

[Mopar Rob]

My friend Bill liked my light weight R-Geo Samurai R & D chassis buildl but wanted something a little heavier. Bill ordered a kit from Rick and asked if I would build something similar out of the normal production kit


Built per Bill's specs of .032" Samurai 3, JK 1" hypoid bracket, and Rick's Backacha piece. Wheelbase is 4" with a 1" guide lead length.



Weight as shown 56.8 grams

[Pablo]

SWEEEEEEEET on both Russ and Rob !!!!!!!!
(Chassis, that is)

[Mopar Rob]

Pablo:

Thanks, working on another chassis right now. Maybe 2 completed in one day ?

[Cap Henry]

Some New Stuff


Left Chassis
CHR Car #008
Simple .078 JK Spec Chassis
4" Wheelbase

Right Chassis
CHR Car #010
R-Geo Samurai 2.2 Kit, JK F1 Bracket, Shaker Pans
2 Rails .062 Piano Wire, 4 Rails .062 Brass Rod



Left Chassis
CHR Car #010 IRRA LTO Stock Car
10 .047 Piano Wire Rails
.040 Slick 7 Left Pan, .032 R-Geo Right Pan, Chicagoland Steel Guide Tongue and 2* 3/4" Bracket

Right Chassis
CHR Car #012 IRRA Stock Car
Slick 7 Kit, JK Hypoid Bracket, Cut Down Chicagoland Brackagra
6 .055 Piano Wire Rails
Shaker Pans

[Mopar Rob]

You're just a building machine lately. Where's # 11 out of curiousity?

[Cap Henry]

Oops I made a typo. The LTO Stock car is #11 LOL

I've been trying to race more of stuff I build, which in turn has led to improvements.

Next up is an F1 or 2, but those look like a whole new animal lol

[John Miller]

Nice work Cap. I look forward to checking them out.

[Greg VanPeenen]

Cap,

Nice work you are gettin good a building your own stuff. I built 2 more stock cars myself. By the way Foster was a lot faster with the car Boggie ran then he was with the car he won with.

Oh by the way PDL says shaker cars should be illegal because they have movement in more then one direction. I think I might have to agree with him.

Keep up the good work.

Greg V
MRRA