Went to Atlanta Slotcar Raceway today ad did some testing.
The car runs very well, easy to drive and fairly quick on the 165 Ft hill climb.
Weighs in at 133 g, geared 14-38, CR-102 for power, Alpha Piranha .820 tires.
.015 front clearance, .050 at the back.
Ran 25 laps on the new motor (yellow lane) and was turning 5.4 sec laps towards the end of the 25 lap segment.
Let the car cool down, checked things over and didn't see any issues with the car.
Put the car back on yellow and ran another 25 laps. best time was a 5.245 sec lap.
I didn't add any extra rear spoiler for added downforce just to see what it would do.
Over all this car is a very good handling car, forgiving when over driven, only de-slotted three times.
I am going to build another Trans-Am chassis, this time in an inline drive chain.
I think the specs should be:
In line drive only
.015 front clearance
.050 rear clearance
.750 front tires (retro can-am) ?
.8125 rear tires
4 inch wheel base
3.125 max width
120 grams min weight
Trans-Am body (of course)
What do ya'll think?