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by howie » Sun Nov 29, 2015 11:11 am

Ok, I scrambled and got the car done a couple hrs. before yesterday's race. The car is fast down the straight, we had to add some weight to get it to go around the corners. Blake claimed this car as his ( Grand sons can get away with this ). He raced it and really liked it.
I believe I will replace the aluminum mount as it did move after contact with another car, making the rear axle out of line. If you can see in the pictures, the bottom part of the block that bolts to the chassis is not long enough. I think I will make the new mount out of sheet steel. I will add pictures of the new mount when I get time to do the job.

by howie » Wed Nov 25, 2015 10:53 pm

Not getting much done on the project. The wife and I left town for a few days. I did manage to get the chassis mount mounted today. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, getting anything done on the project then is not looking good.

Be sure to counter sink the bolts on the bottom of the chassis.

by howie » Fri Nov 20, 2015 9:46 am

I took the easy way out on the front axle by just soldering a tube onto the stock uprights. Body mounted. I cut the body at what I thought was the place to cut, as it turned out the True Scale tires up front would not fit under the body. I have some clear plastic and I cut a piece and super glued it to the sides. Consequently I will have to paint that part on the outside, no big deal. The rear tire at this point is just a prop. I will have to take more material off the chassis on the inside of each front wheel as they are rubbing, not good!! Now the hard part: making an adjustable rear axle mount.

by howie » Thu Nov 19, 2015 2:07 pm

As if I don't have enough to do I am going to build a True Scale Can-Am chassis out of this Champion chassis that I found in my old chassis drawer. I would LIKE to have it done before next race ( Nov. 28th. ) with a new body and all! We will see how that goes!

The Champion chassis.

#1 is to cut the front pan off so the tires will fit. 2. move the guide flag back a tad. 3. cut off the motor bracket and install one that will take a Hawk 7 motor. 4. Cut off and make an adjustable ride height axle bracket. 5. Make new front axle brackets, yea, I know it says 6, but it is 5 ok?

by howie » Wed Nov 18, 2015 11:06 am

Chevy NASCAR and a Mustang TA2 painted by our youngest racer Blake. We are taking these projects to the farm in Wyoming ( Blake and his twin sister Aubry are joining us ) on our semi annual trip. They will be sitting on a Sloting Plus SP800001 chassis.

by howie » Mon Nov 09, 2015 4:40 pm

Got this Indy body form Beau who ordered it from PCH #10948. Beau has more of these bodies. Took this old 4.5" JK chassis from my old chassis drawer. I am going to combine these two items to make my first Indy car. The body is like it is made to fit this chassis! I can't pass this up! First thing I did was cut off the front axle mount ( may not have been necessary ) so I can make a new mount. Then I cut the top off of the rear axle mounts so I can raise the axle bushings and lower the car for 1.0" + tires. This is going to be a simple Indy car so I won't make the rear adjustable for ride height. Stay tuned.

Decals for this project.

Just a mock up of a perfect fit!

Raised the rear axle bushings. Yes, I will clean up the rust etc. when I get done with this project.

I will have to cut off the chassis where the marks are so the body will fit flush with the bottom.

by howie » Sun Nov 01, 2015 7:35 pm

Bob; that is a very nice Can-Am. Looks like we are going to have some Beau built chassis competing this 2016 season.
Yes a little weight up front helped my Beau chassis quite a lot. I also added a little in front of the rear tires, I was not too thrilled with that move but left them on while racing and I will more than likely take them out. The chassis is a nice handling unit ( at least on the Rapid Raceway track ) and takes very little tweaking to get the handling right.
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by racerbob9 » Sat Oct 24, 2015 8:32 pm

I finally got going on my Beau Can-Am. Beau did a beautiful job with the chassis! Thanks Beau. Still needs some detail work, but finally............

by wb0s » Sat Oct 17, 2015 1:33 pm

I finally got my Can Am car done and ready for the race today. I sure hope it works OK....

by howie » Fri Oct 16, 2015 10:51 pm

Bill, can't wait to see your re-make of that chassis put to the test. It looks good!

by wb0s » Tue Oct 13, 2015 6:14 pm

Today I finally took some time to work on one of my 1/24 cars for racing at Rapid Raceway. I bought one of Beau's new Can Am chassis, which is one beautiful chassis I must say, but I found out last night the bodies I had purchased from Truescale were 3 1/4" wide whereas my chassis is just 3" wide. Beau has these chassis made with provisions to change the side pans, but because my building skills are pretty limited I did not want to go that route. So after looking around I came up with a possible alternative. I pulled out an old American Line chassis that I had raced with the PASER gang years ago. It used a 36D motor but was already set up for tall true scale type wheels and tires. I cut out the soldered in 36D motor and installed a motor mount for a Falcon type motor. As I said I am not a great builder and am always looking for helpful techniques to aid in building and especially soldering. One tip I picked up from Jarius Watson in an article he did for the new slot car magazine was to use a small plastic bottle to apply liquid soldering flux. The small plastic bottle really helped me control the amount of flux I used and where it went! The second little trick I tried out was using foil tape to hold the chassis and parts in place while I soldered. The aluminum foil tape also worked well as it sticks really well and the heat doesn't affect it. So a little more work and it will be off to Rapid Raceway to see how it runs!!