Tonight is the first Hellfire Hot Rods Slot Car Drag meet.
Back late last year I bought 2 Parma Edge slot car drag racing chassis off of Graham, the organiser of the Hellfire Hot Rods. Over the past couple of years he's been locked away in his garage building up a scaled drag strip, complete with Christmas tree, gantry, score boards and even a computer system that prints out RT, ET and a scale MPH.
After having a bash at it and setting the best RT and then ET of the day I thought I'd like to have a go at that. I did post up on here in the last eBay purchase thread that I had picked up a funny car model. As it turns out, that one died in a case of mistaking how strong thinners were when painting, cue the whole plastic body rejecting the paint and then going all gooey. Nevertheless I then went on to buy two further funny car bodies.
After a lot of procrastinating and having other stuff I finally got around to finishing off the building and the mounting of the body. As the funny car body is slightly longer wheel base than a standard 1/25 car, I needed to extend the front axle. This can be seen by the two junking great bits of Ally at the front with multiple axle holes to allow correct height adjustment.
So here it is in all it's glory, the Fruit of the Loom slot car funny car:
The body is held on with 1mm mild steel welding rods that have brass bushes to locate the body. All of them are soldered in place. The motor itself is a Super 16D which is apparently a very fast motor from stock. It's not meant to be hopped up but a few are looking at winding their own armatures, seeing as I do that for a job I'm also investigating it.
Have absolutely no idea if its any good, but will find out tonight. Ill try and take some photos and maybe even some videos.