I have a whole load of the Hornby 1/32 kits where they used Scalextric moulds for the car shells and other body parts. All waiting for someone to one day convert them to slot cars. Including this Mustang. Thanks for presenting a couple of options.
You should have mentioned it's not a Shapeways "product" Shapeways does the printing but the actual chassis you're showing here is a product of CG Slot Cars, there are a couple other manufactures that make 3D printed chassis too along with their respective motor pods Olifer is another brand of 3D printed chassis too BOTH of the companies have a large variety of 1/32 chassis for many popular slot cars. This was a great video Thanks for posting.
Nice job! How ever the before and after wasn't fair. If you set up the stock car better you would have gotten a better lap time. All you needed to do was sand the front tires to get a better ride height and profile the rear tires. Also if you re rooted the guide braid so the it sat flatter that would have helped with the shallow stock guide. For the shape ways upgrade it would have been nice if you used the stock motor with pinion and used a after market crown with the same number of teeth as the stock scale crown. I'm sure the upgraded car would have gotten better lap times and would have ran much more consistently than the stock car. But the best lap time would have been closer. Thanks again for the video I sure it will help a lot of people with tuning their T/A car.
You make some very valid points about using the same motor and gear ratios. That would have demonstrated better the value of this upgrade . The gain isn't speed - its handling . I have done this with a number of my older cars - the only problem is the cost - add up the price of all the parts required . You might find it more economical to just buy a NSR or Scaleauto car .
@@salvatoreperagine1707 ....True expect the money spent on the conversion to be close to double the initial cost of a stock slot car, there's a lot of bits and pieces that go into these conversions...but IMO it's worth it. Just about any popular slot car can be converted with a 3D printed chassis.
You really should have put the Predator motor into the stock chassis, along with the 13-31 gearing, and then taken a second base line .....the video didn't make any mention of the stock motor and gearing....and then there are details regarding the weight differences......please consider these criteria in your next demonstration.
What a highly misleading video !! The video says about a 3D printed CHASSIS, not a whole underside swap, chassis, motor, gears, wheels, tyres, guide and then to top it all off, lead! Re-build the whole car back to stock like it was at first and JUST fit the chassis and see how much better it is !!!!
I have a whole load of the Hornby 1/32 kits where they used Scalextric moulds for the car shells and other body parts. All waiting for someone to one day convert them to slot cars. Including this Mustang. Thanks for presenting a couple of options.
You should have mentioned it's not a Shapeways "product" Shapeways does the printing but the actual chassis you're showing here is a product of CG Slot Cars, there are a couple other manufactures that make 3D printed chassis too along with their respective motor pods Olifer is another brand of 3D printed chassis too BOTH of the companies have a large variety of 1/32 chassis for many popular slot cars. This was a great video Thanks for posting.
Nice job! How ever the before and after wasn't fair. If you set up the stock car better you would have gotten a better lap time. All you needed to do was sand the front tires to get a better ride height and profile the rear tires. Also if you re rooted the guide braid so the it sat flatter that would have helped with the shallow stock guide. For the shape ways upgrade it would have been nice if you used the stock motor with pinion and used a after market crown with the same number of teeth as the stock scale crown. I'm sure the upgraded car would have gotten better lap times and would have ran much more consistently than the stock car. But the best lap time would have been closer. Thanks again for the video I sure it will help a lot of people with tuning their T/A car.
You make some very valid points about using the same motor and gear ratios. That would have demonstrated better the value of this upgrade . The gain isn't speed - its handling . I have done this with a number of my older cars - the only problem is the cost - add up the price of all the parts required . You might find it more economical to just buy a NSR or Scaleauto car .
@@salvatoreperagine1707 ....True expect the money spent on the conversion to be close to double the initial cost of a stock slot car, there's a lot of bits and pieces that go into these conversions...but IMO it's worth it. Just about any popular slot car can be converted with a 3D printed chassis.
I raced with Darrin at Fast Eddie's he knows how to make a slot car run!
Great video - would like to see hi-performance mod's on 1/24th cars! 🏁
You really should have put the Predator motor into the stock chassis, along with the 13-31 gearing, and then taken a second base line .....the video didn't make any mention of the stock motor and gearing....and then there are details regarding the weight differences......please consider these criteria in your next demonstration.
Well done. 👍
Nice job. What was the car's total weight after you added the lead?
did not test on the same track lane
What a highly misleading video !!
The video says about a 3D printed CHASSIS, not a whole underside swap, chassis, motor, gears, wheels, tyres, guide and then to top it all off, lead!
Re-build the whole car back to stock like it was at first and JUST fit the chassis and see how much better it is !!!!