Thanks for watching Marty. I really like the build. It was fun and not that hard. Taking alot of slack from people telling me that its not worth it and so on. Nice to see that people are sharing but I think most missed the point. Most are just sharing their friend channels. (knew that would happen) Can you maybe challenge the creators to watch and suggest newer channels. Like Latvia (Harry) and so on! You have a great show Marty and people will listen if you make suggestion. I share a newer creator every week for 2 years now!
Have you watched the TH-cam creator series? I can tell most don't bother or I would not need to ask everyone to share. Would you be interested in talking about this with me on your channel or mine? We both have 2000 plus subs. The show would go out to a possible 5000 subscribers!
Great video. Its a great upgrade. Also NSR makes a good rear axle set as well. Both are really good. Question can you make a video with adding the eccentric bushing. It’s the best way to adjust the ride with a carrera chassis without getting 3d printing one.
Hi Dan. On 1/32 and 1/24 Carrera slotcars you should not remove and reinstall the pinion without a propper Tool. You will damage the shaft often, doing it your way. On a Carrera Go!! 1/43 it will work that way and one shouldn`t buy a tool for it. The pinion you`ve installed, is a little bit too close towards the motor. Put it a little further towards the gear-wheel. Look at the Carrera pinion and gear-wheel on your other Carrera cars and you will notice, what I mean. If you tune your next 1/32, go for ball bearings and glue them with a little drop of super-glue on each side of the holder. That way, the ball-bearings will stay in position.Those bushings you are using are nearly the same as the ones by Carrera. Makes no sense to use other ones, if you install a better axxle, than the one by Carrera. Now to the issue of tunning Carrera cars, or rather not. It is up to anyone, who wants to tune their Carrera car and it makes sense in a certain way. but in my opinion, this is also the opinion of experienced slotcar racers, Carrera is a toy. Not a propper slotcar. For home use and private joy, it is fun and therefore Carrera is the choice for many. But I used to be at the same point, where you are right now. I was hyped and in love with my Carrera track and the cars. But in my case, I used to drive Carrera when Carrera was made in Germany many years ago. That was good quality and no rip off. But Carrera was taken over by an Austrian Owner from that German owner and they turned the Carrera brand into a farce. Not long ago, Revell took it over from that owner and Carrera stayed with their company in Austria. But the stuff was after it was taken over from Germany ever since, Made in China. Many global playing companies do that today. They buy the name and produce the stuff in China. And here the dog is burried, we have a saying in Germany. It is cheap produced crap from China. Way over priced and the quality is rubbish. The only good thing on Carrera cars today, are their detailed finishes and their robust bodies. But that is about it. I was fooled by my old expectations from the good old German Carrera brand experience, when I came back into the hobby. Waking up to it, was like a crash landing for me, which took place over the last twelve months. The more I got into it, the more I learned that. The tires are crap, the rims are not concentric and well glued onto the axxles, just like the axxles. The new rims are totally crap. The bearings are often shitty, the chassis is often not straight, the motors are crap and have too much scattering. They often have faults which are within the series and their further liveries and so on. In a view of an experienced slotcar racer, it is all a joke and can not be taken serious. Period. And I am not even mentioning their service and their methods of treating customers. All they really care about is profit and good image selling advertisement. I know what I am talking about and believe it or not. I am very, very upset about that and them. I am not going any deeper and further, but I have swallowed a big chunk of their disapointments and I have had it with them. I will get a few more cars and a bit track equipment and than I am done with Carrera. If I would have be any wiser and more experienced with their new stuff, I would have bought a different track brand, like Polycar for instance. Not Scalextrics though. Carrera and Scalexrtrics are nearly the same level. So, if you do want to tune a Carrera car, than it should be a 1/24 scale model. Not the 1/32 scale. Frankenslot and also slotinvasion have some good spare-parts for the 1/24 Carrera cars. Get other slotcar brands, that are real slotcars and not toys. The money you put into a 1/32 Carrera car, plus the tuning parts are about the same cost, as a more professional slotcar will cost. So why throw money into somthing, that will never ever be faster and better, than a Revoslot for instance!? One could take the body of a Carrera car maybe and put it onto a better chassis. But the body is still too heavy for a slotcar that needs to be fast. Even if you exchange the inlay for a lexan inlay. The weight is too much and that is, what you don`t want on a slotcar. The balance point should be below at/with the chassis and not at the top of the body, above. This all my sound harsh and might turns you off from the journey you are on right now. But I am honest and I am myself at a point now, where the fun is the only thing, I still have, drivng those Carrera cars. The rest is disappointment and the feeling of being cheated is left over. Don`t take it personal and maybe you get the feeling, I am a buzz-killer, writting this. But this is the truth to it. My goal is not to turn you off. Have as much fun you can have with Carrera, like I do, but the bitter taste of it, might gets to you, if you experience what I did. If you would have had a Carrera Track and stuff that was made in Germany, from bacḱ then, you would easily get what I mentioned. Any way, go ahead and tune your 1/32`s, but do it with the right cars, which would be the Porsche 911K and the 911 RSR, the Mercedes AMG GT3 and the McLaren 720 GT3 for instance. Those are from my experince, the best 1/32 Carrera cars, that are worth tunning them. The others, yeah, maybe. But go ahead and make your own experience with them all. If you got any questions about the issue, let me know. I will get to you further in detail, if you like to know so. In the mean time, run them all the way and have as much fun as you can have with them!
Thanks for watching Bo! I have a modded HO press I will use next time, this time I used channel locks. Not everyone has the expensive gear so I tried to do it as if I didn't own the right tools.
@@slotvalleyracing Hi Dan, if someone comes to the hobby and I mean a greenhorn, or newbee, buying Carrera, he/she does not know such things. I know you are into HO and you`r e not green, how should they know all that, what I mentioned and now will mention. If the pinion puller/press of you would work on Carrera, fine. But there are different sizes of the 1/32 and 1/24 pinions from the aftermarket. Also different material, like brass. The Carrera pinions are easy to remove and also to install. It is cheap plastic. To remove the Carrera pinion, you showed it fine. To reinstall a vice would be helpful to install it back onto the shaft. Open the vice just a little bit . About a bit more of the diameter of the Carrera shaft. Than hold it straight over the vice and easily push it downwards. For the plastic pinion from Carrera, that would work fine and no one needs to buy a pinion puller/push for that. A small piece of hard-wood, or even metal, with a hole not bigger than the diameter of the Carrera pinion, but bigger than the shaft, works the same way. Push it so far, that you feel a little resistance, but not too far onto the shaft, after feeling the resistance. In the beginning of the shaft there nearly is no resistance. It goes onto the shaft easy. You did well, demonstrating it. ;-) My opinion in the comment was honest and I know what I am talking about. It was not ment to harm, or insult anyones feelings. It also was not intended to discredit Carrera fully. They are a toy producer and no one should expect more from it. But there are some, who think this is the real deal in slotcars. Well, quite frankly said, it is not. It is a beginnig to come into the hobby and nothing more. Carrera is/was made for kids and kids often crash them, because they love it. Therefore, the robust bodies. After numerous chrashings, they still won`t break that easy. Or didn`t. Their tracks are fine, in terms of not corroding in wet and humid surroundings. Means the rails are made of stainless steel. Their tires are the most disappointing reason, why many change them. But I would not put PU`s onto them. Rubber is just fine and the aftermarket has rubber spare-tires like NSR and BRM, for instance. Not for every car, but on can use bigger diameters and grind them easily down without having a tire trueing machine, if the dimension of the rim is fine. The old original tires never had that issue. The Carrera Universal tires are until today, as smooth, as in the beginning, when bought in the 70` and 80`up to the 90`s. PU`s need to be trued regularly and polished up with higher grain to make them shinny again.Than they grip again. Silicons are not good as well, because both leave a bunch of dust and dirt on the track. Means you need to clean up your track after every race. Rubber does not. The best tires are foam rubber tires. Especially on 1/24`s. You get way, way, way more milage from them and they don`t contaminate the track, like PU and Silicon does. Foam rubber tends to dry out, but simple body-lotion smeared around on the tires and a moment until the lotion soaks in, refreshes the foam rubber tires. Also foam-rubber tires are available with rims and the tires are already pre-glued onto the rims. Carrera tires work in the beginning and if you ride them longer, no need to true them. But I always true them, when they are new to have the full grip from the beginning. When they harden out, I get a new Carrera set mostly and run them down, too. In case that there is no after-market tire, though. I often see many Carrera cars, that have PU`s in the front and rubber in the back. I would not recomend that, because that way you always will have the fine dust comming onto the rear rubber tires and the grip of the rubber is gone. By the way, did you know our nutritions, like vegetables and fruits are contaminated with fine dust from our car-tires? An investigation showed that here in Germany. Well, we are a smaller country and the closeness of peoples, therefore cars, is higher, but even in wider countries, this does appear. Next to the fine dust of combustion motors, we do ourselves no favour to our healths, even when filters and catalytic converters are used, we all inhale that fine-dust. The most impact do ships have in this case. Has nothing to do with our topic, but even the little slotcar tires have the same effect. Many a mickle makes a muckle. ;-) Any way, stay in the slot Dan. Have a nice weekend 🙂
@@slotvalleyracing hey just bought my set I appreciate the insight from the professionals it's a lot of money and it should be directed to the best efficiency possible but please don't tell the kids!! Haha everybody have a great day
Nice video. Don't forget to low your front end. Low profile tyres with zero grip and you will feel the difference. I also recomend you to make simple the braids, better contact and even more low front. Saludos
Great video/kit review Dan. The SI Kits are awesome!
Thank you Brother! I've been watching your channel before I got mine started. Very inspirational!
Slotinvasion stuff is top shelf!
Thanks for watching Marty. I really like the build. It was fun and not that hard. Taking alot of slack from people telling me that its not worth it and so on.
Nice to see that people are sharing but I think most missed the point. Most are just sharing their friend channels. (knew that would happen) Can you maybe challenge the creators to watch and suggest newer channels. Like Latvia (Harry) and so on! You have a great show Marty and people will listen if you make suggestion. I share a newer creator every week for 2 years now!
Have you watched the TH-cam creator series?
I can tell most don't bother or I would not need to ask everyone to share. Would you be interested in talking about this with me on your channel or mine? We both have 2000 plus subs. The show would go out to a possible 5000 subscribers!
@@slotvalleyracing Dan, I am always up for collaboration!
Was thinking maybe talking about your show, club racing and the cars in the hobby.
SVR..nice upgrade, those rims are killer..
Great work! Super interested in the independent front end! I will be waiting on pins and needles!
You and me both! It will be a great project! Just getting past all the people that said it was pointless. LOL In HO everything gets hopped up
Thanks for the great review and video.
Glad you liked it!
Back in the day, we would have called that warped wheel a Friday 4:59 pm wheel. You would think machined parts would be precise.
Great video. Its a great upgrade. Also NSR makes a good rear axle set as well. Both are really good. Question can you make a video with adding the eccentric bushing. It’s the best way to adjust the ride with a carrera chassis without getting 3d printing one.
Nice upgrade. I have several sets, but I haven't used them yet. After GRL is over.
Nice!
Hi Dan. On 1/32 and 1/24 Carrera slotcars you should not remove and reinstall the pinion without a propper Tool. You will damage the shaft often, doing it your way. On a Carrera Go!! 1/43 it will work that way and one shouldn`t buy a tool for it. The pinion you`ve installed, is a little bit too close towards the motor. Put it a little further towards the gear-wheel. Look at the Carrera pinion and gear-wheel on your other Carrera cars and you will notice, what I mean. If you tune your next 1/32, go for ball bearings and glue them with a little drop of super-glue on each side of the holder. That way, the ball-bearings will stay in position.Those bushings you are using are nearly the same as the ones by Carrera. Makes no sense to use other ones, if you install a better axxle, than the one by Carrera.
Now to the issue of tunning Carrera cars, or rather not.
It is up to anyone, who wants to tune their Carrera car and it makes sense in a certain way. but in my opinion, this is also the opinion of experienced slotcar racers, Carrera is a toy. Not a propper slotcar. For home use and private joy, it is fun and therefore Carrera is the choice for many. But I used to be at the same point, where you are right now. I was hyped and in love with my Carrera track and the cars. But in my case, I used to drive Carrera when Carrera was made in Germany many years ago. That was good quality and no rip off. But Carrera was taken over by an Austrian Owner from that German owner and they turned the Carrera brand into a farce. Not long ago, Revell took it over from that owner and Carrera stayed with their company in Austria. But the stuff was after it was taken over from Germany ever since, Made in China. Many global playing companies do that today. They buy the name and produce the stuff in China. And here the dog is burried, we have a saying in Germany. It is cheap produced crap from China. Way over priced and the quality is rubbish. The only good thing on Carrera cars today, are their detailed finishes and their robust bodies. But that is about it. I was fooled by my old expectations from the good old German Carrera brand experience, when I came back into the hobby. Waking up to it, was like a crash landing for me, which took place over the last twelve months. The more I got into it, the more I learned that. The tires are crap, the rims are not concentric and well glued onto the axxles, just like the axxles. The new rims are totally crap. The bearings are often shitty, the chassis is often not straight, the motors are crap and have too much scattering. They often have faults which are within the series and their further liveries and so on. In a view of an experienced slotcar racer, it is all a joke and can not be taken serious. Period. And I am not even mentioning their service and their methods of treating customers. All they really care about is profit and good image selling advertisement. I know what I am talking about and believe it or not. I am very, very upset about that and them. I am not going any deeper and further, but I have swallowed a big chunk of their disapointments and I have had it with them. I will get a few more cars and a bit track equipment and than I am done with Carrera. If I would have be any wiser and more experienced with their new stuff, I would have bought a different track brand, like Polycar for instance. Not Scalextrics though. Carrera and Scalexrtrics are nearly the same level. So, if you do want to tune a Carrera car, than it should be a 1/24 scale model. Not the 1/32 scale. Frankenslot and also slotinvasion have some good spare-parts for the 1/24 Carrera cars. Get other slotcar brands, that are real slotcars and not toys. The money you put into a 1/32 Carrera car, plus the tuning parts are about the same cost, as a more professional slotcar will cost. So why throw money into somthing, that will never ever be faster and better, than a Revoslot for instance!? One could take the body of a Carrera car maybe and put it onto a better chassis. But the body is still too heavy for a slotcar that needs to be fast. Even if you exchange the inlay for a lexan inlay. The weight is too much and that is, what you don`t want on a slotcar. The balance point should be below at/with the chassis and not at the top of the body, above.
This all my sound harsh and might turns you off from the journey you are on right now. But I am honest and I am myself at a point now, where the fun is the only thing, I still have, drivng those Carrera cars. The rest is disappointment and the feeling of being cheated is left over.
Don`t take it personal and maybe you get the feeling, I am a buzz-killer, writting this. But this is the truth to it. My goal is not to turn you off. Have as much fun you can have with Carrera, like I do, but the bitter taste of it, might gets to you, if you experience what I did. If you would have had a Carrera Track and stuff that was made in Germany, from bacḱ then, you would easily get what I mentioned. Any way, go ahead and tune your 1/32`s, but do it with the right cars, which would be the Porsche 911K and the 911 RSR, the Mercedes AMG GT3 and the McLaren 720 GT3 for instance. Those are from my experince, the best 1/32 Carrera cars, that are worth tunning them. The others, yeah, maybe. But go ahead and make your own experience with them all. If you got any questions about the issue, let me know. I will get to you further in detail, if you like to know so. In the mean time, run them all the way and have as much fun as you can have with them!
Thanks for watching Bo! I have a modded HO press I will use next time, this time I used channel locks. Not everyone has the expensive gear so I tried to do it as if I didn't own the right tools.
@@slotvalleyracing Hi Dan, if someone comes to the hobby and I mean a greenhorn, or newbee, buying Carrera, he/she does not know such things. I know you are into HO and you`r e not green, how should they know all that, what I mentioned and now will mention. If the pinion puller/press of you would work on Carrera, fine. But there are different sizes of the 1/32 and 1/24 pinions from the aftermarket. Also different material, like brass. The Carrera pinions are easy to remove and also to install. It is cheap plastic. To remove the Carrera pinion, you showed it fine. To reinstall a vice would be helpful to install it back onto the shaft. Open the vice just a little bit . About a bit more of the diameter of the Carrera shaft. Than hold it straight over the vice and easily push it downwards. For the plastic pinion from Carrera, that would work fine and no one needs to buy a pinion puller/push for that. A small piece of hard-wood, or even metal, with a hole not bigger than the diameter of the Carrera pinion, but bigger than the shaft, works the same way. Push it so far, that you feel a little resistance, but not too far onto the shaft, after feeling the resistance. In the beginning of the shaft there nearly is no resistance. It goes onto the shaft easy.
You did well, demonstrating it. ;-)
My opinion in the comment was honest and I know what I am talking about. It was not ment to harm, or insult anyones feelings. It also was not intended to discredit Carrera fully. They are a toy producer and no one should expect more from it. But there are some, who think this is the real deal in slotcars. Well, quite frankly said, it is not. It is a beginnig to come into the hobby and nothing more. Carrera is/was made for kids and kids often crash them, because they love it. Therefore, the robust bodies. After numerous chrashings, they still won`t break that easy. Or didn`t. Their tracks are fine, in terms of not corroding in wet and humid surroundings. Means the rails are made of stainless steel. Their tires are the most disappointing reason, why many change them. But I would not put PU`s onto them. Rubber is just fine and the aftermarket has rubber spare-tires like NSR and BRM, for instance. Not for every car, but on can use bigger diameters and grind them easily down without having a tire trueing machine, if the dimension of the rim is fine. The old original tires never had that issue. The Carrera Universal tires are until today, as smooth, as in the beginning, when bought in the 70` and 80`up to the 90`s. PU`s need to be trued regularly and polished up with higher grain to make them shinny again.Than they grip again. Silicons are not good as well, because both leave a bunch of dust and dirt on the track. Means you need to clean up your track after every race. Rubber does not. The best tires are foam rubber tires. Especially on 1/24`s. You get way, way, way more milage from them and they don`t contaminate the track, like PU and Silicon does. Foam rubber tends to dry out, but simple body-lotion smeared around on the tires and a moment until the lotion soaks in, refreshes the foam rubber tires. Also foam-rubber tires are available with rims and the tires are already pre-glued onto the rims. Carrera tires work in the beginning and if you ride them longer, no need to true them. But I always true them, when they are new to have the full grip from the beginning. When they harden out, I get a new Carrera set mostly and run them down, too. In case that there is no after-market tire, though. I often see many Carrera cars, that have PU`s in the front and rubber in the back. I would not recomend that, because that way you always will have the fine dust comming onto the rear rubber tires and the grip of the rubber is gone. By the way, did you know our nutritions, like vegetables and fruits are contaminated with fine dust from our car-tires? An investigation showed that here in Germany. Well, we are a smaller country and the closeness of peoples, therefore cars, is higher, but even in wider countries, this does appear. Next to the fine dust of combustion motors, we do ourselves no favour to our healths, even when filters and catalytic converters are used, we all inhale that fine-dust. The most impact do ships have in this case. Has nothing to do with our topic, but even the little slotcar tires have the same effect. Many a mickle makes a muckle. ;-) Any way, stay in the slot Dan. Have a nice weekend 🙂
Thanks Bo, as I stated I will be using a puller made for HO that fits the motor!
@@slotvalleyracing You are a fox Dan and your`e answers were very short and diplomatic. ;-)
Hi Bomamo, do you have a channel or a way to get more information on what to get that is better and still be digital like Carrera? Thanks Mark
looks great by the way love its stance now
I really like how this car looks now. Thanks ASGR Subbed you and shared your latest video!
@@slotvalleyracing Thank you Dan that’s most appreciated and I’m very grateful for that share and add 🙏
I have always used my platform to help others in the TH-cam Universe. I'm subbed and have the bell on so will see you next time!
@@slotvalleyracing hey just bought my set I appreciate the insight from the professionals it's a lot of money and it should be directed to the best efficiency possible but please don't tell the kids!! Haha everybody have a great day
Nice video. Don't forget to low your front end. Low profile tyres with zero grip and you will feel the difference. I also recomend you to make simple the braids, better contact and even more low front. Saludos
Thanks for the tips Francisco! Please join us for Monday's LIVE stream
Hey Dan cool tips, I don't have Carerra as you know, so on my scalextric cars I just scuff the tires and go.
I plan on collecting REVOSLOT and Carrera
do have a Revo yet@@slotvalleyracing
Would you like to join me on my show?
Yes I have 2 Revoslot Mercedes CLK 1 Black and 1 Blue they are in my shorts...lol well not in my shorts in the shorts videos!!!
It would be fun just not sure about live at this point. still trying to get the feel for the postcasts. @@slotvalleyracing
If you put a slotinvasion front guide that would help with deslots for sure
On the cars I hopped up with the slotinvasion rear axel kit i have
hot glue your motor in place Dan nice little bead is only needed bluetack may come loose eventually due too vibrations
great tip!
Since the pinion gear is so easy to remove and replace what keeps it from spinning on the motor shaft during acceleration?
I had to push it on after cleaning the edges
So it is a pressure fit pinion?
it was forced I do not have a press
I used channel locks
OH
Buy the NSR Carrera DTM kIT instead or Sloting Plus!...THEY ARE PROVEN MATERIALS!
I'll check that out. Thank you!