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Oops.... hard on the tail of my last
Sloter, this one arrived in the post today. This one its
totally different to the Zytek but then so is the 1:1 we are talking a
totally different classes of car. I don't want this to be a comparison
with the Zytek either but a look at this car in it's own right.
Opel have a long history of sporting events through all the
different genre in particular with these smaller rally cars,
this is the one this one is based on.
The rear light clusters consist of orange Red and
silver sections which round off the rear of the car well. The car feels
solid and much to my liking doesn't rattle at all. Overall the car has a
nice shine to it and seems well proportioned. OK time to
put it on the track Oh No! It's back all that noise, two laps was all I
could bare, then the top had to come off. Which entails removing four
screws these may explain why nothing was rattling as they where all
reasonably tight the two in the front are shorter than those at the back
as the rears also go through the motor mount.
The chassis for this little car has a semi-floating
motor mount, which also has the option (with the supplied
adaptor "cuna") To fit a long-can inline now that's something that is
certainly unusual especially in such a small chassis.
Please note that the interior will require modifying to
do this. I haven't tried this yet. I may come back to this
later.
The wheels themselves are very neat authentic looking
plastic wheels that fill the arches well ,though they are a touch on the
thin side and I'm not sure even with moving it to inline if any wider
wheels could be fitted, at the moment they do not protrude from the body
which has been a criticism of some of the other manufacturers in this
field. I may come back to this later. The front
of the car has a small row of rivets which could have been painted black
to emulate the 1:1 on first glance they are not noticeable, but as
Sloter have gone to the trouble of putting them on, it's a job that they
could have been completed. I didn't mention the jack points either
another nice little touch. The Guide see for yourself the cable eyelets are
too big they protrude out of the top of the guide they can't be pushed in
anymore or else they stick out below the car - I think these will be cut
down to size. I have replaced the eyelets with some shallower ones = a two
second job.
Initially I fitted some washers on the right side rear wheel to stop
the slop! = a two second job.
I added 5gm of lead to the front as it lifts under
hard acceleration.
I then found another problem the tyres though soft enough to provide
a decent level of grip they actually separate from the wheels at top
speed. All they needed was to be glued to work well. I must mention
all the wheels are well balanced and round.
Just to show how much I was enjoying this car I even built a plexi
slot track just to test it with the magnet in = It works well in this
and is competitive with other 2 WD1600s I have such as
SCX.
To try and give it that bit more edge, I fitted some alloy wheels
and gears on the rear which made it much better and it was getting
nearer the performance I wanted. I had just had to try the long can option it's
not something you get every day = This is really easy to do, the
magnet section just pops out and the adaptor simply clicks
into place, the adaptor has two screw holes to hold the motor
firmly in place, I found one screw was enough. Because of
the larger wheels I swapped to a Slot.it rear axle slightly
shorter than standard to keep the wheels within the body. I just
happened to have the Spirit motor sat on the bench but it worked
really well. Unfortunately as stated before to fit the body back on
then the interior needs to be cut away. So I removed it totally and
fitted a layer of black card in its place just fixing the Driver and
co-drivers upper torso in place with some glue - This makes the car
much quieter and lowers the C of G too. Now we're talking the car really
is handling much better.
At this point I replaced two shorter screws in the front of the
chassis and the two in the front of the motor mount just to give a bit
of extra slack and allow the option of more body rock. SSD Chipping - Yes I haven't chipped it but there is
plenty of room to do so. The Verdict: this car is
already available in several different attractive liveries, with at
least one more to coming later in the year. The car is certainly well
detailed and is an appealing car. The Mabuchi type motor works
well and drives this car very nicely as a sidewinder, however
the long can option gives plenty of scope to upgrade the car to boost the
performance. It has one or two minor faults which can be easily corrected
as shown above, its "fun value" outweighs these minor
hiccups. I know it may seem as though I've have done quite a
bit of work here, but if it was a race car for my club I'd do a lot
more. I only worked this because I had options to play with,
something not every model gives you. August 2009 |
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