Show us your Rally & Raid cars

Okay Jaak, here are some pictures (I post more later on).

Some Lancia Stratos (Teamslot)



Some Lancia Integrale (Teamslot)



My favorite Lancia Int.



Some Lancia 037 (Fly)



Some Audi Quatro (Fly)

Here are some cars:

The JWRC:



The never is enough Porsche 911 (Fly and one Nico) (more to be shown later):



Two slot beasts (SCX Pro Xsara and the Gom anglewinder Toyota Celica):



The great BMW M1:





The Fantastic Duo (Ninco Renault Clio) (The NSR Blue Clio is coming on the mail)



The Nincos (Peugeot 307, Ford Focus and Mitsubishi):



One beautiful Renault 5 from Fly:



The brutal Spirit Peugeot 205:

The recent addition of the two Anglewinder Rally monsters (that dominated the end of the Spanish 2007 rally season).

The NSR Clio. First quickly before Swissracer notices.



Uf, I escaped. Let me hide the evidence with



and



Now the very attractive Porsche 997 (this car is a case against the ones that say Ninco is falling behind
in looks, I am one of those).

Well John, you asked for it.

I went and drived the cars for which I put a new chassis (I also included the Lancia Integrale from Teamslot since I worked a lot on this model and it is a competitor to the Sierra Cosworth.

Here is a picture with two gropus (one group has the group B cars with new chassis and the other group has the cars from 1987-1993 with new chassis).



Here is a picture with the cars in order of best lap times:



1- (12.05s) Lancia 037

Body: Fly (cockpit butchered for motor and weight considerations)
Chassis slot.it HRS
Motor AS green motor (11 UMS)
Weight body 27.9g;weight chassis 64.9g (total 92.8g)
Tires:rear slot.it P4;front slot.it Zero 17mm
--this car is from another planet, very fast and very secure (here shape and magnetic pull from motor play a role).

2- (12.29s) Opel Manta
Body: Sloter
Chassis slot.it HRS,
Motor MB SongNa (11UMS)
Weight body: 23.3g; weight chassis: 60.3g (total 83.6g)
Tires:rear slot.it P4;front slot.it Zero 17mm
-- this car slides a lot but almost never deslots (very fun and stable)

3- (12.59s) Lancia Integrale
Body: Teamslot,
Chassis Teamslot (guide modified),
Motor: Avant Slot Green (11UMS)
Weight body: 32.5g Weight chassis: 61.3g (total 93.8g)
Tires:rear slot.it P4;front slot.it Zero 17mm
--very fast, very tense, more stable than expected due to magnetic pull of motor and body shape and the weight distribution in the body (a bit misterious but there are theories)

4- (12.66s) Ford Sierra Cosworth
Body: SCX
Chassis: Hobby Slot Racing Diablo Evo (had to be trimmed so that tires do not go out of the body too much)
Motor: Avant Slot Green (11UMS)
Weight body: 31.4g Weight Chassis: 62g (total 93.4g)
Tires: rear PKS 008ER, front SCX (low profile)
--Very fast, more tense than the Manta but less tense than the Lancia, so it does slide but not too much. Extra tunning might change this. The wheels and tires have to be more narrow than the previous cars 9mm tires instead of 10mm.

5- (12.69s) BMW M3
Body: Fly
Chassis: Hobby Slot Racing Diablo Evo
Motor: Spirit 3X
comments later (very fun car to drive)

6- (12.99s) Audi Quattro
Body: Fly (with lexan cockpit and original heads)
Chassis: Ninco Mitsubishi Pajero (with some dramatic modifications)
Motor: Cartrix TX6 (7.5UMS) very good motor it has much less magnetic pull
comments later (Extremely fun car, I am dying to do a movie of this car going fast on the track, fabulous slides)

7-( 13.03s) Ford Cosworth
Body: SCX
Chassis: slot.it HRS
Motor: Slot.it Boxer open(10-11UMS)
Comments later (too tall and too narrow very tense but excellent finger exercise)

Pace,

I buy them from spanish online stores.

Rally lexan from MSC

Interior completo en lexan para rallyslot
Fabricante: MSC
Ref: MSC15000
Euros 2,35



Here are two possibilities (well known and established Spanish online stores) that I have dealt with and are very reliable:

http://www.evotecshop.com/

http://www.aloyshop.com/index.php?idioma=eng

Hope it helps

As V8Vantage stated I had some posts on the chassis thread and a thread about the Fly M3 where I talk about some of the differences between the two chassis. Look at those posts.

Basically with respect to width there is no difference but I have used them on SCX cars like (Sierra Cosworth, Escort Cosworth) which are not so wide and are basically the limit.
The difference between the two chassis lies on the distance from the front axle to the guide (I think 2mm) this allowed me to do the BMW M3 with the HSR chassis but it would have been impossible with the slot.i chassis. The other difference is as I said before the placements of the support bars. The difference is not very big, I do not have the measurements in my head but maybe 1-2mm. Again this allowed me to do the Sierra Cosworth which would have been impossible with the slot.it chassis (note the HSR chassis is also not really a rally chassis). In most of my adaptation the supports that you glue in the body are coming down from the body by 1-2mm but the miracle of super glue makes these supports completely stable (esthetically it is basically unnoticeable
on the track, look at the pictures I posted and see if you notice)

If you have bad rally cars and these chassis fit (and this will hold for many) and you are okay to trim the cockpit for the motor to fit (if you use short can then less damage to the cockpit, I am a genius), then you will blown away by the transformation.

Too many posts too little pictures. So...

I got a Simca Rally



Wait!!! Where is the co-pilot? Ahh! The name of the car tricked me... well not really. Here is the rally version adaptation.





When you take out the magnet the car is not that brilliant, so you need to add weight on the back (the motor is on front ). I replace the back wheels by calibrated wider wheels to get more traction and balance. The original motor has basically no brakes so it is useless for rally. I did not wanted to get a too powerful motor because this car belongs to the class of rally cars from 1970-1975 which I ran at 12V and the motor of choice is NC2 (which has 14k rpm at 12V).
After a not that easy search (in part because of the position of the motor shaft) I found a Teamslot short can motor I had that made this car equivalent timewise to the NC2 at 12V. I also added the co-pilot from teamslot (and replaced the pilot) and did some weight reduction cosmetics on the clear cristals.

The car is now stable, is rally responsive (acceleration and braking) on the track and runs on the time region that I wanted, so I guess I am lucky.