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Nice work Peter, wonder will that two motor AWD chassis work better than what I tried on Lambos.

Something not so serious for a change.
Picked this flexi trax truck from flea market for 1€.





Artin chassis had correct wheelbase so decided to use one, after all the truck looks it could be Artin.
Added bigger side pans for body mounting.



Carrera GO F1 wheels, had a pair of Ortmann tires so used those, Micro Scalextric box motor, SCX pinion, 2.38 front axle eliminates axle play and pfuetze mini guide.

Some ortman tyres arrived for the Peugeot around the middle of last week but due to real life getting in the way today was the first chance I had to try them . Now I've been very happy with the grip I have obtained from the standard rubber ones after treating them but I did experience a little slippage on the rims as they were not glued onto the rims du to having ordered the ortmans and I wanted to do a comparison . . Any way I swapped them over and did a few laps with the Ortmans and the grip was very good ,Not as good as rubber with treatment but consistent lap times in the high 9s were easily obtained , rubber gives consistent mid 9s .but for a proxy car the Ortmans need less maintainance .. . There are still one or two things I will do to this car to get it on the pace of the rubber shod version ..I think this project has been succesfull to create a bench mark for my competition cars to aim for .

Just got back to testing the die cast porsche . The surprising thing is it seems better with the heavy body than the bare chassis being much more drivable .However once I cast a resin body or make a vacform I will add a rattle plate and get the weight where it will do more good .It is quite a pleasant drive though but due to the hi c of g it is about 1 sec per lap behind the Peugeot and 2 ses behind the 917 which is on the pace of some of my 1/32 cars , How it will be on urathanes or rubber remains to be seen I suspect maybe 1/2 a sec slower than the sponge . I'm waiting for some silicon and casting resin arriving so I can get on with the messy process of body making .

Started updating one more old Ideal Motorific conversion, Mako Shark Corvette



Tried to create the Mako Shark look back then but the result was pretty horrible.

Changed the tires to the shortened Carrera chassis and added a printed pfuetze braid guide.
Still work to be done, new body posts and gluing and truing the rear tires



Stripped the body from paint and after spraying some primer the body looked surprisingly smooth.
Painted the body with silver, thought that light colour would maybe make the car look "smaller".
It is a pretty big body, 1/40 scale or even bigger.
But now I'm having second thought, silver looks bit dull.



So not sure, maybe I should get something like Tamiya TS-53 deep metallic blue and then try to add white bottom with airbrush to get this look I tried to originally create



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