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the new track car

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Now that I have my house, I'm planning on building a decent sized track to race my micros on....but before I could do that, I needed a worthy whip....



Looks stock other than pullbacks right?
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But this is Bitpimps, so I had to come up with sumthin....
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Almost ready to go, I just need to add the charging plugs
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Might have some time to work on it tonight. I'll shoot a test vid to see if this sucker is speed worthy. Haven't had much time to finish it this week.

Thanks to sat4life27 for the slot car axle idea.... :-o
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Post by ynad »

:eek: i guess sat4life27 sets a new craze at the BitPimps :-o
great work as always, HirotoR34 :-)
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I do believe that beauty will be speed worthy, great job as always big H.
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Friggin Nice.... Now I need to find a slot car to canibalize!!! :-o
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http://www.radioshack.com/product/index ... age=search :lol:
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great work, get a fet mod into that thing and it'll scream! :-)
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Post by Maxximum Attack »

Great job Hiroto,
Are bits now going to see some influences from the higher scales?maybe :???:
But, you saw it first here at Bitpimps :-)

Spankin' job man
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Now THAT"s a Racer :-o
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That looks killer. Did you do the body too, or did it come like that?

I love your chassis design, but I'm curious how the acceleration is considering its direct drive. Have you calculated the gear ratio?
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crazydave wrote:That looks killer. Did you do the body too, or did it come like that?

I love your chassis design, but I'm curious how the acceleration is considering its direct drive. Have you calculated the gear ratio?

The shell was from the Super Perfection set I won from last 04's custom blowout contest. I've been busy at work this week, so I haven't had a chance to test it, but I'm sure it won't suffer that annoying lack of steering one way from having the drivetrain on one side. I don't really know much about gear ratios, so I'm sorta trial by error..........which is how I do most of my projects. :-)
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Post by sg219 »

Nice work! :-o

How's it run?

Need some foams on there.



I tried something similar a while back, then the project took a turn for the worse. I used gears from a slot car. Then I cooked a couple of boards, crappy soldering skills on small stuff.
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to calculate the gear ratio just divide the spur gear by the pinion.

eg: 30t spur/6t pinion
30/6 = 5
gear ratio = 5:1 :-o
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from the photo is looks like a 7 tooth pinion mated to a 25 tooth stock Life-Like crown gear...ratio 3.57:1

If anyone is interested in giving this a try let me know, I've got a box full of old Life-Like cars in various states of completion I'd donate to projects.
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Post by HACHI-RYOKU »

Good job Hiroto. This new mod has got me itchin to produce one of these. I would think that a lithium battery could really help this kind of set up. Gotta think of how to fit it in there though. :???: :???: :???:
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canabits wrote:from the photo is looks like a 7 tooth pinion mated to a 25 tooth stock Life-Like crown gear...ratio 3.57:1
If that's accurate, that's about like the red KIT racer gear, if I remember correctly. It's a little tall, but with dual cells (and maybe mosfets for torque), it should be just fine for large tracks.
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