I bought a dozen of the Avant chassi's that were available at a ridiculously low price. A lot of these cars were just parted out for builds. Wheels, grub screws, guides etc. So this left me with some excess anglewinder motor pods. For my 2018 Can Am entry I wanted to build something that maybe was a little better handling then my previous proxy entries. I thought I would build a brass podded chassis, to see how that would work.
First I modified the pod to accept a 130 type motor, and cut it down so it would easily fit under my Resin Ferrari 350 casting.
Once the final shape of the motor pod was determined I layed it out and marked up a brass sheet and fashioned something along the lines of the old Cox 1/43 Superscale chassis. Pictures are worth thousands of words so here is what i ended up with.
Trials have been very positive on my home track. Even though the motor is only 17000 rpm, it out performs my Trans-Am builds that are using 20K long cans. Very stable and the floating pod has eliminated any chatter or wheel hop in the corners.