Carrera rally cars, guide conversion

[Tsooko]

Just a short note to tell you all I got 5 of the 6 Carrera rally cars in from Chuck and are they sweet! My favorite is the Red Bull Citroen DS3 WRC. He's got a few extra so get yours quick. Now someone has to do a "how to" on changing the pin to a guide flag. Has anyone tried the B-Nova conversion?
Hey Chuck: how wide is the guide slot on Carrera track?

Cheers Ted

[pfuetze]

Ranch-Design has a guide conversion kit.
i did some conversions using H0-SlideGuides (for me the best option!)

worst thing about the SlideGuide conversion is that Carrera normally uses the perfect slideguide position for the front mounting post, it has to be moved back ...

here are some photos:

[Tigeracer]

Really nice tutorial, Peter!
Great close-ups
Greg

[Tsooko]

You da man Peter! 8-)
Well I just happen to have some of Ed's slide guides here.
This conversion was very easy.



Here is the victim, I mean car.



This pin won't work on my track so it has to go.



All theses parts are taken off.



Here is the front end.



You can see what I cut out. Most of this was done with a very small side cutter, a small amount of exacto knife cutting and a bit of file work so the wires would clear the sides when the guide is turned. The bottom was left alone and the guide was put into the hole where the pin was. The front hole is the body mount hole.



As you can see the slide guide fit in perfact and is not in a bad position front to back.



Here it is all wired up with the silicone wire treaded though the guide holes and the soldering done.



The bottom view.



Here you can see the wheels touch the ground



The bottom of the guide sits well on the track surface.
Very simple conversion with no adding of material needed.

As I was doing this. I was thinking of how rally cars, when running always seem to be a stuggle going down the road with the driver fighting the wheel every inch of the way. :auto-layrubber: :auto-rally:
Wouldn't it be cool to have a steering chassis?

Cheers Ted

[Dodgefarmer]

Wow Ted, you sure took the work out of that conversion. Very easy and straight forward. Thanks for the tut.

Randy

[masmojo]

[Cjent]

[FatUSStig]

Great flag conversation!!!

One of these days....

[Tsooko]

[Capn Jodi]

I will have a couple, as soon as Cjent can get enough to satisfy customers!
CoA should have brought these in this year, Ed and Dave!

[Broman62]

[pfuetze]

Not a bad idea Roland, something to think about ...