by Dangermouse » Fri Jul 13, 2018 1:34 am
I think he means the NSU, Gordini and the SImca as well as the recently released Fiat. (Minis are next I think)
I have one each of the NSU, Simca and Renault and plan to get a Fiat. They are good runners - I put slot.it foam tyres on the back though they do run fine on the original rubber. You can also get softer rubber for them as well as BRM foam. I also made my own urethane and they go well with them. We haven't raced them yet just punt them around on fun run afternoons.
Are they as smooth as a well set up slot.it or NSR - probably not but I find them smooth enough - gear mesh is fine though a little noisy at first. This improves with run-in. The axles and gears are 3mm so if you want to replace anything you could go for Plafit gear. A mate had a noisy gear on his - it just didn't want to mesh well - we swapped it for a Plafit ($5) and it was good. Whereabouts are you located - Bruce at CIncyslots has (had) a couple and Alan at 132 Slotcars is the distributor so if you can get to his store.
We mostly run them on board tracks. Think Bruce was running them on Carrera Digital.
They aren't out of the box and run them cars - they do need a little bit of fiddling to check things are smooth and oiled up, trued tyres etc...
Aside from the foam tyres I haven't spent anymore on my 3.
cheers
David
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Dangermouse on Fri Jul 13, 2018 7:36 am, edited 1 time in total.