by SuperSlab » Wed Jul 05, 2017 7:54 am
Got mine over the weekend: a very pretty.... and BIG... car! The level of detail and finish is as we have all come to know, expect and love of Carrera cars. They remain incredible value for money.
In terms of preparation:
1. I have cut the front air dam and rear diffuser off the chassis and glued them to the body. I always set up a fair measure of body float and it offends my sensibilities to have gaps open up when the body moves. OK, OK, I know pretty much nobody would ever see/notice it. Just one of my hangups: I fully understand why slot manufacturers do it this way from a manufacturing perspective, but I just like to have body parts on the body and chassis parts on the chassis.
2. Glued & trued urethanes
3. Installed a B-Nova adapter and Slot.it guide. As others have noted: the guide was just riding too high to make any other easy adjustment. So I just bit the bullet and used one of my (diminishing!) stock of B-Nova adapters.
I suspect this car is going to be very quick. My C7R runs very nicely indeed but I think this is going to be quicker. My new Scaley DP is one of my best running non-pod cars: I think this one is going to be challenging that. And I suppose I should have learned by now not to make predictions like this without the car ever having turned a wheel... One problem is that Luf is in the process of changing his track so all my lap time data (for >200 cars...) will be redundant. Also a new track always takes some time to "rubber in" and settle down. But no matter: I intend taking the Ford GT, the Corvette and the Scaley DP to the new track this weekend to see how they compare.
Alwyn