If I were to build a Can Am car...

[silverspringsslotcars]

I have a Lola T70 with an HRS2 chassis, but I wanted to build a Porsche race car. So I picked the 917-30-006. I am not a good painter so I bought a Carrera 917-30 and will used the body and maybe the wheels for inserts.
The following photo was from the ultimatecarpage.com site


The chassis is made from .055 and .047 music wire. The pans and the piece between the rails are .032 brass sheet. Pickup is TRSF. Gears are Slot.it 34/10. Wheels are CB design 15x11 and 15x10. Tires are Paul Gage XPG-22168FF (widest I could find). Have to put nut on guide and secure the wires. Tires in front are stock Carrera. Motor is a Pro Slot Euro Mk1 motor (26K). Motor only draws approx. 300 ma. The chassis without body handles very well. The motor is very linear in its power delivery and very quiet compared to slot.it and others. Boy does it have brakes! The whole thing with body weighs about 105 grams.



The body is not yet mounted, but just set on top of chassis. The body appears to be two different colors, darker is under LED light and the other is under Florescent.

[HomeRacingWorld]

Congrats on a cool build.

[munter]

Nice chassis and I do like Porche 917's.

Ideally you should mount the body to the floppy pans...that is what they are for, to isolate the body and chassis from each other but the question that I have pondered for some time is "how?"

Do you use screws and go from underneath or go in from the side and use pins?

[Audi1]

Looks low and fast! Nice chassis! I'm not familiar with the Pro Slot motor, but 26k rpm should move 100+g car at a quick pace.

Allan

[silverspringsslotcars]

I use pins and go in from the side. I have never had any luck using screws from the bottom. The mounted body is a little higher off the track than in the photo. It is sitting on the tires in the photo. Still trying to dial in the handling. I have approx an 11 foot straight and a 12.5 foot straight on my track. The corners except for one are all basically 90 degree corners and they are flat no banking. The good brakes come in handy. Right now it is still accelerating at the end of the straights, (3.4/1).

Joseph

[VTECFOUR]

I've got the Sunoco car and wondered how'd it do with a metal chassis.

This has got me going.

Thanks for the inspiration.

Dan

[gascarnut]

Here is a way to mount hard bodies on pans with screws from underneath:



There are two strips of thin brass with 2-56 nuts soldered to them glued to two 1/4" squre lengths of foam rubber, that in turn are glued to the body.



Then 4 flat head 2-56 screws from underneath. With a little bit of blue Loctite, you can leave them slightly loose so the pans still hinge. If the pans were just "rattling" on the frame rather than hinged, you can tighten the screws all the way, as the foam does the insulation.

BTW the foam is cut from 1/2" wide by 1/4" thick weatherstrip foam found at the local hardware store. It needs to be fairly stiff, not you normal "couch cushion" variety.

[silverspringsslotcars]

Dennis, thank you for the information on mounting bodies.

Joseph