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stranger205 wrote:

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Jeff, I am worried about racing my car against your car. I have a terrible feeling you are going to blow my doors off

It might out-sparkle you but I'm not gonna say it will out run you But..."Stranger" things have happened

Nerfbarz wrote:

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Did you put the solid axle on the F-1 yet. Let me know how that goes.

Hey Nerf. When I read this I went out to the building to try one. it took about 5 mins to complete a basic axle install. I wanted to use tubing for a axle sheath but didn't have any. I also want to fix it to there I can use the orginal wheels. But for this run i used a the front wheels and axle form another car. The only advantage it had was to stabilize the front wheels. It only added 1/10 an ounce to the weight. While I was at though I worked on another projuct for this car. I personally don't like the pick up system. In my opinion the braid is to thick and the car don't weigh enough to hold the front wheels down. so i replace the standard braid with 2.5 mm no-clean wick that I picked up at a local electronics store. Its 5 ft of braid for $2.95. Its thinner and allows the front wheels to set on the track. My next move was to solder wires directly to the rear portion of the braid. I drilled a hole under the front cowl for the wires to feed through and attached them to the motor. Sanded down the rear wheels and tires and let'r rip. I ran it on both 1/32 and 1/43 and it run great. Below is a picture of the end result. I have to replace on front tire because the soldering iron got too close

The end result. Although the car is light, its main problem appeared to be the orginal braid. the braid held the front end up due to the fact it is a light car and caused deslotting. Even though my main objective was to add weight via a solid axle. The main issue was resolved inadvertantly by replacing the orginal braid by a thinner braid and now I don't have a problem losing power with the braind wired directly to the motor instead of the orginal pick up system. It was a great project and had very positve results