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One of my buddies over in the UK just sent me the pair of new Lexus SC430's!! WOW, NINCO did a fabulous job on these cars!!

Eclipse - The red, silver, black strips and tampos are clean and crisp on the white background. White 18in (Megane style) rims and a NC-5 motor

Zent - The red stripes, silver, black and red tampos are outstanding on the black and silver background. The black and silver background makes for a very interesting contrast to the car. The Zent comes with 18 in 6 spokes and a NC-5 motor. I like it very much but I seem to be favoring the white Eclipse.

Both cars finishes are outstanding and detailed. Some of the most noticeable improvements are the rear wing. It's a one piece and it's very sturdy. The chassis is your typical AW chassis with a lot more reinforcement and it's very flat. Also interesting with the chassis is the molded exhaust pipe outports. The body has openings just in front of the rear fenders. The outports add a nice detail and still have enough room to allow for some body float. I think the most interesting change about this car is the new front and rear tires. They are obviously from new molds like we've seen from Slot.it. The side walls are very flat compared to the standard slicks that show off a bulged side wall. The new tires have no NINCO branding on the side walls and seem to be made from a different composite. I'm not sure if it's the increase mass of the side walls, but these tires feel less elastic. Both cars come with 18 in front and rear rims. I pulled out a set of 17 in BBS's… both of the new tires had no problem snapping up to the slightly smaller hubs. Having no NINCO branding on the tires, we may need to see a modification to the sanctioned regional/world cup rules.

I'll spend some time prepping the cars this Memorial Day weekend. I did run them for a few laps… very typical and stable right out of the box. I can't want to see what they really can do against the rest of my stable… Mosler's, Ascari's and Ferrari's.

RickyBobby #26

SJSlots wrote:

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Nobbit - Thanks for the motor clarification. This makes me happy.

Ricky - Great info and much appreciated. I'll be waiting to hear more about tire performance. I wanted the NC-5 in this car to make it a close performing car with other similar GT's in the line up but if the new tires increase any performance I guess I'll refit the car with older NINCO rubber.

I took a few shots before I worked over the cars.... I hope this clearifies some to the things in my first post:













Enjoy - RickyBobby #26