Revo-slot Alfa Kit

[DennLeo]

I have the Revo-slot Alfa romeo white kit. I started to work on the mechanics and noticed that the PLATE that holds the front axle/wheels to the rear frame motor section move around a lot so the front tires easily go up and down in front vertically. This is obviously so the motor (pod)/frame can move. The screws and nuts seem to be tight. Do I dare crank down the nuts further to take out SOME of the slop? The screws do not turn, they are in all the way. I have not tried to tighten the nuts yet. Please advise.

[grenade10]

Dennis,

Do a search on setting up the REVO slot cars.  The way the pod floats is different than all the other plastic chassis cars we play with.  And there are some adjustments that are not in other cars.  Will be far more informative and easier to follow on your car.

I am in the process of building all three cars, but am starting on the body first...... hope to get painted this weekend.

MJW

[DennLeo]

Thanks Marc that sounds like the best way to go.

[Tom Dolan]

I got my Alfa down to a 10.2 sec. lap with some minor tuning--that's not slow on my track.

Tom

[DennLeo]

Nope. Thats faster than I run my fast cars on your track.

[Jim W]

Dennis, look in the Official class rules for this car and you will see that there is a post for tips for this car.

www.hrwforum.com/forum/-1-32-scale/177204-my-revoslot-escorts-in

Very good information. Look at both videos, the second video is on the second page. I did not have the binding of my "float posts" like Harry W had on his car. The only thing is to make sure about the body mount screws are not too loose, to cause the screws to drag on the track.

Jim W

[Jim W]

This car is a Revoslot car, and they use brass nuts to have float in their chassis and body plates. The sheet that comes with any car will show the "optional" parts on the last page. It will be spare parts that are made by their "parent" company, BRM. BRM will also have a line of 1/24th cars that also use the body and chassis plates.

The screws and brass nuts are tightened down so that the brass nut will not fall off of the car. The brass nuts come in different sizes to control the body to chassis float. I don't think anyone as changed the brass nuts on a Revoslot car to change the amount of float, so I would suggest if you do not have any float in your car, that you may need to take the screws and brass nuts off and make sure your body plate don't need to have the inside edges of the holes "rounded" the get the brass nuts to move freely in the plates.

When I talked with Alan, the distributor for these cars, he recommended that I use "Loctite" blue on all screws with these cars. The "Red" Loctite would require a "jackhammer" to loosen at a later date, if used.

The other thing Alan recommended, was to make sure that the axles moved freely in their mounts. You may need to loosen each pair of axle mounts to get them in alignment before you retighten them. The motor mount is also adjustable to get the "perfect" gear mesh, which is not easy on most anglewinder cars, because of their fixed motor mount.

Jim W

Oh, when I have looked at what others are doing online, the bearings will need to be clean and need a thin oil applied. Think ball bearing oil, like a RC car may use.

[DennLeo]

My car had tooo much float. I added some tape between where the plate mount. It is less sloppy now.