Slotcar drag racing

[groucho]

Are these fast enough to be affected by aerodynamics?

[dieselgeek]

Visiting St Louis this past weekend, I discovered that Papa Jon and his grandson Jon are now hardcore into slot car racing. Hardcore enough that they are building their own loadbearing chassis dynos - for slot cars. They race in some league on Thursdays and by the looks of it, it's not much cheaper than racing real cars, awesome!!

[BOOOGHAR]

I finally got around to making some progress on one of mine. My first time building one so it has been a big learning curve. 63 Impala

what size motor you using and i see you're using a metal gear, does anyone still use plastic gears ?

[BOSSMAN]

I'm actually building 3 cars for myself. Each one is done different, this particular one will be my Outlaw Car with a bigger motor (don't remember the size). I have another chassis to do that has a sealed spec motor with plastic gears. I also bought a jig to solder all of this stuff together. I plan to build a track in my shop once it gets closer to being finished and hopefully I can get Geek to come over and build a timing system for it. I think it will be alot of fun to get a big group of people over and go some rounds for $10 or $20. My kid is so excited for this, dad, grandpa, and even great grandpa want in on the fun.

[oldsman496]

So WHERE is this in the "Ohio Valley"

I build ALLOT of 1/25 scale cars....... eh?