1/12 SCALE F1 LEXAN BODIES
 

DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE CAN I GET 1/12 SCALE F1 LEXAN BODIES ?

Hi guys..

I am new to 1 1/2 scale... I got a Corally Sp12G2 from a friend...
I drove it and I like it very much.. and it's freakin fast..

I have a question to ask..

1. What's the diameter of the front wheel ( with tire mounted onto rims)

2.What's the diameter for the rear? (with tire mounted onto wheels.


cheers

Hello and welcome to 1/12 scale!

You will want to get a set of cheap calipers because your tire size changes and as it does you should change gearing to keep up with the reducing diamater.

Look back a few pages for a discussion on Rollout (gearing).

Average rear tire ~1.9 inches, give or take.

David Root

i think speed demon was after the actual diameter of the Wheel. mine are:-
front-35.5mm
rear 35.5mm

sorry i dont have any imch sizes. hope that helps

matt rice

cool huh!

trackmagnet-
very cool!
How old is that photo? That sure looks like a TOJ on the third car from the left.
O'D

I finally get to get my carpet knife working tomorrow :D :D wahoo! I've got my ascari body all painted and decalled up and all I need now is the speedo that I'm buying used from one of the guys I know at my track. I think the front tires need to be trued too because the Jaco tires I got don't look very good. Even though when I bought them they said they were trued. Hmmmmmm, oh well. Than I also get the slow process (it seems slow, but how slow is it really ? :confused: ) of getting the camber properly adjusted. Oh well, atleast I will be able to drive. I like the ascari body, it looks sweet, I also like how it has a slight impression on where the rear wheel will be so I didn't have to figure that all on my own, I just cut it out and than inlarged the hole with my dremel tool. And now its pretty much perfect, how much larger should I have the wheel well over the size of the actual tire?

Hi guys, I sure this question has probably been asked before, but I want to get into 1/12 and I've been looking at a used CRC bloody red six pack and a rc12l3. Can anyone give me any advice? If it matters, I plan on putting a hacker brushless motor in it.

i dont know if you could fit a brushless motor in a 12th scale with the way the rear pod works (maybe on a trinity car though...) although a brushless in a 12th scale is completly unessary for many reasons....

racerdx- i got to run the ascari bodies for the first time at the paved nats last week and found that they hold up the best out of all the lightweight bodies out there currently. as far as cutting out the body so it doesnt rub the tires or chunk em after a hit, here is what to do. in step form!:D

1)mount the body, just make holes for the posts, and lock the body in as if you were to go racing with body clips.

2) find the axle line (or center of the wheel when the car is sitting with batteries and everything, basically ready to go), and then make a dot with a sharpe.

3)take a spare tire (with the same diamiter or slightly larger) place the center of the spare tire where that dot was and take the sharpe and trace it, then cut out the line. however near the bottom make sure to open it up. basically you want to make sure that within the travel that the wheel will go through during racing that the tire will not contact the body in any way. so make sure that when the lexan before and after the tire is turned in it doesnt get stuck on the tire.

4)for achieving the proper body height, go back to step one (or you could do this before cutting out the wheels, it doesnt matter). place the car on a level surface (like a table) and then lay the sharpe flat on the ground, then take the sharpe and run it around the body. you should end up with a line 3mm or so above the ground, if you cut that line then your body will be at the perfect height to the ground. (sometimes it takes a few times to make sure it is correct if the body has to much material below the chassis). also make sure to do this with the correct ride height and tire size, since if you mount the body too low the tires might rub.

5) with the front tires to make sure they dont rub the body... put the body on the car and then turn the wheels and compress the suspenion to make sure that the front tire will not rub the body during its movement during racing.

The hacker brushless will fit in a 12th scale but only when running 4 cells, although with 4 cells it does not like starting from a dead stop, essentially it will not work, although the novak is rated for 4 cells, and it goes quite well, it has similar performance to a 9-10 turn and is very smooth to drive.

The hacker brushless will fit in a 12th scale but only when running 4 cells, although with 4 cells it does not like starting from a dead stop, essentially it will not work, although the novak is rated for 4 cells, and it goes quite well, it has similar performance to a 9-10 turn and is very smooth to drive.

No 1/12 racing around here :( only in the winter and its a 1.5 hour drive, but worth it. They do have a parking lot class for 1/12, but I am the only one that shows up with my Carpet kinife. I love racing 1/12, but for now its my 1/10 pan against the sedans and off road trucks gas and electric.

Racerdx Gald you got it all ready to drive!!

Oh yeah, I got passed by a MOD MICRO when practicing at the parking lot race. I was embaressed.

David Root

be careful. Some of those micros have 540 motors in them. I was going to do that with a brushless, but pratically everything would have to be upgraded

yes.. I am actually asking for the tire diameter that we use commonly....

Okay, does the front tire and the rear tire differ in diameter like what I see in the photo.. or it should be the same diameter?
I know tire width is different... between front and rear..

so, do you guys think I should go with crc or associated?