Toy Story The World's Longest Scalextric Track - James May

I have a Mate in Kent UK that has Scalextric ALL over his house. It starts in ther big bedroom and goes everywhere, excetp the Kitchen that is oh and the toilet! lol! I pop down to see him from time to time for a weekend of racing, he is almost totally blind so when he wrecks a car he post's it to me and I fix it.

@mrghoster: Yeah my first thought to hot them up was to use magnets to make them stick hard to the track and a teflon blade..... but everyone else beat me to that idea.... But micro ball bearings on the motors, the gears and axles... like the sorts they use on dental drills... Given there are finite limits on both reality and physics, how are people hotting them up to be way better than stock cars? AND what is usually failing on them - in a list based upon usual damage / fair wear and teare and age?

@mrghoster: I am quite sure that there are people absolutely obsessed with these and hotting them up... I mean it's comparatively cheap when everything is said and done... But I am keen to see, just how good these can be made..... you know like sticky compound tyres... near weighless carbon fibre bodies.... removing the motor and axles pinion gear... and running the motors shaft, as the rear axle... ....

@Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson: in trhe 60's I used to buy these kit's by a company called "RIKO" The container it came in was a moulded body, but the chassis and wheels, bearing and space's gave graet scope for customizing which I did.

@Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson: Yeh I found the magnet idea to cause to much DRAG, I did a couple of car's for my mate I metioned and when I went down to see him he got me to remove them. To lowe the bacl axle spins or gets to much drag, to high in the chassis then they don't acheive anything I find those tyre balance weights can be useful, I go round all the tire places and they give me handfuls of used ones for nothing they are good for loco's as well especially the 00 one's. Another idea I found works is to rub a very thin layer of impact adhesive on the tyre treads ( that brown EvoStik stuff) if it's f

If it's thin enough it dries clear

@mrghoster: So the bog stock motors - with size = power output, are too big to use as direct drive axles and what about running a motor or motors in parallel with the rear axle and using straight run gears instead of crown wheel and pinion gears..... IF you could run 2 or 3 motors in parallel, spinning clockwise, anti-clockwise and clockwise and then axle, with either short motors or wider wheels on longer axles, you could get cars that have much higher power to weight ratios. Have you ever made up a flat plate carbon fiber base of a V type shape - or similar and just stuck everything to it?

@mrghoster: With the plate on top and the motors running a mm or 2 above the track?

@Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson: Getting quite an interest in this James May type stuff so I've find some more to post among my Box sets! I am so fucking glad I grew up when I did with all the stuff we had to choose from as a kid? With age I'm finding myself reverting back to a better time!

@mrghoster: https://www.guinnessworldrecor....ds.com/world-records ------ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBuAYnfhAt0