In case you haven't noticed, I've been having a tremendous time with these cars, and not only racing the new ones, but bringing the ones I already own up to snuff. I wondered quite a bit what it would be like with different brands of cars on the same track, and I'm going to work on these to get them all running competitively. I'll probably approach it a lot like I did before - taking long looks at the slower cars to get them up to speed. So some of the faster cars will just have to be content to be fast and be a little patient for upgrades.
I decided this morning that I am going to run all my cars on Ortmann tires. I've been wanting a good urethane tire that isn't expensive, and at 3.50 a pair they're a good price. And in the interest of fairness, they'll all run the urethanes. Nice thing about that is that besides providing more grip and lasting practically forever, they don't take nearly as much care and cleaning as rubber tires do. So that'll allow me to run races at a faster pace without so much prep for each car. The 962C is running really well right now, much better than with the stock rubber tires on. I based my decision on that alone, first buying only a few pair; a pair for the 962C Leyton House and new sets for the Carreras. Once I did a few laps in the Porsche I knew it was a good idea.
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| This thing has a BIG TAIL. It tends to get really sideways through the turns but is a rocket down the straight. Adding weight and urethane tires ought to help straighten it out. |
I'm making so many adjustments to so many cars that I'm going to have to go back and detail what the heck I did to each one. It's gotten to the point where I'll work on one for a half hour or so and then move on to the next one. Some need more help, some less. One cool thing; the new cars have not made the old cars less fun in any way. I'm having even more fun with the Slot.it cars because they're all now being challenged to go even faster than they've gone before. Like, a lot faster. It's going to take quite a bit of work for some of the cars, but I'm hoping that most respond well without much trouble. I'll be getting the tires next week and will be adding weight to some of them.
So if you're curious and on the fence on whether mixing brands works, I'd say yes it does, but with some provisions. The brands should share similar design features, motor power should be similar, that sort of thing. I wouldn't expect a cheaper no-name brand of car, or even some major brands to perform as well as these cars do. I wouldn't expect either of my Carrera cars to consistently outperform any of the Slot.it cars. They'd have a good race against Scalextric cars. But against Slot.it, NSR and Revoslot, Carrera will forever be a back marker.
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| Sometimes you can successfully mix brands. I have a feeling these guys are going to have some spirited races against each other. |
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In a few short months I've doubled my collection. I had six working cars just before getting the Chaparral two-pack, but if you really want to see when the boom happened, it was very recently. I've got one more car coming, then I'm going to stop for awhile and work on what I have. At the time of this writing, I have 16 cars, all running. including four NSR race cars. I think 16 cars is a good amount for a race series, but I don't know if I'd want to do many more than that. There are some other smaller races I want to do, as well as one-on-one challenges. But ultimately I want to see just how close I can make these cars run against each other. I'm not going to slow any down, but try to get them all up to speed. Fun thing is, I have no idea how some of them are going to do.
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