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[quote][i]Originally posted by Francesc[/i] Hi Mark and Al The problem that you have is not a problem of materials and products, is a problem of distance. I know this, because i live in Spain, and we have France beetween us and the paradise of the model cars (Germany). The question of the materials it’s very easy to solve, thanks to Internet you can know the last evolutions and be up to date about racing stuff. But your big problem is that you can’t share your knowledge with other people (except your country mates), and you only can imagine what is doing the other people. I know this sensation, because the first year that i go to the European Plafit Championship, all people in my team we are so afraid, that we work each day for tree months from 19:00 to 23:55 improving our car, because we don’t have any reference about what is the level of our competitors and we are really afraid to be the last ones. Regarding the contact with the manofacturers, it’s something normal and good, because this help to the makers to evolve the product, and you can have this contact from Canada or South Africa, i’m in Europe, but at near 1500km from the nearest manofacturer…….. Remember that i race last year with a Schöler chassis, but i don’t know Mr. Schöler in person until February of this year, all the contact was by e-mail. Also, today, when you order something, you can get in one or two weeks, UPS, DHL or Fedex are really fast. Regarding the diferent ways to promote our hobby, i can explain my experience in Spain. In Spain we have a really big problem for the Model Cars, the tracks…near the 99% of the tracks are ninco, neither wooden or Carrera. But this is not the only problem, also we have a lazy people that don’t like to spend so many time building the cars, and don’t like to paint. Also, a big problem for the 1/24 scale are the tools( really important thing) like power supply, tyre truer, dremmel, etc, etc, who represents a big investment when you beguin. To avoid this problems i invented a new class (GrupoZ) with Kyosho bodies. This class are build using a normal model car chassis, a Kyosho MiniZ RC body, and a normal motor like Falcon. The main advantage of this class is that can fit in Ninco Tracks, the bodies are really resistent and come painted and are very easy to asembly. In the begining i believe that the price of the complete car will be a important question, and i start to import Tigre schöler chassis who are very cheap, but i discovered that the people like a chassis easy to setup and competitive and the price is not a important question. Also, i spend a lot of time in a workshops where i teach to the people how to asembly the car and how to fine tune. Now, after 2 seassons we have near 30 entrants each race…… After the success of the GrupoZ, we start the Spanish Model Car championship, and we use a very simple rules and we allow the realistic lexan bodies like the ones from TSFR or True Scale. And in this championship i see again the same, the people wants an easy to set up car and competitive, the price is a secondary question. Mark, regarding the chasis X-SW07 GT, it’s the same of the original X-SW07 but designed for front wheels of 26,5mm/27,00mm and rear wheels of 27,5mm. In this link you can see a picture: http://www.slotracing-werk.de/scaleracing/rub1~Fahrwerke%20und%20Zubeh%F6r~rub2~Motor%20Modern%2CChassis~artnr~10728~pn~6~func~det~wkid~62333429499450115.html I hope this can be useful for you Best regards Francesc [/quote]
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