My Mom passed away at the end of January, and I haven't had much desire to do much building lately. . I have been cleaning out her place and getting all the logistics looked after but today was different and I had both the desire and time to do something fun
The gift card chassis is pretty stable and provides an easy to drive platform. In 132 though the tiny Minebea S can is a little overwhelmed. Comments I heard back after the first round of the Transam proxy, where that it was easy to drive but underpowered. So today I did something to double the torque being produced by this motor. I added another motor and built a new chassis to do some testing.
Results were very good. Slightly taller gear ratio to get more top end and make use of the extra torque. Car turned the fastest lap on my track, and covered the front straight in in about 60% of the time of the single can version. Even doubled up the motor package is small and compact leaving lots of room for interior detailing
Not sure of the BARC TwinCan will ever be allowed to race in a proxy, but I think if allowed it could keep up with the larger motors now. This particulair chassis has full bearing treatments both front and rear axles so it rolls pretty easy,
Cheers
Dan