Fly Classic Williams FW07
Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2016 1:58 pmSo I walked into my hobby shop last month to do some testing for an upcoming race. Unbeknownst to me a new F1 series was starting that day. Now I love F1 racing I just not in slot car racing.
So I thought what the heck and I bought a Scaley F1 car and slapped some PG tires on it and hoped for the best. I knew I wouldn't have a chance against race prepped cars, but what the hell.
On our track a sub 7 second lap is fast, a 6.5 second lap is really good, and if you can run low 6 seconds you are going to win. Sub 6 second laps happen, but very rarely. No mater what class of cars we race they need to be below 7 seconds to have a chance of competing.
Well the old scaly went around the track in about 8 seconds. It had plenty of power but with no lead it just wouldn't stay in the slot.
Well I worked and worked on getting the car set up. no matter what I did I could not get the car to go faster than 7.3 and trying to maintain that speed was next to impossible with out coming out of the slot every other lap.
In the store there was a very pretty Fly Williams FW07. A very risky buy as the my past fly experiences have shown me. So of course I bought it.
After a tire change I put it on the track and of course it didn't move. Ten minutes of fiddling with the braids and finally success. This car shot around the track like it was on rails. I was getting laps in the low 6's. So I thought screw adding lead the car is perfect. A total first for me with a Fly car.
Then race day came. They car was still lightning fast at the start. As the heats went on the car got slower and slower. I had to squeeze the trigger all the way almost all the time. I was still getting good lap times but the motor had developed what must have been some kind of internal short. The motor was now getting hot. I still finished in 4th place. After the race I removed the motor to let the local motor expert see if he could rehab it. Unfortunately the motor is shot.
So I needed a new motor. The only thing readily available to me was a M/T motor from Slot car corner. After speaking with Christian I learned that there was no way that it would compete with the faster rpm motors.
So after researching the part number on the fly motor I learned that this is the same motor used in cd rom drives. I have an abundance of old computer stuff. The first drive I grabbed was a NEC external SCSI CD rom. Anyone remember SCSI interface? I can't even imagine how much that drive cost in 1995 which according to the sticker was when it was made. I promptly tore it apart and got the slim can motor out of it.
I had to modify the Fly chassis slightly as the communicator side of the motor was slightly bigger. The instal was easy and all went well.
Now it should have a sticker on it that says powered by NEC. The motor is very powerful. According to the part number on it, it is the same specs as the 18000 rpm motors in the Fly and Scaly cars. The only downside? Now I'm going to have to add a little lead to the car.
Curtis
PS I have been having trouble with images I link here lately. They seem to show up for awhile (I know because other people can initially see them) then disappear. I pretty sure it is not anything I'm doing. Maybe its a incompatibility with google pictures.
So I thought what the heck and I bought a Scaley F1 car and slapped some PG tires on it and hoped for the best. I knew I wouldn't have a chance against race prepped cars, but what the hell.
On our track a sub 7 second lap is fast, a 6.5 second lap is really good, and if you can run low 6 seconds you are going to win. Sub 6 second laps happen, but very rarely. No mater what class of cars we race they need to be below 7 seconds to have a chance of competing.
Well the old scaly went around the track in about 8 seconds. It had plenty of power but with no lead it just wouldn't stay in the slot.
Well I worked and worked on getting the car set up. no matter what I did I could not get the car to go faster than 7.3 and trying to maintain that speed was next to impossible with out coming out of the slot every other lap.
In the store there was a very pretty Fly Williams FW07. A very risky buy as the my past fly experiences have shown me. So of course I bought it.
After a tire change I put it on the track and of course it didn't move. Ten minutes of fiddling with the braids and finally success. This car shot around the track like it was on rails. I was getting laps in the low 6's. So I thought screw adding lead the car is perfect. A total first for me with a Fly car.
Then race day came. They car was still lightning fast at the start. As the heats went on the car got slower and slower. I had to squeeze the trigger all the way almost all the time. I was still getting good lap times but the motor had developed what must have been some kind of internal short. The motor was now getting hot. I still finished in 4th place. After the race I removed the motor to let the local motor expert see if he could rehab it. Unfortunately the motor is shot.
So I needed a new motor. The only thing readily available to me was a M/T motor from Slot car corner. After speaking with Christian I learned that there was no way that it would compete with the faster rpm motors.
So after researching the part number on the fly motor I learned that this is the same motor used in cd rom drives. I have an abundance of old computer stuff. The first drive I grabbed was a NEC external SCSI CD rom. Anyone remember SCSI interface? I can't even imagine how much that drive cost in 1995 which according to the sticker was when it was made. I promptly tore it apart and got the slim can motor out of it.
I had to modify the Fly chassis slightly as the communicator side of the motor was slightly bigger. The instal was easy and all went well.
Now it should have a sticker on it that says powered by NEC. The motor is very powerful. According to the part number on it, it is the same specs as the 18000 rpm motors in the Fly and Scaly cars. The only downside? Now I'm going to have to add a little lead to the car.
Curtis
PS I have been having trouble with images I link here lately. They seem to show up for awhile (I know because other people can initially see them) then disappear. I pretty sure it is not anything I'm doing. Maybe its a incompatibility with google pictures.