About a week before Christmas I was looking through Bud's listings on the bay when I saw this body for sale, being the Camaro fan I am I had to have one. Even though I had just purchased several other bodies from him minutes before and felt like I had spent enough money for one day,(is there really a limit?) I decided I would purchase only one of these figuring there would be plenty more if I liked it. When it arrived I put it on one of my souped up TJet chassis and although I liked it I decided it would look even better if I lowered it to look more realistic. After about an hour of trimming and test fitting with the dremel tool (I also had to trim the top of the chassis a bit) I had it like I wanted it. This has quickly become my newest favorite TJet. Lowering it not only (in my opinion) made it look better, but it also made it handle better ie: lower center of gravity. Now, all that being said, I decided I would order a couple more and guess what? Bud's was out of them with no forseen possibilties of getting more. Seems Auto World discontinued them. After exhausting all of my places to look I turned to the "Boss" and as usual he came through. Ray hooked me up with Bad L's Hobby, they had new ones in the package for what I considered a reasonable price, the rest is history and now I am in search of my next newest favorite car.
Thanks again Ray.
Ya'll have a good day!
K
NICE Kelly!
Submitted by mgbbrown on Mon, 01/11/2010 - 14:07.Kelly; Nice job on the Camaro! I worked with a locum tenans contract nurse from South Carolina who had a 1969 Camaro dragster-he taught me a lot at the drag strip! Ray is indeed THE MAN who invented "Git 'er dun" and has every inside angle covered. Riverside would be without buildings if it was not for Ray. Ray has helped to releave me of quite a bit of moolah and absolutely NONE ZIP NADA NILO has been misspent-only the best! I will never forget how Ray stepped in after the vacuum cleaner box fiasco bombing of Riverside to help me replace all of the broken bits. Im mean basically half of the track needed replacing along with some rather difficult to locate Speed Corners. I would be just another slot car guy if it were not for Raymundo. Hopefully I can move Riverside over to my mom's house but so far it is under quite a bit of opposition. Between Ray and Dan I have decided to build up a "core" collection of common-that reads inexpensive collection of AFX racers on early nonmagnatraction chassis. Yes-I have drifted back into the AFX camp but with only one foot in the water as I am and always will be a T-Jet guy. The trouble with AFX car bodies is that they need to be almost mint or NOS to look good except the ones that Dan paints up of course! Hopefully Ray can cough up a Porsche 917 for the Gulf colors Steve McQueen car. The BIG project will be to build up a Super II from American Line bits.
God Bless! Tony
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Thanks
Submitted by Kelly Morman on Mon, 01/11/2010 - 14:44.Thanks Tony as always for the kind words, I have one of those Porsches in those colors, I have it in the keep safe area. I love the pic you attached that is a great shot! Good luck on moving Riveside! I have a few Super II items let me know if you need something in particular, I have not taken the time to put mine all together. It took me about 9 months to gather it all up but I did finally get all the parts to build one using original components. Hope to post it one of these days when it's all together.
K
Just Let Me Know!
Submitted by mgbbrown on Mon, 01/11/2010 - 15:28.Kelly-Just let me know what spares you have-Of course the Quadralam armature is the hard part I would think. I am sure that this will be a rather protracted effort! I will have Jairus paint the body but probably in a solid color and not the wrap-around stripe that Aurora used in production. God Bless! Tony
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My Bad!
Submitted by mgbbrown on Fri, 01/15/2010 - 19:26.Sorry Lad! My Bad! God Bless! Tony
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Super II ohms
Submitted by mountaindudetoo on Mon, 01/11/2010 - 23:18.Hi Kelly, If you have a Super II Quadralam armature and have the time, I would love to know what the ohm reading is, the delta of course would be a bonus. I think I might have stumbled onto something very interesting. The relationship between ohms and lams. Sound crazy? I don't think so!
Why does a 13 ohm 3 lam armature have the same power as a 5.5 ohm 2 lam armature? We are talking dyno test here not pie in the sky.
Your answer might explain why the legendary Quadralam is so awesome!
Serge
Yes and will do asap
Submitted by Kelly Morman on Mon, 01/11/2010 - 23:43.Serge, yes I do have what I believe to be an original Super II Quadralam. (I hope so as much as I paid for it) I am leaving town in a bit and should be back late Thursday and I will be happy to do that when I get back. Send me a private message if you want and we can discuss it further so we don't get in trouble for foruming in a blog. Lol.
K
Great! Thanks Kelly
Submitted by mountaindudetoo on Tue, 01/12/2010 - 00:05.I'm good with whatever works for you. Of course I will share the results with everyone.
Be safe, Serge
Just a Reminder
Submitted by Admin on Fri, 01/15/2010 - 00:38.We DO have a forum!! :)
Sorry
Submitted by Kelly Morman on Fri, 01/15/2010 - 10:48.Sorry boss, I wondered if I would get called out on this
I'll do better next time.
Ditto!
Submitted by mountaindudetoo on Fri, 01/15/2010 - 11:32.Sorry too.
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Ohm readings
Submitted by Kelly Morman on Thu, 01/14/2010 - 23:07.Serge, the ohms read 3 all the way around, I am not quiet sure what you mean about the delta or the lams but I would like to!
K
Delta
Submitted by mountaindudetoo on Thu, 01/14/2010 - 23:54.The Delta is the difference between the readings on each armature poll. For instance, a good mean green might read 5.0-5.0-4.9 ohms. The best is to have an armature with no difference like the one you have. I'll try to get an explaination from a friend of mine that is an electrical engineer about the relationship between ohms and armature laminations, at which point I will pass it on. Let me just say this. A two lamination mean green arm with a reading of 5 ohms is comparable to a three lamination JL arm with a reading of 13 ohms in some racing classifications. That means that a four lamination arm with a reading of 3 ohms like yours is off the scale BAAAD! No wonder they're so expensive. I've seen them on ebay for over a hundred bucks. Here is a 3 lam JL armature (left) and an Aurora 2 lam armature (right)
I hope that helps Kelly, it sure explained a lot of unanswered questions in my mind.
Have fun with that. Remind me not to bet against your car.
Serge
Ah haaaah!
Submitted by Kelly Morman on Thu, 01/14/2010 - 23:58.Thanks for the info and glad I could help. I saw a quad go on ebay last Sunday night for $37.00 I wasn't paying much attention because I figured (based on history) it would go for around 100. Ya just never know.
K
Thanks Tony.. Nice slot Kelly
Submitted by plymouth71 on Mon, 01/11/2010 - 18:25.I love Camaro's too, Even the one's I "destroy".
I have to say that you did an excellent job of getting that camaro to sit just right! Well done. I wish there was a nice '68 or '69 camaro body for the afx chassis. However keep up the good work.
Thank's Tony for the nod, I love what I do, and like I said to Ray, It's even more rewarding when Given to someone else to enjoy!
Nice one Kelly.
Submitted by Aussie Ho on Tue, 01/12/2010 - 04:06.You've trumped me this time around. My collection is vast but this car has slipped through my very sticky fingers. In fact, the Bad L's website has several cars I haven't seen before.
I've emailed to see if he's shipping to 'Oz. Fingers crossed.
Nice one Kelly.
Angel
Let me know
Submitted by Kelly Morman on Tue, 01/12/2010 - 15:54.Angel, let me know if he won't ship to ya, he can ship them to me and I'll get em over there
K
huh?
Submitted by Admin on Fri, 01/15/2010 - 19:35.ok now I am lost, what did I miss?