The original car from 1973
The original car from 1973
The finished model car on my home track
And here from the rear
The Porsche 908 was made in many different version. This one is called Flunder
or Spyder. The original car had many different setups and versions with small
changes in the appearance. To the left you can see the original car and to the
left my model. Not to bad appearance.
This project started with a standard Fly 1:32 body I bought from http://www.pendleslotracing.co.uk/ without chassis. I first started to mount it on a Parma Excalibur brass chassi powered by a Sakatsu F100 from http://members.optushome.com.au/pattosplace/ which is about the same as a standard Scalextric motor. The wheels, axles and gears came from the Scalextric Race Tuning kit. Rear tyres from Cartrix. The Fly body is made for a sidewinder motor so the cockpit was very deep and I had to remove it to make room for the inline motor. Under the driver was just a black painted paper sheet mounted. The plastic parts in the rear of the car looking like the back of the engine didn’t fit very well with the inline crown gear so I had to modify it heavily how deep it sticks in to get it into place.
The driver sat just on a black piece of paper. At the left you can see the back
of the car with the modified motor details.
Totally wrong looking tyres for this car and the body sits to high.
This is how it looked on the underside with the Parma chassis. I never got this
car to handle good. It's not the chassis fault, my Ninco Rally Peugot I also
had on a chassis like this worked really well, but this one never did for some
reason and I could never really figure out why I couldn't get the strange nervous
behaviour out. That i combination with the not so good appearance got me to
scrap this project and start over again with another chassis - a german Schöler
1:32 chassis.
This is a standard FLY Flunder chassis and the standard body.
Here is a normal (the black one) plastic chassied Fly Flunder compared to a
Schöler. The Schöler chassis uses sidewinder so I would be able to
get the interior back. As a motor Pattos Little Ripper was choosen. Rear tyres
are from Wiesel that works well on my track.
The Fly body I used is a special edition from Fly that doesn't come prepainted
and with separate waterslide decals. The white wheelinserts are from Patto,
they need to be painted black but has about the correct style and fits into
the Sakatsu aluminium wheels. The car on the right is a standard Fly Flunder.
The body is now decaled and clear coated.
Test fit of the interior. I had to cut it down hightwise some, since the "H-plate"
on the chassis (see pictures above) makes it less roomy.
I cut it just above the seats and removed a couple of millimeters and then glued
it back together. On the picture you can see the cut. After that I polished
the area and painted it aluminium and also glued on sidewalls to have more gluing
points to the body.
Painting of details.
The interior is mounted. Looks good.
Driver figure and painted parts.
I had already shortened the exhaust pipes sticking in for the Parma chassis
and that worked well with the Schöler chassis also, although I am quiet
confident that it would have worked without shortening since Schöler and
the original Fly plastic chassis are about the same size. Here everything is
remounted and painted for better appearance. The driver figure sits higher up
since the interior was lifted some. I therefor cheated a little and filed the
drivers legs down to make his head sit at the correct hight.
Getting closer
On the track. I remade the exhaust pipes and moved some of the motor details
further in since I noted that I had some room for it once the chassi was mounted,
this looks much better than the flat earlier version.
Comming down the slope
Here you can clearly see that the Fly version sits very high above the track
and that the Schöler chassied I made sits lower which I think is more correct
looking. And of course gives better handling. The white ring is to small on
my version but it was the easiest way, I just painted the aluminium wheel white
and the insert black and the ring was made. Painting a ring on directly on the
tyre is not easy. Fly probably prints it on.
Speedwise a standard Fly Flunder does 7.3 seconds per lap on my 17 meter long
track. The Schöler chassied version does it on 4.9!