Awesome stuff. Did a lots of local racing 12/ 20 / 27 back in the 90's . Need to get back in asap. Do only part that sucks, there is no racing tracks in Miami plus definitely 35 years behind the evolution of the sport. I see the new Brushless motors are very reliable and fast. Do you have any built units for sale? Also, I don't see much articles talking about the controllers.Back in the day Parma was the top option. Thank you for the channel
it was long overdue. can't tell you how many thousands of brushes i've changed. breaking them in and hoping you did a good job, is a thing of the past.
yeah I agree, I love slot car racing but much prefer the detailed GT cars from Scalextric and Carrera with blazing lights front and back, they even have the drivers and extra's on the digital sets where you can race multiple cars on the same tracks at once. nothing beats things like DCSA (Disca) - this is cool though and the speed is second to none, but for me the appeal is short lived. Different horses for different courses I guess....
Exactly, I can't even begin to describe how annoying that is when people do that in real life. They think they're funny but it's not to the 7 other people.
Thank you for your interest John! Yes the ECOM built by Bob was tested against the other 3 in this video. It ran slower lap times than the others shown in our “test”.
I picked one up and it looks amazing! Do you have plans to release the chassis in spring steel? I think you for bringing so much brushless items to the market for us racers.
An additional benefit to the braiding, other than looks, we used it to prevent interference with RC radios back around 2005-2010, No issue here of course, but it might can interfere with the computers so maybe a benefit there I have been a slot car guy since the 1990's and in the middle 2k's when brushless took over RC cars, i was hoping someone could figure out the slotcar side of it. I saw someone playing with castle Phoenix esc's in slots, was that you guys? I see you have your own esc now, is it castle based? BTW have you tried brushless Inrunners? i would think the outrunners would get gummed up with tire dust and possibly track glue. very messy to clean up
Thank you for your interest! We started with a flashed Castle Creations Talon25 in slot drag cars in 2014 with success. There are many esc’s on the market now for road course use.
@@brushlessslotcarracing, Was not aware of other brushless esc's, other than the talion yours were the first i seen. are yours adjustable through firmware or is it simple Plug (or solder in) and play?
@@crazylarryjrTalons are adjustable for drag racing, they don’t work well on the road course. Here is a link to brushless components. kcracing.net/Brushless-Parts/
Possibly stupid question (havent soldered metal pieces like that). Based on my experience with wiring i was taught that the material has to be properly hot to accept the solder. What keeps these solder joints from separating like a classic cold solder?
You can buy a 2mm Koford axel and cut it down to use in the rotor, or go to Amazon and purchase UCell 2mm craft rod and cut it to 1 inch to use for the replacement. KC Racing sells motors that are factory shafted ready to use.
It’s a Trik Trac drag timing system built and sold in the 80’s. They are hard to find. There is another company that makes slot car timing systems called Track Mate out of Canada that is widely used.
wow! this popped up on my RU-vid. I know nothing about slot cars! I watched the whole video ,it is very interesting . Are they really that fast? How do they not fall off? how expensive is this hobby? What would a car cost? Thanks.
Thank you for your interest! Yes they are fast! No motor maintenance either. The downforce of the body helps keep them in the slot. You can find everything to build a brushless slot car here kcracing.net. Checkout the other video’s on our channel for more brushless slot car information.
@@brushlessslotcarracing yes it make 2 wire to 3 it provides the signal. But tbh with active breaking and other programmable goodies in esc for roundy round esc maybe best. I was drag racing
Any tracks like this in Texas? I’m in Houston but haven’t found any so far, here or in Austin, Dallas, or San Antonio. I used to run Group 7 wing cars in the 70s. They were brushed but looked very similar.
Hey there, yes I'm in San antonio currently. Magnatech raceway is inside Wonderland mall on Fredericksburg rd. I believe Dallas slot cars and drag racing is around as well. I miss PA,'s place up near Houston. I did Box stock in the mid 90s. Been away for some time from the sport, but getting back in it and the brushless setups are looking pretty good.
The car has plenty of brakes and can be adjusted with the hand controller. Brushed cars “roll” till they stop too. There are new speed controllers on the market now that work very well in a slot car. This video is a tutorial on how to flash a Talon25 over for drag racing, we found that it worked on road course chassis too. Unfortunately to date a Talon25 is the only ESC that we found that can hold the voltage a drag strip runs on and is adjustable by the end user unlike the preprogrammed speed controllers that others offer. Thank you for your interest!
@@brushlessslotcarracing I believe your second version might. But your first version didn’t. Correct me if I’m wrong. I seen it in a FB group then noticed the one in the video here doesn’t appear to have. Correct me if I’m wrong but brakes are a function of the motor not the controller. Although the brakes can be adjusted from the controller. And yes brushed motors roll to a stop only if the brake setting is correct.
@@scorpiuswireless1 Talons were the only ESC that we adapted for slot cars. The only adjustable ESC that works in slot car drags. There are 5-6 different ESC’s available now for road course racing to date. We tested 4 on a drag strip and found they didn’t work well.
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1q5hYxXz1kRDHI3d205DvGQxB9zl1TI5E?usp=sharing …….click the download all button in the top right corner. The link is also in the description box under the video
The cars were setup as a spec class with that gearing. They will run faster with a bigger 13 tooth pinion. Testing showed them running 2.8-9 second laps.
That’s pretty slow for wing cars. My boxstock from 15 years ago. Pulled faster laps. This brushless seems to make perfect sense for RC. Because of small batteries for the scale of the car. But a slot car track does not have that limitation. So why add an esc, brushless motor, that is relying on screws to be mounted. Which this setup will increase the cost of the hobby. Which should be as cheap as possible.
Thank you for your interest! Can you run 400-600 laps with the brushed motor without stopping and it not needing a rebuild? Brushless motors don’t require any maintenance after doing that. We recently put 3000 laps on cars and brushless setups that already had 1800-1900 laps on them. The braids, bodies and tires are the only things that needed replaced.
I ran a 12 hour enduro on one motor. Which as a wasp motor. Than ran it for half a season. It was too easy. On a 60 dollar motor which was 15 years ago. The only thing I did was break in a set of brushes and switched out the old. To race that half season. Than did a rebuild to finish the rest of the season. I did the rebuild because I wanted to also add a big race in during that season. Now with current slot car motors. Brushless are not a needed thing. Only adds something to the hobby making it less friendly to the budget racer. Brushless are slower, and poor mesh. The average heat for slower cars is around 40 laps per heat. So per race is around 320. Most season are 6 weeks one race per week. Which is the total laps around 1,920. Never really ever needed to do a rebuild or buy a new motor. Nor did the other drivers. I replaced tires every 3 weeks or so. But motor rebuilds or motors of any type any class nope. Unless it’s group 7, or group 27, I’m going to do a rebuild. But brushless can’t touch that speed.
In the summer of 2023 a wing car was run on a King track in Germany, it turned many laps at 1.7 seconds. No rebuilding was necessary after that was done. The car and setup still turns those lap times to this day. If brushless motors were so inconsistent and bad why are they in all our power tools and the technology is getting better in automobiles?
@@brushlessslotcarracing because they maximize the most out of a battery. Since they are more energy efficient. Which when you don’t have a constant power source. Like a slot car track. Brushless is greatly desired. But for this hobby which has a constant power source. That cancels out the need for brushless and unnecessary additional cost to the hobby.
@@sgtwilderness2821 Buying sealed tin can motors by the pound to be competitive in slot car racing isn’t cost effective to the hobbyists. The cost of 4-5 tin cans will pay for a brushless setup that will run longer and be more consistent without any maintenance to it. If you want to run a motor that is designed to self destruct have at it. Keep up on the rebuilds it might last you another 15 years. BTW not all the slot car racers/hobbyists have the tools or know how to rebuild their motors like you do, that’s why the tin cans have come into the hobby. We used tooth brush motors we bought at Walmart for motors long before the advent of the current tin cans….the tooth brush motors lasted about as long too only a few races then poof! Brushless motors run a long time without maintenance.
