Record Racing Car - Restoration/Rebuild

[outta_control]

Bonjour amis!

Recently found a 1/8 on road car on ebay - a Record Racing Car.
It was produced in Switzerland and this one must be a very early version.

The car is quite complete, almost like new. It came with box, built chassis, several parts and a Vette body.
On first inspection the chassis appears very very basic. Funny thing is that the picture on the box looks a bit different (maybe they took photo of Turin Model) to what was acutally inside. The car is the electro version including a big Mabuchi motor.

However i fell in love with that thing and I decided to refurbish this racer. I will post pictures of the rebuild from time to time in this thread.

OC

[lehornetvosgien]

la carrosserie est en quel matière
fibre,lexan,abs....

[GuidonJr]

Bravo, une voiture vraiment originale... Par contre, j'ose même pas imaginer les performances avec le Mabuchi, le variateur mécanique et les 1200 d'époque

[Lonestar]

Bravo, une voiture vraiment originale... Par contre, j'ose même pas imaginer les performances avec le Mabuchi, le variateur mécanique et les 1200 d'époque

ca doit depoter grave, hein?

Bah, faut pas trop rigoler non plus... un margoulin marseillais m'avait bien fourgue un Bullitt electrique sur 4 elements dans les 80's

[outta_control]

The body is out of lexan and it is painted from the inside. It is very very nice.
The motor acutally is a Mabuchi.

For the chassis/suspension/layout it is really very very basic, with a lot of room of improvement.

[outta_control]

For the rebuild i have decided to design some new parts and give the car a "proto" touch:

1. The original radio plate (out of grey plastic) on the chassis does not really offer space/arrangement to mount technical components (such as servo, battery, on-off switch, receiver, ...) properly. So i decided to design and let produce a new one. Item will be made out of 2 mm aluminium with gold anodizing.



2. The front wheel/tire combination looks a bit strange at the moment compared to the rear wheels and in terms of design they do not match very well in my opinion.
Rear wheels measure about 54 mm in diameter. Front wheels only about 35 mm.
So new front wheels with diameter 52 mm will be made (CNC machined). Out of white plastic. New front wheel / rear wheel combination should look more balanced.
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New radio plate and front wheel are now in production. When ready i will post some photos.

[lehornetvosgien]

merci pour la réponse
j'avais l'impression que c'était de la fibre
elle a l'air épaisse
mais c'est surement la peinture qui lui donne cet aspect
très belle prise,en tout cas

[outta_control]

Okay, made some progress on the car yesterday:

+ Dismantle the chassis
+ Washing, Cleaning and polishing all parts
+ Building it up again
+ Replacing all screws by new ones
+ Mid mounting the eletronic speed controller

Now waiting for the specially made front wheels and radio plate.

[Tractoricou]

c'est un contrôleur maison ?

[outta_control]

The car has a very early version of ESC (electronic speed controller).

[outta_control]

Bon soir!

A few days ago i received the parts. Front wheels and radio plate.
Items came out very nice and as expected. Wheels in white plastic and the radio plate out of aluminium with gold anodizing.

[lehornetvosgien]

trop fort

[outta_control]

This evening i again put my magic hands on the chassis.

I installed the new, specially made front wheels and the radio plate. As the new front wheels are bigger than the original ones i had to raise the front axle to get the right rake.
On the radio plate i installed servo, on-off switch, receiver and the battery. The battery box for the receiver i put on the side. So the weight distribution of all compenents is well balanced.

Now, only a few parts missing (such as steering rods; motor connection) to make it work.

[outta_control]

Decided to go for a vintage Le Mans Racing look and outfit this racer with a Porsche 917 K body.

Purchased the 1/8 lexan carosserie from loisircreations (Merci beaucoup!) and cut it out properly. It sits well on the chassis.

Later i will give the car the famous Gulf livery, same as numero 21 from Steve McQueens movie "Le Mans".

By the way does someone know where i can get light blue polycarbonat paint?

[outta_control]

Steering fixed!

Just finished steering. Front axle has some ball ends with a threaded bar that is covered with shrink tube. Steerings on Servo Saver and Servo are some vintage Tamiya in right length. Fits perfect!

[outta_control]

In order to make the body looking like the famous Gulf Porsche 917 K, numero 21, i created graphics/logos and will let print Stickers from it:

[outta_control]

Stickers for the Gulf 917 Layout are finished. They are printed on clear vinyl and precut.

[outta_control]

Voila! Project almost finished!

After painting the body (which took quite a while) i applied the custom made decals. The body now looks like Porsche 917 numero 21 like in movie "Le Mans" with Steve McQueen.

What i am not so happy with is the front bumper ... seems to be too long.

[bugster78]

Very nice !!
Cut the front bomber a little and it will be great

[GuidonJr]

Very good job, the body is nice...

[lehornetvosgien]

c'est booooooo
wonderful car

[outta_control]

As you can see the project is almost finished. Just the bumper needs to be shorter. So i designed a new one. Shape is same as original, but shorter.
Production already launched - can't wait to get the finished part.

[outta_control]

Allright. New bumper is finished. It's made out of POM plastic, dark grey color.
You can see dimensions are different to the old bumper. Shape follows more the shape of the front of the 917 body.

[outta_control]

So, now project FINISHED! Mission accomplished.

[simonsg]

Wonderfull job ! way to go outaa-control

[MK4]

thank you for sharing with us your project

that's an amazing restauration for sure , for a quite rare car !!

[outta_control]

Cheres amis vintage RC. Un grand merci pour vos réactions positives.

[tof_bzh]

Great Car !!!! I like the body paint !!!
Wish a could hear the engine in the Hunaudières...

But where is the GT40... ?

[garros]

So, now project FINISHED! Mission accomplished.

a ce niveau la c est de l art ,peut etre une petite découpe du pare choc avant

[8valve]

Messieurs! Si vous voulez, j‘en ai un autre Rekord 1:8 electrique, et aussi une 1:12 Rekord a vendre.
Tout neuf!!