I really like the 50's style midget cars. I have found a couple of places that offer bodies. I don't see any chassis that look like they will work well so I want to build my own. I have a couple of questions:
1) does any one make a real narrow Motor bracket?
2) does any one make a small motor that has the performance of a Hawk or Falcon? I would like something the size if a 1/32 eurosport motor, I just do not need that much power as I plan to run these on a small oval.
Hello Zach: i would consider a Evil 9 or Demon type motor for your build as for small motor box you might try cutting the back end off a womp chassis as those are about as narrow as you will find. I would leave the motor mount on the cut part and run some .055 or .047 wire rails to the front mount actually you could just remove the center part of womp chassis and use front and rear axle mounts connected by piano wire. The front might be little wide so maybe cut that part and solder a pice of tubing for front axle Just some random thoughts.
Hope it helps
Clyde-0-mite
How wide is the inside of the body/bodies you want to use?
If you’re actually looking to scratchbuild a chassis, typically the narrow brackets available these days are 0.75 inch wide, such as the JK-D3F122.
An alternative is to not use a motor bracket. Simply run the main rails off of a rear axle tube (set for rear tire diameter and clearance desired) so that the rails run directly alongside the motor to be used, in effect making a motor box that cradles the motor. Then you just solder the motor to the framing. Another small piece of wire can be added atop the framing wire(s) to make soldering the motor in easier (in other words, higher along the curvature of the motor can).
The Sprint Plus has been the mainstay of Sprint and Outlaw Sprint racing for years. I still have the first one I built for racing on the Raceway Hobbies Hillclimber in the 80s.
If you want you can use the motor as a chassis member. I have sidewinders from the 60s like this. Just be careful not to heat up Neo-FK motors too much. The mags don't like heat.
Thanks for the input guys. I have found a couple of different bodies that will work with the Sprint plus chassis. I have one hard body that I really like that is just a little to narrow for the sprint plus chassis. I plan to make my own chassis for this one. I just picked up a Jig so I will see what I can do. I would like to get some guys racing the midgets at the local track. I will build up a couple of different ones and see if I can drum up some interest.
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