These imperfections can be easily sanded smooth. There can be build marks, bumps, and divots due to the manufacturing process. It can be painted with acrylic, enamel, and plastic automotive paints. Body requires screw to mount on chassis for racing.īody is made of ABS-Like High Impact Tough plastic, which is strong, flexible, and can be sanded. Sand with 300 or smoother grit paper for smooth surface. I find that Rust-Oleum primer 2 in 1 filler & sandable works best. Spray with sandable primer, 2 coats, to fill between the layer lines.

To finish body, clean up any support structure remaining with exact-o knife. Body snaps on and off chassis for racing.īody is made of PLA plastic, which is strong, flexible, but requires file to sand. What do you think of this new 3D printed slot car racing chassis? Are you into slot car racing? Let us know in the High-Tech Slot Car Chassis forum thread on 3D printed with. The 3D printed chassis from the PCR team retails for $59.95, and you can find them at the Go Fast Products store.īrown says he’s also working on a 4800 sq ft slot car racing facility in White House, TN, which will host a 1/8th mile slot car drag strip and “one of the best king tracks in the world.” The new chassis design is available in red, white, orange, blue and purple, and it comes in 4″ and 4 1/2″ options sold in kit form or pre-assembled. They’re calling it “The Big Show,” and he says it’s all about “Big Money, Big Prizes, Big Trophies.” plans to hold a worldwide event at SlotCars-R-Us’ “The Track.” Brown says he’s spent “countless hours in the research and development of fiber chassis and motors” and he’s worked with Boyt Johnson, Reggie Coram, and Wally Flemming.īrown calls the new part “a 21st century, high-tech, 3D printed chassis,” and along with the release he’s also formed P.C.R., or Plastic Car Racing as part of the rollout. HO Slot Car Body - 2013 Dodge Charger Race Car. Plastic HO scale body works on AFX MEGA G rolling long chassis. Free STL file on so you can print if you have access to a 3D printer. In the past, Brown has offered “green tires,” a magnetic balance and an armature timing tool, and he was a developer and manufacturer of the first “timing can” as well. Here are my free HO Body Designs I have completed. This material offers excellent strength and stiffness, good chemical resistance, and excellent long-term consistency in material properties.

The PA 2200 material tested is known on Shapeways as White, Strong & Flexible, and it’s used in their SLS process.

Go Fast Products will be the sole distributor and promoter of the new, cutting edge design, and Brown says the chassis was printed in PA 2200 and is available from Go Fast Products or Shapeways. Now Brown is taking his 31 years of experience in racing and manufacturing slot car parts to create and offer, in collaboration with Rapid Slot and SlotCars-R-Us, a 3D printed chassis to the slot car scene.

3d printed ho slot car bodies