I can help you with the setup and build of that car, no problem. I've had more than my share of sprint cars.
The suspension up front is bass-ackwards wrong. There is no way that car drove well at all. It was probably MORE than a handful, if not completely undrivable. The caster blocks definitely needed to be flopped to the other side of the car. We also used the 8-32 Associated washers under the front screws of the suspension blocks to add a bit more usable caster to the front.
The tabs on the top of the cage are for the wing mounts. Cutting a hole in the wing was wrong, too. We used bent lexan brackets or Rocket City or Dubro ball links/ball clamps to mount the wing up top.
The rear tail section usually mounted off of a single body post. With the Trackmaster, there is no provision for a body mount, so something will need to be fabbed to attach to the rear bulkhead. A stock rear brace should work fine.
The chassis is fiberglass G10, and was also available in graphite (I have one). The major difference in this car to an ASCOT/RCRC chassis is the front kickup from the RC10 tossed in favor of the flat front end. IT proved to only really work on SUPER smooth tracks. Anything with a bump, banking or any other imperfection was too much for this car to steer through.
The side nerf bars have a side brace on them, and that is another quick way to tell them apart from their ASCOT twins. The nerfbar on this car is actually from the ASCOT kit, as the BBT had two brace bars on top of each other.
The body on the car is a McAllister Gambler, and can still be bought new directly from Gary just for the asking.
The side panels and nerf bars on this car are mounted under the chassis, which was asking to get caught on the track. Most of us racers would mount those under the cage and on top of the chassis plate. Some handiwork on the aluminum was needed to poke the nerfs through the aluminum side panels, but it made for a much cleaner build.
In the two photo essays of those crazy polished Inet sprint cars, you can see the subtle differences between a Big Boy Toys kit and an ASCOT kit. Personally, I preferred to
race ASCOT cars, but the style of the BBT car was nicer to look at (and they eventually made a downtube cage).
Ditch the long shocks in the rear, too. The kit was designed for 4 short front buggy shocks.
If you want, I could probably replicate a pretty close BBT wing that was run on that car, too. Pretty easy with some .030" lexan and a bench brake.
For some reason, many people in this area ran the wings clear. I don't know why. I ran mine with painted sides and clear centers because I liked the look.
If I can help with anything else, let me know. If there is one thing still bouncing around in my head from back then it's sprint cars on dirt ovals.
doug
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