The Unisia Jecs Slot It Nissan 390 GT1 is the third (and final) black
and red livery made by Slot It of this popular slot car. The Nissan's
are known to be quite fast and this car, with its new 21.5k motor is no
exception.
Years ago I raced with Maurizio Ferrari of Slot It when he visited the
club I belonged to then. While we were at the track that night he
brought out the prototype of the Nissan body. We all marveled at the
detail, especially the engine in the rear window. At that time, this
level of detail was a rarity. Now the detail Slot It puts into their
cars is the icing on a very, very fast "cake"...er... I mean slot car.
As you would expect the paint and printing on the car is flawless. The
red details over the black paint is well done and opaque.
The finish is very shiny and there are no problems with extra mold
flashing on the body to be seen.
Slot It makes a light kit that is user
installed. I'm kinda feeling the lack of lights with
this car more
than others. I'd love to see the
front lights and those beautifully modeled tail lights light up as this
car whizzes around the track.
Under the car we see the angle winder ready chassis, offset motor pod
and orange endbell 21.5k motor.
Here we see inside the body and chassis (notice the intercoolers have
been removed because they made contact with the chassis in previous
models).
In the photo above you can see the channels for the wires now guide the
wires under small brackets that don't allow the wires to foul the front
axle, a nice feature.
While we're inside the car here, why is it that Slot It is the only
company that's figured out how to make channels for the power wires
that actually hold down the wires? Those channels are a great design
and firmly hold the wires in place. I know this is nothing new but it
struck me recently that Slot It has a great design here that no one
has copied.
A little grease here and oil there and it's time to race the 76 gram
car.
The S2's went on the car and the car went on the track... and turned
very quick 5.1's on the 61-foot East New York track. The car was very
quiet and zipped around the track easily.
We had a set of NSR tires/wheels (#9010- 20x10 Ultra grip tires
pre-mounted on wheels) on hand so they went on the car (along with a
TSRF axle that fits the wheels a bit better than the Slot It
axle...where's that standardization of 3/32 when you need it, eh?).
With the NSR's in place the car did 4.9's and after a bit of truing to
the tires it then dropped to a speedy 4.861 fastest lap. Nice and fast!
The car had a very different feel with the NSR rubber, it seemed maybe
a bit less predictable than the S2's. Going into the corners the car
slid out more in the top of the corner (under breaking) than
with the
S2's which tended to grip more at the top of the corner and then slide
out at the apex of the turn.
The Nissan's, with their centered greenhouse, short wheelbase, and wide
body just may be the speediest out of the box Slot It I've driven.
Since we can't leave things as they are around here at Slot Car News
this can will soon undergo a conversion to an angle winder open can
20k...more testing to follow.
Thanks to Fantasy
World Hobbies for the car for review!
Dave Kennedy
Publisher, Slot Car News
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