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I ordered a bare chassis and a flexible rear wing for a ScaleAuto Honda HSV-010 model. The NZ distributor had these but no bodies. Pendle had a white kit body and the lightweight interior and lightweight “glass”, they are somewhere in the sky. I had already built up a Slot.it Sidewinder pod unit to fit in it …… Oh. The RT4 isn’t compatible with Slot.it pods ….. I have an idea … or NSR … nope …. Oh, nor Sideways. ….. RT4 Pod with spherical bushings [there is also a ball race version] ordered from Hobbies Plus, came overnight Monday …… hmmm no idea how to assemble the large bag of bits supplied. Checked the ScaleAuto site, the CricCrac site (their retail outlet), nothing. Googled, all I could find was a video in Spanish - I’ve forgotten much of what I learned. There are six short things called chassis clips shown in the middle here, I gather they are to stiffen the chassis… I’ll get back to those. So I did a very basic assembly, adding the yellow soft Ninco springs to the rear mount points, as there were only 3 medium in the packet. Stock Slot.it Flat-6 fitted - it comes with the height adapter for these - geared at 13:26. - Slotting Plus 7.5mm pinion and Slot.it GA26 spur. I might pull that back to 13:28 or more later, as the bigger diameter wheels give it a fairly high final drive ratio. Hmmmmmm The rear mount points are tight on the screw thread, which doesn’t allow for spring action, and is at odds with the video I watched. I don’t want to bore those out before I learn more about setting up these pods. So I didn’t have very high expectations for the unit at this point, and I haven’t done any fine tuning, but threw it on the track. Surprisingly smooth and quiet. But after some tyre polishing, I got the rolling, unweighted chassis under 5 seconds on my track, which is showing good promise for a mid powered car. Work in progress. Would be glad to learn about tuning these from others