'07 Fray Car Body Testing

This year's test was rather short, as time before the Fray for prep always seems too limited. The one good thing this year was time to do about 50 ready-to-race bodies for the Fray, mostly to sell, but also to race. So for this test I picked out a representative body of each "Fray style" Bat-Jet body. No time for testing the competition this year, but the rules make things so tight and most of us are doing similiar bods. it probably doesn't matter too much. Fray rules mandate a minimum weight of 20g, so a perfect weight body for this particular chassis would be 3.0g ...under 3.0g and weight needs to be removed from the chassis, over and we need to break out the dremel for some rapid weight loss.

Testing is with one Fray chassis on the Bianchi 4x8, number 8 chassis with a 2 gearplate. Bare chassis ran a 4.039 in 25 laps and weighed 17.0 g.

The Vette C6 was first up...body weighs 3.5g and ran a best of 4.129 seconds in the test 25...

Aston Martin Db7 weighed 3.6g and ran 4.202 in 25 laps...

I was thinking the Ford GT would be good, it ran 4.119, and weighed 3.2g ...

the second Ford, the Mustang GT, weighing 3.1g. Ran a 4.193 ...

The Ferrari P4 weighs 3.2g...ran 4.196 ...

Ferrari 250LM, rather lightweight in this group at 2.9g, ran a 4.124 sec...

Mercedes CLK-GTR, weighing in at 3.2g...did a best of 4.167 sec.

Lotus Esprit, a tad wider than usual Fray cars, weighs 3.1g and ran 4.156 sec.

The BMW M3 weighs 2.8g and was the quickest at 4.061 sec in 25 laps.

The Nissan 350Z has Dual Post technology, this one is the reversed guide pin position. Weighs 3.8g and ran a 4.188 sec.

The conventional guide pin 350Z, weighs 3.1g and could only manage a 4.238 in 25 laps...I ended up using an assortment of Ford GT's and BMW M3's for this years Fray racing.

2007 East Coast Fray Team