View Poll Results: what's your tire choice?
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4318LikesU.S. Vintage Trans-Am Racing Part 2
03-11-2016, 01:31 PM
#9271
I agree with the bottom line- racers cheat and this is just a frustrating thing, had a local racer tell me that I need to be charging my batteries up to 4.22 volts per cell and all the guys who he was racing against was doing this in the bismark race that he attended, and the funny thing was he did not seem to think it was cheating, as the way I see it, alot of the racing that is going on is at a local level, just makes you wonder why the others they race with do not complain about them 
03-12-2016, 05:50 PM
#9272
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I always laugh at this. The guys who are winning/going really fast aren't doing stuff like this. They drive better, have their cars setup better, and prepare for each round better than most. Sure, they don't have bottom of the barrel equipment by any means, but it's not as special or as close to the limits as so many think.
Cheaters never win...welllll maybe they do...
03-13-2016, 05:29 AM
#9274
Taking rc racing to a whole other level! Imagine the testing booths/equipment and medical personnel besides the rc tracks in big events
03-13-2016, 12:17 PM
#9275
Has anyone used a Tamyia trf416 for usvta? I'm having a huge problem with weight distribution, and the car is handling like crap. I don't have a very good pic, but I have weight underneath the battery and receiver/speed controller. I had to add 110gr to make the car legal. The car is pushy on power and wants to spin out when the front end bites.
03-14-2016, 06:47 AM
#9276
Use standard Lipo 
03-14-2016, 07:01 AM
#9277
Has anyone used a Tamyia trf416 for usvta? I'm having a huge problem with weight distribution, and the car is handling like crap. I don't have a very good pic, but I have weight underneath the battery and receiver/speed controller. I had to add 110gr to make the car legal. The car is pushy on power and wants to spin out when the front end bites.
03-14-2016, 07:11 AM
#9278
This table from the XRAY T3 Set-up Book is very helpful when I am trying to figure out what changes to try on my car.
Full PDF can be downloaded here:
https://www.teamxray.com/teamxray/sh...p?file_id=6143
Full PDF can be downloaded here:
https://www.teamxray.com/teamxray/sh...p?file_id=6143
03-14-2016, 07:15 AM
#9279
Has anyone used a Tamyia trf416 for usvta? I'm having a huge problem with weight distribution, and the car is handling like crap. I don't have a very good pic, but I have weight underneath the battery and receiver/speed controller. I had to add 110gr to make the car legal. The car is pushy on power and wants to spin out when the front end bites.
03-14-2016, 08:49 AM
#9280
This table from the XRAY T3 Set-up Book is very helpful when I am trying to figure out what changes to try on my car.
Full PDF can be downloaded here:
https://www.teamxray.com/teamxray/sh...p?file_id=6143
Full PDF can be downloaded here:
https://www.teamxray.com/teamxray/sh...p?file_id=6143
BigRed,
If you post your setup, it might be more obvious what needs to change - most good cars have setups that aren't widely deviating from other cars. If the handling issue is dramatic as you're describing, it should stand out.
03-17-2016, 07:32 AM
#9282
03-17-2016, 08:35 AM
#9283
Maybe I'm naïve, but I've never understood how grown men, or boys in men's clothing, could fall asleep at night proud to have won a race or trophy by cheating. I just don't get it. What's the point of that? If its a cash race, and you are hard up for money, at least you have a motive (and probably a prior rap sheet), but cheating at RC cars makes you pathetic in my book.
03-17-2016, 09:53 AM
#9284
Maybe I'm naïve, but I've never understood how grown men, or boys in men's clothing, could fall asleep at night proud to have won a race or trophy by cheating. I just don't get it. What's the point of that? If its a cash race, and you are hard up for money, at least you have a motive (and probably a prior rap sheet), but cheating at RC cars makes you pathetic in my book.
