Originally Posted by Merciless

Whilst racing electric buggy I almost always had to add weight to make the minimum and it was always placed to the front to aid steering. I would imagine this was the case in the scenario you said about too.
Rod

Originally Posted by egunn123

Guys we have the Mugen MBX6 up on the site for pre-order. In my talks with Kris Moore of Mugen he thinks the cars will be shipped to dealers in a week and half.
You can check out our website to pre-order the car. This car as well as a few more new releases should be on the front page.

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Thanks,

Eddie Gunn

Originally Posted by Vsfriedmugan

wonder if the instruction manual is any better??

Originally Posted by Merciless

To be fair, I've only been racing these little things 25yrs. But in that time I've never added weight(Other than to meet regs.) to any buggy. Whilst racing electric buggy I almost always had to add weight to make the minimum and it was always placed to the front to aid steering. I would imagine this was the case in the scenario you said about too.

All sorts of things will add weight to the buggy, like you say ......... paint and stickers are just 2. But I would preffer to start off with the lightest platform a manufacture can offer, that way after I've got it ready to race it's not unnecessarly carrying anything around it doesn't have too.

Savoya's set-up is for how he likes to drive I grant you that, but his buggy is made as light as possible for all the reasons I've stated. I can't believe you guys are dissing the time and effort MUGEN engineers have spent removing the weight from the 5r package inorder to bring you a lighter more agile buggy.

Don't suspose you can shed any light for me on why F1 team spend millions on carbon fiber, titanium and other exotic materials with which to build there race cars if good old steel is better if alot heavier ?? Or why Rally teams do the same when they could leaving all the seats etc. in the race cars ??

I always believed it was to do with lighter being better to put things very simply.

Also I guess another question is why do the governering body's have a minimum weight for all our race class's If indeed there is a benifit to being heavier than needed surely the manufactures would have worked out the optimium weight for a buggy etc. and thats what they'd weigh, but instead every new revision they strive to make it as light as possible whilst remaining robust enough for mortals to drive .......

Rod

Originally Posted by Loop&Roll

What works with a real car does not necessarily work with a scale car, yes a car can be too heavy but it can also be too light... my point is 100 grams is nothing. This can be shaved off a with titanium screws and a few other small mods.

In my opinion people are too fixated on weight, in low traction conditions more weight can be advantagous and a heavier car is more stable and forgiving to drive just look at the stable platforms the jammin, the mugen and the older kyosho.

Originally Posted by slaytanic

Gee thats funny. Than why is every engineer and designer in EVERY motorized sport whatever the scale constantly trying to cut weight? They must ALL be wrong huh? More weight is just that, more weight to carry over rough and around corners. NOTHING advantagious about it. It will always hurt you more than it helps you in the end.

Originally Posted by Loop&Roll

What works with a real car does not necessarily work with a scale car, yes a car can be too heavy but it can also be too light... my point is 100 grams is nothing. This can be shaved off a with titanium screws and a few other small mods.

In my opinion people are too fixated on weight, in low traction conditions more weight can be advantagous and a heavier car is more stable and forgiving to drive just look at the stable platforms the jammin, the mugen and the older kyosho.