Originally Posted by
daleburr
I know it goes against a lot of the made-up stuff posted on here, but it's true nonetheless.
Dale, I know you are well positioned to talk about this stuff, do you think it all translates directly to RC?
As far as I know race car theory is to make the chassis as stiff as possible to make suspension tuning more effective, but now a lot of RC companies seem to be playing with chassis stiffness as a tuning option. Are full size motorsport outfits designing flex into chassis?
I know myself that when I've played with road car shocks, it's done the exact opposite of what I'm expecting with regard to my RC experience.
Would any of us buy an Impreza or Evo, lock the front diff solid and expect it to "work" on the road, or racetrack?
This isn't a dig, or argument. I'm genuinely interested in why RC cars seem to work completely differently with different theories to full size cars.