Originally Posted by
fredswain
I just started my new home made chassis. It is going to be a dedicated mid motor only setup. It will allow saddle packs or a shorty. I am of the opinion that if you are running a MM car in lower traction situations, you need to run saddles. If you are running high grip or stock blinky class you want a shorty. Well see how well this works out and if I'm right or not.
This will be interesting, really looking forward to reading your analysis of the outcome. As a note I can say that here in Sweden we race almos exclusively on carpet during the winter season, and a lot of kits seem to have good success with a saddle pack configuration. There are kits that work well with a shorty as well, but they have primarily a DB2 or TM2 type of configuration with the motor on one side and the shorty on the other. This is all mod since stock classes aren't run in Sweden.
We have played with a shorty in the dex as well using the normal chassis, but never really found a setting that was universally good, have had the best results with a full stick, so it will be really interesting to see what you come up with.