Birky

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For EddieO (Team Br00d) on the 4 Cell Roar thread (http://www.rctech.net/forum/showthre...62#post2817862)

Its pretty scary that they were using a new pack for every race at the Japanese Nats. I know for club racing it wouldn't be anything like this, but still it makes you think.

EDIT: That was with brushed motors, not BL.

black-knight

Std cars will still be 6 cell?? they need to support stock / 19 etc "the biggest classes". Im sure we will see optional 4/5 cell bottom decks.

Geography has nothing to do with our racing.. we all race Corally and Xray euro trash...

black-knight

New speedo every run at the Worlds

Atomix

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Aside from a few shutdowns, there was no smoking esc's at the Nats. Is there even a problem?

Besercoe

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Seems the sintered rotors have made a big difference, more power lower temps, and less explosions.

However big open track high corner speeds and no grip to bog the car down.
A change is required, not only ofr electronics but also to help keep mod alive at the club tracks by reducing overall speeds, Especially in Sydney lately there has been very minimal mod entrants.

black-knight

The problem is you stock racers cant handle a fast 6 cell mod car.. so the gods have had to consider less cells to make them easier for ya to drive... lol

Rod M

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if we move to across the board 4 cell (stock, 19t and mod) many drivers will move up to 19t-mod very quickly,

mod will become the premier class and there will be more competition,

scott_g

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I witnessed two smoking speedos, but also quite a few replacements floating around during the weekend (for which I didn't witness the speedos expire).

Atomix

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Its you old guys trying to compensate for failing reflexes that is the problem. Look at the podium at the Nats - all young'uns.
BK = OLD
OLD = SLOW
BK = OLD + SLOW.

black-knight

U will need to back that up with a victory over me on my turf!

scott_g

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Despite concerns over the way in which the decision was reached and enacted, I think perhaps the current rules in Australia (AARCMCC) are the best interim measure. Allowing 4/5/6 cells with appropriate weight breaks isn't a bad place to be while we see what comes out of Europe's 5-cell and Japan's 4-cell experiment. On a medium sized track, 5-cell will compete with 6-cell, and on smaller tracks, 4-cell will be close to the money as well. It's not a bad place to sit for 6-12 months while it all shakes out overseas.

While the JMRCA nats isn't truly representative (with no brushless motors allowed), the significant battery/run time/life expectancy issues that arose for 4-cells on what wasn't a particularly big track have to sound warning bells for us.

With the majority of our tracks being outdoor, and at least medium sized in nature, we're better off watching Europe and parts of Asia than the US - where lots of the biggest races are on small indoor tracks, and where club-level modified is by all accounts limited.

Matt Dall

If we go to 4 Cells for the TC classes, due to the fact that speed controls blow up/thermal. That should make it nice and boring.

So to counter this likely phenomena, how about in 1/12th scale we go back to 6 cells, as with the limited grip available and smaller load placed on the speedos/motors you can't blow one up with 4 cells. Lets make them really radical again.

Stupid argument anyway, Just make the speedos bigger and better, and that should fix the problem I reckon.

hav_lova

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I say bring on the 4 or 5 cell mod, my FK04 will be the way of the future

Jaybo

personally i think following japan is the way.... one of the major reasons being we're in the FEMCA bloc with them for all IFMAR regs etc.


oh... and the yanks tend to always screw things up... and 5 cell 1350gm? what the hell EFRA.... the jap rules just make more sense!