phatboislim

iTrader: (24)

S/O to people that do one color paint jobs cuz I'm lazy and not masking shit opposed to 'saving weight'

bentouttashape

iTrader: (5)

I'm also in the one color camp. A haphazardly applied two-colored fade, if I'm feeling frisky.

Kave

iTrader: (17)

Perfect rule set!

vafactor

iTrader: (6)

Can we PLEASE reduce the minimum weight? IMO its F’n stupid to be adding a 35+ gram steel ballast bar just to get up to the 730 minimum weight rule. And that’s with a GT body. Even more useless ballast is necessary when running a regular weight black-art Toyota. I do nothing special to save weight on my cars and it seems so stupid to be putting tungsten plates under the battery or big heavy steel bars in front of it.

bentouttashape

iTrader: (5)

Are the aluminum chassis cars heavier?

Racermac73

iTrader: (3)

Yes, so are other common things like a tekin speedo, diff versus a spool, large milliamp packs, ECT. Wires could be 5 grams without lengths cut down, or going to 16ga. The rubber tires for the class weigh more than foams as well.

jammin684

iTrader: (45)

I also do one color only. If I feel adventurous I might use some pin stripe tape on the car too. That does not happen very often. Lol. Happy New Year to ALL of you.

bentouttashape

iTrader: (5)

Then an $8 weight doesn't sound like a big deal.

phatboislim

iTrader: (24)

I concur.... even in my mod car with a heavy ass speedo and 8k pack in adding a little weight.

gubbs3

iTrader: (7)

My GT12 at champs was 760 with zero weight added. All carbon car. No alloy screws, big speedo, heavy servo, big wire, 8200 pack, thick paint. Just because you "can" get a car super light doesn't mean it is healthy for the class.
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Heavy cars drive better.

Dan

iTrader: (74)

Big difference between foam tires and spool versus SJT rubber tires and ball diff for weight. Sometimes the grip is not high enough to warrant a spool with the rubber tires, hence the issues trying to get close to the minimum weight once you factor in a ball diff or if your car has an aluminum chassis.

MikeO

small esc, small RX, small servo, small cap, spool, carbon chassis, foam tires. Im not surprised you’re adding weight. I’d be happy you’re adding weight, a lot of us aren’t.

bmwjoon

Making GT12 lighter than LMP is not what anybody should be thinking about nor does it make sense. If anything with heavier bodies the class weights should be higher.

oldrcr

iTrader: (46)

Hi,
I was admiring the pic of your nice clean set-up, and noticed the red and black wires on the capacitor for the esc look very close to touching each other. I had that happen once, touch together, and so is only reason I took notice. Maybe the angle of the picture makes it look closer than they are.
-a
:-)

Carnage9270

iTrader: (6)

Looks like they are close to touching together and the red looks like it's close to touching the can as well