No it doesn't mean it is going to take decades again. Technology has increased a lot allready. The Tekin R1 and soon to release RS as well as the KO coming out are smaller then the typical BL system so sizes are allready starting to come down.

I'm wondering how much of the size of the BL speedos is because so far they are all Brushless/Brushed compatible? Does anyone have some info on this?

Jeff,
I'm a little surprised that you would take offense at my reply to your post about the size of the two servos, it wasn't intended as a slight on you in any way. There is so much misinformation flying around that I assumed someone had told you the servos were radically different. Truth is, I have never measured either one, since I can interchange the two without any modifications to the set up. I stand corrected that they have different dimensions, but the differences don't matter in the practical sense. Use whichever one you want, they are both good. Most of my team drivers prefer the 9602. In my own experience the 9602 is better, in so much as a metal gear servo holds up longer. And the 9602 is ssmmmooothe!

Layman and George are team drivers, they will always try to help anyone who asks. They are not only great drivers, they are good people, and that is a requirement for getting on my team.

In the end you have do have to figure it out for yourself, you just have to filter all the information everyone gives you. Any time you would like to have some more, just ask

Scottrick,
Thanks for having my back, friend. You are verbose to an extreme, and some other words I have to go look up

I hear ya on that...with BL on the rise and finally legalized in racing...when are manufacturers going to make BL only ESCs? I mean look at the percentage of people who buy a BL ESC and run a brushed motor with it...I'd think it's got to be down around the 1% level maybe as high as 5%.

Ah, another dream dashed. I'm a hack driver AND a real bastard to boot...

I kinda like "pedantic" (my friend Bambi calls me that). And "bastard". I'll answer to "cranky sob".

Any time, big guy. Wish like hell I raced somewhere where I had you available to sort out questions. You, Bodine or Jason B...I'd never figure anything out on my own again.

100% of the bl esc's run in our club racing last year were run with brushed motors. Then again, it was a sample-size of exactly ONE.

We didn't allow bl last year (except in Mod which we didn't run at all) and one guy ran 19T TaxiCab with the GTB he had from his Mod car a couple years ago.

Fair enough. I think the FIRST thing you should try is that different under-weight spring on each side idea you had. iir, .016 on one side and .018 on the other so you can quit pulling to one side or the other on acceleration. Sometimes our own ideas are more potentially "fatal" (as any idea in a toy car can be, right?) than pretty much any idea anyone else can provide.

Woah....alot of splitting hairs over that S9602. I have a S9602 in one of my 1:12's and 5g and 1mm difference isn't much to be upset about.


Scottrik, tell me about those Taxi Cabs..have a link to a body or picture?

LOL...they're all over the web!! Ah, I'm sure MOST call 'em (T)ouring (C)ar. I'm a hopelessly jaded 1/12 racer and figure anything THAT big with four doors and is ricocheting off THAT much stuff has GOT to be a (T)axi (C)ab, right? Can't be coincidence that the initials match, can it?

i guess the brushless thing is advancing slowly, but surely. The tekins are pretty small, but i would rather have it square, than a rectangle, but its still a better size. That KO looks great, and im wondering how big itll be, a new ko means a new Hara! lol. I think im good with my small brushed system for now

Scottrik, I really thought it there was a taxi cab class for 1/12's

I am so disappointed now..I was thinking Taymia had MiniCoopers and
the 1/12's could have a yellow taxi class.



If I was racing taxi cabs, I would paint it like an Iraqi Taxi,

Would that make it a....wait for it....Iraxi?

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Or a Boston or NYC cab.... they speak the same language... I think.

ohh what fun those Iraxi's were. Fun times...wandering around the desert with a pack on my back and a gun in my hands.

If I was running .18 on frontend with XXPink/Orange tires and car was working very well. Do you guys think that Purple tires and .16 give it close to the same feel?