Trips and Darnold,
Interesting ideas on unsprung weight. I believe the unsprung weirht of the motor is the only drawback with pancars compared to TCs. One way to reduce it is to move the motor closer closer to the point where the rear pod pivots as it moves up and down.(the rear T-bar ball in most cases) Using a larger spur gear will help though theres a limit to how far you can move the motor forward. If you imagine the extreme cases where the pivoting point and motor is almost at same place the motor will hardly move relative to the chasis compared to the rear axle.

go team

Gents,
I'm in the process of getting an L3... not sure if this question has come across this thread before, but I was wondering which body you guys out there prefer?? Thanks for any input. :D :)

DaveL- Glad to hear about your gas exploits, are you sure you want to retire in a few years??? LOL.

About the learning, I know what
you mean about not forgetting track time.

It seems that I've found since coming back into this hobby 4yrs ago that bad cars can make good drivers look bad and good cars can sometimes make bad drivers look decent. LOL

For me rc racing is kind of like golf, a good club won't help a terrible swing much but a bad club can definately make a good swing non-productive.

That lesson was brought home again yesterday when I was trying a 3 iron muscleback blade at the golf store. I was hitting it inconsistently (as far as distance) and didn't know why. Then by chance I mentioned to the rep who knows me and has seen me hit plenty of times before about how my standard clubs are 2deg upright. He then said "no wonder you are having problems controlling the higher launch angles these clubs are 0deg or flat which will result in you catching the toe of the club too often...".

Which was exactly what was happening, I was consistently hitting it in the sweet spot (middle, although on forged blades the sweet spot is actually a litle towards the hosel) but I felt like I had to "dig" into the mat to make solid contact and thus hitting it too high and losing distance.

I was starting to get a little flustered since I had just been hitting an old 1960's 2 iron muscle back blade a day earlier with great success and normally hit my 3iron off the fairway 190 (carry) until I found that out.

However, without a doubt wise one I agree with you that most of the learning comes through practice on the track. As I am found of saying "...Theory takes you where your experience has never been and experience (practice) allows you to perform once you get there".

hows it goin everyone?

anyone from MN in here-My borther and I will probably be doing 12th mod this weekend.

I haven't seen my car for about 4 weeks due to my obsession with angering security guards by destroying ledges and handrails on my two wheels on fury. anyway, I plan on dusting off the old heap of graphite to bang boards again this weekend. I should probably go check to see if it's still in my pit bag...

well i suppose that's enough idiotic typing for one day...

have a good one,
Pete Simons:batman:

pete - avink has my crc carpet knife now and he said he was actuallyt going to leave it stock. i about fainted but thats cool. now he has 2 cars to beat u with.

You are forgeting, shrekage, that he has to get around the both of us!

Hey Dave "Tiger" Arnold last I checked this was an RC car web page not the PGA page for bad golfers. Take that kinda talk to another board would ya:lol: . You should bring your clubs to the track next time and when the car is not working right go and get that 3 iron 27 deg lower legg muscle puller out and take a swing at your ill handling ride.:eek:. That should make up for all the practice that you missed while talking about GOOOOLF on the RC web board.:rolleyes:. Good luck on the links:ha: :ha: :ha:

But Kevvvv, I need the 3iron for yourrrr carrrr...LOL. Now that I have slowed down on the laughter from you post some what you doing next week? Thinking about getting Rob to go practice on the carpet one night and was wondering if you want to run to?

Pete/Dave- Go get'm

May actually get to race my "Knife" for the first time tonight....wish me luck......over 2 months since i have raced...the wheel towards me is left...correct:rolleyes:

Looking for a 1/12 Delta Super Spyder. Email me if anyone has one for sale. [email protected]

thx
Chris

You've got mail...

shrek- you know it is possible 1/12 car stock and still have a fast car. the one I used to run would have been better off this way. and yes, adam probably will probably beat me, but you know what? I won't go and beat myself up over it, all I can do is try to keep up.

Petenis- Hey bud what's up? Who is Adam? Have you seen/heard from Yari or Mitch and if so how are they doing? Tell you brother I said hi please.

Looks like the Delta Super Spyder is sooolllldd.

Anyone tried the new LRP charger or know someone who has? If so what's the initial report?

Anyone tried the new Trinity 12th scale body yet and if so what's it like compared to the Parma Speed 8?