how are you guys mounting lipos in the older t plate cars looking to get into 12th scale and can get a car pretty cheap but its a t plate car
Sadly, t bar cars were made virtually obsolete by the advent of lipos. Pretty much everybody has switched over to the side spring design. You can offset a lipo on one side of the tbar but doing so makes the car very imbalanced. You can space a lipo up and over the tbar, but doing so makes the CG so high that the car will handle badly. If you want to run the tbar style car, at this point your only viable option would be to get a saddle pack 1 cell lipo. To my knowledge, only one company offers such a battery. That company is Speedzone, owned by Gavin Creado. He's got a thread on the team and company page. These days and because of the lipo batteries, tbar 1/12th scale cars are hardly even seen in competition. Sad, but true.