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Old 08-13-2014, 06:53 PM
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Originally Posted by alcyon
howardcano, there is a reason why rc cars need flex unlike real cars. the scale weight of a RC car is 100 times less than a full scale counterpart, when it should only be 10 times less. And the scale speeds that a 1/10 achieves is very high.
Actually 1/10 scale works like this: divide mass by 1/10/10/10 for all three dimensions, so that's 1/1000 the mass, meaning that if you had a 1400g 1/10 scale R/C car it's the equivalent of a 1.4 metric ton full size car, or about what a professional touring car weighs.

I do believe that the Mi5 Evo is stiffer than the original, which was a exceptionally wet-noodle car. A friend of mine bought one (Mi5 Standard) early in the production and when I picked it up to look it over in the pits for the first time I thought it was broken in some way!
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