Originally Posted by
sakadachi
I appreciate the technicality of these fundamental principals and procedures, but we are talking about an RC car with the simple goal of making it turn the same radius left and right.
Do we really need to get into technical jargon just for a simple goal?
Maybe I'm just not nerdy enough... moneyracing, please advise!
Where do I stand on the nerd scale?
Thats not it. It's when you post something that's fundamentally wrong. I don't know what your motivation for posting on this thread is, but mine is to help some of the newer guys get a fundamentally good start in this hobby of Mini racing. Sure guys like you who have a lot of experience can do stuff that the more inexperienced cannot. Here's something I've learned from the experience of trying to help out maybe hundreds of guys at the track. The simpler you can make things, the more quickly they progress.
The first thing you really have to have is a "square" car. You want a car that is mechanically set up. Yes, I understand that you can use your radio to square up a car, but every really good racer I know, starts out with a good mechanical set up then works from there. Also I've found over the years that people learn at their own rates and force feeding them info gets you nowhere. Quite often they aren't ready for the info yet and will not process it properly or in one ear and out the other.
I'm also on this thread cause I learn a lot. There are certain people who post here that always have a contribution. It's always fun to read the posts of guys who started out with me and of others who I might have helped a bit when they got started.
I get myself in trouble with you, cause I'll give my input if there is something fundamentally wrong with your advice -----in my opinion. I've found you don't like this and have taken it personally and have been quite nasty about it at times. I don't deal in personalities, for the most part, but with ideas, techniques, etc. I went to a personal level with you once and for that I'm quite ashamed of myself and do apologize to you and to the guys who might have read those exchanges.