Originally Posted by
MallenP30
Does anybody know if steel spur gears are available for this car? Or know someone who could make them, I actually own a Serpent 748e but the spurs are interchangeable!
I know next to nothing about the Serpent but a couple things about the TC6's
1) The chassis can accept any standard pan car spur gear I've thrown at it. If it has an "even" number of holes in a circle it should bolt right on.
2) They don't need a steel spur gear...I havent managed to damage a spur gear since forever, going back eight or more years with my TC5 (through TC6.1-6.2 and now TC7). In fact I use 84-pitch gears on my TC7's, those require GREAT care, the teeth are tiny!
3) Adding weight to rotating parts reduces acceleration.
Pretty much any spur gears I've ever seen on-road have been motors that:
a) weren't tightened down enouth
b) hit something REALLY hard head on and moved the motor forward
c) hadn't been re-adjusted (easy to forget on a race day with several cars) after changing pinion
Scott