Originally Posted by
Horatio
I created a very accurate gearing and rollout spreadsheet that I plan on turning into an app. It works out theoretical top speeds very accurately. On my Sworkz and Baja, it worked out speeds to within 0.3mph of real world results, so I'm satisfied the spreadsheet works well. However, on the XTR, I got larger differences - more than 3mph.
The conclusion I came to was that the centre driveline works at such extreme angles, losses were occurring that my spreadsheet was not compensating for.
I should probably point out that your spreadsheet probably does not take into account a bunch of other variables, but you might already be aware of this. Motors are notorious for not running at their claimed RPMs, batteries might be voltage sagging under load, aero becomes very important at such high speeds. Oh and tyre ballooning is almost impossible to account for. These variables might be the same for your Sworkz and Baja, but not for the Corally.
