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Old 11-13-2024 | 08:36 AM
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TEAM PIGEON RC
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Originally Posted by simple
If you take a look at the manual for the P12, you'll see that the spring rate is provided by traditional pan car side springs.
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The damper blades are installed in hollowed out tubes machined into the aluminum chassis, and the damping is achieved with suitable fluid and the rotational movement as the rear pod pivots
Thanks for clarification - I did actually check out the P12 and PWGT manuals (and have also read the A12 manual) but it was incomprehensible to me what was responsible for the pitching spring. I guess the side springs just a lot stiffer than they would be on a traditional link car? My presumption would be that the increase in stiffness required to control pitching would affect roll characteristics negatively (unless grip is crazy high like on carpet) but I'm not an engineer and my intuition is often wrong lol.
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