Originally Posted by
Samich
I just measured the painted wing and associated hardware from my 992 body and it was just under 12 grams. At silver can speeds, I really don’t think there’s going to be any aerodynamic benefit, so if you want to save the weight, you might as well leave if off.
I competed in a 4 hour TT-02 enduro a few months ago. The rules were basically box stock TT-02s with some minor allowances for durability (bearings, plastic Tamiya oil dampers, etc.). It was amazing how close the racing was. Between 1st and 2nd it was 3 laps, and between 4th and 5th it was 1 lap. It was critical you had a good battery swap strategy and process. Also, over the 4 hours, multiple cars had assorted broken parts. It was important to have spare parts / tools ready to quickly get back out on track.
They also had the coolest trophies!
That is a seriously cool trophy! We have 2 teams going and I just did what I could to pull weight out of the cars. Oddly enough the chassis I plan to use is 10 grams heavier then the other team. I'm also running a heavier high mA battery so that makes it worse haha. I managed to get the other team car 15 grams under min weight but I'm looking to be 25 grams over weight. Going to do more testing after work at my local track. I been using a beater body and I'm gonna try with and without the wing. The body is a proline c7 Vette, so it has a pretty big wing on it, bigger then the tamiya. So if I can't notice a difference with the c7, I don't think I'll gain anything on the tamiya