Originally Posted by Switch Blade
over this past tuesday racing I was amazed by something that I never would have thought about. My 12L4 was really twitchy with the speed 12b. Ive been running a speed 8 for the longest time and it was quite a big change. At that point Paul was watching my car and noticed the rear was really low. So he raised it up a hole on the body posts, and it was like a night and day difference. I could drive the car into the corners and not worry about the car being all over the place. He said for mod he runs the rear of his body even higher. ive always cut the body at the marked lines so the thought never went through my head. If anyone has slight handling issues I would recommend looking at the rear body height and possibly raise it to calm the car down.
As much fun as it is to slam 1/12th scale bodies as low as possible, the how low can you go competition isn't always the best for traction. If you think about it, when you slam the back low, you reduce the angle of both the rear wing are and the angle of the front fenders. By slamming the back, you essentially take away downforce over the whole car, front and back.