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Old 11-19-2007, 01:10 AM
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Originally Posted by RayJ
I'm curious as to some observations you guys have purposely overlooked to comment on.

Rear Sway Bar- Guys if your running the blade type on the rear. It doesn't work. Why? The rear suspension travels further than the front. At the limits of handling the blade type sway bar binds. Hmmmm...even the top drivers yanked it off and ran a conventional modified bar. Can you imagine a top racer not being able to tune with rear sway bar?

Rear lower roll Center adjustment- NONE......huh??? Every other car has it and it's a valuable tool in car tuning.

Rear hinge Pin spacing: I wonder why all the other guys went to longer suspensions arms? So the thing would have better bumpy track driveability.

Fuel Tanks- Out of Spec. Some as much as 5ml's Fuel tank ribs prohibit filling the tank properly. You wanna give up 3 to 4 seconds per fuel stop go for it.

Outdated internal rive ratio- 2.55 vs 2.05 Okay if you want to be lose a tenth of a second out of each corner go right ahead. If you don't... then fork up $100.00 for the upgraded transmission kit. THat's $100.00!!

Clutch system: How many versions? Clutch with the car kit. UFO and UFO2?
Hmmmm.........and thats what $60.00 per pop?

Where's the price of the car and upgrades now?? $600.00

Common guys.........you wanna help your team magic following. Why don't you post what you need to have to first have at least a level playing field of car POTENTIAL compared to Mugen,Serpent, Kyosho and XRAY.

I'm curious though. Again the G4RS sales hype doesn't post the specifics of the car, and what was improved over the G4S.
i dont know what your trying to do man, but you seem one upset dude !
now after having the G4S and currently a G4+, i have noticed a huge difference in the rear Sway bar. to be honest id have 2 different setups for the car , 1- the old G4S rear swaybar for low grip tracks, 2 and the new bar for the higher grip tracks. the new swaybar setting on the G4+, G4RS and to buy as an option for the G4S, on its softest setting is still harder then the hardest setting on the old swaybar setup. just having raced on a prepped track and high traction, the new bar definately was a great tuning tool, so i dont know what you are on about ?
after running quite a few sanctioned events this year, not once did i have a problem with the volume of the fuel tank, again ?
the G4+ and the G4RS as ZOOM said, have a longer rear lower arm.
although there isnt a lower roll center adjustment there is plenty of options on the top arm, both front and rear of the car.
the UFO2 clutch is an update to the UFO clutch. there is a slight difference to the clutch shoe and the retaining plate, this is available seperate to buying the whole clutch.
drive ratio , there were always different options with internal gearing for the G4S, dependant of the track you run on, just now the ED trans has proved to be more efficient than playing around with the older internal gears.
4 very different tracks i have run on this year, and i always seem to end up with the StD pinions that come with the ED. but its also motor dependant.
every other car has optioned gearing, so again, im a little confused why you have such a problem with the release of the G4RS ?
it is cheaper than the G4S (maybe not now) and has all the speedshot ED trans and new wing arms and new hub design. so do READ the updates on the TM site about the G4RS, they have released all the updates from the G4S. happy reading
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