Originally posted by stormperson
racerdx- those are not very fragile parts you are breaking, or at least from what I have seen (I would imagine that you would crack wheels, or the main chassis or something before you broke that stuff, even the axle... go figure... lol). A T-bar is much more likely to break, and its pretty much the same exact stress point as the football pivot thingie that you are breaking. Also the pivot balls on a t-bar are different (they have flanges on each side, similar to the ones on the front of a dynamic strut front end).
Also, new batteries will not help solve that situation, it will problem make it worse. New carpet might, however I am doubltful. And, while it might be a handling problem that you are facing, there isnt much that you can be off with a 12th scale, its pretty much the same set up everywhere give or take a few things, but nothing that should make it feel undriveable (unless you go from asphalt to cleveland, however thats hardly the case here). What it comes down to is that, when you hit something there is a chance that you will break. When you hit something hard enough the energy has to go somewhere, and something will most likely break or warp or something. A t-bar car will be much more likely to break than a sprung car.
Except for the case of the yok (which masami had specially made for the worlds in '01), most cars can be made to work, espically in stock. So pick a car stick with it, and learn to make it fast, and with a 12th scale as I was saying above, there is normally one basic set up that works pretty decent at most club racing carpet tracks (give or take some 10-20 weights of oil, a rate of spring, etc...), but a car should not be out to lunch. If it is normally its something else is wrong with the car... tweaked, mis-adjusted side links, binding in something, etc... (and learning how to get rid of all of those problems takes time and expeariance).
Thanks, I agree with you on this one. The reason I said that I wanted to use new battaries in the car before I converted it is because it's hard to tell how to gear the car when your battaries are so terrible. And one reason why I kinda want to try a t-bar car is that my track carries parts for them. Like the Hyper Drive and the 12L3, and the Rug Rat (which is basically a 12L3 isn't it?). I was lucky when I only broke the plastic piece on my foot ball thingy and not the carbon fiber part. Because that would of made me wait a long time to get that part fixed. Which would of really sucked even more because I already waited like over a week to get the parts for the side links.