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Old 11-13-2008, 10:42 AM
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while some general suspension tuning techniques can be held true between full scale and rc car. The reality is rc's scale speed and g-forces would put full scale into a relm that we can't even imagine.

therefor elements like chassis stiffness and flex are really hard to compare. we can get away with certain things in the rc world that work amazingly to make a car more forgiving and add more grip... but in reality it wouldn't work in a full scale. Mirror what car king stated. we could make rc cars so stiff they wouldn't flex (much like a stitch welded/full tube frame full scale road racing car) but the rc car manfuacteres don't do that. Maybe it's a comprimise between affordability, or electrics or drive train placement. Who knows. But I do know in real race cars stiffer chassis is better. Street cars this is not the case... and it seems the same for rc cars.
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