Originally posted by icon
btw, the kyosho's top sticks out a bit, but still not as far as serpents. its hard to see in the picture but the logic makes sense. if the servo horn is on the inside, there is dead space to allow the servo horn to work properly. if the servo horn is on the outside, then more of the servo casing (and bulk of servo wt) is on the inside. you can also see how far the servo sticks out in relation to the steering servo (assuming serpent and kyosho have similar placement of their steering servo).
Ummm, your argument does have some logic... That is quite right if the car takes a direct hit from the right side to the throttle servo. However, that is always not the case. What if the car was in a mild accident? Just a mild brush against the curb or another car? Wouldn't an expose servo horn on the outside make it more vulnerable to linkage failure than if the servo horn and linkage was positioned on the inside? I would think that could be Serpent's logic for doing what they did to the 950R...