Originally Posted by
monkeyracing
Funny, I saw those for the first time today on rcmart. I'd always heard that completely locking the diff in your mini was a bad thing.
I did have a little personal experience regarding this a few weeks ago. I built a new ball diff, loaded it with anti wear grease and cranked it down. It was essentially locked.
The car handled like crap! If one wheel got a little grab it would pull ahead, changing the suspension geometry so the other side would grab, and so on and so on...the car fishtailed a little.
I suppose if you are racing on the right surface it could work though.
Jim
When I was heavy into 1/8 nitro onroad ten years ago, no one used a diff. We ran solid rears and one-way fronts. Of course we had gobs of power and couldn't afford to lose traction getting the power down in the corners.
Now, if someone could make a Torsen diff for the M03...