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Old 04-09-2019 | 05:36 PM
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Originally Posted by KINGZJ
Seriously worrying about how your body makes weight is picking fly scat out of pepper. Bodies need approval and they need to be a certain weight. Who the heck really cares how your body makes weight I sure dont. Making more rules is just another way to steer people away from usgt. It's bad enough that at the vta national race tour this past weekend their was only 10 usgt cars that showed up. Make things easier not stupid.
as long as the car makes the minimum weight who cares what the weight of the body is
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Old 04-09-2019 | 06:27 PM
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lol
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Old 04-09-2019 | 06:37 PM
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Originally Posted by bertrandsv87
There should be a different minimum weight for the bodies that come with any pre attached foam to make it fair for other foamless body manufacturers, since the foam's weight and low position effectively lowers the total CG of the body compared to another body of the same weight that does not have any foam installed...There should also be another rule to stop the addition of body accessories in order to make minimum weight: hopefully there won't be any polycarbonate lead based paint used to make minimum weight.....
I'm 99.9% certain that the included foam is NOT to "add weight". If you look at the elongated shape of the body, you'll realize it's included purely for the purpose of stabilizing the body against the chassis bumper, as well as attempting to protect the front of the body from being crushed if crashed...nothing more, nothing less. Take whatever chassis you're using, remove the foam bumper, place the body on, crash it into something at race speed...and then compare your body to how it would have looked if crashed with the foam bumper attached. My guess is, it will be crumpled without the foam.
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Old 04-09-2019 | 09:12 PM
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Hopefully the Usgt rule makers will go back to the old 'no body minimum weight' rule that made the class popular in the first place. Too many rules does stop participation, but I still say that foam is not polycarbonate plastic, whether it is meant for protection of the body or not.....Cheers.....
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Old 04-09-2019 | 10:19 PM
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Wth did I just read...


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Old 04-09-2019 | 10:28 PM
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Leave this thread for 6 hours and all kind of stupid shows up........
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Old 04-10-2019 | 02:58 AM
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Hey guys! Is obviously as Panther says above, if it may interest you, the foam weighs 1.2 grams
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Old 04-10-2019 | 05:36 AM
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foam, mirrors, driver figures, six coats of paint...who cares... as long as the body is legal(or soon to be), painted up like a GT style race cars, has a painted wing and weighs 95 grams....run it
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Old 04-10-2019 | 05:39 AM
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Originally Posted by DARKSIDE
foam, mirrors, driver figures, six coats of paint...who cares... as long as the body is legal(or soon to be), painted up like a GT style race cars, has a painted wing and weighs 95 grams....run it
guess I will always be illegal I never paint my wings
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Old 04-10-2019 | 07:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Marcos.J

guess I will always be illegal I never paint my wings

I have been just shooting flat clear on them to be "legal" paint is paint right?
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Old 04-10-2019 | 08:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Marcos.J

guess I will always be illegal I never paint my wings
Me and you both lol.. I just can't bring my self to painting a Rc wing
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Old 04-10-2019 | 08:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Marcos.J

guess I will always be illegal I never paint my wings
How about covering the entire wing (not including the side pieces) wtih a decal...such as a "carbon fiber" decal?
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Old 04-10-2019 | 08:18 AM
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Originally Posted by DaSilva3525
Me and you both lol.. I just can't bring my self to painting a Rc wing
I end up painting it as i'm painting the body. It's never taken "more" time.
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Old 04-10-2019 | 08:23 AM
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Originally Posted by DaSilva3525
Me and you both lol.. I just can't bring my self to painting a Rc wing
the make three of us lol
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Old 04-10-2019 | 08:56 AM
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Originally Posted by OVA
the make three of us lol
There is more of us that "paint" the wings with clear paint lol
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