grrr
As regards to people saying well you should have known...I didnt. As i have always raced club i really didnt know specs played such a big part. Especially this 2mm to long grrr. We're talking about the thickness of a credit card! In what way does this give any advantage?? Cells are cells are they not, longs caps and volts are at spec??.
Untill recently i had two sets of 33's and two sets of 42's Full stop. These bats where used for Mardave/Pan car/buggy etc. i made them up as i needed. I couldnt afford any more. These where always hand me downs bought from people in the club too. how the hell can i get hand me downs now when the batts arn't even out yet?
After a recent purchase of a B44 and brushless set up i used the cells i had for a few years. I still kept up if not beat the competition of people that run lipo/brushless. But this is not without its problems of alot of time needed to discharge/part charge storage/discharge/charge etc. With a baby on the way time is not what i have. SO with alot of good word about these track power lipos i went ahead and bought second hand of this very site! less than a week ago. Lovely i thought i mean if you pay nearly 70quid for batts surly i dont need to worry about them being legal for racing! (still didnt know!)
It was only by the time i found and bought my third pack of trak power saddle lipos that the guy i bought off told me exactly what i have just spent an evening reading lol ALL 13 PAGES Grrr.
I have read every post in the thread and have to agree with the majority that we have really been screwed over by the brca. After giving up rally cross last year due to CRAP weather and expence i thought hard about 1/10th buggy and pushed my self to get all i needed to be competitive. All old gear and cars sold to fund Buggy/brushless/lipo. Now finding out it could be made illegal. I would strongly think i wont be running if the lipos are made illegal. What should a newbi think, coming in to a different class finding out AFTER buying his gear its illegal??
Not every one can afford packs of new batts motors speedos etc when they need them. Takes a long time to pull your resorce's together to do so. Another 2x£85 quid is 170quid too much for the budget racer!!
Scott
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