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Originally Posted by hottuna
Wow, that was an answer Chazz!
Believe me, we have tried all kinds of set ups, the car ain't bad, but the rotating mass keeps the rear down and genarating grip. We have talked alot about this on races. One guy is racing his home made RB5 Mid, (can be seen in the "I made this" section), his motor is the other way around, and have blistering speed exiting corners. Of course it's not right to compare 2 different cars, but one reason could be the motor pushes the front down more on on power.
It would just be an interesting thing to try. Outdoors i would not run a 3 gear tranny.
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Hey Hottuna,
Have you thought about trying to make/find/run a heavy slipper plate? I've thought quite a bit about how much weight transfer is going on with a 4-gear X - 6, and discussed with BK how to reduce or tune it for some tracks. The best thing we've come up with is to add some kind of 'flywheel' effect on the slipper shaft - weight rotating counter to the motor would reduce the overall net transfer. Part of my thinking is, the 3-gear transmission cases were pretty bad overall - good for what we could do at the time, but the 4-gear one is just so much better all around. Back on the 3-gear I was replacing the idler gear once a month or so because it wore out so fast, and the car was always loud. With the 4-gear, by adding/taking away mass you could essentially dial in how big the effect is while still having a beautifully smooth transmission.
Paul