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Originally Posted by Timee80
I thank everyone who as given advice to me so far, its much appreciated, and for the pm's ive received, but alot of the info im gettng seems to contradict each other with regards to what to buy as a first car and which type of chassis is easier to setup (with or without cells).
It seems the T bar vs link debate is very heated  |
The link/T bar debate isn't heated at all, as SlowOne said you need a link car. There's a difference in the past between the UK and USA, where in the USA link cars have been popular for a good few years. They never really took off in the UK until LiPo, so nearly all cars used here were T bar. Because of that we've had to learn setting up of link cars more or less from scratch. It was also not possible to just use setups straight from the USA as we run on different carpet and use different additive. I think in the UK we are generally getting there with link cars now. It is very rare to see a T bar car even in the UK now, at least where I race. (And I'm saying all that when I still have a T bar car to sell!)
By the way, my experience isn't anything like someone like SlowOne. I raced 12th scale from 1980 until 1985, then gave up until the start of 2007! I've (re) learnt a lot in a short space of time and will also be at the Ardent tech day, but mainly as a student as whatever I've learnt there's still plenty more.
After all that said about link cars, if you have cells lying around there's no harm in getting a second hand T bar car to get started at club level, something like an old Associated L4 or HB 12X can be a good introduction, but if you keep racing in 12th you'll soon want to upgrade.
Trev