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Originally Posted by mikeyscott
Tempted to change from a Cat SX to a 511, never really driven a shaft based car, so interested about this torque steer....  |
I did exactly that about 1,5 years ago, best decision ever.
Torque steer is mostly noticeably in onroad, but on carpet, it can also be felt in offroad. When you apply a lot of throttle on a high grip surface, the car tends to steer to a side (which one depends on motor location) on its own, much like a 1:1 FWD car with too much power. To combat this, they started to make belt driven cars in TC and not long after offroad followed. And this was when we still raced with brushed motors - imagine today where we have brushless motors with 3 times the torque.