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Originally Posted by Mad-Wolfie
i'm all for the blinky mode on ESC's (for starters i haven't had to fork out £150 on a speedo to keep more on the pace of the top guys) but 1 thing does concern me... Yes, timing advance is banned on ESC's, but am I right in assuming motor timing advance (on motors that can be advanced) is allowed?
If that is the case, what is the point of banning ESC timing & then allowing motor timing? Surely it would make more sense to have zero timing on 10.5 motors to even out the field, removing any advantage (& slow the cars which is the whole point of having a blinky rule) or just allow timing on 13.5 motors so they can run in with the 10.5's on the saturday. Plus surely if the motor timing is advanced, technically speaking, doesn't that motor then become a modified motor?
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The difference with advancing the timing on the motor is that it is fixed, so you have that timing set for the whole lap. The boosted speedos are different in that they can be tuned to only apply timing at a given time. This made picking gear ratios and setting up speedos technically difficult, and it all became quite complicated.
Advancing the motor timing should give more torque accross the rev range, and subsequently more power. However, you'll also be getting the motor hotter at the same time so you won't be able to go mad.
Before we started getting boosted speedos, we played with the motor timing in 10.5 and found that anything more than about 10 degrees just meant the motor got too hot during the run. Also, once we'd found the best compromise, we never changed it.