New Season, New Mardave Rules

[gordy]

CHASSIS AND COMPONENTS
GENERAL CONSTRUCTION RULES
Cars to be Mardave V12 chassis and suspension.
Ball races allowed on both front and rear axles.
Either 32 or 48 dp pinion and spur gear to be used.
Mardave Differentials will be allowed.
V20 & V20a wheel carriers & S1048Z – S1054Z white delrin Gears are allowed.
Car suspension and wheel carriers shall remain as kit although any commercially available springs may be used.
The use of countersunk holes and screws on the underside of the chassis are mandatory.
Body mounts may be changed or altered.
Battery mountings may be changed from original.
The motor may be fitted to either side of the pod, either directly or via a spacer/plate(to prevent heat transfer and
softening of the blocks, or for weight distribution) providing that there are no alterations to the mounting blocks.Mardave V8AB alloy
pod may be used.
No external bumpers are permitted, and no metal bumpers are permitted.
Any make of servo, servo saver or track rod ends can be used on the cars steering system.
Heat sinks with cooling fans are allowed.
Plastic whip aerials are allowed but no metal whip aerials or rollover masts

BODYSHELL
.any commercially available shell can be used
ELECTRICS
BRUSHED
Any type, make and capacity of speed controller may be used
Cars to use a maximum of 2s lipo or 6 cell nimh all lipos must be in a case Battery mountings may be changed from the original.
Brushed Motors will be the hpi saturn

BRUSHLESS 13.5
Only the hobbywing ez run 17.5 motor and esc to be used
a maximum of 2s lipo or 6 cell nimh all lipos must be in a case
TYRES
The tires may be changed from the original kit tires Any foam tire make or compound allowed
GENERAL SETUP
Minimum car ride height will be no lower than 5mm,

[LongRat]

Looks good to me.
One point regarding the rear pod. There is an optional alloy pod produced by Mardave, which by the rules above would be perfectly legal. I don't see why any other aftermarket pod should not also be allowed. I think a more directed version of this rule should be used - floating rear pods must be used and no independent rear suspension is allowed.

[gordy]

trouble is dave if you do that it would mean you could use any rear pod from a 12th car which would give a massive advantage

[LongRat]

Not sure about that, wouldn't that push the rear out to beyond the standard track width? Might also want to stipulate the use of standard Mardave width wheels, as the big advantage that 1/12th pan cars have probably mainly comes from the tyre width.

[gordy]

even the original rc12 rear pod is a far superior design to the mardave and would give a huge advantage over a stock mardave pod. if you start changing things like that it wrecks the whole one manufacture class and you might as well be running 12th pan cars. the mardave alloy pod is a direct copy of the original in function so other than motor cooling and ride hight gives no advantage.

[Gunter]

Looks gd to me gordy area already legal, well when mark/James has countersunk the chassis it will be :-)

Think there be a few people that moan like anything at are club tho who don't hav c/s chassis and like to run there care slow as f***

[ChrissieL]

So, r we goings allow supastox ino next seasons mini championship?

[LongRat]

Frankly there are too many at the club not to. Must be getting on for 50% of the class. I can't see a problem including them. However, if they are, I would like to see a rule change to the Mardaves allowing non-Mardave specific upgrades to be fitted. This would allow (for example) a Supastox diff to be fitted to a Mardave chassis. And 'other manufacturers' as well.