Indeed! This was why Team Associated were so successful from the get go! They designed their RC cars as purely RC cars with new ideas, and not trying do downscale a 1:1 car
Those who did try to downscale 1:1 car more than anything else ended up with way too complex solutions, and WAY WAY(!!!) too heavy cars!
We also need to remember the INSANELY big jumps our cars face! Only thing that slightly resembles an upscaled RC as I can think of right now are those Paris-Dakar buggies. They have very long suspension travel and can jump like a kangaroo
B-fast stuff???
But guys, have you all read about this?
http://www.oople.com/rc/photos/euros2010/day2/
Georg Kotzinger from Germany was running a pretty standard looking Associated B4.1 buggy - but we got a tip off about his
unique gearbox which looks like nothing special from the outside.
Inside however - he's got something pretty strange going on. The differential is a
geared diff that he's been running for the past three years and ABSOLUTELY won't give away it's
internal secrets to us mere mortals.
The differential has the usual 'differential' action so one wheel will turn more around a corner but
most of the time it locks or has a limited slip action. If the car lifts a wheel when going round a corner for instance, the car wont lose momentum and the wheel with the most grip (the one on the ground) will have full drive. Interesting - wish we could get to see inside!
If any of you guys were there to see it... did it perform well or not??? Often hard to tell if these home-made solutions are good or not, as "mad scientists" like these seldom are the best drivers...
