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stampede_dude
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i heard dat ph2t.i said they had a hard time drifting...i was referring to street carswhich donthave pvc pipe on the wheels stock.if you find a brand new one for sale please inform me because id like to know about it.
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crazydave
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Yeah see, I've got to address this drifting thing, and explain my point of view.
Ok see drifting as when applied to racing, you're talking about a car that set up to hook up through the corners, but in some tight corners a practical racing tachnique is to push the car beyond it's traction curve, to bring it around faster, without dropping RPMs. A drift when applied in this context is a beautiful thing, and difficult to master. It's a fine line between heaven and hell. One wrong move and you're out of the race.
...but now I see these drifting exibitions, where the cars are just smoking their tires, moving in slo-mo, spinning in circles. Oh yeah sure it looks cool, but it's about as practical to racing as burn out contest are to drag racing. To set your car up with no traction, so you can drift makes no sense to me.
It's like when we were kids, and some one would do a burn out, and people would be like, "Woah that car's bad ass, I wonder what it would do in the 1/4 mile", and I'm like, "He'd be sitting on the line smoking his tires, cause he's got no traction." Drag racers only do that initial burnout to heat up the rubber. When the light turns green, you want it to hook.
That's all I got to say 'bout dat.
Ok see drifting as when applied to racing, you're talking about a car that set up to hook up through the corners, but in some tight corners a practical racing tachnique is to push the car beyond it's traction curve, to bring it around faster, without dropping RPMs. A drift when applied in this context is a beautiful thing, and difficult to master. It's a fine line between heaven and hell. One wrong move and you're out of the race.
...but now I see these drifting exibitions, where the cars are just smoking their tires, moving in slo-mo, spinning in circles. Oh yeah sure it looks cool, but it's about as practical to racing as burn out contest are to drag racing. To set your car up with no traction, so you can drift makes no sense to me.
It's like when we were kids, and some one would do a burn out, and people would be like, "Woah that car's bad ass, I wonder what it would do in the 1/4 mile", and I'm like, "He'd be sitting on the line smoking his tires, cause he's got no traction." Drag racers only do that initial burnout to heat up the rubber. When the light turns green, you want it to hook.
That's all I got to say 'bout dat.
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hue35
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Finally... dave, this has been buggin' me for a long time but it seems there's no reason to even try. You said that perfectly, and this should be posted on the front page of this site. Because the exhibition shit is called 'drifting', the kids just take it as that... I'm not sayin' it's not fun to try to make an rc car mimic that exhibition stuff, it's just that it gets so far from the origin. It's the same as the kids who give Kurt Cobain credit for, "it's better to burn out, than to fade away"... I don't even know how to begin to correct that, when I know that "Neil who?" would be the response... it just ain't worth it.crazydave wrote:Ok see drifting as when applied to racing, you're talking about a car that set up to hook up through the corners, but in some tight corners a practical racing tachnique is to push the car beyond it's traction curve, to bring it around faster, without dropping RPMs. A drift when applied in this context is a beautiful thing, and difficult to master. It's a fine line between heaven and hell. One wrong move and you're out of the race.
...but now I see these drifting exibitions, where the cars are just smoking their tires, moving in slo-mo, spinning in circles. Oh yeah sure it looks cool, but it's about as practical to racing as burn out contest are to drag racing. To set your car up with no traction, so you can drift makes no sense to me.
Thanks, crazydave
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stampede_dude
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yeah iunderstand dave,totally.i myself drive a jr.dragster.i also have a traxxas stampede and with the stock tires it would do a spinout all day and the tires wouldnt get hot.