Thread: Any RC car guys here??

for racing on carpet.... how bad was all the lint getting caught on the spur gears?

It wasnt much of a problem with the newer Ozite-2 carpets but some of the older ones would want to ball up a little bit around the rear axle or get in the front wheel bearings. I dont recall it ever being an issue on the spur gears but also the spur gears on the pan car also serve as the differential as the diff balls and plates go against the gear. Foam tires were all the expense in carpet racing as you needed new tires every few races and tires have come a long way over the years but they still wear pretty quick. It was also a great way to know if your suspension was dialed in correctly as the front tires would wear badly at an angle if not and that was a great improvement in the early to mid 90s is that most cars gave camber and caster adjustments to the front control arms where the earlier ones were just fixed and mainly set up for road course and not oval so the left front would be destroyed pretty quick.