Originally Posted by
RichJohnson
So far I only drove the chassis and its a tad squirley to maneuver at top speed. But that is really only for crossing the field. I wanted fast turret rotation and that's what I got.
It would be easier to control if I had metal and rubber tracks.
The metal/rubber padded tracks I run add over 2.5lbs to the HL Abrams. The weight, improved flexiblity and friction of the rubber pads does go a long way with smoothing out the high speed cross country performance while giving much better slow speed control. The negative is they seem to bring an entire other set of issues that has to be addressed too LOL.
I played around with 12 volts on my “test bed” hull/turret combination today (thank you for planting that seed lol) and dang I thought 9.6 was fast...