RCU Forums - View Single Post - gearing
Thread: gearing
View Single Post
Old 05-15-2005, 08:37 AM
  #9  
FTWOTHTB
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Goleta, CA
Posts: 139
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Default RE: gearing

Hello Sgt Canada...Just looking over the gearing talk here. In my old car club days when someone ran a 4:11 rear end gear he would be able to accelerate quicker but have slower top end than someone with a say 3:78 rear (slower acceleration,more top speed). Any way my take is in RC racing what is important is better acceleration than top speed. All the slowing and speeding up at a track where there usually there are not real long straight aways would call for quick accel and slowing rather than a long sustained speed run. DBM [8D][8D]