ORIGINAL: nitrorevo
Great to here Brent.
A bit suprised at the 5oz. weight difference though. I here for every 2 oz. weight savings, that's .5 on the clock, so 5 oz. would be .15 on the clock. That could be the difference between running 1.6 and 1.75 if true. The best thing is that all of that will be negated by the .22 grams you save in the drive train, which is much more important to the overall performance of the car. As you said, you can always make the chassis cuts later in necessary.
I am in the process of reworking my car as well. I have a custom painted body on the way. Picked up a light weight receiver pack and new servos as well. Gotta wait for the closing date on my AMEX to place the engine order from Rick. LOL.
I will keep you posted.
well our quickest & fastest guy here in MD. has been 1.62@84 MPH with a Pro-Mod and a Xenon ALPHA and his car weighs a hefty 52 oz.[X(] so at some point, the weight doesn't make that much of a difference. I know the car weight that day because I weighed it for him with my scale. One thing that John has that I/we don't is a pawl second gear clutch where we have the shoe system that can slip. The pawl style grabs and doesn't slip at all. The goal is to get some 1.5's in 2010 outta a Pro-Mod "NITRO" ride and that would be a nasty, nasty ride.
John lightened his car to 47-48 oz. and it was getting airborn on the top end crashing alot. He got it back to 50+ oz and it stays glued to the track. I am able to run my car at 44 oz. and it still hug the tack but then too I aint running no low 1.6's either.