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Where to find gears

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RickyBobby:
why do you "want" to have the rear end locked.  Going around a circle causes one wheel to turn faster than the other. If it is locked then one will loose grip before the other.

VMS Motorsports:
So you have power to both rear wheels, otherwise (especially on dirt) you just have one wheel pushing the car

RickyBobby:
Dirt makes absolute sense and you guys are loose anyways :)

justfreaky:
It mostly has to do with getting the most power to the ground.
When a car is turning, the outside of the car is supporting most of the weight. (Weight Transfer)
This means, in effect, that there is less traction available to the driving wheel on the inside of the car.
Without limited-slip, or in our case, a locked rear end; you soon reach a point where all the power you are applying is being used to spin the inside tire, not to accelerate you down the track.  :o

There are some other things, but that is the most important part.

Does that help  ???


Steve

elimn8u_43:
Break an axle and you will know why the rear ends are locked ;). If you break the outside axle the car will burn the inside tire off all the way around the track. If you break the inside axle you will  spin out coming off the corner so fast that you will not know what happened.

Geoff

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