(c'ed)
The solution for this is to install an A&L-like steering system - the "connecting bar" will help alleviate this issue, by bringing the putside steering link closer to the front end once at full lock, hence dialing in more wheel lock (more on this later).
Also, note that all modern cars have their steering pivots at the front of the car - the bellcranks are oriented the same way as the spindles. This is a much better design...
My mains were rather unsexy: The lower mains usually are eventful (many crashes and driver mistakes) while being uninteresting at the same time (no proper "racing") I got punted a few times too many while in the lead, then did a few mistakes too many myself. The difference in racing lines between an understeery vintage RM compared to point-and-shoot modern MM cars is stupid obvious - If I want to hit apexes, this means slowing down a lot before AND running a wide radius. MM cars would just scrub speed, and dive inside. No hope
I finished 29th over a field of 44 racers - not incl. the Juniors, some of them were faster than me actually
Lap-times wise, at the end of the day I was running best laps in the 15.2's and 15.4's - the top of the A (national caliber guys) were a full second faster, bottom of the A (where I'd usually end up at) would be 0.7s faster, so that latter number is the "true" gap for that day.
(for the record, my son broke ALL FOUR EARS of his steering servo, then he tore off one of the rear hinges off the rear blocks, etc... I spent the day fixing his car in between wrenching sessions on mine. He ended up dead last
but he said he had a lot of fun and wants to come back, so I'll take him back next time!
)
Overall, I had an absolute ball on raceday - first, I think my car got more attention than the top drivers'
Many people came to have a look at it in the pits, touch it, marvel at it, or tell stories about their dads or themselves running one or knowing someone that ran one bitd. Second, I had very low expectations, so I was really there to play with little toy cars as opposed to chasing a performance: this made it for a very relaxed, fun day in the end, with some focused R&D (suspension) and zero breakage whatsoever: this thing is unbreakable. Third, frankly, this was THE MOST beautiful car on the track that day. It looks like a dune racer, it's low, it's got the cabin in the back, it's got white plastics (mostly), it looks like a friggin' racecar when the others look like ugly cab-forward UFO's, and it's got that magic titanium transmission plug
I'm not quite done with this car yet...
First, I want to install an A&L-like (or TRX-1-like) steering on this car. I'll either pillage the steering from my Stealth CE here (thanks Georges for the pic
http://www.overrc.com/vintage/autos/assorc10ce/assorc10ce.html )
I thought about buying one from Jeff, but this car only has a couple more races to do ... either taking that one rom my gold pan, or doing myself a cwf bar and bolting it on the stock bellcranks.
Second, I want to try Big Bores... Again, don't want to buy, so I will take them off my Blue-is-Better TRX1 to try.
Third, I've bought a MM conversion kit from Brian/Mark... I know, I know, by now I've spent pretty much as much as I would have paid for a B6 kit in the first place. But frankly I love the engineering behind it, and I also want to feel by myself how different a MM car drives from a RM car that shares the same platform
So stay tuned for more experiments for the mid-Jan race, with a few more pictures too next time!
Paul
PS1: @GoMachV I might hit you up with a CWF bar request
PS2: Patriiick, merde, tu me l'envoies c'teu carro, ou bien?