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tinyrc & Wedginator: thanks to both of you for replying to my message.
The two cars I bought were both Skyline GT-Rs (one blue, one SE Loctite Zexel). With identical setups (Same motor, gear, and tires) I couldn't figure out why the standard blue handled better than the Loctite. When I say identical, I assumed the cars had identical, stock suspensions.
However, after reading your descriptions of the differences, I hypothesized that the suspension on the Loctite *must* be stiffer (it turns WAY too hard). And wouldn't you know, upon removing both, the Loctite suspension was about twice as thick as the standard! I popped a softer suspension on there, and voila', it handles like a beauty now.
The thing I'm enjoying most about this hobby so far is the fact that you can customize all these different attributes of your vehicle, and they actually make a difference in the performance. Not too shabby for a $35 unit!
We set up a track today at work (rope for the inner and outer boundaries of the track, fastened to the hard carpet floor with gaffers tape) and raced all through our lunch hour (actually the lunch hour wound up being 2 hours!) We had 3 cars going and will be adding the missing fourth frequency on Thursday.
Thanks again for your help!
Jon
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