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Article #1899Modified? (Was: Re: Misc R/C Car Questions)
From: Doug Braun
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:06
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:06
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In article <1993Jan22.134127.1906@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu>, hutto@SMTC.engr.scarolina.edu (Brent Hutto) writes:
|> >How can I make my stock motors faster? Can you make them like
|> >modifieds or what?
|>
|> I will dig up an article I posted on this once before and repost
|> it later today. A "juiced up" stock motor will always be more
|> expensive to run and less efficient than a good modified motor of
|> the same power output. I recommend racing in the modified class
|> and avoiding the whole "stock motor" scene.
This makes me (an airplane person) wonder: Just what does "modified"
mean (as applied to car motors)? Apparently if I talk a motor and
modify it, it is not necessarily "modified". Similarly, I can buy
a motor off the shelf, do nothing to it, and it can be "modified"
anyway.
Can anyone explain?
--
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people would simply do as I advise." -- Gore Vidal
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