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Modified? (Was: Re: Misc R/C Car Questions)

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From: Doug Braun
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?

-- 

"There is no human problem which could not be solved if
 people would simply do as I advise." -- Gore Vidal


 Doug Braun                         Intel Design Technology
                                    408 765-4279

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