Hi, im relatively new to mini 4wd. Used to love it as a kid and now I'm trying to make a more competitive comeback.

I just went to the HK race the other day and realized how slow I was compared to everyone.

I have two questions though.

How do you reduce friction when going through turns, and

How do I make my motor churn out more power because I was using the same motor as everyone else and my car was at least 5 seconds slower than everyone.

Here is my car:


This post has been edited by jayrlo: Jun 22 2010, 03:06 AM

Thanks so much David! I'm going to try that right now.

I thought using the sliding bumper would help me be faster on turns.

I was also wondering why my cars power didn't seem as fast compared to everyone elses. 5 seconds is a lot of time even thought I'm still relatively new. And I was 10 seconds off from the winner too. Average was about 22 seconds and I had 27.

Would it be the battery?

David, thank you so much for your advice last time. And Szng too.

My car went so much faster, it was rather scary to be honest. I cleaned out my bearings and I took out the sliding damper and poof. So much better.

I was wondering. Now that the performance of the parts are better, how do I bring out the best in my motor?

Thanks David.

I started taking some notes today. Figuring out the angles and roller placement was pretty hard because my car flew out a lot at first. Got it right after say the 40th attempt.... Ouch for my super x.