Motor/Mechanical Brakes?

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Originally Posted by jayjay283

IMO which isnt worth 2 grains of salt.... Mechanical brakes were for nitro, had to have them, you cant hit reverse and it stops, just like a 1.1 car just rip up the tranny and flip. We all had the old.. (old us old folks) the 3 speed mechanical ESC tamiya things with brakes, you slamed that into brake you flipped and scuffed up that scale Tamiya lid (worth $300 unscathed on ebay now) Now a days escs have nice firmware and are pretty close to mech. brakes, no bias but maybe you need to relearn your sucky driving.. JMO kick me when needed

You are probably right about my sucky driving but you can't teach an old dog new tricks (or can you?) Anyway, I've tried many esc and other settings and have not been able to get motor brakes only to feel right. Motor brakes just don't allow the truggy or buggy enough steering around tight corners and turns. The motor brake ends up locking up the front wheels making it virtually impossible to power slide around a turn like you can a 1/10th 4wd buggy with a front oneway. Maybe there is a trick with using the right center diff weight oil but to this day I haven't found one. Unless I have a rear mech brake, I can't power through corners to save my life...

To each their own but until someone can teach me how to consitantly power through a tight corner with only motor brakes, I'm going to hookup that rear mech brake every time I build an 8th scale.

Oh, one thing I found that actually got my lap times faster was when my brake servo failed and I had no brakes at all
Who needs brakes anyway, they just slow you down