{"id":3774,"date":"2022-05-21T08:40:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T08:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/?p=3774"},"modified":"2022-06-05T06:00:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T06:00:44","slug":"rc-techtip-car-forward-flipping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/?p=3774","title":{"rendered":"RC techtip: car forward flipping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this video, you can see a Tamiya big wheeler flipping forward when braking.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TqsvzYoUJG0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The problem is with the front suspension shorting &#8211; either the front damper springs are too stiff, or that the front dampers are too short and that suspension travel is insufficient.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see from the photo below, the dampers are too short, thus limiting the suspension travel:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_20220522_200816.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3782\" src=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_20220522_200816.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1262\" height=\"688\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_20220522_200816.jpg 1262w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_20220522_200816-300x164.jpg 300w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_20220522_200816-1024x558.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_20220522_200816-768x419.jpg 768w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_20220522_200816-1246x679.jpg 1246w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_20220522_200816-675x368.jpg 675w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_20220522_200816-480x262.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1262px) 100vw, 1262px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By changing to longer dampers, suspension can be improved:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_20220522_201212.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3783\" src=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_20220522_201212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1262\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_20220522_201212.jpg 1262w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_20220522_201212-300x166.jpg 300w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_20220522_201212-1024x568.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_20220522_201212-768x426.jpg 768w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_20220522_201212-1246x691.jpg 1246w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_20220522_201212-675x374.jpg 675w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_20220522_201212-480x266.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1262px) 100vw, 1262px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This video shows the longer dampers in action:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QAViomHUH18\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video, you can see a Tamiya big wheeler flipping forward when braking. The problem is with the front suspension shorting &#8211; either the front damper springs are too stiff, or that the front dampers are too short and that suspension travel is insufficient. As you can see from the photo below, the dampers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,57,123,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1-to-1-scale-videos","category-rc-videos","category-tech-tip-suspension","category-free-tech-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3774"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3843,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774\/revisions\/3843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}