Gnarly I noticed your setups had appeared on Petit for the FORCC regional and you had both rear and mid configurations. How did they compare? What did you settle on?

This True - we had a 2 day regional at Faversham last weekend and I took the opportunity to run both configurations - the mid car during the 2WD class on the Saturday and the Rear car during the 4WD class - just so I could learn a little bit more about them both.

Firstly - the weather was massively changable during the weekend and we'd be on yellows for one run and BB greens the next. But I found both configurations pretty decent nad even when the grass wore down, the balance of the car was still evident and I could gain more forward traction than most of the other 2WD runners and even in round 4 of 4WD qualifying (after 2 hard days of racing), I got a sub top 10 time in round against the 4WDs so I was pretty stoked.

A couple of things I noticed about the 2 back to back

1) The rear car needed less pack in the front shocks than the mid car
2) I reversed my roll centre washers on the front as the mid car would naturally stay in the corner longer but the rear car needed a bit more encouragement to keep in in the corner on power.
3) I reversed my logic in terms of wheelbase settings - to gain more 'traction' with the mid car- I went SWB but with the rear car, all this does is add to the pendulum so I went back to Medium Wheelbase (i.e. longer) to prevent the car over rotating. 4) You can run more front tyre with the rear car than the mid without it getting all unnecessarily nervous on corner entry

Ultimately I found that I could run either configuration and be pretty racy. I don't know who was more shocked - me or the other racers but they say that every dog has his day - and mine was probably last weekend.

I'd recommend giving the rear motor a try - if nothing else, it will satisfy your curiosity. What I would say though is just as we all had to (re)learn the basics when we went to mid motored 2WD's to begin with, you have to re-train yourself to think like a rear motor. Its too easy to alter a shim and make the situation worse when you're trying to make it better because the two configurations do behave differently to each other.

I 'd be happy to run either configuration but I think I have more knowledge about what to do with a mid car when you need to make a judgement call on the set up as the track changes.

But I was very happy with my pace and although comparitively I was unable to judge the rear car's pace on the Sunday against the 4WDs, it felt better as I made subtle changes to end up on the setup that has been posted on tlracing.com