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The braid will alter the balance at the front, especially under hard acceleration. As Ken suggested, thin 1:32 racing braid is probably better than the think, bouncy de-soldering braid. However, don't go too thin - otherwise that does defeat the object of the exercise! And too sharp a front edge can catch on the rail joins... Possibly the ideal shape is curved up at the front in a ski-shape.

The strip runs at 12 volts and 8 amps, but a T-jet can still happily 'porpoise' off the line and halfway down the strip. Getting the right blend of weight, wheelie bar and/or traction magnet certainly helps! Some of the quickest cars through the finish line speed trap have been T-Jets without traction magnets... but they've often given their rival a huge head start because of the on-off-on-off-on power in the early stages.

I'm really looking forward to seeing what you come up with and would love to see someone smash the AW Ultra-G paradigm in the T-Jet class.

Plan to put up those regs and formats tomorrow or Sunday.