Built a Willys when 15, but poor and just back to stock with my meager paper boy,
mowing lawns, etc income
My dune buggy would have given this kid a run for it
Yes, wheel base on both of mine too short for the kinds of speeds this kid
seems to run up to. Plus too high a CG and the biggie...too high of an air gap
to pavement to allow air down there to lift the vehicle.
Back to the topic and comment on duty cycle
It is all about heat. Generation (spot area/size, rate of generation, etc) and
rejection management.
If you can reject the heat fast enough and keep it within design temps (best at
the low end), then you can have the power allowed thermally
Then the limiting factors will no longer be thermal, but mechanical strength
of the weakest link
Like the example of a DC electric motor's ability to have over 100% torque at ZERO
RPM...it's duty cycle will drop like a rock. Depends on the heat rejection characteristics
of the motor's rotor construction. As the stator has the motor casing as a heat
sink
