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CRCRC Winter Racing League Round #3 Setup

There has been lots of changes to the TLR22 in terms of setup development the past year.  Since the TLR22's introduction drivers in this area have struggled to keep the car on the pace on slicker clay tracks.  Further, once the B4.1 WC kit became available TLR22 drivers have been looking to close the gap in performance.  Butters and I have been working together to close this performance gap between the TLR22. We both prefer a car to handle similar which has made this collaboration successful. It now appears we have at least equaled it in this region with Butter's setting fast laps laps at several tracks around the area and finishing competitively on the podium.  While I'm usually not setting fast lap I've seen gains in my top 15 average lap times in the past few races and the car is simply easier to drive fast.

We exhausted camber links and about every other mod possible over the past year, including small bore shocks. We took what we learned from that experiment and have been able to make gains have been in dampening package.  Finally we've fine tuned the car's weight distribution.  Note you'll see changes in rear arm position, servo choice, ride height, and motor placement (gearing selection was chosen just as much for weight distribution as it was power band).

The difference between our setups is I prefer a slightly lighter car with slightly lighter dampening where Butters tends to migrate to a heavier pack and heavier dampening.  Also I'm liking the 4mm trailing spindles moved forward where he still prefers the stock spindles.  The difference for me is the 4mm spindles are a bit easier to drive.

The last difference is the front shock package.  Both are very similar and the #55 stock piston is a great place to start with if you copy the rest of either setup.  My 1.5x2+1.0x2 pistons where an experiment and was working equally as well.  If I could say anything between the difference of those two pistons is the stock piston holds the front into the corner a bit longer.