What can I say. It was a heck of a week
and a lot of hard work. After starting practice/qualifying off with
stupid mistakes on my part regarding electronics and car setup, I was
happy to finish 2nd behind a blazing fast Donny Lia. Donny has been
basically unstoppable in 12th scale for the past year and it will
continually be tough to keep up with him. With more work, I think we
can catch him.
As for setup, here's what I ran...
Front
-Parma Magentas (cut to 1.62"
and sidewall glued)
-10* caster blocks w/ 6* caster
-Associated .020 springs with about .020 spring sag when the car
sat at race weight (#3 sure lube on kingpins)
-Lower arms were standard associated arms with .060 milled off
bottom... no ride height spacers needed (these were arms I got
from an oval racer at the race since I was tired of the IRS arms
splitting)
- -1.5 camber and about .020 total toe out
-servo angled
Rear
-Parma Yellows (cut to 1.72"
and bead glued)
-Rear width at 172mm
-Battery all the way back
-.065 Black side plates mounted in long position with tweak screws
lightly touching chassis
-#3 sure lube in dampener tubes
-Hot Bodies center shock with 50wt oil and associated copper
spring
-Shock mount all the way back in car (shortest position) 2mm
spacers under shock mount and medium ball stud on shock mount.
-1mm pod droop
Body was a Parma Speed 8 HD
lightweight.
The track dimensions, at SnowBirds, I
think was 100x50
3.17" rollout
Motor = Duo 17.5 (set to lowest timing setting).
Servo = Futaba 9650.
Speedo = Tekin RS set to Max timing boost on 1.89 software
As for radio settings, not really sure what you're looking for here.
I don't play with anything major on the radio. I know the Dual Rate
was at 51% with 100% end points. Other than that, everything was
standard. Radio is a DX3R.
The car was very neutral throughout
racing. It didn't try to do anything dumb and was very easy to drive.
There was more speed left in the car, I just ran out of time to try
more things. Needless to say, the DB12RR is the real deal and it will
only get better with more testing/racing.