Well today after having the car for a
few weeks I had my car finally to where I wanted it with slicks on
are local track. Car has never been better and I ran faster than
when I had my X6. The car was finally where I knew it could be and
today was it.
I ran a lot of basic stuff guys have
been using for the most part but the final ticket was the rear
piston combination and oil for our track. Again our track is so
different than anything that I know of but today I can say the only
problem the car had was the driver because the car itself was dialed
for me.
The
track is a super hard packed all clay track that they water
heavily so traction is as high bite as one can get. Jumps are not
very high but steep and you hit them a fast rate and over jump
almost every landing ramp to go fast. If you try to hit the back of
jumps you are slow. It is very hard on parts with traction like we
have and traction rolling is a problem along with over steering at
slower speeds. From other racers that travel a lot they say only one
track in the country is like Bumps with this much traction and jumps
that throw you around so much.
CRCRC that
just raced last week used Pinks and a few of are local racers went
to this race and said traction is low compared to Bumps and Jumps.
I ended up with the following:
Front
35wt oil
White Academy springs with long bottoms 3 turns out
3 hole Academy pistons drilled to #56
2b shock mounting
3C on the camber links with .50 spacer under ball stud
27.5 caster with 1.5 neg camber and no front to
Losi Silver sanded to slicks with Trinity Bomb 1 blue foam
Rear
30wt oil with Losi Pink springs
3 hole Academy pistons drilled to #57
2b shock mounting
2b on the rear camber links
1.5 neg rear camber
3 degree rear toe in and stock anti squat
Panther Soft slicks with Trinity Bomb 1 blue foam
Finally got the car not to bottom out
of the jumps (not very high jumps but with the angle and where you
land bottoming out is a problem) so a heavier pack works well.
Another thing I did was what Tony
suggested by flipping the bladders in the shocks. After redoing my
shocks with my new piston and oil combination the shocks never felt
better and where super smooth. Again I could not of been happier
with suggestions from Tony (huge thanks on this) I did use some GS
blue bladders are 3 or my 4 stock bladders had tears in them but I
see now with the bladders turned around this will never be a problem
again.
This forum has really helped me get
the car dialed in and get the pack I needed.
Now for the bad (not blaming the car
on this but the driving) On my 3rd round I took a hot lap and when I
went down the back stretch at full throttle I let off to take the
turn and the car started to traction roll so I turned into the roll
to save and ended up hitting the wall at full speed and snapping the
front bottom noseplate and a when the screw goes thru the chassis.
If I would of just it traction roll the car would of been fine but I
thought if I save it all would be cool but forgot about the piping
and bit the dust. Didn't care too much because my car was great for
me and what I was looking for all along when I bought this car.
