robby26wi

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looking for a good indoor med bite smooth track setup...any suggestions..

AlderBoy

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Folks seem to have good luck with mine:

http://www.petitrc.com/setup/hotbodi...bbies20140608/

robby26wi

iTrader: (36)

ok thanks...just starting build...lunsford tie rods and camber rods,b5 al caps and avid mounts...any other stuff needed before i build?

Vinny Cancilla

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How does your setup work on a medium/low bite track. What adjustments would you make if any.

ColourGhost

I was told that the B5 alu caps doesn't work.

snwchris

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You need the B5 composite caps and standoffs, the ALs don't seem to work. The only Alum ones that seem to fit and work are the Serpent SRX ones, but you need their standoffs and few other items too to make them work.

TYs Reedy Setup was a great starting point for a lot of us at our med-high bite track.

DRTMI

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Not the aluminum caps, the plastic ones.

robby26wi

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great...glad i ordered them lol..

snwchris

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The first page has the part numbers listed, which are composite.

Maybe you can sell the Al B5s to someone at your local track

robby26wi

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I cancelled order hopefully...was on ebay...read the sticky now..Thanks much

tom2tone

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I'm hoping to start the build today, can I build the kit with this set up with whats included? Or do I need to buy any specific parts? Extra shims?

I know sometimes it's best to build the kits stock and tune from there. But this could potentially save some headaches.

My track doesn't allow the pinpoints and I've got a 6.5 for a motor.

kdeleon

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Not sure about this particular setup. But even for the other setups, you will need extra washers. You can kind of move things around from the standard build, but it takes planning. Easier to just buy the two different size washers that HPI has or some other brand if you don't like orange.

rider313

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I hate the orange. I am about to strip it all on my next rebuild.

Wildcat1971

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yeah, I am not a fan either, but the anno stripped alum looks like crap. no gloss to to it.

the incubus

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That is super easy to polish back up. Just a dremel, some regular car polish (polishing rouge would make it easier) and a screw with a large head to keep components like washers and nuts from flying on you and you can achieve this:



Those are bushings from my old TopKart racing chassis. There are many of them and they were an expense i knew I didn't have to incur on my wallet because they would be simple enough to polish back to new. My brother-in-law was like holy crap! LOL

The trick is to place your polishing bit at an angle that applies sideways resistance while forcing the part to rotate which results in time savings and a uniformly polished surface. To do screw heads you need to find a larger nut and drop them in and secure with an actual nut to keep it from flying out and use the same technique on the heads.