flintTRDTC

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Don't run the stock firmware as it is meant for touring car, stick with the mod firmware that came pre-installed on the Speedo. I got a stock setup from Joe Pillars the Team Manager for Orion that he recommended if you will not be running boost or timing. It's the setup that Cav and a few other Team Drivers used at this year's Stock Nationals at OC/RC. All you do is use profile 4 under running mode
- forward/brake/-zero timing
On the DRRS punch setting
- set it to 9
Everything else you leave as is.

sstriano

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The weird thing about it is that it is smooth all the way around except for a couple tight spots for like to or three "clicks" on the spur gear.

So I guess what I am say is that if you turn the spur really slow, it is smooth until you hit the spot where there are two or three spots (I would say like clicks or teeth on the spur) where it is not smooth.

If you grab the slipper clutch nut and spin it from there, it is smooth and you can barely feel the "clicks" at all... Almost like there is a mesh of the geras that needs to be broken in.

It is not the whole rotation of the spur that is "clicky" at all, just that one little spot in the system...

Only way I could explain it. I am a rookie!!

Thanks!

roadblock

Is there a big difference in weight between the B5 and the B5M? Just picked up a B5 and noted how light it is compared to my Schumacher SV2 and was wondering if the B5M was heavier with the aluminum chassis.

Running 17.5, the SV2 is a bit too heavy to make short run up jumps. Rotates awesome and is very planted but needs more motor to make it shine.

Graham11

iTrader: (22)

Guys, how do I stop my rear drive cups from hitting the cva driveshafts and breaking them? Limiters inside the shocks or limiter above eyelet to stop up travel?

huzzler

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Pretty normal for a stock spur. They aren't perfectly round. The way I set the mesh with a gear like that is to find the "high" spot and set the mesh there. If you get an aftermarket spur like a Jconcepts they are machined and are more precise.

huzzler

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Depends. Are they hitting when compressed? Then limiters above the eyelet. If they are binding when lifted in the air then limiters IN the shock.

Graham11

iTrader: (22)

Haha Thanks I knew the options and when to use them haha,the thing is that I'm not certain when they are hitting, was hoping someone else had encountered the issue so I wasn't guessing.

Skeeter36

iTrader: (32)

So correct me if im wrong but you are breaking the outdrive? If so i have never heard of that and when are they breaking? After a cartwheel in the sweeper or just landing off a double or something?

racer1812

iTrader: (31)

You would be perfectly correct. IF the guy you quoted was talking about his pinion/spur gear mesh. He's not, he's talking about the gears IN the tranny. Which IMO simply need to break in.

huzzler

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Sounded to me like you were asking.
"Guys, how do I stop my rear drive cups from hitting the cva driveshafts and breaking them? Limiters inside the shocks or limiter above eyelet to stop up travel?"
Anyway never had that problem but I do have scrape marks on the shafts though. Most likely they are hitting on the way up. Probably binding when landing kind of sideways off a jump. It will fully compress the shock and even flex the a arm a bit. If you are consistently having this problem I don't see why a 1mm spacer or two would hurt.

huzzler

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Ha I thought he was talking about pinion/spur mesh.

Graham11

iTrader: (22)

No, I'm breaking driveshafts. And no it's not after catastrophic crashes. On my drive shafts you can see what I can only analogize to the marks of an axe on a tree, slowly overtime it looks as tho the edge of the out drive cup is hitting the shaft and eventually it's hit so many times it breaks, I'd take a pic but it's on in my car at the moment.

Wildcat1971

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are you using gear diffs?

NewbieRacer30

iTrader: (1)

would a fully upgraded b4.1 still be able to compete with the b5m? or time to hang up the b4.1 and move on?

Graham11

iTrader: (22)

Yes sir