Whats the best way to balance your TC?
07-07-2009, 08:01 PM
#1
Whats the best way to balance your TC?
I was wondering what the best way to balance a TC was, and were should the weight be placed on the car. Does is make a lot of difference to the handling of the car?
Currently my car is balanced at 1503g with a 1500 limit. But i want to know should there be more weight on the centre of the car or more on each side. Currently all my weight is on either side of the car, with no weight on the centre line of the car. I have 40g behind my motor, 30g under my receiver, 10g on top of my servo and 10g in front of the servo. On the battery side im using a 50g battery tray, which brings the battery further out. I also have 20g behing the battery and 5g in front of the lipo.
Is my method correct or should i use less weight on the sides and put more weight in the centre of the car. What will ths affect regarding to the cars performance? With the weight placed how i have it now the car should transition and change direction quicker but are ther any negatives to this.
Thanks Antoni
Currently my car is balanced at 1503g with a 1500 limit. But i want to know should there be more weight on the centre of the car or more on each side. Currently all my weight is on either side of the car, with no weight on the centre line of the car. I have 40g behind my motor, 30g under my receiver, 10g on top of my servo and 10g in front of the servo. On the battery side im using a 50g battery tray, which brings the battery further out. I also have 20g behing the battery and 5g in front of the lipo.
Is my method correct or should i use less weight on the sides and put more weight in the centre of the car. What will ths affect regarding to the cars performance? With the weight placed how i have it now the car should transition and change direction quicker but are ther any negatives to this.
Thanks Antoni
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07-08-2009, 08:23 AM
#2
No, the farther from the centerline you place the weight, the slower and lazier your transitions and direction changes will be. It will feel more stable, but less nimble. I would still run the plate, and use as LITTLE of weight as possible to get the car balanced from right to left. What ever weight is still needed to reach 1500, place that weight straight down the middle of the chassis inbetween your battery and electronics.
07-08-2009, 10:43 AM
#3
Tech Apprentice
This is the thing I'm trying to figure out right now about how to get the best weight distribution / balance. If you weigh the four corners of the car, I'd guess you'd want the front two corners to weigh the same, and the rear two corners to weigh the same, whatever that weight is, but I guess it would depend a lot on the weight of your motor, and where the motor is positioned in your car. In the TC5, the motor is towards the back, but some motors are positioned more towards the middle.
07-08-2009, 02:33 PM
#4
modified lead weights
This is an idea for anyone who would like to try it. It works well for me and keeps the chassis almost perfectly balanced from left/right with that particular li-po in the pic, weighing in at 1530 grams now when I exclude the lead weight at centerline. To get 1500-1501 grams I can remove one of the Xray 30g weights from the centerline.
07-08-2009, 08:03 PM
#5
Get as close as you can side to side. It will be tough in most cars to accomplish. It may end up being up to 50 grams different, so don't panic. 
do the best you can with your basic set up before adding weight.
Also, stay with more weight forward in the area of 52% front 48% rear. Never go below 50-50 and nothing above 55-45. You will find your set up changes more weighting front to back more so than left to right.
do the best you can with your basic set up before adding weight.Also, stay with more weight forward in the area of 52% front 48% rear. Never go below 50-50 and nothing above 55-45. You will find your set up changes more weighting front to back more so than left to right.
07-09-2009, 05:00 AM
#6
No, the farther from the centerline you place the weight, the slower and lazier your transitions and direction changes will be. It will feel more stable, but less nimble. I would still run the plate, and use as LITTLE of weight as possible to get the car balanced from right to left. What ever weight is still needed to reach 1500, place that weight straight down the middle of the chassis inbetween your battery and electronics.
On my car T2 009, i have the manutech tray which i was using but i found it to heavy and i coudnt balance it unless i started drilling about 40 holes in the thing. Which i didnt want to do. THats why i went to the lighter tray.
Thanks everyone. I would like to hear some more oppinions on this topic because it is pretty interesting.
Antoni
07-09-2009, 05:56 AM
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07-09-2009, 07:08 AM
#10
Has anyone with the manutech tray managed to get there car balaced with the car weight approximatly 1500g? Thats using the approx 120g tray. Mines weighs 113g. If you have managed to what did you have to do to it? I dont really want to start drilling away at it to much. Also im using a ip 5000 30c lipo, approx 270-280g.
Many thanks,
Antoni
07-09-2009, 08:10 AM
#11
Oh ok thanks for explaining that to me. Im starting to understand the theory better now. I think i will change the way the weight is arranged on my car, and hopefully i can get it reasonably balanced again.
Has anyone with the manutech tray managed to get there car balaced with the car weight approximatly 1500g? Thats using the approx 120g tray. Mines weighs 113g. If you have managed to what did you have to do to it? I dont really want to start drilling away at it to much. Also im using a ip 5000 30c lipo, approx 270-280g.
Many thanks,
Antoni
Has anyone with the manutech tray managed to get there car balaced with the car weight approximatly 1500g? Thats using the approx 120g tray. Mines weighs 113g. If you have managed to what did you have to do to it? I dont really want to start drilling away at it to much. Also im using a ip 5000 30c lipo, approx 270-280g.
Many thanks,
Antoni
07-09-2009, 10:33 PM
#12
I use the manutech tray with my 009, and by slowly-but-surely drilling out the holes, I was able to get a perfect 50/50 side to side balance without adding any weight. However, you will be UNDER 1500 grams. From there, simply add your remaining weight back to your chassis, right down the centerline.
Also what battery are you using?Thanks,
Antoni
07-20-2009, 01:24 PM
#14
We dont have any weight rules where I race so added little wieght to mine. I started with all the electronics as far in as possible and the car pushed real bad...i put the electronics to the outside edge and balance it with a side plate on the battery side and it made a world of difference...
07-20-2009, 01:30 PM
#15
Sorry I didn't see this reply here. My tray was about the same weight as yours, and I ended up drilling all of the holes out, to about 4 times their initial size to get the car balanced (the holes are about as big as a dime). How much you have to drill them will completely depend on what electronics you are running, so go slowly. It doesnt matter what lipo I am using... it matters which one YOU are using. You have to drill, measure, drill, measure. . . etc.. I think I drilled and checked weight 20 times. I used a dremil and it made short work of the manutech tray. Once its 50/50, weigh your car to see how far under 1500g you still are, and add that weight BACK to the car, right down the middle. Don't forget that the body and body clips add up as well, so you don't want your car to be 1500 with no body... you will be over by quite a bit once the shell goes back on.