Tamiya TRF417
#3332
Tech Regular
#3333
Tech Regular
if your setting your droop at 6 and only getting a 4mm ride height something is wrong as you should get way more than that. where are you measuring your droop from?
do you measure your droop with shocks on or off? maybe try measuring it with the shocks attached to rule out a shock length problem
#3336
Tech Regular
#3337
Tech Regular
#3338
Tech Elite
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#3339
Tech Lord
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Id be happy to elaborate if you wish.
Last edited by Cpt.America; 06-26-2012 at 03:01 PM.
#3341
Tech Lord
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Droop (measured with a ruler or ride height gauge) = difference in chassis height between static ride height, and tires lifting the ground.
Here is a real world example of why it's a good idea to not confuse the two. Lets say you set the following: (all made up numbers)
ride height at 5mm
downstops at 4 (using the blocks, tires off, shocks off)
Now, lets say that with this setting you end up with 3mm of droop, which is what you are after... great. Now, lets say you later decide to change your ride height from 5mm, to 6mm. Without even touching the downstop blocks, you have changed your droop from 3mm, to 2mm, reducing weight shift.
So you can have MULTIPLE droop values, for ONE setting on the droop/downstop blocks, since droop is a result of the downstop settings AND ride height, put together. So while related, droop and downstops are two different things, and they are commonly confused and interchanged with one another.
But I digress.
#3342
That video is great, but at 8:00 when he brings out the blocks, he's not setting droop (as he erroneously calls it), he's setting his downstops. Downstops, while closely related to droop... is not droop. Just before that in the video where he describes doop as how far the chassis travels upwards before the tires leave the ground, IS the proper, and only way you can actually measure droop. And it has to be done with tires, ready to run, from the ground. They are technically two different things. So while you do "set" the static level the arms sit at, (he even explains it in the video), you don't "measure droop" this way.
Id be happy to elaborate if you wish.
Id be happy to elaborate if you wish.
#3343
are you running foams?
#3345
Tech Lord
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EXACTLY... after changing ride height, you need to readjust your droop screws to put your droop BACK to what it was, if you want the same amount of droop. which is why using the blocks, by itself, DOESN'T measure your droop. The only reason why any of this is even important, is so that when we are here helping each other, we are actually discussing the same thing.