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02-23-2013, 01:12 AM

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How are you finding the serpent ed?

On my 417 i keep suffering from lift off over steer, current setup is 120wt diff oil ( just under 1500cst) 2deg rear camber 1deg front camber, 3 deg rear toe, 0 front toe, 6 frt 5 rear droop, 40wt shock oil, tamiya blue white springs hardest of the 2 on front, 1c fr Fr split 1c fr rr, 1xa split rr fr 1e rr rr. Rear camber links 3 under inside and outside, front camber links 4 inside 0 outside, front shock fully upright rears half way.

Any ideas. Thanks

Good, although I've only had the opportunity to get the Eryx on the track once so far... although my TE is also going well too.

02-23-2013, 01:12 AM

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No belt tensioner and why the post in the middle? Just for body support ???

02-23-2013, 01:27 AM

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............ and why the post in the middle? Just for body support ???

I've seen that on a few cars, most recently a TC6. It stops the front of the body deflecting downwards at the high speeds of Mod.

02-23-2013, 06:40 AM

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It's interesting to catch that, someones been lucky with the camera.... It's also interesting that they are testing that configuration. On my current vehicle (Serpent Eryx) we can run both a 417V5 style mount, or the BD7 style mount setup out of the box

I found the BD7 style to give more mid-rotation than the V5 setup...

Ed

What's up stranger??!!! Hope you are having fun with the new rides.

02-23-2013, 04:37 PM

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I found the BD7 style to give more mid-rotation than the V5 setup...

Ed

The motor looks to be further forward on the development cars so I would expect that to rotate less than the regular setup

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What surface? You're shock angles are way off, lay the fronts down and stand the rear up.

02-24-2013, 01:06 AM

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Carpet. Running sorex 32 tires

02-24-2013, 01:55 AM

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Carpet. Running sorex 32 tires

In that case your springs are fine. Your shock angles alone will cause the car to be very edgy, what wheelbase are you running front and rear?

02-24-2013, 06:21 AM

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I have 3mm spacer infront of front and rear wishbones i think, Dont. Have th car infront of me atm

02-24-2013, 12:45 PM

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New parts

I found this pic from Satoshi's car

You may see more in my blog.
JD & RACING

02-24-2013, 01:28 PM

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I have 3mm spacer infront of front and rear wishbones i think, Dont. Have th car infront of me atm

Go to 3.5mm in the rear, that really settles things down, and consider the 1.4 rear bar as well. Ackerman also has a big impact on how the car rotates, so if you are running a lot (e.g. 3mm) consider dialling it back

02-25-2013, 06:34 AM

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Brilliant craig thanks for ur help

02-25-2013, 07:31 AM

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[QUOTE=John Doucakis;11856004]I found this pic from Satoshi's car

You may see more in my blog.
JD & RACING

[URL="http://jdandracing.blogspot.com"]

Cool blog (site) John~!

02-26-2013, 12:39 AM

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With one batter direct center pulley or one way centre pulley anybody know

02-26-2013, 01:44 AM

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[QUOTE=JoeyE;11859441]

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I found this pic from Satoshi's car

You may see more in my blog.
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Cool blog (site) John~!

Thanks Joey. I really appreciate it.

John

02-26-2013, 09:14 PM

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What a great race TITC was this year! The level of racing was even higher this year, and track conditions changed so much throughout the event, it was very hard to adapt the setup to what the track was doing. Pretty happy I made the B main again, had 2 crappy finals after being taken out in both after good starts! Nevertheless the car was really good, my setup should hopefully be on Petit soon

I used all standard parts on my car, only used normal TRF dampers not aeration. I tested low shock towers and shocks but liked the standard parts better

If anyone has any questions please ask

Cheers,

Antoni