Originally Posted by Nitrogasm

rcfoolz , what roll center change did you find worked . front or rear raise or lower ?

Originally Posted by 427 COBRA

I am laughing so damn hard, I just gotta make this post. I am normaly an 1/8th scale racer, and Im not the fastest guy by far. But I have out quallified the " Fool " twice in a row with my MTX3 at the same club track. What tickels me so, is that there is anyone out there that thinks the new car on the block is really any better then any other modern day car from any other manufacturer. The guy that TQed with an NT1 this week works hard the day before the race on his setup, before he had this car, he TQed twice in a row with a RRR car. There is a 720 right up in the mix there too. James man Im laugh'in with ya dude.

Originally Posted by Artificial-I

I wonder the same. But I believe the person who stated they were faster , they actually beat their best times. I guess you can ask them how old their previous car was. That would at least clue in on if the older car was slower due to needed maintenance.

Originally Posted by 4racer

hi,
can anyone tell how mutch teeth the rear diff pulley from nt1 have
thanks
dieter

Originally Posted by M7H

Cars wear out, and slowly will become more difficult to drive, but you grow with the car, so you wil not notice it....

Originally Posted by M7H

I still run the 950R with Mega DSII in the highest class in Holland, and am able to outrun some MRX4/Ninja/Nova combinations, if the 960 would really be 0.5 seconds faster a lap than my 950R, I would compete for the Dutch Championship....., now I am around the 15-20 spot......

Originally Posted by JLock

As I learn my MTX4, I will probably get faster but and many races I have attended, I have had my best runs (and lap times) on the "old" MTX3, not the MTX4.

Originally Posted by rmdhawaii

Very interesting. Have you narrowed it down to what it might be? I think you're the first person I've come across that said that their 3 was faster than their 4.

Originally Posted by rmdhawaii

Only one way to find out.

Originally Posted by Nitrogasm

took the nt1 out for the first time today and i thought i would share my findings with everyone

btw thanks for the sway bar eccentric and shock building help fellas , fixxed me right up.

i had been racing the mtx-4 up until today , the mugen has got me into a tie for 2nd place in the speedworld nitro series expert class .

here we go the good the bad and the ugly of the xray

build fit and finish are excellent , lots of small ideas make this car great from the box.
two that come to mind are the hex heads on the ends of the front sway blades and the other are the cylindrical bearings in the 2 speed clutch . there are ton of other great thoughts into the car too.

the car using the factory set up sheet has plenty of steering and is well planted to the track . it was loose in the rear but wasn't bad .
i always run a spool at speedworld so i ran it in the nt1 as well , the first driving adjustment i had to make was letting off the gas earlier than the mugen because the car's drive train is so free it coasts like a one way . very good
the car will not scrub speed with a spool like the mugen did.

so now that we know it handles very good and solid right out of the box lets hear the bad and the ugly.

dog bones were popping out without hitting anything , the front track width was set to factory spec , even using fuel tubing inside the diff cups i still lost dog bones , so i start triming back the steering dual rate until the dog bones stopped coming out . lost all the good usable steering fixxing it this way. my next fix was to narrow the track width down to 195 . the dog bones stopped coming out but now the tie rods were too long to adjust for toe out . grrrr

i seriously didnt make a full tank of fuel without dog bones coming out all day . very lame , where the hell are the cvd's xray ? why would you put a kit on the market without them in this highly competitive market .

here comes the ugly .

the front bumper foam is no better than a sponge to do your dishes with offering ZERO protection .
pair this lame soft foam with a mini lower plastic bumper and you have the recipe to sell tons of front uprights.

i smoked 3 front uprights in the three times i contacted the boards . mugen never failed me there .

not only myself but a few other drivers felt after seeing the very weakest bumper foam on the planet, this was a dirty sales tactic by xray to sell more initial parts from damage.
the front end basically has no protection ! cmon xray the hard foam is no more expensive than the the soft foam you included.

front uprights are of extremly brittle plastic .hits of very light magnitude destroyed the uprights . i am sure the mugen serpent and g4s's would have survived these light hits .


how could a company bring so many great new ideas to the game but fail so horribly on the simple stuff .

fair warning to all, buy the hard foam option bumper and also get the lower wide pastic bumper ,which btw are both standard parts on every other car .

also dont waste your time until you get cvd's , save the frustration.

sorry to be so negative on the nt1 but it really let me down over and over and over today .

i hope mr hudy sees this and fixes these few things . the car will be great but xray fumbled the ball badly on the smallest and simplest of things.
honestly i dont think the bumper was a fumble it's more like a poor idea to sell more parts . because i cant think of any other reason an "Master Engineer" would include such worthless foam for a bumper.
think good and hard about this issue !

unless i get the option cvd's and jimmy rig the mugen bumper to the nt1 next weeks points series race will be with the mugen .
even though the xray feels better on the track , durability issues wont win races , i'll take a slower car that wont break please.