InitialD

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BaxterC

thank you, a wealth of information you are...

Julius

I was running without sway bars first. Our track is fast and flowing and running without bars makes the car smoother and easier to drive. On small tracks you'd probably find the response too slow.

In the end I wanted a little more steering so I decided to put the rear bar back on. Using the inner holes on the arm makes it softer. That way I manange to keep the change from no rear bar small. Then I played around a bit with the position on the bar to fine tune the steering.

It's like the rear roll center spacers. The bottom spacer is a big step and you fine tune with the top. In the roll bar the arm position is a big step the position on the bar is fine tuning.

Julius

It's not so much lack of traction. It's more a balance thing.

InitialD

Looking at the wing, it is pretty small. Were you looking at more steering for the car?

Julius, have you tried the Mazda 6 body?

Julius

The wing comes from our Volvo body. It gives a little more high speed steering on the Stratus 1

The Stratus FRW is a close copy of the Protoform Stratus 2.1 but made by FReWer. It's a good alternative now Protoform stopped making the Stratus bodies.

I haven't tried the Mazda 6 yet. Probably Rene will be testing it this week together with the Alfa 2.1

At the moment the Protoform Stratus 2 seems the best body.

InitialD

Ummm, I would have thought the other way around... Sway bars for fast and flowing high speed tracks and no sway bars for small and tight tracks to get traction...

I get what you mean Julius. Thanks for the explanation.

InitialD

I currently want to test out these bodies but somebody is pretty slow in churning it out for me ! (j/k)

Cool. I'm currently using this battered body on the 710. It handles pretty neutral for me. Using the new thicker rear shock towers made the rear body post sit lower than the lowest possible position with the older shock tower for the bodyshell. I like the current position now. With the lower rear mount of the body, the car seems a little more stable with pretty decent steering from the last outing...

GoldFinger

Thank you for explaining..
I can understand that if the car was 705, coz front to rear balance is far already.
In 710, the stock setup balance is quite good. We can point to the tire wear is balance already.
And with no fr sway bar but stiffen the rear stab wouldn't be make the front and rear end of car rolling in very different load ?
Especially when on-throttle, considering that your FR chasis uptravel is very big.

Please educate me for this...

InitialD

Is front droop at 0 too big for uptravel on the 710?

GoldFinger

Comparing to +2.. yes!
Check the tire dia. and ride height. With that 0 droop and no sway bar the car will be very very lazy in front.
1 thing I dont know was I never ran the car in that cold weather.

InitialD

Frankly, I am using that same front setup but that would be on the solid front axle when I want to get more steering.

BaxterC

Hi guys, I am being stoopid Will this 801345 fith the S710? It is the stainless brake disk

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cyba888

Sorry if this has been asked before but the tires that come with the kit, what shores and sizes are they?

InitialD

Yes it will.