Thanks for asking ... no updates yet. Due to some business travel, I've only been to the track once in the past month (last Saturday) and there were 2 birthday parties there that day so they were running jumps on the onroad carpet track so the kids could run their rental Slashes.
The car is all set though. I returned all settings to the manual settings except:
- red/blue springs instead of blue/white
- front spool
- rear gear diff with 1000 weight diff fluid
- diff set in high position front and back
- zero offset HPI TE37 wheels, red closed foam inserts, and HPI X-Pattern belted tires (I also got 2 of the wheels/tires with orange foams so I can experiment with different foam combinations).
Just about every part has been through the ultrasonic parts cleaner, I rebuilt the shocks and the gear diff, new bearings all around and new front belt.
I still need a new body and have trimmed a 190mm BMW E46 M3 body (HPI part # 7352) ready to be painted tonight.
In disassembling the car I noticed that the right rear suspension arm wouldn't fall of its own weight, and also that when I originally built the rear diff, I apparently forgot to add shims and the rubber rings, so the diff screws were scraping the diff eccentrics. So those could have contributed to my issues.
Unfortunately don't know if I can make it to the track this weekend and if I can't, it will likely be another couple of weeks (a lot of children's birthday parties this month), but I'm ready to go!
