Originally Posted by
CanyonCarverR1
How important is balancing the car left to right? I'm running brushless with an Orion 4800 LiPo and the car is light on the right side by quite a bit. I haven't mounted my transponder yet, but of course I'll mount it on the right side. I haven't weighed the car yet so I don't know if it's under weight, if it's not, should I add weight to balance it or just set tweek with the springs?
Thx
G
Trust me, it'll be underweight
The 4800 is about half the weight of an IB42 pack, so you'll probably need to add in the region of 100-150g of weight.
With my Carbon 3600's, I have 140g on the pack itself, and an extra 60g on the chassis. This is running 10.5 brushless (so heavier speedo, but lighter motor).
I find it best to mount the weight on the outside of the pack, as this also helps improve the side-side balance a bit.
Get it as close as you can, then tweak it on the springs... unfortuantly there isn't a lot of places to put weight to allow perfect balancing, but doesn't seem to affect the car.
HiH
Ed