InitialD

Nice orange Lolita paint job, Goldfinger !

InitialD

Goldfinger, what is this I see some titanium screws here and there...

cyba888

Anyone?

InitialD

Shims? What shims?

As far as clutch is concerned, I'm very happy. I only damaged the 1st gear pinion due to an accident. The pinion hit the tarmac. Spurs are also very durable. I have not changed my spurs yet after running close to 2 gallons of fuel.

Because of that accident, I think some metal debris went into the 2 small bearing and damaged them both at once !

Thrust bearing? Never failed a single thrust bearing since I ran Centax clutch on the Impulse. If you install and lube them properly, they will never fail.

InitialD

Agree on this too. Best is to change to a new spur and pinion at the same time. When I had a slight accident the other time in the Thailand race, the spur rubbed a little while the 1st gear pinion was damaged. Changed the pinion only and I noticed that the pinion gets worned out faster with the extra plastic from the slightly damaged spur. After that, the pinion and spur "sets in" and I'm still using them.

Oh yes. Definitely agreed on that. It's always a driver factor most of the time.

InitialD

I also have the Lolita shell just waiting to be painted ! In fact I have 3 unpainted shells. The other 2 being the Mazda 6 and the Alfa 2.1.

Hey Goldfinger, it looks like you lock the front one way. Is it? How do you find it? Any difference in setup from one way front that you did on the car?

Also, you're still mounting the steering linkage on top of the servo saver?

InitialD

Ummm, you must be hitting the front on hard impacts. I've replaced the top plate once and the bottom one twice so far. All those times it was in the Thailand race.

RobbyDV

Anynody out there that has some detail pictures of Ralph en Michaels car?

Potje

The cars or the bodies...?

JABRONI

Now the question is were to find some of these shims.
Serpent Doesnt Even list them on MYTSN, nor does Serpent USA on their site.

Curios to know if anyone could let me know where I could find some for purchase.

Good Luck To Michael Salven, Ralph Burch Jr., and Jared Scott, Scott Gray, Etc.....today at the finals in Florida !!!!!!!!!

GoldFinger

I try to lock the fr one way but I dont like it so much and lap times is way slower, even with tight low speed bends, had to switch back to front 1 way. Using softer front tires and slam the car into the hairpin is my only way to stay closely behind Pyramids car.

Yes D, Im back to the top (servo saver) mounting one. The bump in condition when the car leans is adding more steering lock, which is i needed most.

For the Ti screw, I replace all the M3 screw and manage to save near 30gr to compensate the alu shock body.

GoldFinger

We have an unbeaten enemies surrounding the track....
It was 4"height concrete wall..

GoldFinger

Should be no problem with that charger, even it was designed to charge nicad packs. the max output is only rated 10.8 (measure it first with avo/voltmeter) and you cannot blew up your packs with that output. But you cannot reach your max. pack capacity either, it will only heated up a little bit.

cyba888

Is it safe to charge my tx batteries if I connect the wires to my Tekin charger while its in the remote socket? Look at attached files. Usually when the charger is NOT connected to the wall I get a volt reading when its connected to the batteries. But when I tested this method out I didnt get a reading. Do I need to charge it first to see if it will actually charge without damaging my radio?

cyba888

Is it true that ABS will damage your sevo on the long run? People tell me its not good for your servo. Anyone here use ABS?