niznai

That's rubbish. No car has toe built in the chassis plate anywhere. Xray is really going downhill with these quality issues. Perhaps they outsourced the manufacturing somewhere where quality isn't important.

RCFREAK

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T3 HAS rear toe-in built in.....1 degree. if you look on the setup sheet for rear toe, the option for shimming will show it... no shims allow 1degree of rear toe.

adamge

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niznai, aka Xray troll #13

RCFREAK

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As for differences in rear toe, from left to right, the car was not built properly. The instructions for installing the front of the rear hingepin mounts, you must turn and hold as you are tightening the mount.... We have currently 15 T3 at our local track and everyone made sure the mounts were installed properly, so nobody had rear toe issues.....

hope that helps...

RCFREAK

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when building the car, i was told to take my time with the hingepin mounts, and NOT to file anything... it would not be needed. The installation of the smaller mounts was a key issue.... then installing the roll center pieces and the arms.. i found as i tighten the roll center screws one at a time, i tap the arm forward and backwards with the handle of the wrench then tighten, tap again, tighten, then torque it down, i guess it allows the roll center pieces and hingepins to center itself... i have been doing this since and NO BINDING and no filing needed, the arms always drop on their own!!!

niznai

Oh, I see. My bad.

Still as pointed out above the holes are misaligned and that's just down to poor workmanship. Why did Xray need to revisit this old design I am not sure, but chassis built in toe was last used a long time ago (TA02/03 anyone?).

Owen RaCing

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What's with all this negativeness surrounding Xray's new ride? Xray slipping on the world??

Sith Lord

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Well, I got the screw out by drilling it out. Unfortunately because I used thread lock I don't think I can get the remains of the screw out. I'll need to buy another Arm Mount. However I think I'll wait till I get the new 1 piece mount and try that. Hopefully that will solve any possible issues with the 0.30mm difference I stated above. (Unless the 1 piece has the locating pins and therefore doesn't fit????)

I have about 4 weeks till the Xmas break is over, so I still have time

Professor

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what are the advantages or disadvantages changing from 1.7 ratio to 1.9 ratio for 17.5 or 21.5 ????

Yokomo_Ant3

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The FDR is achieved much easier with the 1.7 internal. The 38t pulleys have better on-off throttle response. I didnt notice anything in stock. In 10.5 and mod i found the 38t pulleys good. Maybe too good for mod. Maybe thats why all the mod team drivers are using 34t pulleys now..

It is very hard to get a good FDR in the slower classes with the 1.9, therefore you have to use tiny spurs to do it. There the advantages and disadvantages of each..

Antoni

Con

[QUOTE=Sith Lord;6741863]Well, I got the screw out by drilling it out. Unfortunately because I used thread lock I don't think I can get the remains of the screw out. I'll need to buy another Arm Mount.

Warm up the mount with a micro torch. The treadlock should release and you will be able to remove the remains of the screw

yokemad

or you can even use 25-30w soldering iron to heat up alloy mounts to remove thread locked screws

mjc168

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I am using 60w soldering iron to heat up the screw about 60sec to release the thread lock.

Sith Lord

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Thanks Con, Yokemad & mjc. Hadn't even thought of that. Will give it a go in the next couple of days. Thanks for the tip.

Skiddins

I had the mounts being slightly out of alignment as well, but remember that there is flex in the plastic pivot pin mounts that screw up against the metal parts.
As you add shims at at the back for rear toe you are effectively making more of an angle between the pivot pin and the rear front metal pivot block.

Skiddins

P.S. the 'EU' stands for 'European Union' which Slovakia is a member state of.
The flag on the Xray boxes, blue with a circle of stars, is that of the European Union, not Slovakia itself.