Raul Garcia

iTrader: (79)

I would play with this setting at the track..bench theory can get heavy. But generally adding antisquat pushes the front wheels down from acceleration, but takes away side bite on the rear, vice versa taking anti squat away.
Roll centers are adjusted or adjustable from many different points on the suspension, higher the grip the smaller adjustment is felt. Again , start with a very neutral point, and go from there.

BHutch

Don't overlook gluing the sidewalls. At carpet championships last year all the jc drivers were gluing sidewalls aggressively and the mod drivers were re-gluing the sidewalls after each run.

brewkett

That was going to be my next thing to try.....I use to glue my on-road tires back in the day. Still have my collapsible cup to spray the accelerator into.
The only thing that sucks I burned my arm opening up a hot cooling system and taking time to heal before I go back out to the track. hopefully next week I'll try

foampervert

iTrader: (5)

Hiya folks,

Are there any alternative bodyshells that fit this buggy?

kufman

iTrader: (6)

Has anyone had any issues with really tight tie rod ends on this car? Just built mine on Tuesday and all of the rod ends are tight as are the shock bottoms. Ran about 600 laps at the local track yesterday and it has loosened up some but still not quite right.

hunterdawg

iTrader: (19)

Yes, overly tight, limited supension travel. Even had problems with aluminum parts not being threaded.

4wdfull

Firstly, Klink RC now has a titanium top-screw kit for this car. Mine is shipping now.

Secondly, for the rod ends. If you mean the tightness between the balls and the rod ends there is an easy solution.
Unscrew the ball from the car.
Put a small amount of bearing oil on the ball/rod end assembly.
Put the threaded end of the ball stud into the end of a dremel tool.
Turn on the dremel carefully at medium speed and articulate to and fro carefullly.
What happens is the oil and ball stud heat up surprisingly quickly so only do this for 15 seconds or so.
Should be completely free with no play.
I wouldnt let a child attempt this but adults should be OK. Just be careful.

kufman

iTrader: (6)

I was messing around doing something similar to this but I used tooth paste and baking soda. Didn't get them totally free but they are better. I have also just considered replacing all the rods, rod ends and balls with Losi or AE parts.

retat

Grab the ball end with a pair of pliers and squeeze it fairly hard. Do this on the car with the balls in the ball ends. If it doesn't free up, squeeze it harder.