I did not. I dont have any intention of running it in the lower settings since I run on carpet.

Going to be coming off of 3 LD3 chassis and a ton of parts here this week if anyone is after a tooon of stuff for cheap.

I had a chance to test the 5 gear gearbox yesterday on medium grip astro. I didn't managed to back to back the change but it felt very nice to drive.

I started with my normal setup and added 0.5 rear toe to 3' and moved the battery back one hole. Good rotation but could do with a little more steering so moved the battery forward 1 hole - car was really good, good rear grip and felt much quicker rotating in the hairpins. Final change was to raise the front inner camber link 1mm to 4mm as the track had an off camber corner onto the main straight - this helped keep the power on and the front drifting wide, really nice.

The gearbox is nice, needs lots of thread lock as screwing metal into metal, need to check everything over.

Were you running mod or 17.5?

I am curious if 5 gear is worthwhile in 17.5 with so much extra weight from the aluminum and the rotational weight of 2 extra gears.

I am running Mod so no issue with the weight or extra drag. The alloy gearbox is very light, but I didn't weigh it before I built it up.

Thank you for posting what you found with the servo mount and 5-gear transmission mods. Are the bearing surfaces of the 5-gear transmission case (U9417) cleaner than they appear in pictures (e.g. as shown on the Amain link below)? In other words, are the bearing surfaces machined?

Are the tolerances of the 5-gear transmission about the same or an improvement over the standard plastic transmission?

Schumacher LD/ST Transmission Case (5-Gear Transmission)
https://www.amainhobbies.com/schumac...u9417/p1802197

I didn't look to see if the surfaces were machined but everything fitted nice and snug, also being a single part it felt very rigid compared to the plastic gearbox. A mate has commented that he had a bit of play in the layshaft.

Edited to add, just checked the layshaft and I have a bit of play in it, but also quite a lot of end float - I might need look at shining it a bit.

For anyone looking for the flat servo conversion, Amain has them in stock. I have one on the way.

https://www.amainhobbies.com/schumac...u9451/p1820717

Looked at all the normal places for 17.5 carpet setups for office carpet or black carpet and have found really none of them. Found this for many cars recently which is odd. Guess no one wants to give up their secret sauce?

I have noticed this for UK Mod setups as well, I think it might be that they put out quite a few setups when the car is new then as they feel there are good base line setup out there they don't post as many. Also I think later in the life cycle of the chassis they are trying more prototype parts which aren't always available to Joe public.

17.5

21.5

Who is running a -3 or -4 rear tower and Core/Aerox rear springs and able to get ride height down to 13ish mm? Just building my car with basically every option part and am not able to get ride height below like 19mm. I know what I'm doing. I could certainly cut the rear shock eyelets a bit but not like 6mm and I have been looking at this thing for a while and cant figure out what else I can do?

Edit: I cut 2.5mm off the bottom shock eyelet the most I'm comfortable with cutting and am now able to get around 17mm rode height at the lowest. If I remove the -3 tower I guess I can get to about 14 but then what is the point of selling that tower if you cant get ride height below 17mm without severe modifications to something? I tried a couple different brand of springs Core/Aerox, xray, Willspeed. Nothing will get me below 16-17mm

Send pictures of your rear end.

I can send you a pic of the car but the car is not done yet. I don't have the speedo or the receiver in the car. But I have 99 percent of it completed other than the electronics and when I sit the electronics in there with a battery and motor and the rear shock collars all the way up its right around 17mm. I'm using a -4 rear vision shock tower, and the alloy shock tops. I did replace the shock bottom eyelets with the shortest xray ones so I don't have to pop off the balls everytime I rebuild the shocks. But the shock bottoms are currently shorter than the stock ones after I cut them. I'm using the stock shock cup and black aerox rear springs. The new rear pill system. aluminum rear hubs all the good stuff. Just an FYI I have been building rc cars for 35 years so I know what I'm doing. I just don't understand even with the stock rear tower and stock ball cups and the kit springs I don't see a way to get 13mm ride height. If I put the stock rear tower on I could maybe get to 14 but I see setup sheets out there that say 13 with nothing crazy going on. Its just odd to me.