Kopanas

After a 20 year hiatus from playing with R/C cars (Tamiya Hornet and Kyosho Big Brute) I got back into it and bought myself and RC10B4.1 Brushless RTR. The best part of buying it was that when I was a kid my dream care was the original RC10 so now I can finally say I own one.

But I digress...

I spent 6 hours on our local track on Saturday but boy was the car really hard to drive on the track. The following is a list of the main problems I was encountering:

* Soon as I just gave the car a little gas I would spin out of control either to the left or the right. I figure that I either have horrible traction with the stock tires on this track or it is something else or a combination of a bunch of things.

* The trigger was very sensitive... it would not take much pressure on the trigger to get the car going and once I pressed down half-way, if not less, the car was at full speed.

More information about the track:

* the track is extremely hard packed and dry with just a dust of sand on top

* we would wet the track once and a while and when it was wet I would get considerably much more traction... but dry forget about it... race day from what I gather it is mainly dry

Any help would be greatly appreciated... I just want to learn as much as I can.

P.S. This is a video from Saturday... just to give you an idea about the track and how the car handled. Anywhere there were any turns I have to go turtle slow so I wouldn't loose control.

[removed... I can't post links to the video nor embed it because I just signed up]

uneasyrider

Driving on a hard packed dusty track is all about throttle control, throttle control, throttle control. Getting a good set of rear tires will help out immensely though... my T4.1 was the same way. I picked up a set of JConcepts Double Dees and they made a huge huge impact. Goosebumps may also work for you.

brickshouse

iTrader: (7)

On a dusty track your NOT going to get traction, hell you can do donuts with a 4 wheel drive.....all in the trigger, have to be smooth, the stock tires are ok, but with bein dusty doesnt matter what tire you have. You might be able to adjust the esc, maybe to take some off the top of the trigger, cant remember the profiles on that esc though....have to look it up.

Kopanas

I can't seem to find any info on the ESC that comes stock with the kit and if there is a way to re-program it so the throttle is smoother... anyone have better luck then me?

I was also told a faster servo would make a huge difference... what say you guys/gals?

brickshouse

iTrader: (7)

faster servo would be good if you didnt spin out all the time....although it might help you counter steer, if your fast enough you will have to go to associated website to find out how to program esc or google maybe

pirape

like he said the throttle is way to sensitive

1/10th of the trigger is almost full speed I wonder he managed to do so well on the video

even I couldn't drive his car and I TQ a lot in my classes

Kopanas

I finally found it... That made a huge difference from a throttle and brake perspective. [Link removed because I can't post them yet.]

Kopanas

I fixed it... should be much easier to drive now! :-) You are frigging everywhere... :-p