[QUOTE=jwmustang;9443209]We should have it ready within the month. Getting ready to mill another prototype which we think will go to production. It will be a one piece design that stays on the chassis if you need to take out the center diff.

Sound interesting...What would be an equivalent silicone weight?

Silcone changes its viscosity slightly with temperature changes as well it thins out while it is wearing out. As for weight not sure because it is a grease not a thick liquid.

Synthetic grease maintains its viscosity during it entire life and don't need frequent changes like oil.

Once you switch to this grease, just re-tune your suspension.

SuperLube is readily available in large tubes. All hardware stores and some Walmart carries it. A large tube sells for $11.

[QUOTE=jwmustang;9443209]Hot Racing makes an aluminum two piece for the rc8, thats the ones i'm running

Any help on my set up questions guys?

Thanks.

So you use grease instead of oil on center diff?
Right now my diff gets hot. Is your hot with grease?

Nope, Never gets hot. The grease is a true synthetic lubricant with PTFE (Teflon) that has one of the lowest coefficients of friction.

Heat is caused by friction.

We use the grease on all three diffs. Just pack it and forget it.

I had the same issue when I first built the car. I have tons of 2wd exp on dirt....but this is my first heavy 8th scale 4wd. What I learned..... is that getting the weight to transfer forward off power needs to be coaxed along sometimes. Driving the car a bit harder and using the brakes to set the front end has helped me a ton in the tighter bits of the track.
I also made some small changes to the kit setup.
The only non kit parts on the car are aluminum chassis braces, front springs and carbon center top plate.

I now am running the truggy front silver springs with 35 weight oil. Upper shock location laid down one hole from the kit setup. 2 deg negative camber.
Silver buggy spring in the rear with 30 weight oil. Stock shock and camber link locations. (I did try the inner camber link location one hole down....the car had tons of forward bite....but would not rotate well) 2 degrees negative camber
Ride height .....28mm.
Jconcepts Punisher

I would like to get the car better through some of the rough stuff....but I am very comfortable with it now on 90 percent of the track.

Best of luck.

Cheers,
George

Very Intriguing! I wish this came up before I did my diff rebuild I would have loved to try it.

Curious though -- You said this "grease" you're using does the trick. Don't you take the resistance factor out of using different weight diff oils? My RC8be has 5k, 5k, 3k. If you use grease you don't get this difference. While the maintenance is simplified IMMENSELY (and believe me, I'm very interested to do this) --- Don't you take away from the performance & set up of the vehicle by using that grease? The reason why I have a lower resistence diff fluid in the rear is so I can get better cornering.

I'll be curious to hear your answer to this Team Grid . And if you could, could you post a link of what grease you guys are using? thanks!

The diffs and chassis get hot because the motor. Motor is connected to alum mount and the diff bearings transfer heat to diff gears and so on. You'll notice the chassis getting warm too. I use ptfe grease in my Traxxas diff and my 1/8th scale diff ring and pinions but not in the diff itself, to much resistance.

Thanks.

Has anyone tried both the elite and grid motor mounts on their RC8? I currently have the elite on mine and love it...... I am thinking of picking up a spare rc8 as a backup for race days and was wondering if anyone's owned both and what are the pros and cons for either........ Thanks

Hey guys, I though I would just show everybody what I did to my RC8Be. I know that it is a racing car and I'm not even sure how much I will be racing, but I wanted to do something that no one has seen before. It may not be practical but I think it is awesome! It has Mamba Monster 2200kv and 2 Hi-Tec HS645 MG servos and Proline Road Rages and Proline Hole Shots with a JConcepts Punisher body. Tell me what you think.

See post #6753 for the pic on the grease.

Any synthetic grease will work as long as it is not petroleum based. We have been using SuperLube for years and years with great results.

If you use grease in all the diffs, they will work identical.

As for resistance. Little or none. All the diffs spin freely without any resistance.

There is enough things to tune for handling and driveability like sway bars, camber, caster, spring rates, shock oil, shock pistons. These can be done on the fly or very quickly at trackside, not diff oil changes especially the front and rear diffs.

I"ll post a video to show how smooth and little resistance grease has on the diffs.

I've never seen anything like it. Never even thought about trying 4 wheel steering. PLEASE POST A VID!!! I want to see that thing run

I love tinkering and this one looks awesome