yes sir!

I would worry less about FDR and more about temp and feel. I like the motor near the top of its operating range. I use what others run as a starting point, run a hard 6 minutes, then temp the motor. If I need a small adjustment, swap spur, larger adjustment swap pinion. It may not be right, but I've been told by guys that actually know how to drive (not me, I'm a complete hack) that my truck feels dialed.

http://teamassociated.com/pdf/cars_a...us_Classic.pdf

new t4 setup from the classic, cavs didnt change very much.

i like seeing what avid springs on the truck tho...

now just to find out where to order them hah.

I'm dying for the BB's to come out. The FTSC10 4x4 has big bores, and all the factory drivers are using them. Can't be long. I'm hesitant to pull the trigger on the Losi BB springs and Traxxas collars when I know the AE stuff is around the corner.

Those Avid BB springs are NICE. Friend of mine got a set last week.




I just got my T4.1 FT on Thursday :)

Going to be racing it next week..

+1 Me too. I have a pair of kyosho velvets that I bought for 50.00 for all four but havent put them on yet. Much rather put on some AE BB's.

Race Results!
 

We had a big race in Nashville TN yesterday. The Thunder RC Winter Champs, at Thunder R/C Speedway. 101 entries! This was the biggest turnout we've ever had at Thunder, a lot of guys came from the surrounding states.

I was running my T4.1 in MOD Truck, I qualified 4th in the A and ended up in 3rd place. I chased second down from 6 seconds back, and passed him but I got tangled up with lap traffic a few corners later and had to settle for 3rd. Not a bad day overall!

I was running a standard T4.1 with .5 aluminum hub carriers and C towers, the rest of the truck is all stock. Using Cav's crcrc setup, it's a very tight track and I really could have used more low speed steering, but I made no changes to the truck all day and it was dialed by the mains.

For electronics I'm running a Futaba low pro steering servo, Castle MMP, Reedy Sonic 7.5, Gens Ace 5000 40c battery, Losi red BK Bars stock foams.

That's a good looking truck right there. Do the ST parts help on it ? I have thought about upgrading some of my parts buy hear to much aluminum is a bad thing. I'm hoping someone has already been down that road and know which parts help versus hurt.

I was going over the Ryan Cavalari setup sheet that was posted earlier. Does anyone know what they mean by "shaved brace" on the rear setup ? I'm assuming they are shaving that brace flat where the ball stud screws in. I'm trying to get my truck to turn better when lightly on throttle. It pushes pretty bad and it would be nice to get this thing to trun better. Thanks folks

Alum. parts just sent the stress to other parts, aka the A arms or whatever they are attached to . I see no benifits in alum parts in offroad. Thats why you dont see the factory guys running a bunch of alloy parts on there cars .

yes, shave it flat, but only if you are running the C tower on the hubs. if you want more steering either reduce the front camber link space from 2mm to 1mm or add a .030 space under the inner rear ballstud. Cav's setup is a bit on the pushy side.

Aluminum parts just mean lots of bent hinge pins and broken arms. and rpm arms flex so much they ruin handling. better to run it stock and replace parts when they break. Which isn't very often.

Why only with the C tower?

The C tower lowers the ballstud at the hub 2mm. You could try shaving the brace with the other hubs, but I don't know what it would do. The combo of the C tower and shaved brace gives more forward bite while still letting the truck rotate ok. I'm going to try messing with rear roll center next time I get to the track, I run the C towers and need a little more low speed steering. My track has a lot of 180's

In my experience, you lose sidebite and/or need less rear negative camber if you dont combine the lower inner and outer studs together.

Raising the inner stud rolls more, lowering the outer stud rolls more. Lowering them both equal amounts changes rollcenter without negatively affecting camber gain.