I'm heading to the UK to check out Astroturff. Anyone have a good set-up for high traction Astroturff? I expect springs and chassis weight placement will be crucial since I am sticking with the B4.2 rear motor. I hope to install my ESC in the tray. My Reedy shorty pack all the way forward.

Tom
lower the ride height to help with the traction roll , 23mm in the rear 23.5 front

You travel a lot tom lol

Speaking of traveling,I will be going to Buckeye AZ for thanksgiving. Wildcat you know of any tracks near there where I can run my buggy?

You are going to want to checkout Warehouse 3. It's the closest at about 45mins away.

Warehouse 3 is about 40 minutes from you. I will actually be in phx and plan to run there either friday or saturday night after turkey day. Its a nice indoor track. They typically run tires like pink beams or m4 suburbs there. They normally have a great 17.5 buggy turn out and normally run mod buggy as well.

http://w3racing.com/

traveling is not so fun when you have great local tracks. i will be missing a local points race that I don't want to miss. Work requires it so why not take a RC car and find a track to race on. London and nearby has a lot of race tracks. I almost jumped to PanCar just to do something. I am really happy that I will get the chance to race on Astroturf a race that is a good size event.

Caster Blocks-
Stock "3 hole"....or the often setup sheet noted "2 hole".
What's the deal?

I believe the 2 holes are made with a stiffer material.

2 hole are molded out of a stiffer plastic. The hinge pin hole is also drilled and not molded making it have less slop. The 3 hole is molded out of the newer plastic and the hinge pin hole is incorporated into that mold. You will notice a difference when installing the 2vs3 hole blocks on the car on how tight the hinge pin goes in.

Right on. Thank you. Are you reaming the hinge pin hole? 1/8th inch reamer used to be the call.

Not only that but the little screw that goes into it actually tightens a small amount likr finger tight with the wrech where as with the other three hole one I did that and it stripped... lol

I have never reamed one, i always just pressed the hinge pin in. The 3 hole blocks you can throw the hinge pin in there no issues. The 2 hole you need some pliers or something like that.

New here to buggys . I have 2 sc10.2s. First 4.2 I noticeice a lot of carbon parts for it. What are the advantages of each part in carbon? Also what advantage id the b44 rear arms? Thanks in advance. Ryan

I'm no expert, but I believe carbon parts are used because there is much less flex vs composite.

I also think the b44 arms are harder/have less flex.