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Old 03-10-2014, 08:08 PM
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I'm generally between 20-25% drag brake, which I realize is higher than many recommend, but it works for me.
Damn, thats a lot. lol. Most I can deal with is about 15%, 12 is usually where I am at.
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Old 03-10-2014, 08:38 PM
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Damn, thats a lot. lol. Most I can deal with is about 15%, 12 is usually where I am at.
That's what most people say. On my SC I run even more than that. Different strokes for different folks.
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Does anyone know when the vertical ballstud rear hub will be available?
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On a leveled board I weighed the car 4 corners and ended up fairly close.
298.4 | 291
495.4 | 517.1

This is sitting on shocks and tires but I do match my shock collars with a caliper so they should be pretty even.
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Originally Posted by Barge
On a leveled board I weighed the car 4 corners and ended up fairly close.
298.4 | 291
495.4 | 517.1

This is sitting on shocks and tires but I do match my shock collars with a caliper so they should be pretty even.
Always going to be a little bit off to one side because of wires, capacitor, slipper assembly, pinion, motor plate, motor offset, etc.
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Which diff balls are working best for slick indoor clay?
Carbide, Ceramic or standard steel?


Cheers Justin
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I run between 10-15% drag brake with small or weaker rotors, when I increase to a normal rotor I go to 5-10% unless the track just calls for more drag brake.
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Originally Posted by lovell
Does anyone know when the vertical ballstud rear hub will be available?
I have not heard anything official, but they appear to be available overseas so I would assume within the next month or 2.

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Which diff balls are working best for slick indoor clay?
Carbide, Ceramic or standard steel?


Cheers Justin
I do not think the material is dependant on the track surface. The harder the diff ball, the more precise the adjustment has to be. The better you are at building diffs in other words. I would run carbide unless you are very familiar with diff building, in which case use ceramic. My RM and MM are both using carbide and I have a Bfast kit that justy arrived for my spare diff. I am also running carbide thrust balls.
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Always going to be a little bit off to one side because of wires, capacitor, slipper assembly, pinion, motor plate, motor offset, etc.
Yeah, that's without doing any weighting or anything like that. I was pretty impressed.

Mounted my ESC and Receiver inline.

I put the numbers into a corner balance calculator.

63.2% rear weight with a saddle, full size servo, Al front bulkhead, Al steering rack

49.1% cross weight which is close enough to 50 for me.
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Did anyone have to modify their battery brace? I cant get my saddles plugged in together unless I cut out a section of the brace. Having to use Venom packs until my Reedys come in.
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Did anyone have to modify their battery brace? I cant get my saddles plugged in together unless I cut out a section of the brace. Having to use Venom packs until my Reedys come in.
I did not but know some who had to. Depends on the saddle pack. Some had to with the shorty as well.
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I put together my MM last week and finally got the video together for the build. I did a similar one for the S411LE and people seemed to enjoy it.

http://youtu.be/tq_VEyUQI_s
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Originally Posted by orcadigital
I put together my MM last week and finally got the video together for the build. I did a similar one for the S411LE and people seemed to enjoy it.

http://youtu.be/tq_VEyUQI_s
What a great video thanks nice job
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Originally Posted by Barge
Yeah, that's without doing any weighting or anything like that. I was pretty impressed.

Mounted my ESC and Receiver inline.

I put the numbers into a corner balance calculator.

63.2% rear weight with a saddle, full size servo, Al front bulkhead, Al steering rack

49.1% cross weight which is close enough to 50 for me.
Thats pretty good. Every aspect of this car was thought out well. It's hard to find any holes in the design.
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Mine is up for sale if anyone is looking.

http://www.rctech.net/forum/r-c-item...ghlight=spyder
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