poochy

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the mamba will cut itselft off around 250.

your setup should overheat - i say drop down to between 14-16 pinion.

poochy

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btw, how much drag braking do you guys use on the mamba for asphalt racing?--say on a normal track.

ive asked around and heard not to use drag brake-but I sort of disagree.

carbon madness

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I don't run any drag brake any any of my cars (that inclueds my off-road cars). Once you get the hang of the way the car rolls at neutural throttle then you will be able to run some fast laps, other wise I would say if you want to use the drag brake as a fail safe when driving in to the turn, then it might help for if were to get into a lot of dust, or if the track is very loose (but a set-up change will help that).


Your best bet is not to use it, but at the same time it is a great way to learn to drive as as your car will slow down a little faster so you can hold a tight line a little better. Also the drag brake will cause things to heat up, and heat will slow you down durring the run.

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I noticed that without a drag brake it was easier to get fast laps (different ESC though). I prefer to keep of the brakes and just let the car coast (of course braking manually if I need to) when cornering.

entitymugenmtx

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My drag brake is set at 10% and where running on asphalt. If I go to a 14 or 16 Will I have allot of bottom end ?

poochy

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you can probably put a 6 pinion on that 7700 and still have more than enough top/bottom end

robk

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To be honest, the car will get faster with more drag brake most of the time. Start w/50%, watch the lap times, and go from there.

poochy

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drag brake advice - please keep them coming!
i am also running a mamba 7700-i think you need to set drag brake if you are running mod class-maybe not the other classes-am i right or wrong?

Scottmisfits

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I ran the kit with the box stock set up last night for the first time with rubber on carpet. I ran 13.5 and the body I was using was the Protoform R9R. I ended up lengthening my down travel (reduced droop?) both front and rear and changed the sront springs from blue to silver for silver all around. I was looking for a little more rear grip low speed. I have been reading alot of the R9R body saying that might be a big part of the problem. Try another body, which I have, or just play with set up some more? What would you guys do first?

Johnny Wishbone

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You can't go wrong with the Mazda6 on rubbber/carpet. Give it a try. You could also try moving the rear wing around, I'm playing with that right now with foam on carpet, but same sort of issue.

Scottmisfits

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I've already changed the wing getting ready for our practice day. Then I'll be changing bodies to see how much of a difference it will really be.

Thanks Johnny Wishbone. Hopefully see you in a month or so.

artwork

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Josh H's vegas setup is good...give it a try.

Silver in the front and green's in the rear...

Scottmisfits

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I have that set up as well. But if you look he's running the Mazda 6 body. I think most of my problems are coming from the body, with the current set up I have. I'm chasing this set up down at the moment, and the next logical step for me in the set up is the body.

artwork

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I have run something very close to Josh's setup with a Speed and the new R9R. I dropped 6 tenths with the R9R no changes to setup only a couple of less clicks with Dual rate.

Scottmisfits

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Maybe I'll try that after the body change. I went from 100% down to 60% on my dual rates trying to control the back end. I lost way to much initial and exit doing that and the the back end would still be unpredictable for me. I think I enev have a mohawk body I could try.