Johnny Wishbone

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John and Phil are you guys both talking about asphalt setups or carpet?

syndr0me

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I was using 1XA/1E in the rear with 13.5/rubber/carpet forever. The car REALLY came alive when I went to 1XA/1D, but it was a little edgy and easier to break loose. That's definitely what I'm going to base my setup around, though. 1D/1D up front is so much easier to drive. 1C/1C was really twitchy with a spool.

sidecarphil1

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still wondering if running 1D 1C up front or 1C 1D will help or change the car for the best

anyone ??

sidecarphil1

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i mainly drive asphat , but we have an indoor track too and after a race mewting was rained off we went indoors for a practice and the car was solid as a rock on the VERY narrow 1/12th set up carpet track we have

John St.Amant

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I can't be in the sun too long so I've been racing on the carpet.
Grip is pretty high there so ... less rear toe in.
As for the front end , sweeping the arms back makes the car turn in harder. Mostly used on pavement but could be a bit twitchy on carpet. I wouldn't sweep the front arms forward for any reason.

Johnny Wishbone

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Two things to remember if your going to try front arm sweep forward or back is first it will change your wheel base and secondly will slightly change the feel of the suspension harder or softer. I believe this happens because of the change of the lower shock mount, sweep back makes the shock mount longer, sweep forward shortens the shock mount. A lower mount change is a far more course change in comparison to a upper shock mount change.

sidecarphil1

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ok but sweeping them backwards on a low grip asphalt may work hmmmm

think i'll try next week cos the track is shut over the weekend for the Kyosho Cup !!!!!!!

dam nitros

Johnny Wishbone

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I believe thats because it changes the shock position angle which in turn is like moving the top in more, or like splitting a shock spring weight. Once you do a arm sweep and move the upper shock in all the way, its time to go to a harder spring and start at a neutral setting agian till you get you prefered feel for the track.

John St.Amant

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It will also effect Ackerman.

Johnny Wishbone

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This could be a product of trying to build more mechanical grip into the car, which works right up to the point of maximum grip for the tires, past that and it starts to work against you. You could actually get the tire too warm to grip. Don't get fooled into softer is better on suspension, try a next step up harder spring, sometimes it can make a hugh difference in grip, to the good.

sidecarphil1

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i am just rebuilding the shocks following Jilles video and i am using slightly thicker oil 50 instead of 40

and HPi springs gold and silver

so i dont really want to try too much in one go

but i am off work thursday and the weather looks good next week so i will spend all day there

Senna Racing

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im also rebuilding my shocks and cant wait till i can get the car out on the track tomorrow for testing, with new hpi spring arriving on sunday for the start of a new point score should be interesting

will start with the tamiya springs to see if the new ones make the time difference

RC MARKET

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next week monday had new TA05 Ver.2 suspension mount for TRF416

John St.Amant

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Post a pic of it for us would you ?

sidecarphil1

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those will be the super expensave ones with the small balance knotches in it ??

i cant see the benefit of them

sorry