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06-06-2010, 01:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Timmie

Are you and Tim both on the same setup? When I saw your cars here a couple of weeks ago they both looked real good Sunday morning. Glad to know photons are dominating at your track too

No we're not. He's using the old car and the chassis has more flex. I'm playing around with different setup changes to see how the car reacts. Tire prep was a problem for me for the first half of the day. I got that figured out now. Playing with arm angles.

06-06-2010, 01:46 PM

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Is anyone running 48p? I'm thinking about switching. What size pinions and spurs do you guys keep handy?

Is your track that dirty that you need them? remember each pinion is much bigger jump than 64p, every out here runs 64p outdoors.

06-06-2010, 01:56 PM

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No. Tracks I race at are very clean. Most guys run 64p here as well. Just something I want to do for no real reason.

06-06-2010, 02:04 PM

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The Photon does look good, both on the bench and the track. If only it was shaft driven.

Locally, i wouldnt call the Photon a dominant force, i feel the wins can be had by any driver in any car. Regardless, it a tough chassis to beat in the right hands, and you can tell the wrenchtime has been put into it.

Im just glad to be running against something else besides XRAY and Corally sleds.

06-07-2010, 05:44 AM

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Originally Posted by 2Quick

Nice pics
What servo you using in Photon ?

ty bro...

for the pict...now is lookin better..i putting down the rx near by esc and servo...i think this is better side....
i put on tekin rs pro,11,5t king power,savox servo,team orion 5400 45c...
run awesome with photon...and pretty cheap part prize....

i use savox low profile servo for onroad...pretty cheap and good high speed servo....
check it out... http://www.savoxtech.com.tw/product.htm

Last edited by beebop; 06-07-2010 at 08:26 AM.

06-08-2010, 09:00 AM

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Has anyone bought and run the new lipo chassis. I'm looking for which one will be the best carpet chassis, Stiff or Super Stiff. If you've run either of these or now which would be the best for medium to high traction carpet please comment.

06-08-2010, 10:26 AM

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I ran the stiff lipo chassis with EJ's set up and it was very good, it was a medium traction carpet track.

06-08-2010, 10:39 AM

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New Item !
Alum. 5.3mm Ball

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06-08-2010, 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by STLNLST

Man....ask about springs and everyone already has me running the car. I'm sticking with my HB. Just looking to test something for the nats.

Using Photon Springs will make you faster...
You may want to use Photon stearing knuckles they don't break like the HB

06-08-2010, 10:00 PM

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Ran EJ's set up lastnight with the stiff lipo chassis , and it was pretty good. Ran it at a temporary indoor carpet track. I only made 2 changes to it , i went to the 344 springs up front a the 1.0 rear swaybar. Ran it with soft solaris tires

Marcos...I lost your number dude...

06-09-2010, 04:52 AM

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Tony
Which chassis are you using, Standard? Rick

06-09-2010, 04:54 AM

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Tony
Which chassis are you using, Standard? Rick

The kit comes with the stiff chassis. I'm going to pick up the standard (now called moderate) chassis to try out.

06-09-2010, 05:21 AM

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Marcos...I lost your number dude...

you got pm

06-10-2010, 08:20 AM

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If anyone is looking for some backup Photon parts, I am selling the following package.

http://www.rctech.net/forum/r-c-item...ton-parts.html

Let me know.. and I can make a deal. I just need to clean out my RC area since I am moving.

Chirag

06-10-2010, 12:37 PM

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Does anyone know if one of these pre-assembled ceramic thrust bearings can be used in the photon diff instead of the washers and steel balls?

http://www.muchhobby.com/shopping/pr...oducts_id=4162

Thanks