If anyone's interested, I've got a Corally 1/12th pan car SP12G3 with lots of spares & Futaba 132H servo selling for $150 shipped. Email or private message me.

what do everybody think about this??

is AE better or Corally better??

in term of their 1/12 cars....

or are they the same?

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hi, i just got into 12th. my brother and i started a club so that we could race, 'cause there isn't many places here in th UK to race.
we have about 5 people racing in the 12th class which is OK considering we've only been running 3 weeks. loads of people from the TC class are also interested so we may get a few more.

anyway, i brought a second hand 12th car from the same person who i brought the carpet off, it a kyosho r951, and it is the only one in england, it was only brought in as a sample for the UK kyosho distributor, Ripmax. does any one in the USA or the far east know anything about this car? setups would be very useful. i have left the setup as i got it, as the previous owner said it would be a good base setup. the first time i drove it, it handled beautifully, in fact, it was my first time ever with a 12th.
from then on i found that the rear end kept swinging round about mid corner, and found it difficult to control, the car also vered off course down the straight. what is the problem? one way i found to drive the car was to drive very fast, keeping the power on round the corners, although this makes the car understeer a lot. how could i improve on this in the setup??

cheers.

TQ: I'm not a seasoned 1/12th scale racer, but you say that your car ran fine in the begining and now there's a problem??? Did you collide with a board or wall? I would check the car over throughly looking for broken or bent components.

When I drove 1/12 scale, it was my impression that driving faster was actually easier than driving slower. When driving slowly, I found the steering to be more responsive than my ability to react. However, at speed the steering didn't seem to react as quickly. That doesn't seem to make sense, but that's what I experienced.

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1. what your duel rate set at. some run there duel rate in the 20-60 range.

2. Make sure you have O deg of toe in. Then check to see if there any slop in the steering linkage.


I have not here of a kyosho r951 1/12th.

I'm definitly not an expert and dont know anything about that car but if it has adjustable tweek thats probebly what it is...a car with the tweek not set will not drive straight and the back end will break loose like its cool....MIP makes a tweek station or you can do it manually.

Unfortunately, the MIP Tweak Station doesn't work with all 1/12th scale cars. I was not able to use the Tweak Station to adjust my Carpet Knife because the wheel base was to short.

The Niftech (sp?) makes a Tweak Station that will accept 1/12th cars, but I think it cost $80!:eek:

You can shorten the MIP tweak station Trips knows how to do it.

Hi guys,
thanks for all you advice on the car. I raced my kyosho 12th again this sunday, and i've sorted out the problem now.
the body at the rear was too low and very close to the rear wheels, so when the rear pod leaned during the turn the wheels rubbed against the body causing the wheel to slow. i raised the body a little at the rear, and the car felt great!
during the first 2 qualifiers i pulled out early because of my problem, then got the car sorted, ran the third qualifier and picked up 3rd spot in the A- main. At the start of the main i took second on the first bend , then at about 1.5 mins took the lead for the majority of the race, but fell back to second, which i managed to hold until the end of the race.
Once i had sorted out the cars problem i was running about 42 dual rate, which felt good, but i'll run a little more next weekend.
One other thing is i haven't been using tyre additve at all, because the car feels like it has so much grip, do you think i should use it just to get a little more performance from the car?

TAZ_S :
The car came out a couple of years ago, i saw it in a kyosho '96 catalogue. It doesn't use a T-bar for the rear pod, the shock is actually mounted on top of the pod, with a bar going down to the main chassis. it also uses 2 turnbuckles either side of the chassis to hold on the rear pod, i'll try to find some pictures on the net of it, because the design of it is very different to the chassis's used today.

I was able to use the MIP tweak station by unscrewing the extension from the center rod and inserting a spare pan car axle into the threaded hole. This allows you to push the center shaft all the way back to the rear crossbar. Voila! It fits your 1/12th scale car and no need to drill out the rear crossbar.

TQ: Find a pic of the car or take some of your so we can see it.

yeah, i've been looking around on the net but i couldn't find much on the car. There are probably only a few kits around in the whole world!

there a few of them. Most what just to get the chassis for it because The car cost $255.

i think they also went by the name 'impress' like their F1 car. the rear wheels are also the same (i think)

How much front toe should I be running on my carpet knife for asphalt? One other thing: is the paragon tire additive referred to earlier the regular gound FX?
I'll be finishing some 1/12th scale bodies soon.. I'll post pics on my website and let you guys know. I've already done a few for Dennis Racine and others...
Thanks guys,