My new car is the same way. Instruction book said 3 washers on top but I still have some slop. I will have to get the shop to order me some extra shims.

What is everyone running fluid wise on the damper pod? I have noticed most setups say trinity red stuff.

john- You NEVER want any unsprung suspenion movement on a 12th scale, it will cause alot of problems. Thus you really wont have any droop either per-say...

As far as the KING pin hitting... Make sure you dont have too many shims, and you might want to remove the sticker on the inside of the wheel that notes the compound. AE should have made the kingpins like 1-2/16" smaller, so that way the wheel would rub the kingpin in some cases and you wouldnt have to shim it so much. (Normally you need like .5cm worth of shims, its really stupid, lol).

i have .020 springs and have three on top, one inbetween the top arm and steering blk and one thin washer at the bottom were the spring is. this is with stock AE pins

Stormperson...Thanks I'll try that as see what I think.

Fast-ho-cars......Than's exactly what I have now.

I think I'll have to make a couple of custom king pins also.

Thanks everyone,
John

Hey 1/12th junkies,

Good to see such a popular forum for the best scale in R/C - 1/12th. There are so many forums and boards on the net these days, it's hard to keep track of them all. Team CRC has noticed the popularity of the RCtech forums and plans to stay active here.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding Team CRC products, fire away. We will attempt to answer and assist in any way we can. Also, feel free to stop by our board at www.teamcrc.com.

We see in earlier posts some good and some bad comments about our products. We are here to try to fix those "bad" posts, solving any issues within our ability.

Time to get off the computer and go to the carpet track to practice!

Quad12 Roolout Help Needed
 

I am running a Monster Stock on my Quad12. I run on a pretty tight indoor carpet track. We have a main straight that is about 60 ft. I read to start with a rollout of about 1.6 with a stock motor. Is this correct? I run 48P gears with a 72 spur and a 22 pinion and my car is almost exactly the same speed as the other guys in the class. However, this calculates to a rollout of 1.87 with my tires which are 1.950 diameter. To achieve 1.6 I need to drop to a 19 pinion. This seems to be a huge difference to me 1.6 versus 1.87. What are your recommendations?

Thanks in advance,
John

Re: Quad12 Roolout Help Needed
 

The track I run on sounds just a little bigger, but I normaly run a rollout of 1.70 to 1.85 with the monsters. You can run with more of a rollout but I think you'll find faster lap times with less.

TeamCRC- just wondering who is actually behind the keyboard....? Glad to see even more particapation from the upper levels of the hobby (you guys, blackstock, baker, cyrul, schumacher, etc...)

BTW, on the new style front end... I have only been running it for a little while however, I was told that it was a bad idea to be running shims anywhere but on the top, I could be wrong, but thats just what I have heard from guys who have been quite successful with the front end.

Our Vice President, John Firsching does much of the monitoring of these boards. In this case, I am the masked man behind the keyboard on this day. Both John and I will try to keep up on the popular forums and here on RCtech.

Regarding the front end, we have played with shims on top, in between the block and some below the spring. Shims above the block but below the arm changes the roll center slightly. I put shim in this area to allow the block to pivot more freely, not so much to change roll centers. The key is just enough to remove play, but not too much to add pre-load.

The new front is faster and stronger, but requires a bit more TLC.

Frank Jr.

Reciever Packs
 

I have posted this before, I just put a 1.2 AAA or 1.5 AAA in Series with the red wire going from the Speedo to the radio. this adds 1.2 or 1.5 volts to the 4.8 we already have and makes for a smooth and consistant servo, and reduces glitching. Works fine for me. An AAA alkaline 1.5 volter lasts about 3 races including practice, heats and mains. I purchesed an extension the plane guys use so I could add my battery with out cutting into the speedo wires them selves. Also If I don't want the battery in the circut, I just can plug the speedo directly into the radio like it was.

David Root
Hello Frank Jr, John. Thanks for stopping by here.

It's awesome to see CRC on this forum!

With that being said, I picked up a Carpet Knife and need a part but noone locally can tell me what it's part number is...My best description is it is the post that comes off the chassis that you use to wrap the o-ring around to hold the batteries in, one of mine has half a screw broken off in it so it is not as sturdy as I would like...

Thanks in advance!

Tigeryan, if your local hobby store carries parts for Trinity cars you can get them stand-offs in different sizes so all you have to do is measure it and find out what length it is. I f you don't find the right size you can take a stand-off and cut it with a dremel. The Trinity ones come in all different sizes. You can just take a small drill bit and drill through the center of the screw and then sometimes you can spin the drill backwards and it will unscrew the screw back out. GOOD LUCK!

Hey John call up Sam for whatever you need. He can probably get it very quickly if you ask nicely. Hmm... maybe that's why my parts take forever to come in.

Kyosho\Trinity front ends
 

Wondering if anyone has experience with the Kyosho\Trinity 12th scale front end setup and if you can maybe post some thoughts and setup tips.

Thanks...

RC12L3 Q's
 

Hey 12thscaliens

Just got an L3. Few things ive noticed.........

The tires are not true? is this norm for Jaco or do they just givee the shot tires to Associated?

The upper suspension arm eyelet needed to be trimmed to allow the shims to rest on the pivot ball (outer edge of eyelet hole opened up about 1mm) which also made steering alot smoother

Thats about it for the bad's.

but with the standard servo saver, will it fit a Hitec servo? i couldnt find an answer in the manual....

thanks.