Then there is this..

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rct...b69450ec7c.jpg

https://youtu.be/zkHxY32e4FM

Thanks to Joel’s inspiration, I took my M06 with me to the track Saturday.

Our track is quite large so with the speed of the M06 you have a lot of time to think lol.. which is nice. My baseline set up was still the same..

rear blue /60 wt ; camber -1°
front 55 / red wt; camber 0°
Toe out 0.5°

I tested the car with two tyre combos, because in the upcoming TCS series it’s either one of these tyres and our track has not yet settled on which one.

1. Ride inch up 36°
2. Tamiya Type A front and S grip rear

Ride was much easier to drive on the black CRC carpet and I did not struggle with traction roll.. where as the Tamiya combo immediately led to traction roll.. so I had to reduce my EPA.

After my first two runs I spoke with the owner and he seemed to be leaning towards the Tamiya tyres so I spent the rest of the day practicing with those.

I practiced entry on which turns led to traction rolling and evtually settled into a rhythm of consistent lap times 20.5 to 19.7. Given the size of track, breaking the 19 barrier on stock M06 gearing will be hard!

My fasted lap was set with the ride tyres and they are easier to drive on since they are low profiles.. The rims look gawd aweful on my Alfa but the Suzuki swift we’re no better.

I often wondered why Tamiya didn’t stick with the Panasport rims that came on the Mini. All in a fun productive day.

The work I did to suspension per Joel’s tips made the car super consistent

Yes I do have my Alfa body and it sits as low as possibile. There is no chance it will change to any other body LOL... definitely not a Nissan ;)

Black CRC Carpet is super high traction. Once you drive on it, you don’t want to drive on anything else.
You can actually traction roll an F1 on this carpet. It’s also due to the Tamiya tyres as the rides and pit shimizu do not traction.

There was 1 other issue.. front ride height. My shocks have the adjustable shock collars with the o ring which are taller than the M chassis black collar. 2 mm vs 1 mm. They were set up for the Shimizu 55D tyres.

With the 60D they will not go below 5mm. I changed them when I got home and now I’m at 4 mm in front and 4 mm in rear.

58669 M-08 Chassis Kit confirmed ;)

LOl I know.. but honestly for our TCS race I’ll probably run my M06 .. probably will be released in March and I doubt I could have it dialed in like my M06 in time by late April

lol wow that will infuriate Tamiya as the official pictures have not been released yet ..
im guessing it was a test / prototype

Ahahaha Joel! I see now.. it’s an M07 with front and back swapped