J-PaP

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Thanks. I was just about to try putting the shocks down a hole but it started raining for the last race. Was my plan to try that out for the next meet.


Standard springs/oil (3.0 front, 2.6 rear, 350wt all around). I built the shocks with about 25% rebound.

I was going to buy some 2.8's for the rear to try out. I am more agressive on turn in than on the power. But because of the understeer I get on turn in I'm needing to be on the power probably more than I would otherwise to get around the turn.

Forgot to mention my car was clearly the loudest all weekend with the tyres screeching on corner entry (I've heard this means something but unsure what).


Thanks for the help by the way. My old car was pretty good out of the box so I never needed to do much to improve the handling of the car. So I've never really learned much about set ups.

johnny55

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So what does it mean when tires screech? I am running my new t311 and am getting screeching tires, but never had that happen before.

triple7s

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Thanks, got it. Sometimes I'm slower than my driving!

andrewdoherty

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Glad to help.

EAMotorsports

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It generally means that you are generating a LOT of traction and its the tires on the verge of sliding hence the screeching sound. It can sometimes mean your over driving, hitting bumps that upset the car in the corner, etc.

EA

ByteStream

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For the ECS Driveshafts .. there seems to be 2 different drive shaft pins with flat spots available ..

305390 - ECS Drive Shaft Pin 1.5 x 8 with Flat-Spot
305391 - ECS Drive Shaft Pin 1.5 x 9 with Flat-Spot

Which ones are recommended?

Psycho_

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The two sizes are necessary to build correctly the ECS drive shaft.

The drive shaft case is bigger on one side as you can see.

http://www.teamxray.com/teamxray/pro...ing%20Steel%99

CraigM

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Its also an indicator that your tyres are overheating. If the car gets pushy going into a corner and loose on power towards the end of a run, normally this is the culprit. It can be solved by running softer springs, gooping differently, running less aggressive bodies, or just changing your driving style

mwoods

anyone used the spec-r springs on this car yet ? do they feel the same as the xray ones.....

Skiddins

Put the thin M3 set screws into the wishbones as the manual says, the shocks have a ball joint top and bottom that take a 3mm hex driver.
When you attach and remove the shocks you only use the 3mm hex in the ball joint.
THis then screws onto the M3 grub screw in the wishbone.

hacker

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I don't know about too much traction or overheating! I can still get tires to screech on the very first few laps. And if it was too much traction, you would hear nothing!

when I get screeching tires, to me that means the tires are past their used life, as the tire is to the point when it's gripping, sliding, gripping, sliding. Put on a new set and you will hear nothing.

touringdriver

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well i'm new on this thread, just upgraded from a 009 to the t3 2011 sedan. gonna start building it this weekend. Woohoo. anyways are there any issues i should look out for or inside build tips? i'll be racing it on asphalt this summer and want to run gear diffs up front at least. any suggestion also for fluid weights?

Chubba

Hi there, i was wondering what the difference is in running 48 pitch and 64 pitch?

I will be using a 13.5t motor and later may also be running 4.0T motor.

Thanks

Skiddins

If you want an extremem test simply swap the springs around so the 3.0's are on the back and 2.6 on the front.
This may help confirm is it will start you in the right direction for changes

Integra

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Notch your Drive shaft pins or get the Pre Notched one's Xray sells.