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Old 06-19-2009, 07:31 AM
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Ha got board had parts will work lol

converted my mugen over to a c hub its my spare buggy still have the pillow balls on my race car. but ima toss everything into this and see how she dose.

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Old 06-19-2009, 09:35 AM
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way to go. c-hub > pivot balls any day
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Old 06-19-2009, 10:11 AM
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Originally Posted by fatdaddy
way to go. c-hub > pivot balls any day
well you can really drive a c hub car more aggressivly over the pbs style car i have both so i will try both! ill run this in race number two of our race series and see how well it works.
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What did you use? Xray parts?
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Kind of hard to tell but looks like hyper 7 hubs and arms but the cast kyosho knuckles.
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jpz i almost on it they are kyosho knuckles

the a arms and upper arms are from a gs racing storm cl 1 that i had laying around.
i also have some nice knuck;es i can put on from xray as soon as i get the truggy shafts out of them (set screws are stripped)

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also got my center diff mounted along with motor mount motor and pipe and gas tank electrics all i am going to do is swap from car to car i love having two complete car....

just going to undo the whole electronics tray and move it from one car to the other.
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shes all finished.
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Looks good. Now get rid of those upper a arms and put some camber links on instead. It will turn like you won't believe.
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Originally Posted by slaytanic
Looks good. Now get rid of those upper a arms and put some camber links on instead. It will turn like you won't believe.
the upper arms have a built in adjustment that's one reason I am doing thisat my track I don't seem toget good turn in

then again it could all be my set up
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anyways took that advice and used some extra rear camber links for the front upper arms it looks like it came that way from the factory on a plus side also i have extra knuckles and c hubs just no extra a arms so i hope it holds together for the race on the 27th

and i am planing a trip down to revelations and thunder ally later this summer! should be fun!
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If Mugens came with C-hub standard I would have chosen that over my XRAY..After the Hyper 7 PBS I will never run Pivot balls again..Loving My 808 though
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Originally Posted by Jaz240
If Mugens came with C-hub standard I would have chosen that over my XRAY..After the Hyper 7 PBS I will never run Pivot balls again..Loving My 808 though
we will see how it handles it looks good dont it!

lol hopefully mugen will come out with there own c hub conversion

after driving a losi i wanted one but i love the name of mugen so i kept it and tore apart some old buggies i had and made it work

i did have to dremel the arms a bit nothing major and the front cvds fit like a glove.

there is a little bit of bump steer how can i get rid of some of that
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Old 06-20-2009, 05:53 PM
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that does look cool. If pillow balls where so much better, everyone would have them right? How many buggys have pillowballs?

You would think that pb have a greater range of motion. I have only had mugen so i don't know any better. My car has a shit ton of steering
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try spacing the ballend up or down with washers.
i space the ball ends up with a couple of washers off the knuckles on my LST when i run the 15degree caster carriers
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