Originally Posted by JamesL_71

Im new to the link cars... Last time I ran 12th was with brushed/Tbar setups.

Ive read the Mark Payne blog, and I am still a little confused. I was hoping someone could walk me thru the order of steps they use for setting up and tweaking their cars.

One of the areas I am confused about is balancing the chassis. With my sedans/TCs, I balance the car out on the pins by adding weight to whichever side needs it. Pretty simple.

According to Mark Payne's blog, he would balance the rear pod with the brushed motors(or they would be balanced themself)... but with brushless motors, the rear pod is off balance. Is this still the case today? The article from the blog is years old and, I assume, referencing brushless motors in pods that were designed for brushed motors.

Say I have assembled my car and installed the electronics, measured the front end components(arms, springs, etc) so that the left and right sides are accurate, have a fresh set of equal trued tires on the car, etc... What is the order of steps for setup and tweak?

Based on past experience, my guess would be the following (assuming that the side springs are set even left to right):

1) Set rear pod droop (can this be measured with sedan style droop blocks/gauges?)
2) Get front, rear, middle ride height set to where you want it
3) Put car on balance pins (are you guys balancing your car as a whole? or the pod individually?) and add weight where necessary
4) Recheck ride height
5) Set front camber and toe (we are assuming that these values weren't drastically off prior to setting the ride height)
6) Put car on tweak board (we are only tweaking the front end, right? and this is done by adjusting the side spring preload?)


Thoughts?