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Old 02-24-2012 | 10:08 AM
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x2racer
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Originally Posted by CristianTabush
I have never had much issue about the truck jumping. My personal feeling, which is not the end all, be all with this truck is that it lacks grip. On smaller tracks, this is not a very big issue because high power motors are not needed to get around the track quickly, but on the big tracks, the problem is exacerbated. If you can't get the power down, you can't get speed to get the jumping distance.

The truck lacks a proper power distribution system. The slipper set up is not great and the center ball diffs slip with high power and or high grip. Even when running a triple clutch, the power is not distributing to all 4 wheels equally. The front always receives less power with the decoupled set-up and receives more power with the center diff set-up. Neither is really optimal.

The Center of Gravity is high. Even with heavy aluminum chassis, the truck still has a high center of gravity relative to the other race trucks in the market. Again, on high speed, big tracks, this is a hindrance.

Lastly; messed up roll centers. The truck has really low roll centers, and high CG. This is the combination of death. Top that off with a heavy lexan body and it's not a good combo. You are stuck running too stiff of a spring to keep the truck from dumping over in the corners, which leads to no forward bite.

These issues are null/ or close to null on higher grip indoor tracks. But on low grip tracks or big tracks, the truck's weaknesses are exposed.
+10... it seems like ae just rushed on this to get a piece of the 4x4 sc market. I believe what mantis said about ae downgrading this to a junior and making another sc based off the rc8e is soon to come.
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