Originally Posted by
Evil Genius jr.
The blue ones might work. I have some of the silver ones but it takes 10! per side to get to 5mm.
I used whatever I had in the pit box as I agree that a bunch of those little shims can be a bit much and they like to slide all over the place.
The nice thing though is that the space available in the ball stud area is such you can run a wider shim if needed. I think the shim I used was actually a spacer used on the rear of 1/8 buggy for the rear hub carrier. this was good for about 3mm, used 2 of those and a 1mm shim.
Originally Posted by
heavyjeffd
So this weekend I raced at the Dialed Inc Invitational in Shreveport, LA.
The track was pretty simple (due to bad weather the layout wasn't finished until 10pm Friday night) but because of the dirt used (river clay) it was hellaciously bumpy and hard on tires (the balder they were, the better they worked).
There were only a few small doubles, but a fair amount of elevation changed and this track was WOT everywhere with laptimes for SC being in the high 20's/low 30's.
Overall I was pleased with the SC10. I qualified 7th in the A in a field of about 40+. The little truck was bouncing all over the place, all you could do was pin it full wood and hope it levels it back out, which is pretty much what I did.
The A Main had 12 trucks in it, the top 3 were what I call "cheater" trucks (converted 1/8th scale buggies), then a bunch of SCTE's, and me (I was the only SC10 there). With a track that fast, if you caught a pipe or an edge you had half the field pass you. I THINK I finished 6th, I don't know for sure because I couldn't hear anything and they *still* have not posted results.
All in all though, the little truck is getting better. The Exotek has made the biggest difference by far, it completely transforms the truck.
I'll be running it in two weeks at the JConcepts Spring Indoor nationals along with 4wd and 2wd open buggy. That should be a better environment for it.
I wonder if a front alloy chassis could help even more, heck, maybe the whole thing?
Personally, I don't mind the 1/8 scale stuff I guess as if it fits in what the rules for the class are, its legal to me. Probably would be a non-issue if the tracks these days that we run this stuff on weren't 1/8 scale sized.