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Old 03-29-2012 | 12:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Tyler Keel
Hit it right on the head. I was "anti-BB conversion" for the longest time b/c my car was great on the AE springs. I just switched this last weekend and can really notice a difference. Car feels like it's more forgiving and the ride is more "plush", still some chassis slap, but, it wouldn't be an AE if it didn't. I'd do it just b/c it's cheap and who knows you may like the way it drives after the conversion. I personally did it when I notice green paint on my rear shocks...I am extremely picky about suspension binding up and as soon as I noticed them rubbing, I made the switch. Won't go back until the AE BB shocks come out.
yeah, most people will notice a change in handeling, but realistically i dont think most will truly know/notice a difference in laptimes. I don't think the effect is that drastic. And in all reality, alot of people gripe about AE springs because they rub the shock bodies...big bore springs rub on the camber links. Now I do understand 1/10 scale is subject to much larger reaction from little changes...but like I mentioned in my previous post, with offroad with so many variables...and with this specific topic, too hard to tell in the sense of lap times. The only thing that is noticable really is the forgiving-ness and its less darty. I really only left my conversion on because it looks cooler. Soon ill go back to AE springs out of curiousity.

Now in contradiction to everything I said, the one thing that I did notice, was that my car seemed to handle significantly better, was on a race day I accidently scraped the tube, snapped a shock rod, track didnt have a replacement so in between rounds I would have to switch the v2s from my dads blinky buggy to my mod back and forth, but he was running kyosho yellows(regular non big bore spring). K/yellows with Losi white big bore, looks stupid but was awesome to drive with.
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