Originally Posted by
Maddog94
fq06:
Right now, believe it or not, I am running about 1/2 oz on both sides of the servo AND both sides on the rear!
I ordered 4 little digital scales from Amazon and they will be here in a few days. I will then adjust to make the weight distribution correct. The reason I had loaded up so much weight was because I was having a hell of a time with the rear end sliding out, but I think now that I have the c-diff, problems like that should be gone anyhow. I was also getting tossed around everytime a losi so much as banged fenders with me, hence the weight overload.
Oh, to answer your other question, (how is it flying) it depends. Sometimes nose up, sometimes not. I am still working on my driving so I can't really rule out driver error. I just know it's not stable like my 1/8 buggy, and from what I can gather, the losi's are stable like 1/8 buggies.
Try running a strip of weight down the center and getting rid of the weight in the rear. Maybe part of it on the esc side of the esc tray and the rest of it on the lipo side of the chassis center wall of the rear chassis.
The scales are tricky. You can use them to balance the chassis or the suspension but not at the same time. To balance chassis corner weights you need to lock out any movement from the shocks or even make rods that are the same length as your shocks would be at static ride height (L&R same length).
If your shocks and the spring setting come into the equation that is an outside influence on the actual weight balance of the chassis.
Once you have the chassis balanced you can put your shocks back on and corner balance the spring adjustment to balance the suspension.
You can have a chassis thats all out of whack and corner balance with the springs but you won't be anywhere near correct. You are just adjusting the springs to compensate for an unbalanced chassis.
The losi absolutely flies more stable for the reason you stated, but the AE can be setup to fly just about as well with a well balanced chassis and setup.
On the launch I have pulled some throttle back and not at wide open throttle at the lip. You may be getting chassis slap holding wide open all the way through and that will throw your truck all kinds of bad ways that nothing can fix.