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Old 11-09-2013 | 04:16 AM
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Boons
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From: Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England
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Hi all,

I'm looking at the wishbone pins held in place with the C clips. My concern is the C clips might 'ping' off during a shunt.

Does anyone have experience with these? What would be the benefit if any over the screws? And can you get full titanium ones?

Cheers all!

Oh, my M05 is on point on carpet now, it's only taken 5 months to make it feel like my M03

If anyone's interested, here's my set up:

My car is using a Mabuchi motor with a 20t (fluoride) pinion. I'm running 60d M grips all around, blue springs up front with 450cst oil, yellow springs rear with 350cst oil, 5mm clearance front and back, 2mm spacers in between steering arms which are set in the rear holes on the hubs and 3 Racing steering mech, 1.5 rear hubs with 2mm spacer in between adjustable upper rear arms (so minimal camber) my car does have the Tamiya hop up wide shock hangers and I'm using the outer holes front and rear, my rear only sway bar is disconnected, front shocks are 56mm and rears are 57mm, I've put my speed control in the centre of the car which required dremelling out so it would fit flush on the chassis, the rx is mounted on the opposite side of the motor, and my car is neutral when lifted off the ground in the center (so it no longer tips over to the motor side) I have the 3Racing gear diff with 5k oil which works well. I've given the servo -50% on the exponential too which helped a lot. I've also found that using spacers under the battery 'wings' to push the battery down to the bottom of the chassis helped a lot too. I've also shimmed out the slop on my wide alloy hexes.

Sorry, my set up is typed as I remembered stuff in my head!
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