Now my questions are as follows:
- Please advise whether there is any additional hop-up that needs to be purchased ?
- Please advise the suspension setup for Aluminum Damper Set and Sway Bar ?
I think I am going to use Red Spring (Front) and Blue Spring (Rear) and Yellow Sway Bar (Rear).
- What type of Tamiya’s Damper Oil (Front & Rear) that I should use for the above setup ?
- Considering that I could only use Tamiya’s Hop-up, would it be possible for me to use M06 Bumper (#51437) ?
- Is there any other aftermarket body for 239mm wheelbase (LWB) ?
I don’t want to use my JCW Coupe for most of the time.
Thank you for reading my post, and I hope to learn a lot from this forum
I think you have a pretty good setup there. Does the gold edition come with the high torque servo saver? You'll need one of those. Also a stand-up front shock tower is nice if the car doesn't have one already.
If you are restricted to Tamiya hop-ups it would be worth hunting down a TA03 or Manta Ray diff, it is difficult to get the M05 diff as tight as you will probably want it. Or you can try some putty or shims in the standard gear diff to make the action tighter.
I personally think that the softer front spring makes the car trickier to drive, I usually run my car with blue front, yellow rear outdoors, but that is on Sweep tyres and relatively low grip.
For the damper, build as standard and tune from there. #400 oil is OK to start with, thicker oil makes the car slower to react. I try and match the damping to the oil so would go up a grade at the front if I was running a stiffer front spring.
Start with no sway bar, try the softer one first. Get your own feel for it.
Tamiya do several LWB shells, the only non-Tamiya one I know of is a cheap knock-off which I have no idea about the quality of. Bodies get wrecked, that's the nature of RC racing, I always look at the damage as an opportunity to try a different paint job!