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Old 01-21-2015 | 09:04 PM
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Sean Dickinson
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Hey guys. I have been running the NB48 for quite a few months now out at Fear Farm and have noticed a couple things. For one I do love this car, but it seems like anything close to the stock setup can be maxed out pretty quickly for a good driver. I have been driving the car and as soon as I got used to it, I felt like the car was on the edge all the time. This is normal to feel in a car when the setup is being pushed to its absolute max, and this is exactly how I felt with it.

Since then I have been playing with setups to help combat what I think is the issue, the diff oils. I feel like the need for the 775 diff oil setup on a higher bite track was because the chassis was not as stable as it should be, which in turn makes the setup need some sort of "bandaid" in order to help stabilize the setup. The 775 diff setup worked well, but for me it actually held me back.

After experimenting for a few weeks, I came up with this setup. It allows me to use the LRC plate at our high bite track with ruts without fear of rolling over whenever taking a corner at extremely high speeds, the chassis setup has been more stable thus allowing me to drop the diff oils to give the car a more aggressive, responsive setup, but the biggest thing I have noticed in the car since running this setup is that I have restored the consistency. I'm sure many of you have noticed this, but with the same setup, as you near the setup's limits as far as speed the car loses its consistency. You just can't run a car at 100% capacity all the time, its just not possible. So by experimenting with the heavier spring setup, I have stabilized the car, raised its limits and thus made the car both faster and more consistent for me.

I encourage you guys to try out the setup, and the reason I wanted to post it now, is because I know that many of you will be heading out to the Dirt Nitro Challenge next month, and I feel that this is a much better setup to start with in the qualifying rounds given my abundance of experience at this track. I have asked for this setup to be posted on the Website as well, but it hasn't as of yet, but may be in the near future.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByD...ew?usp=sharing

Anyone that does try it, feel free to ask any questions or let me know your experience with it, along with the track type. I am always curious to know how it performs at tracks that do not have many similarities to my home track.
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