Originally Posted by
Granpa
The spacers will put you in the ball park on the set up, but what happens when you need the link shorter???? Right, that's why I rarely, actually never use them. Since you don't want to add anything to the car, it's sort of tough to help you. For example, the springs you are running are much too stiff for an outdoor asphalt, but you say you don't want to buy new springs. The reason you get varying opinions on this thread is there is a wide disparity in posters in knowledge, experience, ability etc. Also if you, the reader, aren't careful the discussion could be about a totally different type of track and surface than you will experience, so you need to pay attention. Another factor is that many of us run under different rules than others, which can further confuse the issue. In your case the guys running under TCS rules or the occasional Aussie poster like
Calvin are probably closer to what you're looking for.
Best advice I can give you is take the car and run it every chance you can get. Never take the car out on 2 runs the same. Change something like the ride height, camber, toe out, battery placement, add or subtract weight, ride height rake, Transmitter settings, especially servo speed on turn in and return. Do that for awhile and you'll be the one answering the questions, not asking them. Too often, i'll see people go out and run battery after battery with the same set up and never learn anything.
Thanks for the response! The spacers are just cause I had them lying around, and look neat against the gold, but will eventually move into a more fine-tuning mode once I've had the opportunity to run it.
I'd be happy to spend a little one something like a spring set. Are you referring to the #53333 set?
Say I get the springs, which one to I run front and rear with the RIDE tires, and what weight oil would be a good place to start with the bumpy low grip conditions? I'd be happy to experiment as you suggest, and I will, but having no other front drive cars, or people to ask locally, I want to at least know I'm in the ball park, and not trying to drive a turd and write off minis like everyone else at our club did, who didn't want to mess with the insane amount of tricks, tips, and voodoo that goes along with these. They are almost a completely different hobby than other rubber tired r/cs.
I've shimmed up the kit pretty good, like I do my touring cars, so it's a solid build I'm really happy with, but the steering could use a tiny bit of tightening up. The dampers turned out damn near perfect on the first build, not unlike the other 3 sets of regular TRFs I have on other cars.
I will try using some TRF ball studs on the ends of the steering links, as I've heard that helps. The gold edition may have come with some aluminum steering posts that are not in the regular pro kit. Not sure. Really a shot in the dark with ordering it a while back as I was getting interested in minis. I have a lot of Tamiya stuff laying around. Maybe even some of those short touring springs (since they are all touring cars) somewhere... I'll have to look around. I didn't realize the m-chassis springs were harder than the bigger touring cars, but wasn't thinking about how heavy these are.
