Originally Posted by
cheapskate.brok
I thought I was the only one who believed in the plastic shocks. I've got 4 race prep sets of them (new chassis owners get rid of them immediately) and swapping out shocks is much much much faster than rebuilding them with different shock weights
Yeah I took the risk of charging your lipo in the car into account, anyway I've been peaking my lipos at 8.8v (normal LiPo, not Hv) and after 5 mins 5.8 ratio 3300kv limit, there's still 8.3v left in them.
TO get good speed on the straights, try to look into gaining some forward traction by playing with camber and droop before calling out someone a cheater (which I commonly get hahaha). But yeah, I love to share any hacks I have in hand.
Pushing the technical limits on a mini is really really addictive
It's not that I 'believe' in plastic shocks
, I just didn't see the benefit going to the 54000 with those crappy pistons until I swapped them out with the cheapo black pistons. Now it works very well, just like the CVA's but with the benefit of having the infinite height adjustment. I use the black CVA's on a couple of my cars and they work great. I just didn't think it was necessary to swap out the clear ones unless you had problems with them (like it cracked or something).
Osherman also mentioned that he did exactly that, swapping the pistons with the black ones on the 54000, previous to getting the big-bore dampers so that kind of sealed the deal for me.
Also, great work on the M03.
I also agree that the droop is a very critical part of getting stability especially coming out of the corners fast. I usually just give max droop though as I don't like the boomerang like effect when the inner tire leaves the ground and the car rotates unnaturally.