Originally Posted by
Carter Flotron
- 2.3mm front sway bar instead of 2.4mm, helps a lot with mid corner push
This being my first 1/8th scale it was all pretty new to me and very different than any of the 2WD buggies I have played with in the past. I originally purchased all of the swaybars up to the 3.0mm. I went through them in testing and found, at least for our fairly smooth clay track, the 2.4mm was as stiff as could be used and keep the tires in good contact with out inducing lift and scrub at either end of the buggy. I settled on the 2.3mm front and 2.4mm rear.
Originally Posted by
Carter Flotron
- 4 steering limiters instead of 2, for consistency and stability
Since it was in the manual on initial build, never tried removing them.
Originally Posted by
Carter Flotron
- Less droop, Usually around 120/135 but varies depending on driver and track. Less droop=less weight transfer
I have played with droop and ride height quite a bit along with most of the settings and have found for my driving style, pretty aggressive all the way around, reduced droop and ride height. Ride height is currently at 26mm front and 27mm rear. Droop is sitting at 116 front and 132 rear.
I did add the .2's 10* caster blocks and that gave me a ton of initial turn in which is needed running this big buggy on an 1/10th scale track with quite a few 180* turns.
Originally Posted by
Carter Flotron
- Thicker diffs, such as 997. Helps a lot with stability and reducing the twitchy feeling the cars can have sometimes. Also improves forward drive and can help the car pull over small bumps better
I found the same thing having played quite a bit with diff fluids, bought almost all of them from 3K up to 20K. It took me a while to get a good feel of how the power distribution in this buggy locks or unlocks how the buggy tracks on or off throttle in a corner. I settled with 7K-F 10K-M and 4K-R. I found, for my driving style, anything above 4K in the rear added too much on power push for the small track I run on. I can get on the throttle harder and quicker with the diff setup I have now. My buggy is finally getting to that point of being pretty locked in, the times on the track are slowly going down as my refinement of it's setup improves. Two months ago I was happy to be nibbling at the backside of high 15 second lap times, this last weekend I was nibbling at the high 13's.
Originally Posted by
Carter Flotron
- Camber/Ride height. I personally prefer cars with a bit less camber and a lower ride height, which reduces side to side weight transfer while maintaining grip because the car has to roll over a shorter distance to get the ideal contact patch. On the opposite end of this, drivers that drive aggressively or with a lot of throttle may like more droop, more ride height, and more camber because the car will transfer more weight in corners and under acceleration which can produce more grip
Hopefully this helps!
I am still tweaking my camber links and have a fairly short front setup (#5-A) with a fairly long rear (#3-C). I think as I get smoother with my aggressive driving, I might be moving towards reducing the amount of movement the links provide.