Originally Posted by
Fasttrak
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.
Since it was in the manual on initial build, never tried removing them.
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.
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.
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.
Everything sounds like it's going well for you, and there's nothing I would recommend changing if those changes have been working for you.
The only thing is, I would try running the shortest possible link in the front and see how that works for you. You may find you can now put back on the trailing 15* caster block setup which will improve the stability of the car and you will still have the steering you are looking for. Let me know if you get a chance to try this!