Originally Posted by
vafactor
On the Yokomo that I've been playing with recently, I've run it with the really short Yokomo tubes that the car comes with and also with the Team Bomber tube setup which features really nice "normal size" tubes. Honestly, I couldn't tell much if any difference on the track. I just needed to use thicker lube in the tiny little Yokomo tubes in order to make them feel about the same in my hands. On the track, the car behaved about the same with either. One drawback of the tiny little Yokomo tubes, they probably need to be cleaned and re-loaded with fresh lube more often because they have so much less surface area inside for the lube to act upon. Aside from that, the little tubes seem to work just fine on the car even though it is hard for one's brain to grasp that indeed they do work well considering how unusually small they are.
My experience is the same. One drawback of the small tubes is since they need much heavier lube to work, fine tuning gets a little harder as steps are usually larger between oil viscosity. From what I can see on the pictures showed, the smaller tubes seem to have a larger diameter than the Yokomo ones so you would have more surface and may not have to resort to fluids as heavy as on the Yokomo.
Martin Paradis