Originally Posted by
IndyRC_Racer
I took my spare parts and built up a M03 recently. I used the friction shocks and they actually work better than I expected. The only thing I don't like is that the ride height is a bit high using the long silvers springs. I was thinking about putting some limiters inside the shocks to lower the ride height but was concerned there would be too much pre-load on those springs. I'm using kit 60d treaded tires, so the car wants to roll over a little bit if I over drive the corners. I've already super-glued the front tires, which has helped, except when I hit a corner disc.
I don't want to spend any money on this car as I'm having a blast driving the car the way it is. I wanted to hear some opinions on the best/cheapest/easiest way to lower a kit with friction shocks (without upgrading to oil filled shocks).
Actually tried this for our winter indoor season this past year. Box stock M03M Kit with only a few mods off the top of my head:
- cut down coil on stock silver springs to get ride height down. Used those plastic ride height spacers to fine tune ride height after. Added only inside limiter to front shocks. Thinking was to improve steering.
- extra washer each side of stock gear diff. Tighten well for slightly tighter diff
- bearings obviously
- used SGrips front with CA edge and kit rear tires.
- ziptied down the steering servo to chassis cause the plastic servo braces suck
- heat shrink outdrives covering dogbones so less chance to pop out
Super fun to drive as there is literally the crappiest corner speed ever. You need to either time the car slowing down enough when you get to a corner to turn or hit the brakes hard to slow down enough to turn but still watch ever car setup decently rotate better and drive out of the corner faster. Pretty humbling.
Had the car down to about 0.1-0.2 consistency entire race but no way to compete against hopped up M05 versions whatever running about 0.5 seconds faster per lap on indoor medium to high grip Ozite carpet on a 11-12 second lap track. But still fun nonetheless.
Let me know any tips you have to get the car to rotate more cause I'm out of ideas.
Ivan