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Old 02-05-2017, 04:43 PM
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DeathVirus
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Originally Posted by greener74
Take the shocks apart, unthread the eyelet on the bottom, pull the piston and shaft out, put about 4-8mm of spacers on the shaft and reassemble the shock. This will shorten your shock, so when you get on the throttle the front wont lift so high. I would measure your shock first, then find out what angle of your arms you want, ( a few degrees less than totally flat) then measure your shock again. And add how ever many spacers you need to get the desired arm angle. You also have to make sure your springs are short enough that you can get the proper ride height. No reason adding limiters if the springs wont adjust down and you are riding on fully extended pogo sticks.

If it was mine and I wanted to get serious about real on road racing. (on a prepped track with a Rustler) Like I said Get the ride height down to 15-18 range and 2-4 mm of droop, so when you lift up on the car the ride height doesn't go over let say 19-22. go with the 25 degree blocks, remove the wide mod, get some anacondas or slicks and dope them with jack the gripper, liquid wrench or wd40. I would balance it 63-64% weight to the rear, 37-36% to the front. Make sure your drag brake is set to slow you down for the corners. you can't turn of your not under braking. Might even need a sway bar if it grips so hard it traction rolls. I like -1.5 camber and 0 toe.
I flipped my RPM bumper upside-down and moved the .75oz lead weight from the upper deck and placed it on top of the .5oz lead weight on the bumper and OMG my steering is crazy strong both on-power and off-power. So strong in fact that I had to change my front suspension to 50wt oil with Black Losi 4.1oz/in springs from the 40wt and Green Losi 3.5oz/in that it used to have. I also lowered the rear by 2mm to 27mm
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