Doesn't look like the center diff is anywhere to be found. The car should be quite usable as is as long as I can get the setup right.

I was wondering about the whole pulley thing and going over in my head what effect the smaller and bigger pulleys would have - and as I thought, going through the manual again the manual referred to the smaller front pulley as "overdrive". And bam, acceleration fixed.

As I was testing it, noticed I really needed to enable the clicker (only learned what the damn thing even was just yesterday) to keep the car in control when slowing for turns. Also the previous owner has set way too much drag brake I think - part of the reason why the clicker needed to be set on, as the amount of drag brake was causing the scar to spin due to too much front braking (even though I wasn't even actively braking, just neutral throttle). The clicker really seems to live up to its name though. The car was very loud already, but the clicker will make it even noisier. Had to steal a spring out of a "clicking" pen as the original spring was nowhere to be found (and that's why I couldn't enable the clicker while at the track).

Now I just need to find out the model of my ESC so that I can get at those drag brake settings. Another ESC-related thing is that it really needs a fan. It came with one but it didn't stay on, now I need to get start sorted as the ESC got really hot in today's testing.

Also I think I'm going to test the Asso shocks instead of the aftermarket ones to see how that feels. Of course the current ones could be adjusted, but in any case I have a feeling they might be a touch too stiff as is.

At any rate, once I get all this sorted the car should be quite nice to drive!