Hi all,

I’ve been reading this thread from the beginning for a few days now since Jim told me on another forum. I’m half way, so not quite caught up with everything recent yet. I’m 47, live in St. Louis, MO and don’t have much experience with RC. I’ve been racing full scale cars in endurance and sprint races for a few years. I also got an XRay T4 to compete in 1/10 scale VTA class (indoor carpet).

I have a question from the past: Do you guys lift at all in Box stock on the first layout you ran here (plan A)? I have a few hundred laps on the Mini-96 now and it’s beyond me how you get under 6 sec/lap, let alone low 5s. I just installed a Kyosho 30 front slick and 20 rear radial and that helped, but I’m still around 6.5 without bumping into anything and for a couple of laps I didn’t lift at all. I’ve observed that hitting the apexes is more important than not lifting, but a full second or more is a lot of time.

So, can someone offer some advice? Is it batteries, springs, the line, lack of practice? How do you guys get that fast? Did you all start at 6-7 sec or am I doing something completely wrong? Also, on the 98mm bodies and since I presume we are all using the stick transmitter because I can’t seem to find a way to bind it to the EX-6R, what is your dual rate setting for steering? All the way up or fairly close to it?

Thanks for any advice and apologies for the long post.