Originally Posted by
BigRon
Cool. Good stuff. I was only able to get a couple of practice runs and 10 laps of a heat race before I rubbed a corner and snapped a pivot ball and steering block top. Before the unfortunate dnf, I was having some traction rolling issues. I'm running the same setup as my '20 car, minus the solid 2mm chassis. Hopefully, I can get the '21 car to work with the stock chassis. It's a bummer that they don't sell a USA carpet spec kit with the solid chassis.
Ron, my 20 car with the solid chassis is on a very different setup than my 21 car, so much so, that I can't remember when I ran my 20 last, as the 21 is so much nicer and easier to run. What is the setup your running and what tires are you on? Are you gluing the front sidewalls? I don't think you can run on any black carpet track without having to glue the sidewalls unfortunately. I managed to win our A main today with a near flawless run, not the fastest car but very consistent and no breaks all day today. Yesterday I broke a steering block, and the last couple times I have broke them I noticed the break is across the 2 screw holes that hold the bearing holder in place. As I looked at this I noticed that all the screw holes in the hub are drilled thru completely except those 2 holes. I decided to drill those holes to see if perhaps it would relieve some pressure on that location.....not sure if its legit, but so far so good. I also normally tap all those holes just so not to force the screw into that plastic part. My car is using the black pivot balls and after breaking one, and bending one I haven't had issues with them since, not sure if Serpent has changed up/fixed the initial problem with them, but so far so good.