Originally Posted by bikedoctor
ROAR Region 6 On Road Champs are in less than 18hrs away and I have two problems. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
12th scale must use the Camelian 19turn and I have never used this power plant. What springs and brushes? The one I'm barrowing has no springs or brushes. I'm geared for the Reedy 19turn.
My ride height in the front is off. Im 4.5mm on the left side, 5mm on the right. I set the tweek and still a height discrepancy. I did eat a board hard last night during practice....did I tweak my carbon chassis?? I have seen some of my customers tweek their carbon cranks on their bicycles I repair but I really didn't expect my 12th scale to generate that much force.
Kevin "Last minute" Rivet
OD I hope your online tonight. Go Angels.
I've only run the C2 once, it took a much lower gear than the Reedy (spec 19). I usually gear the Reedy at 33/92 and I ran the Camelian at 29/92 (rollout about 51 and 46, respectively). That was on a pretty fast asphalt track.
The only way to really check your chassis is to strip it and put it on your set up board. Or you can get some idea with the car assembled by using a straight edge. If it looks bent loosen all the screws and re-check. If you don't see and big dents or some other impact damage on the chassis I doubt that it was tweeked by hitting the boards.
Check the front spring length; sometimes one will collapse. Check the suspension arms for damage, also. What kind of car is it? Maybe somebody else here has an idea.