Originally Posted by andrewdoherty
Does this look to be a pretty "standard" way for a beginner to run their servo/steering set up on a stock 12L4? The turnbuckles are in line with one another, there is no binding, and the servo is in the forward and lower position on a stock AE angled servo mount. Just making sure I am not WAY out in left field. When viewed from the rear of the car the turnbuckles are parallel with the upper arms.
Also . . .does any one have any decent pics (or links to them) of the best way to run my antenna up the rod? Maybe even a brief how to would be nice. I am trying to get this car to look nice and clean/neat/factory.
I've seen plenty of cars set up that way, I'm not sure if it is the optimum geometry, though. On the SpeedMerchant cars with the servo mounted flat the car seems to work better with the tie rods angled back from the servo saver to the spindle.
Maybe Adrian or somebody could enlighten us on the effects of these different geometries.
For routing the antenna I just run it up the roll over and shrink wrap it down, with the excess hanging out the top. I used to use the Paragon Pro Stick antenna which is a hollow graphite antenna. On those you can notch the bottom of the antenna mount and run the wire up inside the antenna-very clean! No, it does not affect the signal.
SpeedMerchant now has a very cool hollow graphite antenna that you could treat the same way, although with so many racers using DSM your 92 mm of antenna is supposed to just stick up unattached.