Originally Posted by
MikeXray
6dg castor blocks, 1 set of f/r arms, alum wheel hubs are nice, but not necessary, parma front bumper, and some type of longer turnbuckles. I cut down a small set I had, but for carpet you are going to run the long camber link position, and the stock turnbuckle is a little short.
SMC lipo packs have the best voltage of the approved roar packs, I run the pack upside down so the wires come out the right side. This will require a mod to the rear pulleys to clear the pack though, it's pretty easy you just shave the pulley that is on the spur side down so its thinner, then shim it a little bit towards the opposite side of car. (the pack is just a hair too wide). I think the CoreRC packs fit with less work and have good voltage, but racing stock voltage is king, if I didn't now hate nimh batteries they would be a little faster.
I run the LRP sphere/novak 17.5 combo, I had a gtb in the car, but the lrp has noticable punch difference, I have not tried another brand 17.5 yet.
be carefull with SMC packs Ive seen a total 4 packs (different racers) swell up after 4 minutes worth of racing, 2 of the packs were from a sponsored guy.
I would stick with Orion,CORE or Trackpower