Ran a few battery packs thru mine yesterday at OCRC.

I'm runnin a 13.5 Novak geared starting at 26/75.
Way too much motor, too fast and too hot.
Dropped to a 24 pinion and was still super fast and still hard to drive.
I don't have a 17.5 so I'll play with EPA tonite.

Found it hard to drive fast, feels like when I switched to Lipo from NiMH and didn't add weight.
Skippin around, front end feels really light, wheelying thru bumps and flyin really far (lots of motor is good for that).

I started with the kit setup but did use the AKA medium firm foam inserts as advised.
You guys sure these aren't way too hard?
I had no traction and no turn in steering and lots of steering coming out of corners.This was on a dry track at first then on a watered track later. Same type of results.

I ended up copying the AE setup for OCRC from Kurt Wenger.

Main differences from kit setup were:

Gold front springs
25wt shock oil in the rear
rear hubs forward, short wheelbase

Still very twitchy, not enough turn in steering then too much steering from middle out.

I heard that a couple AE guys ran 1 oz of weight (4 x 1/4 oz squares) in a couple spots.
1 oz on the front bumper and 1 oz on top of the battery up front.

I'm gonna try this and see if it helps.

Rick, you got any thoughts on this?

I didn't change to the longer rear camberlink as in the AE OCRC setup, think it would help the no steering in and too much steering out of the corner problem I am having?

I tried 1 and 2 degree toe out but that didn't resolve the turn in issue so I'm back at 0 degree toe setting.

Thanks
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