You should start with a FDR of about 4.5 on a small track.
Drop ride hight to 5mm front and 6 rear.
Use Sorex 28 tires all arround and put shocks rear on the inside hole on the shocktower.
Front on the outside hole.
Rear turnbucles on the inside position on you hubs and on the middle hole on your bulkhead with 3mm spacer under it on the bulkhead side.
This should give you more tracktion and a good starting point for further improvements.
cheers Roy
Originally Posted by
vinny73
Just raced my E4RS for the 1st time yesterday. Small club track. Asphalt, low traction. I took off the k factory spur gear cause Ididn't have any 64 pitch spur gears. I will get to the questions in a second. I was running a 69/39 gearing. Running a fantom 17.5 brushless with a LRP Sphere ESC. I have a pro tek 3800mah 30c lipo. Running RP 36 compound tires. After running the car a couple laps I couldn't find traction to save my life. Ever! Noone out here has a Team Magic car so I have no friends to refer to as to how it should be setup. I took the rear sway bar off. Put on Associated Electric green rear springs. 40wt oil in front and rear. Ride height of 6.5 in front and 7 in rear. Droop of 4 in rear and 2 in front. Not used to such a complicated car. New to TC as well.
1st, other than wolf hobbies are there any other usa dealers? 2, what is a good place to start for setup under the previous conditions? I was told to look up a setup for a wet condition track and start there. According to the manual, my internal drive is 2.0588. When I do the math, I am at like 3.62 FDR. I can't say I have seen such a slow car! This thing was slooooow. Considering I am a beginner, are there any reads on the geometry of this car and how it works? Also, when I pulled the car off the track from a 5 minute heat, the temp was 135 F.