Originally Posted by
ben73
I got my car last week and ran it friday night for the first time. previously ran the rc12r5
build quality is typical xray - excellent.
the small details on the car are much better than the AE car - I have all offroad AE cars and the fit and finsih on the XII are brilliant.
the shock is great - a much better unit than the rc12r5
car was good out of the box, quite agressive in the front end but by the end of the nights racing I had found a nice balance and got it working well. ended up 0.1 sec off the quickest lap times. the car has speed!
I did run the blue AE side springs on the car as Xray have not released any yet. funnily enough they fit almost perfectly on the spring holders....
I havent seen the instruction manual yet but I heard that it was in there to raise the cross brace 1.5 mm to take the preload off the side springs. This will help settle the car down a lot. We did this at the Birds. Also another thing to take the aggressiveness away from the front end is to cut about 2-3mm off the top of the steering block to lower the upper arm and remove camber gain. It will make the car a lot easier to drive and carry more corner speed.
Any more questions fire away and I'll try to answer best possible.
EA