Wanted to give you guys some feedback from my 1st night of racing this truck. I run on a large 1/8th scale track with ok traction but not blue groove by any means. I started with 35w front 30w rear on the shocks for the big jumps. 5k rear and 15k front for the long sweeping turns to make it not turn under too sharp. I am running the 13t pinion with a 4.5 550 Ballistic and the hottest it came off of the track was 130 after 10 minutes of running hard.

The 1st thing I noticed was the need for sway bars but since I don't have them I needed to figure out how to deal with the picking up of the front inside tire and washing out the rear. I moved the bottom of the rear shock to the outer position and the top of the rear shock to the inner giving more resistance. This cured about 90 percent of the problem. I will still get sway bars when they come out, but it is very race able now.

The A-main was made up of a mix of all brands of 4x4's. I finished 2nd in a 1 2 3 finish of all AE 4x4 trucks. The only thing that the Losi's had on us last night was the extra weight. There was some big wind gusts and the Losi's did not blow over as easy. I had to go for the double single instead of the triple. I did crash hard doing the triple in practice and nothing broke. I had a great night racing my baseline set up, and will continue to tweak it as time goes.

The guy that finished 3rd with his AE was running a TP 7.5 540 and came off the track after the 6 minute main at 220 degrees (ouch).

I am going to play with adding some weight on a windy day to see what happens. Also I will get the Flotek body to see how it helps. I was running my SC10 2wd body last night.