Originally Posted by
speed6
Soooooo finally i manged to ru the R4.
The 2nd didn't want to engage and yes everything was clean and degreased.
I ended up unscrewing almost half a turn more than the manual says in order to kick in, but the screws are touching a bit the aluminium housing and obviosly did some grooving. Also it doesn't feel consistent sometimes it shifts with certain revs someother times it shift earlier etc....
After cleaing the car i took out and inspected the 2nd for the (around) 15th time and smoothened the screws in order not to touch.
On our local track the cars still feels that needs more steering.
In order to get better steering i did the following:
I installed softer shock (light blue) lighter oil 300wt vs the stock 400wt
Installed front shocks on the lower hole of shock tower.
Caster with out spacers up front.
Moved the rear shocks to an upper hole by one space.
Reduced a bit the toe in in the rear ( 0.25 degree )
Running 37 front and 40 rear
I still want some more steering and thought of the follwing:
I am thinking of going for harder springs in the rear (dark blue) with 450 wt shock oil.
Less Toe in in the rear but might be not stable.
Running 35 Front and 40 rear
What do you suggest?
Thanks
I found the diffs to be very critical to the setup. Make sure they are filled all the way up.
If you have enough rear grip try going to 80k rear diff.
I ran yesterday and the car was on rails. On Saturday I installed an Xray front locker. All you need to do to run this is find 2 .9mm shims to shim the bearings out and then take a little bit of meat off the inside of the pully so that it fits the Xray locker. You will also need to glue on the retainer to the gear. The retainer does not come in the R4 kit so you will need to get it off a RRR or a RRR Gears spare parts bag.
I had my 2nd race meeting on the rear diff that has been shimmed and it performed flawless with a TQ and win.
The car was absolutely brilliant and I was really impressed with the handling. I think I have finally started to get on top of the teething troubles and can now start to change a few things on the setup.
I will put the front diff back in for the start of the next meeting just to back to back the locker/diff.
What I did find was that the car pushed a little on power but I dont mind that as it was so stable everywhere else that it made up for it.