Fresh out of the tube.

Cool rims and container

Anyone know what the offset is for the ft/rear compared to the CRC/Jaco/TRC?

Paul told me they are very similar to crc offset.

I fit the servo up front. The layout possibilities this way are profound. One could fit a full-size pack and all electronics down the middle. Trust me....it can be done.

There was a few people trying the servo forward at the IIC last year. I used to run my EV10 that way but 1/12th has always been difficult to do that due to space. Most servos that small are not durable enough for the task but there are some out there that are.

Got my first 1/12 scale race under my belt today. Qualified 3rd for the A main,got the holeshot and the lead then 3mins in a turn marshall accidently stepped on my car and my steering got jacked up so I dnf'd. It was a blast,most fun I've had racing so far.

What's a good starting rollout for 13.5 blinky on a mid sized carpet track? Motor is reedy sonic, speedo is viper vtx1.

wow! how you mount the servo? it look like as new x10le front brace.

Bunch of people have already done this. Peter has a car setup like this mainly for ackerman testing, and it works fine. Another one of our club racers has an entire inline car setup like this and it worked.

It's really cool what people are doing and trying now. Thinking outside of the box. I've even seen a few cars rolling at like 220-230mm wheelbase.

I think it's Serpent that has a full inline car already, the S120 or something like that? Cool stuff for sure.

Mid 80's. With a ReVtech 13.5 on a large track I'm rolling out around 86mm.

Thanks for the rollout Wes. Yep, I know I'm definitely not the first as I got the idea from Peter's Rev 7. I just applied it to the Gen Xi. I posted about it on here so as to give the idea a wider scope of awareness. Neat stuff happening in 1/12 for sure.

Funny another local racer and I were kicking this idea around a month or so ago. I figured that the extra weight on the nose might be an advantage with todays lighter weight cars. Mabey I'll have to try it now.

A couple questions for those 12th scale racers who use the Hot Bodies center shock:

1) Do you try to build the shock with zero rebound? If not, how much do you generally use? And do you use rebound as a tuning aid?

2) How often do you replace the shock bladder itself? It appears pretty thin... are there any other bladders that work with the HB shock? Maybe the CRC encore bladders??

3) Do you mount the shock with the body up or down? My thought was to mount it with the body upwards... if any air gets in the shock, it will naturally rise to the top. And since the stroke of the HB shock is so long, the piston will never reach the area where the bubbles converge.

4) Most importantly... How does the general damping of the shock compare to other known quantities? ie: With the same weight oil, how does the damping of the HB shock compare to the Associated shock?

I built both the HB and AE shocks with 30wt oil... the damping of the HB shock felt a fair bit lighter. If I was using 30wt in the Associated shock, where should I start with the Hot Bodies? 35wt? 40wt? Higher?

Thanks

I'll add one more shock question to James' thread.

5. Who makes the best center shock?

I'm in the process of building an On Point car, using a R5.1 as a donor, but I'm looking for a better center shock. I say better because I have a hard time building/bleeding the AE shock.

Jim

Been building 4 of the Asso shocks the last couple of weeks now and haven't had any problems with bleeding what so ever.
All perfect
You could try if you have the room to use a TC5 shock for the centre shock.
I am running one on my 10R5, perfect choice

regards Roy