Originally Posted by Chad Smith

YES I thought I was the only one. I might have to buy the losi and run the AE on tight 10 scale tracks (definatly not selling my AE) and the losi on 8 scale. At my local track I am usally in the top 3 in the A every week until Motorama came along. I was in the E main. One spot away from the bump

But atleast I did better with my 2wd SC, I placed 5th in the A.

Originally Posted by CoyoteSlash

uploading! takes an hour and a half to get on Youtube. It's 720p baby! (it's like 5 minutes, nothing "epic" or anything.)

Originally Posted by ilanstylz

Sorry I'm used to my 40mbps upload ;-)

Originally Posted by ilanstylz

How is your gear mesh setup, is it to tight are you stripping your spur?

Originally Posted by lodhammerdin

So, I went racing yesterday, Had a blast, and made ALOT of new changes.First off, I PM'd Mantis for some help and he gave me some REALLY good tip's. I was having an issue with the rear of the truck coming around very easily ever since I went to the saddle setup. I knew the truck would be different but DAM, it was almost un-drivable.

So, for starters, he suggested that i go to 30k from 20k (was the strongest I could get at while I was at the track, that's how bad my truck was, I changed the diff fluid at the track) and 5k from the 10k I had. Also, told me to go with 0 front camber and -2 rear. I did all that except the rear diff because I couldn't get any 5k. In the first heat, the truck was tons better, but still not where I wanted it to be, so I went from yellow sway bar in the front to a blue one and from blue in the rear to a white. In the second heat, my truck was even better, and almost where I wanted it, but i decided another change was in order. At this point in time, my buddy "nmdesertracer" was going crazy with me doing so many chages to my truck. So, after the second heat race, I went to blue springs in the front (had yellows on before) and to whites (had blues) in the rear. Now my truck was feeling AWESOME!!! So, I ran a "3rd" heat (had them run the loop for 5 mins during intermission and I somehow broke a shock cartridge. So, I replaced it and put 35 wt instead of 32.5 in the fronts. During the main, The truck ran absolutely perfect!! Was running 2nd when I hit Lipo cut off at the 9:30 mark... Well, thought I would Post my new setup for you guys if anyone need's a good one for a large, bumpy, medium to low traction 1/8 scale track. Hope this help's some people. Any questions, feel free to ask.

Originally Posted by CoyoteSlash

PRCR: Sunday, 19th of Feb.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVw_Lb2Q5Ic




Thanks to Ryan, for bringing his kick ass Camera and gear, and taking time out from practicing himself to take them. (i'd break the Camera if I touched it.)

Originally Posted by CoyoteSlash

You got that wrong, Sal. I didn't do shit.

At my home track, I give my Radio to any kid showing interest. My Slash was like the village RC. (see what I did there? )

I love BS'ing. At work, i'm the 'smart' one, at Meldrum, I'm usually the knowledgeable guy. At PRCR, Hell i'm nothin' there. Kinda a relaxing feeling not having people's expectations!

I'm tearing my truck down with full Bearing rebuild and the shock/slipper settings we discussed as I type... I'll be out there Sunday only because I need to see the difference before he changes the track and my "comparison" is void.

Originally Posted by Chad Smith

Ok guys Motorama is finally over! It was a long weekend. The track was really loose and loomy while also being super super rutted up from the 8 scales. So the first practice, I went out and found out that I forgot to put one of the bearings in the rear tranny so my rear top shaft was wiggling and I ended up stripping a spur. So that ended my run with less than 1 lap. Once I fiquired out the promblem it took me hours to find another spur. Not one hobby shop had one, thank god a fellow racer had a spare or I would have been done for the whole weekend. So for the secound practice, it didnt really go any better. The track was 3 times worse and rutted then before my first practice run. I had no rear traction and the rear end constantly washed out, I also had to really "feather" the throttle to get around the track, while the losi's where full throttle everywhere even through the rough stuff. I switched to blue rear springs and to the 3-3 block and I gained my traction back. But by that time it was after 10:00 PM and I wasnt staying till 12:00 PM to get another practice run in. By the end of qualifying on Saturday I was about 30th out of 165 drivers. But I still couldnt "push" my truck hard enough like the losi's where to get into the bump up spot I needed to get into the next main today. There was two table tops about 5 feet apart. The losi's could hit the first table and clear the whole thing landing on the downside of the 2nd table. So the next lap I tryed it and was pretty unsuccessful, I was loosing time in that section but could not clear it for the life of me. I guess on big, rutted 8 scale tracks the losi does have an advantage on the AE. My truck was bouncing around through the rutted rough parts of the track when I tryed to push it even though I added 3 ounces of lead weight. The rear end still wanted to come around as well. I guess the center diff will help.

As well as getting punted into pipes because the losi would come and plow me out of the way.

Just wanted to share my experience! Wasnt to bad of a day but not as I expected it to be.