I set my brakes to 50% on my ESC and 30-50% on my radio. If you can learn to drive with little to no brake you can become a great driver

I don't think that's really true all over. It really depends on the track you're on. Tighter tracks will demand more braking, otherwise you're just going too slow. These 4x4 trucks already have much more neutral drag than the 2wd's, so that helps not needing to use brakes as much. That coupled with the fact that we can rotate the truck using throttle helps a lot to.

At OCRC, being a hard pack high bite clay indoor with misters, the Tekno SCT410 does a lot better when you enter into the turn a little slow, then power through the turn. Often doing drifts around them. At least this is how the fastest guys run it (both Tekno trucks). I'm slowly learning, it's not as easy to learn power driving around a tack than it is to learn to be smooth. Power driving when learning yields more crashes. The body is sure taking a beating as I learn, but I have yet to snap anything, knock on wood, yet...

I'm going to be moving to the Fioroni Pistions as well and will be trying out SRAMOS' setup, with the exception of one stop softer springs all around and using AE oils close to the Losi oils he is using this chart: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...59026428,d.cGU

However I'd love to hear from other people running the Fioroni pistons!!!!!

That's one of the tracks I run with very little brake.
Smooth in and fast out. That track allows you to put a decent amount t of power down exiting the turn but acceleration out and speed in the transition are different. Yes, get all the throttle you can exiting but you may not want to be 100% in between the two turns. Come in too hot and you are braking more than the guy that moderated speed and is turning inside.
A little bit of Dr. Jeckle & Mr. Hyde. Some sections of the track you should be evil and others you should be nice

I'll let you know about the Fioroni's, just put them in.

Congrats, and thank you for all your hard work on here.

Magical Unicorn Juice has been installed (Fioroni Pistons) can't wait to try them out but must wait till next weekend.

I've always been electric, so no nitro finger. That being said, I still often pulse throttle to control speed, but it is a small varying pulse between about 15% or so of the throttle range. I generally follow the smoother don't have to brake hard in the corner method, as I still can't moderate how much brake I use very effectively, so I usually end up with too much when it should be subtle. If I could apply subtle changes in braking well, then I could build more speed and brake just a little to shift weight and slow again, making the turn even faster...but I'm still working on that skill.

Congratulations on the new addition to your Family Matt. Here's to all the sleepless night in your future, can't say that I miss those but it is all well worth it. Congrats bro.

My point was not that it works on every track, my point is that if you can learn to use as little braking as possible then you will be smoother in and out of turns instead of point and shoot where you lose a lot of momentum, the pros are smooth and consistent. In brief, if you can train yourself to not depend on brakes you can become very smooth, am I making sense? If I'm not then next day at the track lower your brake EPA a lot and take a couple laps.



Does your radio not have EXPO for braking?

I for one would still like a general tyre guide. I recall starting out with a lot of confusion over tyres, especially because I ran at night in damp conditions. Even if you just group them by category and give examples of what category works for what conditions. There aren't many posts around with a comprehensive list of available tyres.

Way too many variables to suggest tires, best thing for someone new is to call the track they plan on visiting and ask them. Or go there and ask some of the fast guys... and the same guy that you can call at the counter.

To get a general idea, go to JC or PL or Panthers website to get a general idea of what tire is good for what condition... but that's really vague as compounds within the treads are yet another variable.

Great advice totally agree

How are people liking the de borrego wheels. Needing a new set as i lost the nylon of a locking nut and rounded out a wheel. Getting new and seen these in the lhs.

Love the borregos, super stiff and they stay remotely true longer than the others I've run.

Borregos are sweet, almost use those and Trinidad's always.

Ran the Fioroni's with Sramos' oil/spring setup last night. They definitely work well, and I didn't get the nosedive nearly as much as before, which was tolerable already. Still letting it soak in to decide what changes I want to make for me, but overall they're great. Ran them in my EB48 also.......My only struggle to tune out right now (in both cars) is that braking into flat corners my front end would slide and I couldn't turn until I feathered back into the power, so I ended up deeper into the turns than I wanted. I had just gone up to 10k in center diff on both cars, and I'm sure this contributed, so will be going back to 7k when I get a chance, I also could turn down the braking a bit, but I kind of need it for the end of a long(80') carpet straightaway bridge with an abrupt turn to a dropoff at the end.
Had about 12 guys per class, some with respectable finishes at trophy races, I ran 2wd buggy, 2wd sc, 4wd sc, 1/8 buggy, TQ'd all 4 and won all 4 A-Mains.........I drive/practice a lot for fun, mostly on my own private track, but this was only the second time I have showed up at an actual race(TQ'd and won the first time also), they didn't know what to think
Winning 2wd was the icing on the cake, as I have very little experience there, but it's coming together for me all of a sudden. It's only a small club race, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't pleased with the outcome
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