check out the black truck in the beggining of this thread, ask him.

and falcon lord, about the anodizing, try powder coating some of your parts. or do what i do, just get the silver ones that dont show scratches.

Yeah I'm not that stressed in real terms, but with the prices Hardcore charge you would expect better quality control from them

Mac, I can't find the truck your talking about...do you know the guys name?...Thank you.

scuba steve, i'm sorry. his truck wasn't black, the wheels were! his name is SixVi6-Camaro and he is the second poster besides myself.

Mac.. Steve was asking about 1/8 wheels, SixVi6-Camaro has stock max wheels and tyres and a 1/8th diffs...

oh, my bad.

Well I got the Maxx back on its Wheels, so now it looks a little like this

nice rims! the picture really makes you alloy stand out aswell.

Yeah I don't mind the Rims... They are XTM 3 spoke Alloy

http://www.hobbypeople.net/gallery/233180.asp
And look at the price $14.99 USD per pair. almost the same price as a lot of Plastic rims, and 1/5 of the price of a set of Hardcors Racing ones (Though not as impresive looking).

wow alumnum rims for 15 bucks, wonder how durable they are?

Only Time will tell, but they look solid as hell.
I'd like to know what most Alloy rims weigh, to compare the weight of these.

The Three spoke XTMs are 135gms per wheel
I think this is 4.495 ounces (At least tat is what my converter tells me).

thats a good price for nice looking rims like those.

I am having some fun and games getting the suspension on my Maxx to behave.
At the moment I am playing a bit on an Abandoned Lot that has uneven gravel but allows for a lot of high speed work (Tring to get cornering and speed down).

I am finding that the rear is popping up in the air a lot, and when it does this it will often kick sidways a bit making streight lines a bit of a stress.

I was under the impression this would be symptoms of either the shocks being to hard (They are stock and I have added lots of alloy to the rear) Or something to do with the oil. (Stock oil and valvs, with only a little leak on one front shock with the rears all being fine)

So I am lost... I would have thought with my setup it would be to soft not to hard. And to back this call if I push down the shocks they don't return to normal ride hight very successfully.

Is any one able to explain the why's and wherefores of this so I can understnad how to tune the suspension?

Pick attached to show the amount of Alloy in the tail of the Maxx

i think i know the cure!

first off, the rear popping into the air signals that the rear suspension is too hard. the shocks pre-load before they go over a jump and the stiff settings push the rear back up to counter the preload. therefor soften up the spring rate by taking away spacers or putting heavier shock oil into the rear shocks. now, the kicking to one side is as follows: the same principal applies to the side-to-side preload. if one side of the suspension is stiffer than the other, the preload on the stiff shocks will make them push that side of the truck up more when exiting the jump. therefor soften up the suspension on the side that is kicking up.

hope this helps and makes sense.