If you can get your truck to behave try out Cav's set up
http://teamassociated.com/pdf/cars_a...brace_2011.pdf

Someone else said it perfectly, These trucks are supposed to be driven smoothly and steadily like a touring car prefers. They don't like to be twitched or jerked, again, like a touring car.

I think once AE gets a good standard setup out there, we should be good to go. The car is just not like anything out there so finding what works is taking longer. Also doesn't help that swaybars were not included in the kit and are hard to get ahold of as that appears to be one of the must have items to get it handling right, or at least, to start.

And maybe guys need to also be willing to try a setup that is different than what they normally would consider "right".

thats basically what im figuring out with this truck. the setup that is starting to work for my driving style, is way off from the setups that have been posted online.

My setup seems to be just fine. My truck feels like its on rails.

I am that guy. I put a $16 servo in this when I first got it. But I learned quick that you don't want to leave that up to chance with it being hard to get to. I have since upgraded to a good quality Ace servo.

Do I want to ask which one you bought?

I usually spend more on my servo than I do for my motor. Steering seems to be important in this hobby.

Probably a little overkill but I got a 7940 hitec in mine. Servo works great in my 8th scale so I figured it would do the job here.

Drive it like a 2wd and you will love it. I put gold barcodes on mine for indoor clay and it is amazing, all stock except for shocks outside on all a arms and backed the springs almost all the way off. If your fast with 2wd sc then you automatically know how to drive this, it does everything better faster! I'm Faster with this than with my clapped out losi and it's very fast, same tires completely different electronics. The SC10 4x4 is all about precision driving like the 2wd FT SC10, for me it just works!

Exactly. Drivining my sc10 4x4 has made me a better at 1/8th scale. PRECISION is the key.

Better overkill than underkill for me.

are u guys mostly running 540 motors? looking at the sxx tc v2 esc and a 7.5 orion 540 motor

You are 100 percent correct. If you drive it like a 2wd it will handle well and perform well. This car likes smooth driving, hard braking, and punching the throttle is what makes the car not handle well. It has to be drove smoother than all the other shaft drive 4x4 SCT's. On another note, I am also running the stock setup and it handles well. Running on outdoor clay with green bar codes.

Around here it gets too hot to chance a 540... our top dog in 4x4 is running a 540, in an Ofna, but he has several spares, in case he blows one.... the rest of us are running 550s for the sake of reliabilitiy.... I am easily as fast as he is down the straight... I just need to learn how to drive...