If you want to save a few grams, you'll need a booster like this one.

http://www.tqcells.com/BuyTQBOOSTER_In_Stock.htm

If you use a RX pack you won't save much weight, though I prefer it.

It won't make much difference with the high capacity lipos(5000+mah) I only use about 1600-1800 mah per race.

I'm setting up a 1/12 scale pan car, lipo, Tekin RS (boosted mode) with a Redline 13.5 brushless motor.

Tires pro CRC pro-cut 1.80" front and 1.90" rear

Wondering what gear ratio would be good for competitive racing ?

Any info or recommendations would be appreciated.


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Thanks In Advance,
BeAr

What motor? Boosted or blinky?

How big are your tires?

Guys, i finished my S120TL equipped with Muchmore Fleta 3 Esc and HPI Flux 5T motor. About my Fleta, i had to disable voltage cutoff, is it correct? And also it seems my amb trasponder has a poor light led.
I think my ESC can't support 1S, but is the first time for me with 1S and i don't have experience about that.
Any suggestions?
Thanks

All,

My local track has usually been low/medium grip carpet. Recently we have seen an increase in entries and a lot more foam tire cars being run (1/12 & WGT) which has caused the grip to come up considerablly.

Before, CRC Black Fronts & GreyLow Rears were a solid choice and worked really well. They came off the track clean and held up well through the 8 minute run.

Now, these tires are coming off feeling really sticky/tacky and are begining to fuzz 3/4 way through the run. Same with grey/yellow combo. The cars feel slower and slightly lazy.

I've tried TRC Magenta & Pinks in the past and they come off really tacky as well. Very strong at the begining of a run, but fall off dramatically 1/2 way though.

Is there a tire combo that anyone would recommend for this situation?
or
Is there setup changes that need to happen? Stiffer all the way around?
or
Is this just a matter of cleaning the tires with motor spray between runs?

Thanks in advance.

When I run pink or magenta tires, I put tire sauce on them the night before and keep them in a plastic bag, makes it last the whole race and then some.

The Synthetic Black / Grey Low, or Black / Yellow combo should be the best option for the conditions you describe.

What tire sauce are/were you using ?

Getting everyone to use the same tire sauce should help with consistency.
Also try not to wander off the main groove. If the tires are sticky and pickup fuzz from driving off-line, it will be hard to hold a line in the next few corners, making matters even worse.

What type of maintenance do the track owners follow?
At TQ the owner will vacuum the track once a week with unique a scoop that rides on TC tires so as not to stir up any fuzz, it only sucks up dirt and broken car bits.
Since he has used this method our grip has improved considerably.

[QUOTE=RedBullFiXX;9968174]...At TQ the owner will vacuum the track once a week with unique a scoop that rides on TC tires so as not to stir up any fuzz, it only sucks up dirt and broken car bits...QUOTE]

What does this scoop look like, maybe we can do/use something similar at our track?
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Using SXT as is everyone else.

As far as wandering off the groove, it's more of an issue that the tires are getting tacky first, causing the car to push, which does not help with keeping the car in the groove.

It almost seems as though there is so much tire dope on the track that the foam is getting saturated with it.

After an 8 minute run, if I grabbed a rear tire with my hand, my hand would be completely black.

I have never heard of this problem, and its still just medium traction and the cars feel sluggish? what kind of carpet? is it the SXT 3.0 compound, because they say that the others are for rubber tires.

The traction has come up and is now high traction with the increase of cars running on it. CRC Carpet. SXT 3.0.

I also experienced this issue at IIC as did others, the tires started to get really tacky and that is what I think is causing the cars to feel sluggish, the tires are gumm'd up.

It's impossible to have more grip than iic, at least from my experience.
New rug, 53 heats per round of non-stop JTG sauced tires.

And yes, the tires were black and sticky at iic, but no fuzz, and no build-up
Perfect traction for 8 mins no problem.

I used Black/Yellow for blinky and boosted, Magenta for mod.
We just run smaller dia tires when there is that much grip.

Most of the upper class drivers only used the tires for one round per day, 2 max.
That may help in your situation, to have a rotations of tires, use the same 3 sets, from week to week, but no re-runs the same day.