Originally Posted by Serpentd

Kodak dude, I'm glad to hear you had what sounds to be like a good test and tune day. You started to "iron" out the new car blues as I call them. Anyway, as far as your question in regards to your receiver pack, there are a few so called methods. For starters, think of your pack as a maximum of 1 hour of run time with a full peak charge. Hence why you can have a 1 hour main. However don't push the one hour out of your pack unless it is a main.

I always start the day with a full pack. In the morning after "practice" is done whether it's 2 or 9 tanks, I top of the battery for the heats for the day. Then after 3 heats I will top it off again for the main. Doing it this way, I NEVER have to worry about running too low.

However there are small volt meters so to speak that you can connect to the receiver to monitor voltage. They are small and shaped like a rectangle. They are about 1.5cm x 4cm and fairly flat. They have about 8 green led's and 3 red led lights. I have used them in the past for my airplanes. This is about all I know of for actually monitoring the votage while attached to the car. They weigh almost nothing, so weight isn't an issue. But if you just pay attention to how many tanks you are running, you really don't need a monitor other then paying attention.

I would suggest to put some sort of rubberband or something around the throttle of the carb. I actually use these little black or clear hair ties. They are like very thin rubber bands, but much stronger and the fuel doesn't hurt them. I have NEVER had one break. You do need to tripple them up to make them shorter if you know what I mean because of there length. This makes them "shut" the carb to idle just incase your Throttle rod ever came loose or broke or any of the thinks that can go wrong. I have seen it happen plenty of times on other vehicles, and has even saved me more then once.

I'm not sure if I answered your question, but this is what I do and have NEVER had a runaway ever in over 8 years of racing every form of nitro vehicle. The best of luck to you my friend, it sounds as though you are off to a GREAT start!!!!!! Your USA support friend...

Originally Posted by Toy000

I hear ya shane, im itchin to get my car out there as well. im well on top of the runaway glitch problem, and hope to be getting some decent laps down before the next meet. If all goes well and the 2 top runners belt each other off the track again, were gonna be in for a Team magic 1 2 3 Here s hopin i get rid of my gremlins.

Originally Posted by Kodak Hodak

ill become the darkhorse......

Originally Posted by Serpentd

Kodak my friend, here are a few pics of what I was trying to explain to you with the volt monitor and hair ties. I put the hair ties next to some smaller rubber bands to give you an idea of size along with the companys name to help you find these. Plus a pic of one installed on one of my engines. I found a few battery monitors after digging around some. The picture shows two different ones, these would plug into channel #3 or if you only have a 2 channel recevier, then you would need a "Y" splitter, Hope this helps some. Later bro!

Originally Posted by razzor

Gansei thats not new its what used to come on the G4e/Mongoose .The swing rack steering system was good and smooth from what I heard but the current system on the G4S replaced the swing rack system and is preferred by most drivers that have run both cars.

Originally Posted by razzor

on the carb return spring/elastic band topic.A buddy says that the rubber bands used by dentists on braces works well and are fuel proof.Havent tried one ,looking into it though and will be going to check my dentist.

Originally Posted by gansei

thanks for your advise..

But i could not understand exactly.. ^^

do you mean swing rack steering system is G4S normal steering system(single bell crank steering system)?