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12-30-2008, 02:31 PM

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Jonathan Bell

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what kind of rollout you guys running on carpet with 17.5? track is about 60x30. It's a new class here so not alot of help locally. Below is a pic, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...newshop008.jpg

Last edited by Jonathan Bell; 12-30-2008 at 02:46 PM.

12-31-2008, 10:55 AM

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Takt

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Originally Posted by Takt

I'm running the latest Josh H setup ...

On Saturday, I was running a track with a high speed sweeper to the left and the car wanted to spin out during the sweeper and then the significant hairpin at the end of sweeper.

On Sunday, I was at a different track with a high speed sweeper to the right and a 180 hairpin at the end ... and the car wanted to spin out at the sweeper and did on the hairpin.

Any suggestions on what is goofy with my car? Going to rebuild my diff this week ... but anything else to look at?

Thanks

Yep, it was something goofy alright ... but not with the car, just with the dipstick maintaining the car.

The rear diff was VERY loose. Tightened it up and the car handled exactly as advertised. Very stable and fast (too fast for the driver, but that is a different topic).

Thanks!

12-31-2008, 02:27 PM

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hey guys new to the on-road scene. and love the car the 2 times i have ran it.

how often are you guys rebuilding shocks? i am off-road and used to every day.

12-31-2008, 04:43 PM

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Is the TC5R quality good compared to the Xray (probably not), Schumacher, Tamiya, Corally,...? It's an interesting piece of kit, but in offroad there are some serious quality problems with the latest kits of the B4, so maybe the TC5R wears fast as well? I intend to use a 10,5 and LiPo.

12-31-2008, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by vic0280

hey guys new to the on-road scene. and love the car the 2 times i have ran it.

how often are you guys rebuilding shocks? i am off-road and used to every day.

I race every other week so I generally do it after every race because there is nothing else going on...

12-31-2008, 07:32 PM

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Originally Posted by potloodslijper

Absolutely. Up front cost, the XRay is definately more money. At the end of the season, you're probably the same. I used to run XRay but I am now running the TC5R and I honestly like it better.

12-31-2008, 07:48 PM

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Hey guys I need a good carpet/ rubber tire set up for my TC5R thanks

12-31-2008, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Rdog

Hey guys I need a good carpet/ rubber tire set up for my TC5R thanks

Got to post 7881 a few pages back, Josh has posted his current setup. Most everyone in our area anyway is running it or something very close to it.

12-31-2008, 10:00 PM

#8214

giovanni

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57 shock pistons

losa5045 are these the right pistons to use on your setup Josh?

01-01-2009, 04:30 AM

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Originally Posted by giovanni

losa5045 are these the right pistons to use on your setup Josh?

I dont know the pn off hand but they are losi 57 pistons for the off road cars not the tc car.
I have one car built with associated 3's and it feels and drives the same.

01-01-2009, 05:55 AM

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anybody have a baseline set-up rubber carpet using a spool track size will the snowbirds warmup race this weekend, thanks in a advance

01-01-2009, 06:37 AM

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Originally Posted by dawgmeat

anybody have a baseline set-up rubber carpet using a spool track size will the snowbirds warmup race this weekend, thanks in a advance

I'm currently running Rick Hohwart's setup from the IIC. Josh H's setup is really good too(refer above).

01-01-2009, 09:25 AM

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anyone have a good asphalt setup...for a track sprayed with soda..

I have seen some Tc5 with a white belt, where do u get it and does it hlp ?

01-01-2009, 10:08 AM

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tc5

what does it take to make a tc5 the same as a tc5r

01-01-2009, 10:45 AM

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Johnny Wishbone

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Aluminum out drives for the diff, slipper pads for the front diff, optional rubber "o" ring set up for the top deck. The R says its a ITF chassis and top plate, but both are 2mm thick.