40LikesSpeedmerchant Rev 8
12-28-2013, 10:52 AM
#153
Has anyone received their kits yet?
Still waiting here :-(
Still waiting here :-(
12-29-2013, 11:11 AM
#154
12-30-2013, 10:05 AM
#155
Tech Regular
is there a UK distributor for speedmerchant gear?
12-30-2013, 01:09 PM
#156
12-30-2013, 02:53 PM
#157
Even within the US I'm finding USPS incompetent
12-30-2013, 05:47 PM
#159
OOPs!
12-30-2013, 05:47 PM
#160
Excuse me, it wasn't the USPS that left thousands of people without presents this year. 
01-18-2014, 01:53 PM
#162
Santa finally delivered my Rev8 this week and I just about got it built in time for this weekends national 1/12th meeting at my local club.
I've had a few teething problems, not helped by my ropey driving today, which has seen me do a bit of stress testing... Broke a front suspension arm by running wide at high speed into a corner barrier. In my final run I had an issue with front ride height, causing some crashes and spins, one of which had me sideways with another car approaching, the resulting impact broke the sidelink. Two parts breaking in one day is pretty unusual but I should have crashed less.
One problem I was having, along with the other two Rev8 runners, was grip roll. Using Ulti X Compound, medium rear, hard front, the fronts had to be trued down very small and the rears quite small to match. I also went one softer on the side springs, to 0.18.
Using SXT3.0 additive, full rear, 1/6 front.
Kit setup, bar the side springs on my last run (which seemed better) cells across the chassis.
I spent a lot of the day dialing down the aggressive initial steering.
I've had a few teething problems, not helped by my ropey driving today, which has seen me do a bit of stress testing... Broke a front suspension arm by running wide at high speed into a corner barrier. In my final run I had an issue with front ride height, causing some crashes and spins, one of which had me sideways with another car approaching, the resulting impact broke the sidelink. Two parts breaking in one day is pretty unusual but I should have crashed less.
One problem I was having, along with the other two Rev8 runners, was grip roll. Using Ulti X Compound, medium rear, hard front, the fronts had to be trued down very small and the rears quite small to match. I also went one softer on the side springs, to 0.18.
Using SXT3.0 additive, full rear, 1/6 front.
Kit setup, bar the side springs on my last run (which seemed better) cells across the chassis.
I spent a lot of the day dialing down the aggressive initial steering.
01-20-2014, 03:38 AM
#164
Thanks, I stuck with the across and tried to get it to work, but combined with some dodgy driving I had a pretty poor sunday too. I should have tried inline.
I've struggled to get a predictable balance that I like since switching to SXT additive a few months ago. I spent the day concentrating on tyres, but other than truing down very small to avoid driving half the corners on two wheels, I didn't find what I wanted.
I had to drive very smooth and couldn't attack any apexs with confidence, the rear end was either all grip or snap 180 oversteer.
I'm liking the quality of Ulti tyres, but what difference do the Y and Z compounds make over the X? are J compound still worth bothering with?
I've struggled to get a predictable balance that I like since switching to SXT additive a few months ago. I spent the day concentrating on tyres, but other than truing down very small to avoid driving half the corners on two wheels, I didn't find what I wanted.
I had to drive very smooth and couldn't attack any apexs with confidence, the rear end was either all grip or snap 180 oversteer.
I'm liking the quality of Ulti tyres, but what difference do the Y and Z compounds make over the X? are J compound still worth bothering with?
