dodgeguy

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For all Cyclone owners. The diff screw is the same crapy one used in the Pro4. They break if you over tighten them. Or on the track when you bump a board. Use an AE diff screw and t-nut. You will not have problems after that.

Corner Weight

When you put the pulleys on the shaft, you have to spread them apart a little to adjust the side-to-side slop. If you squeeze all of the gears together tight, the shaft will move - which is probably what you did. I leave my outer pulleys loose when the shaft goes in and then tighten the grub screws last - I do the rear pulley last to adjust the slop.

bigair78

Yeah, I have them pretty close because the grub screws are rubbing the insides of the plates. I guess I need smaller grub screws.

Corner Weight

The HPI ones that come in the regular kit don't even stick out of the pulleys. Maybe you can grind down the ones you have.

bigair78

Well the mail rain today and I got my parts from RC-Mushroom. They have a lot of Cyclone S upgrades. I mounted up the new parts and got everything figured out. Here are some pics.

bigair78

A few more....

BillyCaldwell

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The car looks great bigair

bigair78

Thanks,

I am finally getting it back together. I can't wait to try the spool out tomorrow.


Josh

mangoman

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Nice bigair, i hope they arent tamiya shocks on the car ;P

PS. where did you get the purple pinion from?

DENNIS STORTI

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hey guys my kid ran his cyclone tonite. and the car seemed good but i do find the the dog bones are gonna be a problem. i have already upgraded the car with my stk chassis,topdeck,towers an i will be swapping it over to a normal cyclone this week. but it was a problem trying to get ride height,droop, dual rate with 56 mm foam tires an the steering links were hitting the arm mounts

bigair78

http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LXMG18&P=7

The guys at the hobbytown where I race said these tamiya shocks were pretty good. That is all they had in stock that was and upgrade really. I only paid 35bucks for a brand new set. Have you heard bad things about them?

bigair78

I had trouble trying to adjust the ride height with the stock shocks. The problem I saw was that some of the shocks were binding on the inside. After hitting a wall my steering links were rubbing a little also. But my ball cup was a little tweaked.

bigair78

Well I raced my Cyclone S today. I was having trouble with the new pulleys loosing grub screws at first. Got that fixed and it still didn't feel right. I tried different springs and that made it better. Then I broke a C hub. That is the third one since I got it. I hit the wall but not that hard. Is this something I should replace with alluminum? When I broke it I lost my dogbone. So the cyclone was done for the day. I pulled out my backup car to run the mains.


Can someone tell me what part numbers I need for cvd's? Includeing the shafts also. I am running a spool in the front. I think you have to have different output drives for the diffs.

Thanks.

howard1

I currently run 2 Pro4's, and am looking to get the Cyclone S. As I have a lot of spares for the Pro4 I would like to know what parts are interchangeable with the Cyclone S? Are for example the universal driveshafts and shocks compatible?

padailey

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Well I'm not sure about the universal driveshafts... but I think they will work. Others parts that work are most front and rear end parts like C-Hubs, knuckles, shocks, pivot blocks, and bumper. I'm sure there are a few more but those come to mind.