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Originally Posted by Tamiya Slave
Thanks for the advice MR. Spoolio. Hey, do you think we could get a pic of your buggy with the new dampers on?
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Sure, here they are in no particular order, front end with fixings, rear end and close-up on the outdrive at maximum droop (with 2 x 1mm O-rings to limit travel). Final shot is showing ride height with threaded spring collars right at the top of the shock bodies ie, no preload at all. I like my car with a fair bit of understeer to make it more stable and ran it today with Associated blue front springs (hardest) and Associated black rears which are the softest I had. However, as you can see, running a Core-RC 3250mah lipo pack which only weighs 200g, even on the softest springs I cannot get the CVD bones level. All the plastic fittings in the damper kit appears to be a reinforced composite material similar to my RC10 and the rod ends in particular are infinately superior to the soft plastic kit offerings and for this alone I'd invest in the damper set.
How did I do today with these bling new bits? Terrible, but that is 100% a reflection on my driving (non)skills than the car which was a night and day improvement on last time with plastic CVA dampers. It felt every bit as good as my RC10 B4, and just glided over the bumps. Whereas last time it was bucking all over - to the extent I had to back off and coast over the ripples - this time I kept my thumb in and it just went over with no fuss. Much more predictable in fast corners too. Running bald minipins for the final is perhaps not such a good idea though.
My verdict is that these dampers are excellent and other than the slipper are the best hop-ups I've put on the car.
For those of you considering these dampers I would recommend you source four 3x12 (lower fitting) and four 3x18 (upper fitting) cap headed machine screws to replace the crossheads supplied in the damper kit. The rear lower screw is a total bitch to remove -to change the springs - as the chassis gets in the way of the screwdriver handle. Today I started on Associated silver springs, changed to Tamiya white and reds, then Associated greens and finally blacks so as you can imagine I was pretty fed up with taking that particular screw on and off. The head now looks a little er, used to say the least so I will be getting some proper hex screws before the next meeting.