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Originally Posted by Wacker 2
Going back to the B4 axles would again be something that would put a negative on the handling (give with 1 hand and take away with another!!!), and I had thought of trying that spacing thing... I currently am not running the Losi spacers, but instead am using some axle spacers that I had from running my 1/10th HB Cyclone Touring Car (you got a small axle spacer with every set of hubs that you bought that was designed to go between the inner and outer bearing of the hub) - not sure of the exact width of these spacers but I do have to use 2 of them each side to be the perfect size (will post size of spacers when I get my hands on some callipers). Therefore it would be easy for me to put one on the inside of the hub and one of the outside to reduce the plunge, but doing this would cause the driveshafts to pop out at full droop.
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Thanks again, keep ideas coming, Jon!
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Hey Jon - it sounds like you'd thought about the axle spacer idea but not tried it? I'd recommend taking a close look at it because I know you can get all these settings to work together: I'm currently running my car with the transmission raised up .060" (1.52 mm) and can run the inside hole on the rear arm with as little as .060" internal shock limiting. I have my CVD axles (the longer ones, part #5660) with .065" of spacing between the axle head and the hub carrier bearing. The standard set-up I'm running currently is with the rear shocks mounted 1/2, but I moved it to the inside hole on the arm for these pictures. I broke the toe-in bar trying to do a front flip by running a jump backwards
; the car only made it about 2/3rds of the way around and landed on the right rear wheel
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See the transmission spacer (I use shock spacers usually):
Here's at full droop:
Its hidden in there but you can see there's plenty of engagement at full droop. This is with .120" (2mm) of internal limiting, and I would feel pretty comfortable going down to .060" (1 mm) before I think the dog bone would start popping out.
And here's at compression - sorry about the blurry quality of the top-down pic; its close to hitting the diff nut carrier but doesn't:
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For general comments, here's the track I've been running on:
(bigger version:
http://www.xfactoryrc.com/paul/WHTrack4-15-09.jpg)
My car is dirty as it rained the day before we raced. I've actually cleaned it up some; here's how it came off after the first practice run:
