[Chrislong]

Hey Ste, There is an easy way of doing this mod, all you need are four long screws, 2x M3 locknuts and something to shim the tower back further. If you remove the wishbones from the gearbox sides, and literally put them on the other side of the car (but remember to get toe in right).... this achieves rear mounting positions on the wishbone, while wheelbase being marginally shorter (2mm). Then mount the tower on the rear of the tower mount, but with some spacing (I used about 6-7mm by using 4x Losi pistons I had lay around) and use longer screws here. Then using long screws to mount the shocks, followed by 2x lock nuts (so the shocks are behind the tower and nut under it as with the std shock screws). The only thing to modify is the rear bumper, which needs to be cut narrow as the blocks now hang further back than they did. You may need more antisquat, as the wishbone on LWB binds on the blocks otherwise.

I have seen two other ways of doing this. One involves swapping wishbone but not blocks, and then modifying the wishbone - this acheives a very short wheelbase. The other way is leaving the wishbones alone and redrilling them - so nothing else on the car changes - just the shocks.

The benefit, is when the wishbone flex's, because the shock is on the rear it is now the front of the wishbone which flex's and this helps the car drive very bumpy tracks such as Talywain - this is where it was tried and was found to be good.

It was done for a certain track, but this mod will give benefits on all tracks... as it also moves weight rearwards which I believe the car needs. it also does other things (depending on which way you do the mod, there are 3 ways of achieving the rear mounted shock). but the way most have done this, makes the car shorter, and the angle of the driveshafts creates better forward traction.

I would not change the setup for the initial try. Shouldn't need to be any different.

Ste, PM me your email address, I will email you some photos tomorrow of how mine looks.