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Originally Posted by Twister
Team Losi is pretty much the only brand i haven´t tried yet so i'm curious.
the car is pretty much standard stuff i i guess but i would like to know your experience with the car and do´s and dont's are much apriciated. Cheers Tony  |
What kind of tracks will you be running at? Smooth grass/astro, or dirt?
This car is brilliant at bumpy dirt tracks, but may lack some steering. It's a rock solid car, my opinion is that it can take a hell of a lot more beating than a B4. I've had both, and coming from touring cars, I have crashed a lot due to inexperience with offroad, but a love for speed:P
Part recommendations would be the losa4148, which is the front aluminum pivot block. Crashing hard head on into something will make you break the stock one or an A-arm or both, with this part you will only ever break the arms.
Other parts for easy adjustability and durability would be LNS7341, Lunsford "Quick Tune" Losi XXX Titanium Shock Mounts and also Ghea racing inner and outer front hinge pins, plus their shock pistons. They have tapered pistons that gives quicker rebound on very bumpy tracks, feels very good on my car allthough I haven't had the chance to test them enough back to back with the stock pistons.
Depending on what surface you run, the rear end has a few options. When running high grip grass/astro/carpet, the car could suffer from a lack of steering and a rear end that feels a bit stuck in the corners. The losa4149 Alu. Pivot block for the XXX-T coupled with losa9800 rear arms(must have both) will make it feel a bit stiffer and quicker, and also better on jumps.
Running on a very bumpy track, you'd probably feel better using the stock parts. For the build the car comes with two steering options, a rack and a bell crank. There's nothing in the manual about the bell crank, but I would advice you to run it. Feels more consistent, even though the rack offers more adjustability. I use the bell crank both on my high grip mid motor CR2 and my regular CR built for dirty, bumpy tracks.
On the dampers you can't really go very wrong, but I'll add a youtube video that gives a very good view on how to build them with no air at all:
Puh. Writing block was at least not a problem today, hope I wasn't too informative now. Hope you got the answers you needed!
/Martin - Norwegian idiot, but working and racing for the Norwegian Losi Distributor
