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Originally Posted by Bsr241
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Just broke mine today in the exact same place. Hoping it doesn't prove to be a weak spot!
That being said, I did give the car a serious strength test at the Teesside regional today. Spent the first round totally misjudging the jumps and landing on every part of the car except the wheels (been a while since I ran a buggy
). Nothing broke or got knocked off even though I wouldn't have been surprised it it did.
Unfortunately I then started to have a lot of problems with my batteries.
First the Corallies were getting shaken loose (never ever had this happen before, happened three times in the space of two races!). A bit of electrical tape solved this.
Second, my batteries were actually breaking apart at the bars in each of my first three races. Now my soldering is not that bad, but looking at the design of the chassis it keeps the front cells in the pack pretty snug while the rear three are free to move around quite a lot. I tried putting a lot more sticky foam around the pack, this didn't seem to make a difference, so in the end I had to run a little superglue between the cells and wrap them in tape to hold them together. Something to watch out for maybe.
Setup wise was totally as kit except I put the small and large spacers on the front shocks to get it up to level wishbones. Handling was very good except for jumping a little bit nose down. Plenty of steering and rode the bumps surprisingly well considering the shocks.
Unfortunately the combination of 19T motor power and nose-down jumping was to be my undoing, tried to take the big tabletop in one during the D final (which I knew I couldn't do consistently), landed clumsily, flipped, and broke the rear tower.
Until that happened, my best laps were in the 24s range, which considering I was running a 19T motor was pretty pleasing. Best time was a 12/303, getting me 17th best time in round 4.