[HOTSHOT III]

Due to today's fantastic weather, and the fact that last week at TORCH I found it hard to drive the DEX210 in the wet I decided to do a little surgery. First I dremelled (I don't know any machinists so I had to mark it out carefully and finish it off with a file/wet and dry) 2mm off the bottom of the rear toe plate to make it sit lower on the chassis and add anti-squat which should give more rear grip under power and more off-power rotation. Check out the before and after pics, you can really see the difference in the hinge pin angle:











Also last week I was advised that as the grip comes up on astro you should make the wheelbase longer and longer (you can achieve this by flipping the arms over) but I didn't want the shocks to be on the rear of the car and vulnerable so I duplicated the 3 shock mounting holes on the other side of the arms:









For anyone else who wants to do this the innermost shock mounting hole is 49.5mm from the inboard hinge pin and the other 2 are spaced at 4mm intervals from each other. I used an automatic centre punch to get them as accurate as I could.

I'm not the 1st person to do this (I got the idea from someone selling a 210 on here) but I thought i'd post up the details for the benefit of others who might want to do the same.

It should make the rear of the car more tuneable (it can be returned to stock by putting 2mm spacers under the toe plate) but i'd welcome any comments from those who are more experienced in 2WD than me. Look forward to testing it next Sunday...