Which CAT 2000 for clay track ?

[stulec52]

Hi all,

I have parts enough to build a nice CAT2K to go race on a new local clay track.
I know it's an old car, but guys there still run XX4s and the like, and I'm thinking with Li-Po and a mild brushless setup it should be good enough to run some laps, if not quite compete at the sharp end...

So, my question is, which one to build??

I have enough parts in my collection I could build it as original, EC, or 98, or any mixture thereof.
Anyone tried a 2000 on a clay track?
It'll be pretty smooth, with fair sized jumps.
I'm thinking EC as the chassis will make Li-Po fitment easy, but I dont know about laydown shocks for the larger jumps.

all opinions and thoughts welcomed !!

Stu

[schmacher]

not sure if they will fit, but you could try the big bores all around on the ec

[MattW]

Id go with Hybrid. I'd use the EC/SE chassis, with the newer SE/98 transmission. You could then use either the old style stand up shocks or lay down. I think both of them had some sucess on clay, I think Craig won a Euros with the stand up car, and Jukka won a euros with the laydown car.

The laydown car is likely to be much easier to drive, with the stand up car potentially being better on jumps and having maybe a touch more traction. I think i'd start with laydown and see how it goes.

[slow coach]

used to race the original cat2000 on loose dirt and liked the way the car handled then upgraded to the EC version and never got on with it tbh, it just was never as good on our track, maybe i just never got on top of the handling with the EC, as the tracks adapted to more multi surface/astro and went away from all dirt the cat2k changed to suit and for those of us on pure dirt lost some of the traits of the original car

[stulec52]

Matt,
I actually own THE car that Craig won the euros with !
Although it might be too cool/ rare to race with again
But I might use some pointers from it for my build

Thanks for the ideas guys!

[isobarik]

Originally Posted by stulec52

Matt,
I actually own THE car that Craig won the euros with !
Although it might be too cool/ rare to race with again
But I might use some pointers from it for my build

Thanks for the ideas guys!

you got to snap some pics.

mvh isobarik

[Conrad]

Originally Posted by slow coach

used to race the original cat2000 on loose dirt and liked the way the car handled then upgraded to the EC version and never got on with it tbh

Same here, original 2k all the way

If you only have stick pack lipo's then you should be able to use the 98 chassis, you would just have to make a cell tray for it, you need to do this for the normal saddle chassis anyway. If you want a cheap fix you can use some lead weight on top of the chassis to stop it moving or glue/double side tape a piece of grp/cf under the lipo to fall in to the cell slot. You will need some long battery posts as well.