Adding weight for stick lipos

[Bungleaio]

I've almost completed the changeover for stick lipos in my car but I'm wondering how much weight I should be adding to the lipo side. In my touring car I've put about 150g on the lipo side to that the chassis balances and seeing as I'm using pretty much identical electronics in the pred I'm thinking I should be addding the same to that.

Just wondering how much you are adding to your preds?

[ads0021]

I've got no weight added and i'm not far off balancing. From memory it's about 15-20g lighter on the lipo side. Although my lipo is 290g which is on the heavy side. I think the reason that you need more to balance you TC is on most cars the belt runs down one side of the car pushing the electrics out and moving the battery in.

[timmy121]

yeah i run my'n twice now with lipo in and i haven't got any weight in it and it feels great, but i am going to put on the scale's this afternoon so i'll post how i get on

[KevLee]

My electrics weigh almost exactly the same as the trakpower 4900. I run the lipo as far forward a possible and use 2 x 5g to seperate the lipo from the prop and 1 to keep the speedo away on the other side. I run 20g under the front shocks generally (but tune this depending on the track). Total weight comes out at about 1615g.

I posted a pic of my layout in the other thread which has the speedo up front and the servo layed down. I did this as it spreads the heavier items out on the electrics side and moves the weight slightly more forward.

I've played with ballast a fair amount but found this the best distribution so far.

Hope that helps, if you want any pictures let me know.

[Bungleaio]

I've got my electronics laid out in the only way they'll fit so I've not got much of an option with them (I need a smaller speedo) and the lipo is being held in with one of timmys CF trays. I'll get everything on the scales and see how it looks before I stick them all down but it doesn't sound like i'll have to add much weight at all.

Cheers guys.

[KevLee]

I'm not sure what speedo you run but the Tekin does help with getting a nice layout as its so small. To make more room i mounted the servo close to the motor which now means i have to take the whole motor mount out, but to be honest, how often do you need to get it out anyway (and its only 3 screws). Just thought i'd mention that incase it helps with your space.