I'm super discouraged!!!

[moth898]

I raced my cat sx today for the first time and have to say I have my doubts about this car, as bad as that is to say!!!!

I was racing on a dirt track

In practice a harmless slide at low speed on my rear wheel resulted in a broken hub....a couple of high jump landings resulted in two broken arms(both broken at the pivot pin) and two bent aluminum pivot blocks(both left front)

I am by no means a expert racer but I have been mucking around in the hobby for 20 years and have never experienced anything like this. To have broken different parts would have been understandable, but to have the same part break in the same way from landing a jump clean stinks!!!

The car bottoms out in a thud all the time, I know what you will say, put stiffer springs. I did, didn't help.

I know Shumacher has softer arms and plastic pivot blocks as option parts, will changing them help or is this kind of breaking normal. My question is this, what do I have to change to make this buggy last like a 500 dollar buggy should?

[mikeyscott]

How big are the jumps and what oil are you using etc.

Broken v little on my Cat SX so far. Had it since June last year.

Any big bolders on the track?

[bigred5765]

was it very cold?? plastic gets brittle when its cold, having said that we have never had problems like that, and we have tested are old car big time.

[moth898]

No bolders, the jumps give about 2 feet of air.

I'm using 40 weight oil and lellow spings. I though ti might have to do with the lipo being on the left, because every time I corrected my car with the throttle the car tilted left mid air

I'll post a picture of the track

[MikePimlott]

Have you done the droop mods with longer shock bottom ends ?

A bit more droop would aid landings.

[moth898]

Originally Posted by MikePimlott

Have you done the droop mods with longer shock bottom ends ?

A bit more droop would aid landings.

No, I did't get the memo....I am glad That you guys are here to help but maybe shumacher should create a simple site for these type of mods.

I also saw that someone was making a bar to join the bivot blocks,making them stronger, but I can't find anyone selling them. I very curious about the softer shock arms... do they break less than the originals.

I was also thinking of a old school mod.... we use to put a small piece of gas feul tube on the shock shaft to keep cars from bottoming out. Do you think it will affect the handlind in a negative way, because these guys already have a low ride height.