Tamiya Vega set-up

[David Church]

Here is the set-up me and Alec Springer are running on the Tamiya Vega at EPR.

Front
Stagger ribs, normal ones with no insert, wheel cut down.
Shocks -3 piston, blue spring for alec, kit spring for me, 30 weight losi oil
2nd outer on tower, middle wishbone.
4 mill under out ball stud on steering turnbuckle. Inner side front hole on the drag link.
Camber turnbuckle, inner on hub, inner on tower with 2 mill under ball stud
hub in middle, spacer either side of the hub.

Rear
Yellow mini spikes with Mr O foams.
Shocks -4 piston, yellow spring for alec kit spring for me, 25 losi oil
middle on shock tower inner on wishbone
0.5 hubs on my car, 0 deg hubs for alec.
Long wheel base.
Link, outer on hub with 3 mill under ball stud.
we played around with the inner ball stud, i ended up on the upper 2nd inner hole.
3 deg toe in brace
1 mill shim under the front brace

I have a speed passion speedo, speed passion 6.5 motor on kit spur(79) and 23 tooth pinion.

The car was very good today. It was my fourth meeting with the car, but the first time with the car right, I had the servo saver waaaaaaay to loose and the car was doing very random things, locked that up and the car was sweet!!! I ran a used set of tyres in practice and put a new set of rears on for Q-1 and kept the same set on all day, I wanted to see how the car worked at the end of the day with worn tyres. There was a big drop off in performance in my final with shagged tyres. For big meetings I will make sure a good tyre is on at all times.

I also rebuilt the diff last week with Lazy balls from R/C lazy with NUCLEAR R/C grease and the diff is probably the best diff I have ever built!
And for those of you that know me this is an amazing fact hunt haha

Both Alec and Myself will continue to develop the setup all this year and we both will regularly update our set-up in this section.

[mw02veg]

Must say the car looked very good yesterday Dave.

Mike

[JustARcFan]

Thanks for the set up but I have a few questions.

See red

Cheers

Originally Posted by David Church

Here is the set-up me and Alec Springer are running on the Tamiya Vega at EPR.

Front
Stagger ribs, normal ones with no insert, wheel cut down.
Shocks -3 piston (1.3 x 2 piston?) , blue spring (tamiya spring?) for alec, kit spring for me, 30 weight losi oil
2nd outer on tower(starting from inside?), middle wishbone.
4 mill under out ball stud on steering turnbuckle. Inner side front hole on the drag link.
Camber turnbuckle, inner on hub, inner on tower with 2 mill under ball stud
hub in middle, spacer either side of the hub.

Rear
Yellow mini spikes with Mr O foams.
Shocks -4 piston (1.4 piston?) , yellow spring for alec kit spring (Color?)for me, 25 losi oil
middle on shock tower inner on wishbone
0.5 hubs on my car, 0 deg hubs for alec.
Long wheel base.
Link, outer on hub with 3 mill under ball stud.
we played around with the inner ball stud, i ended up on the upper 2nd inner hole (starting from inside?).
3 deg toe in brace (Flipped?)
1 mill shim under the front brace

Ride height?

I have a speed passion speedo, speed passion 6.5 motor on kit spur(79) and 23 tooth pinion.

The car was very good today. It was my fourth meeting with the car, but the first time with the car right, I had the servo saver waaaaaaay to loose and the car was doing very random things, locked that up and the car was sweet!!! I ran a used set of tyres in practice and put a new set of rears on for Q-1 and kept the same set on all day, I wanted to see how the car worked at the end of the day with worn tyres. There was a big drop off in performance in my final with shagged tyres. For big meetings I will make sure a good tyre is on at all times.

I also rebuilt the diff last week with Lazy balls from R/C lazy with NUCLEAR R/C grease and the diff is probably the best diff I have ever built!
And for those of you that know me this is an amazing fact hunt haha

Both Alec and Myself will continue to develop the setup all this year and we both will regularly update our set-up in this section.

[David Church]

Happy to share set-up info.

Answers.

1.3 pistons, well this is what the manual says, I run them as kit standard, Alec has drilled his with a 1.3 drill bit. Same for the 1.4 pistons, I use mine as kit standard and Alec drilled his with a 1.4 drill bit.
Yes Tamiya springs.
On the front shock tower say 1 to 4, 1 being closest to the middle and 4 being the furthest away from the middle we are on #3
Im either on red or yellow rear springs, I didnt build my car cause Im lazy and the colour has worn off the spring, but what ever was in the kit is on the car.
yes starting from the inside on the rear turnbuckle ball stud.
The toe in block is the right way up.
Ride height is wishbones level front and rear.

[JustARcFan]

Cheers for the info.

Are you running the 92gr plate under the esc and 28gr under the servo?

Thanks

[David Church]

I only have 20 grams behind the servo, no other weight in my car, I'm not sure what Alec has on his, but I'm sure he will he will say when he see's this thread.

[mikeyscott]

Originally Posted by David Church

I only have 20 grams behind the servo, no other weight in my car, I'm not sure what Alec has on his, but I'm sure he will he will say when he see's this thread.

Hi,

Got lots of weight in my car at the moment - mmm time to experiment.

Got the rudebits weight under the servo, ESC and lipo at present!

[JustARcFan]

WHat cells are you running?

Thanks

Originally Posted by David Church

I only have 20 grams behind the servo, no other weight in my car, I'm not sure what Alec has on his, but I'm sure he will he will say when he see's this thread.

[mikeyscott]

Have you tried the cut staggered tyres yet?

[David Church]

Originally Posted by mikeyscott

Have you tried the cut staggered tyres yet?

I've not tried them, normal staggers work just fine.

[mikeyscott]

Originally Posted by David Church

I've not tried them, normal staggers work just fine.

I found that too, but more out of interest

[mikeyscott]

Will 501 wishbones be ok on the rear as I broke the car testing

[DaveG28]

Mikey, 501 will fit but you'll need a dremel, as they foul on the outdrives as standard (the new dn01 wishbones don't).

Guys, setup wise, liked mine at Stot at the weekend, one thing though, feels like it could use a bit more droop, are you all using standard 201 shock shafts, standard vega tower etc, or have you tried increasing rear droop?

[mikeyscott]

How were the cars at Stotfold?