Mini Pins on an X2C

[DomSmith]

Hi, Just wondering if anybody is running Schumacher Mini Pins on their X2C's?

I am racing on indoor carpet and struggle a bit with understeer with staggered tyres and have resorted to 50 grams of weight up front and no weight anywhere else to get a good setup.

I think I am going to try to remove all weight and try Mini Pins all round.

What are other people doing with their carpet setups?

Cheers,
Dom.

[mattybucks]

Paul Upton uses pins, the only other option would be Cut Stagger?

Have you tried the changing the springs/oils/shock positions?

One thing to consider, have you got too much rear end as this will give you less steering.

I'm sure Paul, Alec, or any of the Telstar Guys will be willing to share/guide you with setups.

[Gonky]

Paul's only recently moved to the 'slim pin' method (at the BWOC i think) but has been using hand cut staggers before that. I use normal staggers as does Alec i think (may be wrong).

With regards to weight, it's just the under Lipo weight (62g) that's being used indoors at the moment, and that was with Paul & Alec trying different weights in different places etc

What sort of oil / springs you running in the shocks?

[DomSmith]

Thanks for your help.

I am running with stock springs and shocks with Associated oil 30 front and 25 back.

I have weighed my car and with the 50 grams up front on staggers where it seems to work best, the distribution is 37% front and 63% back with the whole thing weighing in at 1580 grams.

Shock positions on the front are in at the top out at the bottom and the backs are running in the middle.

It goes well but still understeers a fair bit on the open corners.

[dapanz]

I use the Mini Pins, but had to dremel away two series of pin outside and one inside, otherwise it's going to have too much grip on front.

[cigbunt]

Dom, i noticed your understeer but i think your not getting the full travel of your servo... is there a gap between the wishbone and the hub when turned if so how big is that gap?

check your end points against another x2c...