Shocks?

[VincentVisser]

Good Day to all that are online..

It was a good Sunday of racing at Robin Hood Racing track and as this was my first ever outdoor race meeting and also competion I was chuffed as chips when I had to nurse my rtr mad rat over the line for a 4th place in the D final. There was only 4 but 4th is better then 5th so I was happy.

Problem was I kind of wrecked my rear shock in the turn after the straight and well its non fixable.

So as they say. out with the old and in with the new.

Thinking of these to replace the plastic ones.

http://www.modelsport.co.uk/index.php?product_id=33115

I might get a x2c soon so dont want to go full adjustable.

This car will become my wifes car as she want to try 540 in our local club when I get the pro model.

Has anybody tried the above and what would you rate them?

[Mad-Wolfie]

Originally Posted by VincentVisser

Good Day to all that are online..

It was a good Sunday of racing at Robin Hood Racing track and as this was my first ever outdoor race meeting and also competion I was chuffed as chips when I had to nurse my rtr mad rat over the line for a 4th place in the D final. There was only 4 but 4th is better then 5th so I was happy.

Problem was I kind of wrecked my rear shock in the turn after the straight and well its non fixable.

So as they say. out with the old and in with the new.

Thinking of these to replace the plastic ones.

http://www.modelsport.co.uk/index.php?product_id=33115

I might get a x2c soon so dont want to go full adjustable.

This car will become my wifes car as she want to try 540 in our local club when I get the pro model.

Has anybody tried the above and what would you rate them?

I've been running them for a couple of years, never really had much problem with them until yesterday where i think they probably passed their best so need some fettling & i'm going to adjustables, but will be fitting the ones i take off back onto my older rat to keep it as a spare. I changed from the plastic kit shocks as i got sick & fed up of the top on the plastic kit shocks popping off on landings

the springs with the alloy ones are rock hard so don't use them - keep them if you need them, but i never have, however what i did was strip the mad-rat kit shocks down & put all the parts to one side & then strip the metal shocks down & basically transplant all the rat kit shock innards into the metal bodies & use the kit springs & bottom eyelet - effectively changing the plastic shock body for the alloy one. You will also need to add a couple of spacers (about 3mm on each shock) to the top of each shock so they stand-off the same as the kit ones, unless you whip out the pivot ball & use the kit plastic spacer. On the front i run the 75mm shocks (201000037) & on the back the 95mm shocks (201000039) & added a bit of fuel tube inside just to stop the shocks dropping too much.

I've run mine with 40wt oil in the front & 30 in the back with 1.6mm holes in the piston, but if running without modifying the pistons, run lighter oil, 30 in the front & 25 or 20 in the rear i was advised to try.

I have had the plastic bit on the top break off a couple of times, thankfully i had an old ARE-1 which i fitted new shocks to so the old tops came in handy, but they do stand up to a lot of punishment & unless you have a really hard knock they shouldn't break & when i broke mine it was usually because i drove into something solid or the car dropped from a big drop onto it's roof, regular jumping & landing shouldn't weaken them like it does with the kit shocks.

[VincentVisser]

Thank You very much for that reply.

It sounds like its the next step from the plastic so deffo will give them a try.

I was looking at the adjustables but jespares have them at £100+- for both front and rear and I might aswell just buy the x2c kit and get all the extra carbon bits.

[Mad-Wolfie]

Originally Posted by VincentVisser

Thank You very much for that reply.

It sounds like its the next step from the plastic so deffo will give them a try.

I was looking at the adjustables but jespares have them at £100+- for both front and rear and I might aswell just buy the x2c kit and get all the extra carbon bits.

£100 seems excessive, sure they aren't the big-bores? There are a lot of people running the X2/X2c who have opted for the Losi or Associated shocks, instead of sticking with the adjustable kit ones. So that means there are a lot of unwanted or unused X2c/X2 kit shocks sitting about doing nothing in people's pit box so chances are you may do like i did & drop on a set. Why not post an ad in the wanted section on here & see if anyone has any they can let you have or look on the bay of E to see if anyone has any they don't need or want.

[VincentVisser]

I like that Idea.

[Mad-Wolfie]

I know it may be a long shot, but you may be able to get a set of FTX vantage shocks to fit, i'm not 100% sure on the measurements, but we measured the shocks on a vantage with a ruler that the shop had in stock as a mate wanted to get some cheap adjustable shocks for his SCT & they looked like they would fit OK & they seem to be a bigger bore - without taking them off we couldn't check 100% & as it was a new car in the shop we didn't want to start taking liberties & start ripping the shocks off to test fit them on an Ansmann.. however a guy i race with at club had a similar idea & bought a set to fit to a macnum & they seemed a lot bigger - almost 8th car sized, although he may of brought the wrong ones as he bought some rears off ebay, so they may have been listed with the wrong description. The good thing is though they are only about £12 a pair so if money is tight it may be worth a punt, i'm not sure if they are any good or not as i've never used them, but i have seen a couple of Vantage's running & they seemed to handle OK. if anyone has a vantage & can measure the shocks & they are roughly in line with the 75mm/95mm the rat uses, then go for it.