The X6 65% Rule, remember that?

[Danosborne6661]

I've owned the Cougar since it's release, I run it indoors on a mix surface track of Carpet and polished floor. The cougar always works pretty well on a high-bite track but I've found as soon as you hit a slippy area it no way near works as well as my X6/B4 have.

When you look at the cougar it does have an awful amount of weight up front. With the servo being mounted really far forward and people running a stick pack battery. For this reason I converted my car to run saddle packs which is the opposite to what most Cougar drivers use, now from when I ran the X6 I learnt the weight you place through-out a 2WD car is crucial so I thought I would work out what the ratios were.



With my newly saddle pack converted car and added weight (Not all the weight as pictured above) to the rear it was still only hitting 59% of the weight at the rear, I was amazed by this as I am running a lot more weight to the rear then a lot of you guys are so I dread to think what sort of weight ratios you lot are running!

Anyways I've added even MORE weight on and around my saddle pack to recreate the 64/65% rear weight ratio which is so perfect on the X6, here is what I am now running

Front - 602g
Rear - 1055g
Total - 1657g

64% Rear ratio, 36% Front

So I chucked the car on the track and instantly it is MILES better, even on shot tyres the car is much more balanced and chuck-able. Generally, what I am trying to say is the 65% X6 rule still applies for the Cougar and my question really is how the F&%$ are you lot running with so much weight up front?!

Here's a pic so you can really see how much weight I am running around my 4400mah Vampire pack to achieve the desired X6 weight of 64% on the rear which makes it feel like the car it should be