Learning how to set up my Buggy.

[Chris Elworthy]

Phil,

If you are ever down at Bury Metro there's plenty of people who can help you out, were running indoor and outdoor through the winter.

As for the setup guides that have been suggested none of them are without glaring inaccuracies, compare the Arno setup page to the Hudy/Xray guide and you will see exact opposite theories on certain aspects.

The Arno (Btinternet.com...) website is the most accurate amongst the opinions of the racers I speak to and has a nice summary page showing what happens to the handling if you raise this/lower this that can be useful.

I would however avoid the Xray guide like the plague,
It's nicely presented but in my opinion is littered with blatantly incorrect information which isn't going to help.

No theory however can make up for the feeling the change makes to you on track so when you do make small adjustments at a time as the previous poster suggested. For now though, as said earlier just run the car in stock guide with the correct tyres to let you build up a feel for the car. When you have a feel you can start to make small changes.
If the car feels better after the change then great but if not you can go back to your neutral car and start again. What Isn't recommended however is to make a change then change something else to try to achieve what you set out to do. This rarely works unless you really know what you are doing so it's always better to undo what you did, go back to your default setup, think what you want the car to do?, Check the guide to see what change may offer this then give it a go.

If you are still running the standard front springs I suggest you get some harder ones they will make a huge difference to handling on the front making it more stable, less likely to oversteer and generally easier to drive consistently. Harder front springs are nearly always used on high grip astro tracks also.

Hope this helps a little,


Chris