My Dark Impact hates it's aerial tubes

[jimmy]

The fronts with 40 and 2 holes seemed OK off the car (I never tried these shocks) - whilst the rears were never going to work.
I'll give them a go with the 2 holes and 40 all round (I dont have harder) and see what they are like.
The quality of the shocks is great, dont get me wrong - but they are clearly not as racer oriented as the 501X shocks - they just dont have the right pistons at all. The heavier oil I would think would slow the pistons down enough, but still not have enough pack. So to stop the car bottoming out you are running oil that is too heavy and the car wont absorb small bumps as well. That is my thinking on it anyway, what is anyone elses?

If I can get them to fit then the 501X pistons are the ideal solution to make these shocks work really well.

[HairySteve]

Strangely enough, one of my mates who I raced nitro cars with last year, came along to the race meet last wednesday and ran my DF-03 in the same heat as me (that was confusing, 2 very similar looking bright green Tamiya cars!! ) and he had a quick spin with the 501 between rounds, he actually wanted to try switching the DF-03's shocks onto the 501 cos he thought they might work better Very odd. I'm running Associated springs now, green rear and blue front, and I hear that Tamiya are bringing out machined low-friction pistons (hooray!!) which should work much gbetter than those injection moulded things they supply in the kit. We shall see.
-Steve

[jimmy]

well, I finally got my Tamiya slipper for the Keen Hawk and it took all of 5 seconds to fit a b4 spur on there. It literally took a couple of very light turns of my reamer to bore out the centre very slightly - of course it then had a slight cone shape on the hole - but when its clamped between the pads there is no problem at all. perfect.

I went for the 81 tooth b4 spur which is bigger than the 82 tooth Tamiya slipper item. There is a little rubbing on the gear cover so I used a dremel with a sanding drum to just take off a fine layer of the inside edge of the cover - again, perfect.

The smaller 78t b4 spur would be a better / easier fit, but I need as big a spur as possible for the brushless gearing.

[ashleyb4]

If you want to stop snapping ariel tubes have a word with some of your local nitro lads. And ask if they have any spare fuel piping you will need it about 3 cm long. Cut your arirel tube say 2 cm higher than the holder then join the to ends of the ariel tube with the nitro fuel pipe.

Easy

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