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Old 01-01-2015
andoiwebb andoiwebb is offline
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How much have you shortened the rear arms ?

2mm

Are you running the ball diff with carbide or stock ceramic balls ?

Carbide (ceramic in the thrust race)

Have you glued the diff rings ?

I run Tamiya anti slip grease on the diff plates

What tires are you running in the front compared to the rear.

We run ballistic buggy greens all round bbt01 rear and bbt05 front. Schumacher silver cut staggers work on the front but the larger diameter of the front ballistics gives better weight transfer to the rear, the schumacher tyres tend to give snap oversteer on power out of slow turns.

On very slippery tracks we have found 5 deg rear toe helps a lot, it sounds like way too much, but we back to back tested with a bmax2 and found we'd got the XRAY to go even quicker than a standard mid motor. The only place it was slightly slower was out of a 180 deg hair pin, over a full lap the Xray is now as quick / quicker. Hopefully you are coming to Robinhood Raceway for the Euros, we've got the xray running great in the wet and dry there.

We don't even tend to run rear motors in the UK anymore, even at top national level in the wet all the cars are mid or hybrid.

Last edited by andoiwebb; 01-01-2015 at 05:08 PM. Reason: Added more info
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