FZRC (Sarasota, FL.)
Was at FZ in Sarasota, FL. today for a Sat race test. IF attendance is large enough FZ may changed from Sun to Sat racn'.
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Hoped to get some ST racn' in BUT I was the only ST there.
Had enough time to run two bat's through before the first qual.
By lap two could tell we were back to the same problem we had last week! Jumped odd, turning erratic and wandering on the straights!!!
Going over in my head and reading setup sheets, noticed that this wasn't a RM ST, it's a MM ST!!! Well DUH!!!!!
Took what I knew and started going the other way. IF you need rear traction, with a RM, you move the motor towards the rear. With the motor in front of the rear axle how do you get traction, move the *axles backwards away from the motor??? I'm thinking. How much, normal you move by one spacer at a time (.030) . Need to know NOW if this is the way to go so did a full move to the rear.
WHAT a change, now the GT2-E was jumping flat (side to side) and level (front to back) and tracked straighter (very little wondering), but the turning was just a little better.
Link position at trans, had tried to lower the link a few weeks ago, like you would with a SC10 by shaving the mount area, by adding more spacers to the link mount before and that didn't work, removed the spacer completely (again need to know NOW if this is the way to go). At the first turn the GT2-E hooked around the pipe like my B4.1 does!
Now this ST jumps, turns and powers down a straight like it should.As another 10-15 laps were ran, I keep waiting for the GT2-E to start jumping and turning bad, it never did!!!
Took a 10 minute break, then put about 10 laps on the track with the T4. It drove so much diff from the GT2-E that I stopped running it and went back to the GT2-E.
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The setup for the loose surface at SS is way diff from the blue groove of FZ now!!! BUT maybe NOT won't know until we race at SS next week!!!!
*axles <<< a GT2 comes with 1.5 degree rear hubs, put 0 degree hubs from a B44 on the GT2-E back when the build started. The B44's are shorter front to rear than the GT2 are, so you can get an even longer wheelbase with these compared to the "normal" hubs!
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SC10
After all the above :-) got in about 15 laps of practice, to see if the SC10 was ok!! Qual'd 3rd, finished 2nd.
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