Today was a pretty frustrating day at the track. I was pretty excited about trying the 22T 3.0, and actually got a lot of laps in, but lots of things conspired to make the day pretty rough.
The current layout has a gigantic double, that is tough to make in a 17.5t dialed buggy, and pretty much impossible to make in my 13.5 22T. So lots of crashes. I had a heck of a time trying to get the gearing, timing, and slipper adjusted to get maximum drive for the jump. It's better, but still extremely hard to make. Also, my sensor wire came loose.
I had to trim the body because it cracked and was dragging on the rear shock, and I sliced open my trigger finger trying to trim it. It turns out it's pretty hard to control the throttle when your finger is covered with a shop towel and electrical tape! 😂
On top of that, a couple of guys kept overwatering the track, making it pretty difficult to get in clean runs. The coup-de-grace was when I broke the shorty servo and had to retire. Note to everyone reading this -- a Savox 1251mg is NOT an adequate servo for a stadium truck!
I got the truck shoe-goo'd back together and my 1257tg reinstalled, so I will try again tomorrow. I also installed my Avid slipper and garodisc pads which worked a lot better in my 2.0 than the stock slipper.
On the plus side, the 22T 3.0 kit setup is pretty dialed and handles loads better than my 2.0. I was getting some chassis slap off the face of jumps, so had to go up to pink springs in the rear. Other than that, I'm still at kit setup.
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