Once you go Slash you never go back

I spent Saturday evening at the track tuning my Slash 4x4.  I also ran into Tony and his son and checked out their awesome new Slash 4x4 Ultimates.  It was nice to see a new car actually, as I got to check out the play in their A-arms.  I figured out my rear arms are a bit worn out and sloppy, even though they’re not broken!

We have a high speed sweeper where I was constantly losing the rear (front planted).  Moving the shocks inward helped a little by adding a more progressive spring rate.  I also added some more rear camber gain by moving the rear camber links to the outside hole on the shock tower.

But the trick that helped the most was inducing a little more body roll by switching back to the silver rear sway bar.  I have so much traction now, I’m getting a tiny bit of front end push!

I also rebuilt all my diffs.  The rear was too slow and the front was OK.  Went with 20k front, 10k rear and 100k in the center, will test that out tomorrow.  Look for lots of Slash updates as I get this thing dialed.

Of course they’re going to change the track layout again in 2 weeks, so I may have to switch things up yet again, but it’s been a ton of fun tuning the Slash.  It’s definitely my favorite part of the hobby.

On the downside, it seems like my Traxxas receiver went out in the car, it was behaving very erratically and has gotten worse and worse.  I had an extra Futaba receiver for my 3PL radio, so I threw that in and hopefully that fixes it.  Else it’s the ESC, which would suck!