rct3man
08-12-2001, 10:17 AM
Rc car set up tips
Shortening up camber lengths can increase your steering, and or traction. Example if you take your rear camber length from the out side of the hub carrier (on a rc10t3 there is two holes on the rear hub carrier). and move it into the inside you will increase your cornering traction, BUT you may loose some straight line traction, but if you have enough cornering traction making this change can either give you even more or too much causing a unwanted push. You must first start out with the problem .Do you have too much steering, or not enough. If too much, You might want to try to change your battery position, (towards the back of truck) change shock springs(to stiffer ones), or make your front camber lengths longer or the back camber lengths longer (the shorter the camber lengths are, the sooner the camber will change it’s position shorter more traction) toe in or toe out will also effect your trucks handling, (rule of thumb, you almost always want to use at least 1 degree of toe in for off road racing) toe in will help out better when exiting a turn, and make the truck more stable through bumpy conditions, and straight aways. Toe out will on the other hand give you better steering entering a turn, but not coming out “very rarely is toe out used!”
If you push down on the rear of your truck with normal set up look at the rear tires, notice where the ride compared to the ground, that is how your tires ride when racing, but if your shorten the rear camber lengths you will notice that the tire ( say your making a right hand turn) it will ride on the outside of the left tire and on the inside of the right now your not just making a turn with a tire that’s running flat your turning with a tire that’s actually “digging in” with the sides of the tires.
Now if your looking for more steering here are a few tips.. If your happy with your traction, then only work on the front of the truck try softer springs, or slightly drop the front of the truck, you can also shorten up the camber lengths ,or take the “king pin” washers that may be on the bottom of the king pin and put it on the top, this will increase the throw of the camber (pulling in the tire farther) making the tires “dig in” better. Work with these set ups there will be more to come!!
Chris Eck
Shortening up camber lengths can increase your steering, and or traction. Example if you take your rear camber length from the out side of the hub carrier (on a rc10t3 there is two holes on the rear hub carrier). and move it into the inside you will increase your cornering traction, BUT you may loose some straight line traction, but if you have enough cornering traction making this change can either give you even more or too much causing a unwanted push. You must first start out with the problem .Do you have too much steering, or not enough. If too much, You might want to try to change your battery position, (towards the back of truck) change shock springs(to stiffer ones), or make your front camber lengths longer or the back camber lengths longer (the shorter the camber lengths are, the sooner the camber will change it’s position shorter more traction) toe in or toe out will also effect your trucks handling, (rule of thumb, you almost always want to use at least 1 degree of toe in for off road racing) toe in will help out better when exiting a turn, and make the truck more stable through bumpy conditions, and straight aways. Toe out will on the other hand give you better steering entering a turn, but not coming out “very rarely is toe out used!”
If you push down on the rear of your truck with normal set up look at the rear tires, notice where the ride compared to the ground, that is how your tires ride when racing, but if your shorten the rear camber lengths you will notice that the tire ( say your making a right hand turn) it will ride on the outside of the left tire and on the inside of the right now your not just making a turn with a tire that’s running flat your turning with a tire that’s actually “digging in” with the sides of the tires.
Now if your looking for more steering here are a few tips.. If your happy with your traction, then only work on the front of the truck try softer springs, or slightly drop the front of the truck, you can also shorten up the camber lengths ,or take the “king pin” washers that may be on the bottom of the king pin and put it on the top, this will increase the throw of the camber (pulling in the tire farther) making the tires “dig in” better. Work with these set ups there will be more to come!!
Chris Eck