shock set up on dex210

[Loheswaran]

Can you help me.

I used the pistons as per kit set up (6 holes I think) with the kit springs blue front and rear, along with the rest of the kit set up with MM4 motor mounting. I used 30 wt front and 25 wt rear

When I raced at maritime I found that the car would sort of nose dive into corners, and when I was going over the table top it could nose dive on the exit and roll.

I have done a shock rebuild and put 4 X 1.2 holes at the front and 4 X 1.3 pistons at the rear. The oils are 30wt front and 25wt rear. On the bench the car, in relative terms, seems to be soft and reactive on the back but really slow up front.

I know that the bench is not the track, but am I going the wrong way?

[mattr]

Going the right way by the sounds of it.
Can't remember what i have on mine, but not a million miles away.

Have you had a look at the team driver set ups on the petit or team durango websites?

[Loheswaran]

I have had a look at a few set ups, I took the pistons from Neumann - simply because his appeared to be the same on virtually all the tracks he went to. That said he uses far heavier front oil.
I took the oil in ball park from the uk drivers running indoors.

The thing is that I have been driving mostly TC and 1/12 - and whilst I know what to do with them, I am 'at sea' so to speak with a buggy. That said - this is Waaaaay more fun;)

[Alan Reeves]

What surface and what tyres?
Some thing as simple as trimming a row off your fronts could be all you need to do?


From memory I was 350 /450 Durango oil with those pistons. Your in the ball park definitely. maybe try red springs on the front if its slow, should help stop it tucking under too, especially in high grip, I used to run yellow or purple sometimes with heavyer oil, all depends on the track, and importantly what tryre choice.


Remember, those setups jorn uses such a stiff front end super high grip with velcro like pin tryes, eg eos... you put those shocks on almost any other car setup/surface it wouldn't ever turn in!

just make sure both ends react same sorta speed and it should be all right.

[Loheswaran]

Hi Alan

Thanks for the insight on the Jorn set-up - I'm not being funny but my TC set-ups are nearly always based on team driver set-ups, although TC operating windows are smaller - so I was curious as to why he had such a 'heavy' front end.

I have been running at Maritime raceway which is indoor multi-surface (check it out on you tube).
I have tried the following tyres:

1. Schumacher yellow mini pins - rear
2. Schumacher cut stagger front yellow, or
3. D boots blockpass compound A front

truth be told - I much preferredd the d'boots up front and fancy trying some nanobytes at the back