One of the things I dont like on my deadbolt is the way the body sways around like someone on the way home from the pub on a saturday night. I know people have replaced the shocks to overcome this but I was very interested in this guy's assessment of the 1/24 carisma at around 8 minutes into the video.
. He claims that the body roll actually wastes energy and is worth fixing. His solution was foam dampers. I have tried this on my deadbolt and although the result may not be pretty it seems to work very well. As you can see in the photos I have placed one at the front between the body clips and the top of the servo and one at the rear between the chassis and the diff. The look ugly at the moment but could easily become virtually invisible if black
It takes a bit of trial and error so that the foam holds the body at the top of the springs at rest but allows the springs to fully compress when needed. The result is much less body roll and bounce and no loss of its ability to take a slope. It can climb a 55 degree slope and handle a 44 degree slope side on which is no different than before this experiment. I cannot compare crawling performance before and after but there is certainly no loss of ability. Otherwise the deadbolt is stock apart from wheel weights 6mm wheel hexs and an emax servo.
Just thought someone (like me who likes no cost solutions) might be interested!
cimh
It takes a bit of trial and error so that the foam holds the body at the top of the springs at rest but allows the springs to fully compress when needed. The result is much less body roll and bounce and no loss of its ability to take a slope. It can climb a 55 degree slope and handle a 44 degree slope side on which is no different than before this experiment. I cannot compare crawling performance before and after but there is certainly no loss of ability. Otherwise the deadbolt is stock apart from wheel weights 6mm wheel hexs and an emax servo.
Just thought someone (like me who likes no cost solutions) might be interested!
cimh
