Latest Upgrades

[John Clark]

After lots of advice from different members here, I finally got my Maxx back together with some upgraded parts. I went to the TI hinge pins, because mine were all bent to pooh. Hopefully I won't continue to break tie rods either. The only things not pictured are the Dynamite sealed bearings I put into the rear diff. The TRX packages contained a FOC, and a spool for the rear diff.

I'm not too sure about the spool yet, It seems to make the back end too loose. I'm also having a heck of a time with my tuning. I'm not very good at it at the best of times (still learning), and now it seems darn near impossible. The instructions that came with the MS air filter say that it will affect the carb settings, but does anyone know what effect changing over to the AE pipe will have on the mixture?

 

[John Clark]

Oops, here's the pic:

 

[ImBroken]

I didn't really see any change in the carb settings when using the MS filter. If your not real sure of your tuning abilities yet, I would suggest returning the needles to break in settings and slowly lean out just the HSN. Leave the LSN till last. It may only need a tiny bit of leaning out.
Just establish a steady strong idle and start leaning your HSN in 1/8th increments. Make sure you have a nice healthy blue smoke trail, and the temps are reasonable..

Good luck..

 

[backspur]

ImBroken has the right idea. You can't go wrong starting at the factory settings. Although, if you switch from the stock Pro .15 pipe to the Associated you will need to richen up your HSN. The AE pipe will allow your engine to flow better. This will increase the demand for fuel. They same should be true for your air filter upgrade. If it increases the flow of air over your old filter you should have to richen up the HSN to accomodate. This is assuming that your engine is tuned right to begin with.

To give you an idea, when I switched from the stock 2.5 pipe to the Sirio pipe my temps jumped almost 50 degrees. I had to richen the HSN almost 1/2 of a turn. When I swithced from the stock air filter to a 1/8 buggy filter I had richen up the HSN about 1/4 of a turn.

 

[John Clark]

Thanks for the info guys. My 11 month old doesn't give me much time to 'spark up' as much as I'd like, but I should be able to get out again sometime this week to give it a try. Thanks for the advice.