Traxxas Slash issues...

[Gundragon]

Ok, I was racing again this weekend and while running I noticed that on the regular pavement I was not flipping the truck with stiffer shocks, but when I had none of the spacers in the shocks I flipped it constantly.

So here is my question. If I am running this on a dirt track, what would be the suggested shock system setup for dirt. If I have one of the large spacers on each of the back two shocks and then a medium one under those. The front has a small spacer on each of the front shocks, would this still be ok to run on Dirt?

I constantly spun out when on the dirt and think it had a lot to do with the shocks being sluggish. I had one large on each of the back ones when I was on dirt, and then nothing on the front. Thinking that maybe I needed to have a lot of shock for Dirt since there is jumping involved.
I noticed on the pavement that that is not the case, I need to have firm shocks running there.
I am currently using 35 weight oil. So again, what do you think I should set the shocks to for dirt track purpose?

 

[Gundragon]

Update!

Well, I have gone through and bought another set of shocks for the Slash and have been testing out some ideas. And would you know it...I THINK I STUMBLED ONTO SOMETHING!

I took the shocks from a Stampede (from my LHS) and set them to the one hole (this being the 1 hole, 2 holes, 3 holes for the amount of oil it lets through to the shock) for the flow of the shocks and then added 60 weight oil into the shock. Once I did that I did a few spins around the track and noticed that it was not sliding as much as it had been!! I added one of the thicker spacers to this and ran it again and this time IT HUGGED THE TRACK! I was happy as hell. Only problem was I left the front at the 35 weight so when it went over the whoops it bounced the truck all over the place. I am going to get the front shocks from the Stampede and put maybe a 50 weight in the front to see if maybe having that weight there will lessen the bounce and get me where I want to be on this truck. But I was smiling like a kid at Christmas to see that I was not spining out in a 360 degree spin everytime I went around a corner!

Yes!!!

 

[ajames942]

Nice man i like the slash, but the slayer (nitro version) is nice.. dont hav it yet but maybe sooon

 

[MrClean]

I'm glad you got it figured out Gary, I'm clueless on suspension set ups, but I think I just learned a few things from your experience. I still haven't made it to my track yet, but I believe this Friday is going to be the day I can finally get there...........that is if I have my rig back together by then.

 

[Gundragon]

Let me know how it goes on that track Jeff. What rig will you be running? I still would like to come up that way and maybe do some bashing or something.

 

[MrClean]

I'm going to take the Revo out, the LST still needs a motor and I'm more familiar with how the Revo drives.
You're welcome to come out anytime, just shoot me a PM and I'll send you my phone #. I have a couple of places we can run em, one here at the house...... the air conditioning is close by and my in-laws up the street have a nice open area to run them too, with a couple of dirt piles to climb.

 

[Gundragon]

Sounds like a plan. I will be going on vacation soon, so I will probably take you up on this after I get back.