**My FLM CCNeu Maxx Nearly Completed**

[suicideneil]

Swine!

[Rivermaxx]

Good find chad I used the stock half case and it works perfect. I guess the billet half case doesnt fit just right and I didnt want to hassle it.

[mkrusedc]

Zack my stock half case has been through hell and back and is still working like a charm. You have seen the beating my truck takes...

[Chadworkz]

Stock plastic half-case it is, then!

[Kcaz25]

Mark, couldnt run the plastic because it was allowing my motor to hit my MMM hard on landings. Remember??? Where you at man? I worked this out weeks ago. I am using the aluminum FLM half case with stunning effiency now after working on it quite a while. All documented here. Thanx though. I know have an idea you are super busy! You are still my hero! LOL

Chad are you kidding??? Remember when I got mine? Got mine straight from GM. They were instock up to just a few weeks ago. What was your first car?

Nitrostarter! Did you go to the Foley track?!! Sorry I was able to get up with you!

[nitrostarter]

Sure didnt. I stayed on the beach from Thursday evening until Saturday night with a bottle of Captain and a couple of Coke's. The was fun until TS Claudette came ruin my time. Good thing we were leaving Sunday morning anyways.

[Kcaz25]

I'm getting up enough confidence now to try a video! After some 20 odd runs with no serious breakage, I think its time.

What is the consensus on using 4 UE Super Shocks 80wt fluid stiff springs with 4 TRX Big Bores with 60wt and stiff springs?

[nitrostarter]

How heavy is your E-Maxx?

Have you tried lighter oil in the UE's? like 60-70wt?

[Kcaz25]

Well with 4 UE shocks its 11.3 pounds rtr with body and batts. Its a good weight. But problem is it bottoms out after any 10 INCH drop. That sucks, right??!!! I was thinking that it shouldnt bottom out until like a good 4-5 FOOT drop!! I'm I way off base here?

[ANGRY-ALIEN]

I think it would be a combination of the shock oil, spring pre-load, RTR weight of the truck and of course the overall height of the rig.
You will have to do some experimenting with setup until you find some combination that works...

Alien

[Kcaz25]

Well yeah. DUH. And believe me I have. But is 10in bottom good/right. Or is my goal of 4 foot accurate? LOL Maybe the little white discs in the shocks have holes that are too big. I know I'm talking short but I'm I making sense?

[nitrostarter]

I noticed that you want to hit the track some. Remember that almost all jumps have landing ramps made to help out on the landing. You have to use those to supplement the vehicle's suspension. Its a big difference than dropping the truck straight down with no momentum nor landing ramp.

With that said, are you using the stiffest springs? with preload?

Bottoming out isn't all that bad either. Just make sure the shocks aren't bottoming out when it happens.

[Kcaz25]

All true. And for the track in Foley my truck is perfect as the track has only two small jumps (kind of a boring track, although fast.)

Stiffest Black in the back. and Blue next stiffest in the front, with alittle on preload on both ends simply to get a good heigth.

[Chadworkz]

Four Supershocks is ALL you need. For an 11.5lb truck, I would run 65wt oil front and rear with blue springs front and black springs rear...you do have the UE Supershock spring set, right?

I have never seen them in stock...I have heard about them being in stock, but every time I got to the site, they were sold out. I bid on and lost 4 or 5 G1 kits on eBay, but just happened to come across this NIP kit only a few minutes after the seller had posted it on eBay.

I had a ton of the cheaper toy-grade RC cars first, but my very first hobby-grade car was the Cox Scorpion (same as Kyosho Scorpion), which I got in 1981. It was used, but in really good condition, because my dad got it from a guy he worked with shortly after he got it new (it was electric). My next car was a Cox Assault (same as Kyosho Assault), which I got in 1983. It came from the same guy my dad worked with, and it was also in pretty good shape, because the guy bought it and didn't like how hard it was to keep a nitro engine running well (it was nitro). But, the car that really means a lot to me, was the very first car I bought with my own money and assembled myself, a Futaba FX10! It was built for Futaba by Tamiya, and was based on the Tamiya Stryker.

[Kcaz25]

I have 2 blue 2 black, and 2 red. My truck is thicker in oil than yours was. How quickly did yours bottom? Like how much of a drop did it take b4 bottoming?

I have never seen it outa stock until today. I'm glad you got one.