Who elected you as forum police? :roll:

how many times is this topic going to be bumped? :roll:

looks pretty nice mas, mind posting some more pics?

finally someone made a good willys
not like that other piece of crap in the third annual xmod car show

Awww Yesss, Drag Racing, Now thats what race'ns about. :P

I've been working on a Drags Only Gen1 car that has stock springs in the front and in the rear but as you can see, it has a custom chassis and some pretty tall tires in the rear. The chassis has been lengthend to 4.2 inches so it’s hard to tell how it’s going to handle at this point in its construction. I've only run this chassis with no body on it so far but it hooks up real good until it hits the higher speeds and then it seems to almost start wobbling in the suspension. I'm running 4 AAA's soldered together right now and it doesn't seem to have the same problem, but before I installed the AAA’s I tried a pair of Li-ion's that I tie-wrapped to the top of the stock electronics package and it was just too fast and unstable on the top end to keep it punched long enough to see just how fast it would go with the stage 2 and no body on it. It was at that point I decided to go with some real RC radio equipment and do away with the stock EP.
I haven't got the right size Li-ions in it yet cause I am short on funds so I’ve just been testing with the 4 AAA's for now and it's been fine at full throttle. I've got some square shaped Li-ions on my “want list” because unfortunately the regular double A size Li-ion's I have are too big around and won't fit between the Willys body and the radio gear to be able to mount the Li-ion's on the chassis so I’m out of luck for now. I guess it’s all about doing the “cross your fingers thing” and just hope that the suspension will work okay after mounting the new style batteries at the lower center of gravity and mounting the body will help take care of the instability problem at high speeds that it has running the Li-ion's. Another thing is how to gear it to get the right amount of top end speed for the scale quarter mile and not be too slow or fast off the line, and Oh yea, just what is the scale quarter mile? Can someone let this old fart in on what it is? Maybe I'm staying on the throttle too long and it should be geared different or something.

Anyway, here are a couple of shots of how it is coming along. If you have any thoughts on the subject please let me know what ya think.

This is what the chassis looked like with the stock Electronics Package.

This is what it looks like with the body mounted and hood up.

This is what it looks like now with the Futaba servo, LRP Speed Control, and the Airtronics receiver radio package.

I hope Ya"ll Like it.

"Mas"

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how about a modified 280 motor with some heavy electircal upgrades to get it rollin? can u say TORQUE

im still doing the research on it now though.

I'm now using reds in the front.

Drag Racing is what I'm best at. I prefer using yellow springs in the back and stock in the front. I have it on my two drag cars, one has a litieum setup and the other is a 6-cell. I don't bottom out.

I would definately say tht u should use stiff all around, with as high Mah lith ion (try and get 1000Mah) batteries you can find, The car nearly takes off lol. try and keep all the cars weight at the back of the car.

look man with the aaa's u had more weight its true, but with li-ion's u have 2-3x the power of conventional aaa's . & it depends on the tires if ur tires grip the ground fast enough it will bottom out the rear suspension cuz my skyline did it b4 it died. so yea its possible to bottom out in a li-ion xmod with the right tires

I go stiff all around too.. I used a sway bar for a while, but it began to hold the wheels unevenly and made the front right wheel stay off the ground.

i would go stiff all the way around unless you have grip issues. i don't know if xmods really squat enough to make a grip difference but if it's too soft you'll drag the back end which won't help you any.

You can also get the tie rod from atomic mods that is 0 degree...

i use stiff all the way around too

Stiff suspension all round........ :)

Soft rear, stiff front. Pull the batteries back as far as you can, so the weight is in the back.

Old topic, but yeah. He has it.. Dont you pay attention in physic's cheezman?

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With li-ions, you can bottom out a car, easily off the line..