It was another great day at the tamiya track. This week I tried some different set ups to get the car working better. Last week I kind of threw on a standard tamiya set up while I was knocking some of the rust off my driving as well as some of the paint off my car! Anyways, I started with yellow springs, 500 wt oil, camber links at 4mm in the front and 3mm in the rear. I ran kit blocks and RP30 for tires. As a comparsion I was running with Rod C. who was running his 415 MRE with the dialed Reedy set up. The thing I noticed instantly was the amount of steering this car has and the corner speed. I have never had a car that could carry as much corner speed as my 416 WE. OK, I pretty much ran with that set up ALL day. I then decided to raise the camber links 1mm all around.....BIG MISTAKE!!!! After that change the car basically just washed out, There just wasn't enough traction for that change. Coming in to this past Saturday I wanted to try something really different. So I threw on Jilles basic asphalt set up. It consists of White front spring, Blue rear, I ran 500wt oil...camber links at 5 in front and 4 in rear. C blocks in front 1XA and E blocks in rear. I have to say, for the tamiya track this was not very good. Just not enough traction and the tires heated up very quickly making the car very difficult to drive. After making a few changes, I think I have a really good base line for the upcoming weekend. I ended this Saturday with a car that was stable, maintained excellent corner speed and could I race with it. Its a little twitchy for my style, but definitely drive-able. I am looking to cure that. Once I do, I will post my set up.

Corey-