XRAY - Model racing cars

Hi.

I've just read Ryan's set-up sheet:


What is drilled shoes (clutch), and what is the bennifit?

Cheers

I could only guess. But you normally drill shoes to make them lighter which will make the clutch snappier.

Ehmmm ok. Thanks

I really don't understand it, because you can just use different springs, instead of attemt to make the shoes lighter - and make all the shoes weight the same... perhaps

Shoes and springs work in combination - same springs with lightened shoes will engage later and more harshly (is that a word?!)

Then you get into different grades of aluminium for the shoes and you can vary the amount of slip for a given spring rate.

I would guess he's experimented and found a setup he particularly likes for the tracks where he races.

I know most folks over here like the stock setup of 1.71 shoes and hard springs

The clutch setup I finally liked the best was 2 drilled 1.71g shoes and 1 stock shoe with 2 X-hard springs on the drilled shoes and 1 hard on the stock shoe.

It was really smooth, but it had A LOT of 'bite'.

Ryan likes his car very responsive and the drilled clutch shoes definitely make the clutch very responsive.

Thanks champs. Appreciate it.

Can any of you post a picture of a drilled shoe?

Another thing: On page 34 in the HUDY Off-road & Truggy Set-up Book

they write about Trailing and Leading shoes. Do you ever drive with Leading shoes?

Cheers

googled a bit...



I think you can screw in additinal weight into the holes on these shoes:




You could also make 2 or 3 smaller holes.

what make are the silver ones in the middle
would they go on an xray clutch
jordan

Those should be associated clutch shoes and yes they should fit, but when we tested them, we didn't really like them.

I would snap a pic of the shoes I drill for myself and Josh, but I wind up throwing them away.