Came across 2 points of observations on the xb8 after the last race.
First image, when removing the front screw for the side guards to obtain full flex, the front portion of the side guard hits the steering servo post, I did notice this prior to racing, just wanted to see how much of an issue it would create, luckily for now no issue, but obviously with time as wear takes place, this will put a load on the steering post as well as the servo, if not load, but at least self centering. I can see the plastic wearing slowly, time will tell how much wear may cause an issue.
Second image shows the fuel tank, wear the tanks sits above the exhaust support post, on full flex, this obviously hits the outer corner of the fuel tank, and this is me racing with zero crashes, mainly track has some high jumps that could have caused this groove build up into the lower corner.
Now a simple fix for this can be just by grinding down the support stand on a down angle say 45 degrees and the problem is fixed.
Third issue I came across was the flywheel alignment on the hudy std starterbox, with the new chassis, the car flywheel opening is not in perfect alignment with the starter box as compared with the xb9, the starter box will start the flywheel, but on the front out edge, a little grinding on the posts on the back end to give it more backwards spacing and you get the flywheel to align at 3/4 of the way.
Personally, the starter box should have come with the possibility of having some adjustments as opposed to predefined set screw positions, especially the flywheel block, at least forwards or backwards.
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