more front down travel?

Blade1 · **Posted:** Sun Sep 19, 2004 11:37:06

does anyone know if there will be anything available for the C-Hubs to allow for more down travel for the American tracks??
we did a few mods (on 5 out of seven XB8's) though not recommended because of lack of parts at this time.
if anyone is interested let us know at Razorgrafix.com we'll post some pics.
but there is very little down travel in stock form simular to Hyper7
but rear has enough to lock rear cups!!!!

The Machine · **Posted:** Sun Sep 19, 2004 22:05:54

fearsome · **Posted:** Mon Sep 20, 2004 13:30:39

BuLLdoGG · **Posted:** Sat Oct 16, 2004 02:54:11

imaxx21 · **Posted:** Sat Oct 16, 2004 05:08:19

i know its not the best pic, but u can still see the areas i shaved....

BuLLdoGG · **Posted:** Sat Oct 16, 2004 08:16:38

Thanks, at least I know I'm dremeling the right area now :wink:

I just need to shave off more.

The Machine · **Posted:** Sun Oct 17, 2004 00:00:18

Brandon Powell · **Posted:** Sun Oct 17, 2004 04:29:11

z-man · **Posted:** Fri Oct 22, 2004 15:02:11

imaxx21 · **Posted:** Fri Oct 22, 2004 20:54:01

its really not that hard z

take off a little at a time with a dremel using the sanding drum

z-man · **Posted:** Fri Oct 22, 2004 22:48:42

im shure i can do it but, i couldnt see where and how much to take off?
also does this affect the shocks? like the prob. some of the guys was having w/ the pistons breaking? it must be just the back shocks?

imaxx21 · **Posted:** Fri Oct 22, 2004 23:08:51

no, i think peeps are breaking pistons from overtightening the nuts

they dont need to be extremely tight

ill get a better pic when i get off of work tonite :wink:

z-man · **Posted:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 15:49:19

thanks pimp! :lol:

imaxx21 · **Posted:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 16:25:57

SupermaxxRich · **Joined:** Sun Oct 24, 2004 01:20:36 **Posts:** 35

Thanks IMAXX21 for those pictures. Thats exactly what I did and worked like a charm! Now I have full down travel. Just do a little at a time making sure not to go to far. I probably spent 30 minutes with my Dremel but well worth the effort. :wink:

skink · **Joined:** Mon Sep 27, 2004 02:13:20 **Posts:** 2

After having carried out gene's mod on the a arms, I noticed that the upper arm length appeared to be a little short. are you supposed to adjust its length?

Inaddition to lengthening the upper arm, I slid the upper arm all the way back inorder to reduce the binding. did anyone else have to do this.

skink

z-man · **Posted:** Sun Oct 24, 2004 15:12:22

z-man · **Posted:** Fri Nov 12, 2004 02:33:13

thought id post it here too-great way to mod for droop in front

saw · **Joined:** Fri Nov 12, 2004 02:40:34 **Posts:** 3

ya i have a question to get more front droop are you guys dremeling the downstop tabs on the chassis? because my arms are hitting the downstop tabs before the c hub is hitting the a arms
thanks

David Joor · **Posted:** Fri Nov 12, 2004 06:54:31

Saw, if your arms are hitting the chassis than either your arm isn't attached or your camber is way off. It is impossible to have the front arms touching the chassis with no mod to the arms or c-hubs unless something is wrong.

I did this mod on my car today on a very hard packed track with cracks, running chameleons that were cut and it gave the car a huge increase in steering. Went back to stock for that style of track, but for your tracks that are loamy and/or rutted bad, this is a awesome tuning feature.

When driving it around our track, you could get the car to carve a much tighter radius and the rotation in the middle of the turn was impressive but with the traction that the track was already generating, you had to be on top of your driving to wheel it around the track fast. We also began to traction roll in some high speed off camber sections, which was Gene's feelings with this mod, if the track has a lot of traction run stock droop, if it is lower traction than run Gene mod on it.

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