Hey all, Just had my first race night with the T2...
Let me start at the beginning though...
Build was easy enough... Loved that the diffs came pre assembled and greased... Wish they mentioned that in the manual though... I pulled it apart to make sure it was greased...
I was a little disapointed to see that the upper desck wasn't counter sunk but I love the way the scocks are mounted. Very easy for quick changes on springs or holes... And you don't have to replace your A-arms from them striping out the holes. Love the setup book but a lot of the pictures are hard to see. All else went farily smooth.
After setup was complete I noticed that my Foam wheels rubbed the front springs. What was even worse was that the actually rubbed the hub where the steering link screws in. ??????? What?? I never had any of those problems on my older X-Ray's Even with 1* of Toe out. I am using The Jaco wheels supplied which happen to be what we usually run at the track. I had to shim out the front tires by 1.5 MM and even that wasn't enough to clear the spring. I finally moved the front lower shock mount to the inside and that helped but I still managed to crack a wheel from it catching on the spring in a hard turn.
Now on to the Good stuff. The car handles great! It's very smooth and very responsive. Coming from a T1R I picked up 2 laps and over a second off my lap times!!!
Now for the worst part... I clipped a corner after avoiding a slower car (unsucsessfully) and that was the end of my night!! One Qualifier and I'm done... Why? No parts for one thing and because not only did my Hub Carrier break but so did the screw hole on the Hub istelf. Just to give you an idea of how lightly I cliped it, there were no marks on the wheel except a tiny chunk of the foam missing.
In the last 8 weeks I haven't broken a part on my T1R and then snap... What's with that???
All I'm asking for is some basic parts here. I'm out until then... I really don't want to have to convert all my packs back to fit the T1 and not to mention all the other stuff for one little piece...
Word of advise... If you are going to use the T2 bring a backup car! Or just wait until there are parts for it...
One last note... I absolutely HATE the nuts to hold the wheels on. I really Miss my screws and the 30 second tire change...
Looking forward to some parts!!! Please hurry!!!!