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vintage losi shock set ups?
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2014 1:32 am
by alien3t
Building my jrx pro, and pro se willb e running newer hard coated shocks. BUt cant easily find a starting point.
Figue if some members here still running older cars what are your racing set ups.
Car - (jrx2, t, pro, se, LXT jr2/t)
front shocks
piston
oil
spring
rear shocks
piston
oil
spring
Re: vintage losi shock set ups?
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2014 3:09 am
by aip47-2008
Re: vintage losi shock set ups?
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2014 2:04 am
by JK Racing
And you didnt contact me?
Basic starting point for Losi shocks is always 56 with 30 wgt oil, trucks I go up 1 wgt in front.
Buggies I start green front, yellow rear springs and adjust from there. 5 link - rear rear.
Trucks - LXT - red/red, maybe orange front to calm it down
XXT - pink/yellow - lightweight soft - yellow/white or white/grey
Re: vintage losi shock set ups?
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2014 1:27 pm
by alien3t
i didnt contact anyone, Tried searching first. But the thought of this thread was to see what people are currently running, car style. so anyone else building any of these, (especially cars that no one can find set up sheets for) can have a good decent starting point.
I took my jrx pro, and did green front. BUt if i do it on my pro se. same green spring. Isnt there 2-3 different green spring lengths, pro has .9 shocks up front, se has .6 both 1.2 rears. My lxt build i did the xxt set up i think 35 front 30 rear, pink front yellow rear. Kit stock pistons. Course these are all in build mode still. not yet rollers.
Re: vintage losi shock set ups?
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2014 1:46 am
by JK Racing
Buggy nose are all .6 - unless you take the JRX pro, it had the long 'truck' fronts so .9 rears are all 1.2 until the xx series, then buggies went .6 & .9 (with a longer shaft so they called it a 1.0).
Re: vintage losi shock set ups?
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2014 1:54 am
by alien3t
http://www.ebay.com/itm/121484398222?_trksid=p2059210.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
bot this lot of springs. so a few extra ot play with. not a bad lot for 19.95 shipped. so some to play with.
Re: vintage losi shock set ups?
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2014 2:02 am
by JK Racing
Nice, the tight blue springs may be Kinwald edition ones

Re: vintage losi shock set ups?
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2014 2:14 am
by alien3t
IT WAS UP FOR OVER A WEEK. that was the second listing for it. (same price) and I still have extra one here also from my buddy giving me al his old ones. ( I do have a set of kinwald springs now on my kinwald xx I got on ebay for 40 bucks. labeled as a xxxsct)
Re: vintage losi shock set ups?
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2014 2:23 am
by JK Racing
you can give me the xx buggy, i'll give you a xxt in trade

i snagged the truck when looking for a buggy
Re: vintage losi shock set ups?
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2014 2:25 am
by alien3t
have 2 xx buggys, and 2 xxt trucks. lol
Re: vintage losi shock set ups?
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2014 9:48 pm
by Diamond Dave
JK Racing wrote:you can give me the xx buggy, i'll give you a xxt in trade

i snagged the truck when looking for a buggy
I can use a spare XXT truck, just picked one up and I want to get it running.

Re: vintage losi shock set ups?
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 8:06 am
by matt1ptkn
If any xx or xxt is being given away, can I be considered? I am getting seriously close to buying one, and a freebie would do the RC budget some good!
Also, I had been watching that spring auction, too. I almost pulled the trigger, but I didn't really NEED that many springs.
I'd also like to know the popular suspension setups for the Jrx2 and Pro. I've been trying to fine tune mine for a while now and I've never been that well versed in tuning anything.

Re: vintage losi shock set ups?
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 10:46 am
by JK Racing
I have a hard time setting up my cars when I'm driving. I will usually have a friend drive my car for a few laps while I observe what it is doing or not doing, then adjust from there. Put it back out for 2-3 laps, adjust, put it back out again.
Funny, I can tell the car isnt right when I drive, but hard to know what its doing that I dont want. I watch the car drive and BAM, change this...
