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Old 2001.11.07, 06:05 PM   #1
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front suspension

The front suspension on my viper is way too stiff. I bought the spring kit from kyosho and even with the red springs it is still to stiff. has anyone tried the polished kingpins to free up the front end a little? I am looking at buying a set of those and also the steering bar toe in package. Other than that the car handles really well.
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Old 2001.11.07, 06:07 PM   #2
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Try using the springs from some ballpoint pens
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Old 2001.11.07, 08:43 PM   #3
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i tried that but they wear stiffer yet
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Old 2001.11.07, 10:19 PM   #4
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Maybe a specific brand of pen is better than others?
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Old 2001.11.07, 10:33 PM   #5
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could be
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Old 2001.11.07, 10:59 PM   #6
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i opened 2 Bic pens and both of those springs were way stiffer than the stock front springs. So I'm ruling out Bic

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Old 2001.11.08, 07:05 AM   #7
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Well how about taking the pen springs stretch them a little bit then cutting off one or two loops?
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Old 2001.11.08, 10:26 AM   #8
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Try pushing down on your front end with the red springs installed. Does it compress or drop smoothly? If it doesnt check to be sure there is nothing catching any where. If the suspension doesnt travel smooth when you push it down there is no way that it will perform on the track.
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Old 2001.11.08, 11:39 AM   #9
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somthing that i did that worked realy well, I put a drop of gun oil on the kingpin and it made it so somth for me that the red springs wear to soft and i had to move up to the green, also doing it with the stanles steal kingpines wored evean better.
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Old 2001.11.10, 06:23 PM   #10
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i put teflon coated king pins & soft springs & a drop of oil on pins .my front suspension is a lot smoother.
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Old 2001.11.11, 02:18 PM   #11
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observation

when i was racing last saterday, i made an interesting observation, on a high speed turn the mini-z dips out onto the outside weel vs in on the inside well, after i saw this, i stifend my suspension(yellow springs) and i noteced an improvmint in turn handaling and control.
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I mix my spring sets.On the track I race at I tend to make alot of high speed left turns.So I put the yellow stiff spring on the outside and I put the softer red on the inside.That seemed to help me out alot.
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Old 2001.11.11, 04:52 PM   #13
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That works, kind af a hasle to change the springs every race though. Also when i did that there was a slight pull to the red spring side.
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