1:10 scale 235mm gas on-road competition (12 pages)
Summary of Contents for Serpent F110
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9 October 2013 The SERPENT F110 has been out for a few months now and with 2 months of racing with the F1 under my belt. WHAT has the F1 revealed. Let me throw a card on the table here before I go further into the write up. With the car being new...
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Next was the plastic nut in the steering pivot ball this would loosen as the day went on and would create erratic behaviour in the steering, I removed the plastic nut and placed Teflon tape around it, trimmed off all excess and screwed it back into place and this fixed it beautifully ...
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Next was again loosening screws in the pivot balls in the front end suspension links, and in the bulkhead, now the pivot balls at the rear where they attach to the servo mount were loosening during race day and was fixed simply using thread lock to get me through the day.
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(Thread lock is not a manual instruction and the reason I see is that this is the point where roll centre is changed loctite would impede quick changes and the risk of stripping the hex???) when I got home I removed the ball cleaned it up and resecured it with a small pressure washer (slit washer) The front bulk head pivot balls are another thing all together the use of the set screw and ball doesn t leave much for the thread to bite into the bulk head and...
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a longer set screw and attach the same way or replace the factory equipment with 4.8mm ball ends as I have. The ball end I used is 1mm higher than standard (Remember using spacers under the standard pivot ball changers roll centre) which in turn changed the roll centre and actually helped, giving me (I felt) more on power steering.
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After these few alterations the F1 was ready to hit the track. I started to go harder in the springs to see if this helped with my driving style and alas it didn t help me at all so then I started to play around with the softer springs and this is where things started to come together.
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