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The carbon inserts really suit it

Yeah that was the CNHL one. The main issue is that if you're even slightly too high, you can't close the battery tray anymore (unlike in rigs like Kratons etc where you have a strap as opposed to a bar that clicks in), so better be save than sorry. I think that's the correct adaptor, yeah. That Sunpadow or whatever, nah. I personally wouldn't humour that pack (especially not from Amazon) - but i didn't recommend it, so @Stormbringer has to vouch here. 😄 I wouldn't know, i'm german. Nobody is happy there. Just efficient. 😁

Carbon inserts fitted top and bottom on both Kagama front arms. 😎 A longer counter sunk bolts hold them in place, with M3 countersunk washers and nylocs. Clearance is marginal under the arm, so may have to replace nylocs for flat nuts. Sounds painful! 😝 Nelson over on the Corally forum gifted me this titanium front centre to use. It fits the 0° kick-up chassis and it is much stronger. The only issue being - it's much more difficult to remove the centre diff from the top once fitted. In theory, it should give a more efficient driveline, with less wobble - but they are just 0.5g heavier, despite being much thicker & stronger.

Been working in the workshop a little more today.. Pegboard up and models hung... Edit: Managed to squeeze them all along the top row 😄

It was time to take some radical steps to improve the drive line on the XTR. Here's what I've done so far: I wanted to make the chassis stiffer, redistribute the weight and optimise the drive line angles - to improve power and efficiency. 5mm Carbon Fibre was selected. This is 40% thicker and still 46g lighter. The bonus of the extra strength and stiffness was that it means that much of the bracing is now redundant - saving even more weight. Mating up the transmission and reconfiguring the steering assembly for a 0° Kick up chassis. Chassis really starting to look purposeful now. M2C carbon shock towers save another 32.5g Removal of braces (except rear body mount braces), radio tray and battery tray results in a total weight loss of 235.5g!! However, the main benefit of all this is the more efficient and powerful driveline - more power to the wheels. And much quieter, too! First speed run opportunity was on a very wet and windy Sunday....