Light links or Heavy links?

[whitrzac]

I'm rebuilding my scx102...

I have aluminum, TI and stainless links available for me to use. I own everything, price does not factor into the decision.

It will be on a toyzuki chassis if it matters.


Should run lightweight(ti/aluminum) links to lighten up the entire truck, and keep my heavy parts to axles only.

Or

Heavy links to add mass below the chassis in general?

 

[TheLetterJ]

I'm no comp guy, but it always seemed to me that building as light as possible is the way to go, with as much of that weight as possible low and forward. Unless you're needing to offset some weight up high, my vote is for titanium all around, otherwise titanium uppers and SS lowers.

 

[Smokin' Joe]

Scalers in general are pretty top heavy, and can benefit from having some weight low, thus I'd go stainless for your lower links. If you need a more forward weight bias you could also use stainless for only the front lower links and titanium for the rears. I wouldn't use aluminum on the lower links as it doesn't take abuse as well as the other options. I'd use aluminum for the upper links as they are lighter than the other options (assuming they are the same diameter).

 

[durok]

Stainless slides better on rocks than aluminum, too - Win-win situation...

 

[84yoda]

http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/newb...ish-titanium-vs-incision-stainless-links.html

 

[allanon1965]

I like a little weight with my links personally...SS or just plain steel rods

 

[CoolRunning]

it would depend on what you want out of a rig but for me personally as light as possible apart from some crawling mass far forward to keep the front wheels down. Basically lighter takes rolls and falling down rocks better. Lots of weight means more chances of bending and breaking parts and it blunts performance. JMHumbleO.

 

[WHITE-TRASH]

Titanium or aluminum at all times. Keep the weight on the axles and off the chassis & body and the performance will improve.

 

[CM9000]

ti uppers front and rear, ti lower rear, ss lower front. or brass lower front. d links can make the brass ones for you.

 

[hotwheels000]

You will most likely end up adding some sort of weight to the rear of the truck with the toyzuki set up. I would run stainless lowers in the rear and aluminum everywhere else. Having built and tested all the versions for him, this would be a great starting point. There are other ways to add the weight, but why put unnecessary stuff on the rig if you don't need to. Just relocate the existing or use a different material.

Links are partially sprung and un-sprung weight, its a great trade off.

 

[FrancoSFL]

From my experience, I'd go light links. You generally want all the weight to be on the knuckles/lockout areas. I swapped over to 7075 links all around and just have rear brake drums/front dlux knuckles, having everything light except the ends makes the truck feel like it has four definite corners. Same thing applies to 2.2p stuff