El Pirata
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While sitting on staff duty this evening I was playing with my savage and everything I could think of trying, aside from adding t-maxx shocks onto it and thus limiting the range of motion of the suspension I came up with an idea to use my black trinity springs to beef up the suspension. Upon looking into this further I realized that I would need to use all of the shock shims that were in my tool box that came with 3 different t-maxx's and would look ugly as hell. It also might run the risk as I saw earlier this evening of the shims popping out of the shocks while I was running it. Regardless of what was tried I knew the stock springs were just too weak for my needs.
The end result will be posted in pics when I get off duty and am able to take some pics woth me digital camera at home, you gotta have your priorities of what's more important to bring to duty, my camera or my savage. Anyway, what I did is put a combo similar to what trinity did with their 2 piece springs. I put a stock traxxas shock spring on first followed by my extra black trinity springs. Since the stock springs are fairly weak they stay nearly halfway compressed all the time while the black trinity springs are only about an 1/8th compressed.
I kinda looks funky but it works like a dream. My savage is now able to bounce back from jumps like my t-maxx and one of the things that I have found is that the t-maxx stock springs take 98% of all of the shock, thus cheaper repairs as they get worn out.
The end result will be posted in pics when I get off duty and am able to take some pics woth me digital camera at home, you gotta have your priorities of what's more important to bring to duty, my camera or my savage. Anyway, what I did is put a combo similar to what trinity did with their 2 piece springs. I put a stock traxxas shock spring on first followed by my extra black trinity springs. Since the stock springs are fairly weak they stay nearly halfway compressed all the time while the black trinity springs are only about an 1/8th compressed.
I kinda looks funky but it works like a dream. My savage is now able to bounce back from jumps like my t-maxx and one of the things that I have found is that the t-maxx stock springs take 98% of all of the shock, thus cheaper repairs as they get worn out.
