Safe 10.5 ratio

[yellowshark]

For you Reubs, Mr Smoothie,if on a Nosram I would say 5.1 on a mid ESC setting, say 4 or 5 will be fine. Drop a pinion from that if you want to for starters. (zero engine timing)

Unless it is very hot, eg STCC Sunday, I dropped a pinion and went down 1 on the ESC, ie from 7 to 5 on the Pearl which has 10 settings. To be safe as we only had one engine.

Last night, around 630pm, at 4.96 on setting 7 we were turning in about 45 degrees C

All the above with Nosram heat sink attached.

Adam reckons the Nosrams are not very consistent so you might want to vary from the above to find the sweet spot. Not something I have done so maybe we have been missing out; conversely Adam might have drunk too much ;D

[Reuben]

5.1..... ok well ill be using the stock spec so ill start somewhere arround 6.5 and move up in pinions Thanks

[TryHard]

If your on a wave 4.4 is about right...
Now, I have to admit, I personally tried a pearl the other week, and it was, erm, not fast to put it kindly! I'll admit it had much better brakes, but otherwise, it was not fast... Just could not get the thing to rev up at all, felt very flat to drive. Tried high and low gearing, no difference. With the wave I was over 0.5s a lap faster...hmmm

For a stock spec... Welll lower would be good (say 5.1ish), but I wouldn't be suprised if you could get away with higher than that, but only with a big fan.

HiH
Ed

[Reuben]

5.1 seems very high, im already lower than that with a 13.5. I tried 6.4 out on the road to see how long it took before it picked up... seemed slow on topend even after it picked up. So ill start arround 6 and let you guys know how i get on

[yellowshark]

Jul 11, 2009 9:26:01 GMT Reuben said:

... seemed slow on topend even after it picked up. )

Anything to do with gearing too low

[yellowshark]

What is your gearing difference between Bashley and Aldershot?