shock oil

[mazur50]

What Weight shock oil are you running in your 1/8th scale buggys at LHR.

thanks
Mike

[slim]

70-40

pretty useless info tho ...

[mazur50]

Why is that just looking for a good starting point.

[rocco79]

sets ups are very differnt between drivers,track,buggy and prefernce.. Thats why my good buddy slim said his info would be useless.. We dont know what you race/bash, where you run it or how you like your buggy to "act".

[kevinF]

also all the shock oils are different, lets say slim has trinity 70 and you but AE 70 theyre gonig to be different

[Tex]

That's a new trick traxxas boy learned from our good friend Chris Arnold last Sunday

The consistancy of oils made by different companies are different. Like Trinity 60wt is equal to AE 40wt, etc... There is a whole science to it.

[slim]

buy 1 oil make and stick to it. i like the losi stuff, its CERTIFIED to be right batch to batch... very consistant.

if your looking for a general oil to start... 50f - 40r will get you around the track on ANY car. unless its a hyper 7 lol. the 1.1 pistons are crap. gotta go down to like 35 in the front... just dont work well.

i run 70 in the front of the K car, but would never have worked in the xray.

[slim]

Here are ACTUAL tests with very expensive machines.
use these charts as your bible to shock oil.


Associated silicone oil measured with Rheometer
09-10-2005
rating WT Cts
10 108
15 --*
20 208
25 286
30 373
35 454
40 525
50 707
60 725
70 960
80 1040



Trinity silicone oil measured with Rheometer
09-10-2005
rating Cts
30 337
35 376
40 505
45 497
50 658
55 568
60 799
70 757
90 974



Losi silicone oil measured with Rheometer
15-12-2005
rating Cts
15 110
17.5 158
20 243
22.5 243
25 294
27.5 345
30 381
32.5 397
35 459
37.5 477
40 546
45 657
50 886 <------------------
60 844 <------------------ 60 is less than 50 lol,
70 970

[mazur50]

thanks that is very good info.

[slim]

here is a claculator for mixing silicone oils... 50% of 50wt and 40wt dont = 45wt.

great for diff oils!

http://www.gesilicones.com/gesilwizards/...SESSION=NO

[DAVEC-NITRO-RS4]

Trinity 60 looks funny, as does Losi 20 vs. 22.5.

[get dustd]

well i think a better question would be how do oil changes affect the buggy?

[snakebite46]

A great idea of how shock oils affect handling would be to download the X-ray manual from http://www.teamxray.com or read the lastest issues of XRC. Factory driver Chad Bradley gives a good explanation of oils and the handling.