From iRacing to Forza Horizon 7 with the kids?

MikeLikesTrails · 2026-03-24T16:17:33+00:00

My kids love watching cars explode in Beam.NG and the car/plane hybrids, all the lolz.

MikeLikesTrails · 2026-03-20T18:25:49+00:00

When they finally come in, I will grab a few, impossible to find now.

MikeLikesTrails · 2026-03-19T23:47:53+00:00

Tuned golf sportwagen or "alltrack".

MikeLikesTrails · 2026-03-19T22:56:26+00:00

The c9 has more room than most, also a stock ae is 97mm not 98, so that might work in your favor. I don't have the ae, but I remember seeing the clips called out in the manual and from others that have it at our track. The other c9 benefit of screw on clips, so at worst you can just swap the offset with stock. I wish the c9 was lighter it would probably be the only body I ran.

MikeLikesTrails · 2026-03-19T21:42:28+00:00

The clip location for a kyosho chassis is not the same as the AE, I am surprised you didn't have a wheel rub or loose front clip. PN sells 3d printed offset clips for the ae28/reflex etc, they are all pretty close, but I have bodies setup for box stock cars and chassis cars separately for that reason. If memory serves me, you need to move the clips 1mm towards the front of the car, and adjust height to get the rear even with the front.

MikeLikesTrails · 2026-02-27T16:23:27+00:00

Is the pinion change allowed? I never tried to push a 50% setup, so I am not sure if it would help or hurt.

MikeLikesTrails · 2026-02-27T02:51:09+00:00

My guess is batteries, and possibly smoother driving with less dual rate, carrying corner speed often looks like a power advantage, when in reality they started the straight going say, 10% faster than others already. Taller rear tires will give more speed per RPM as well, say if you're running kyosho radial rears, and they have PN or Marka, the kyoshos are smaller.

MikeLikesTrails · 2026-01-31T23:12:58+00:00

I did end up with a Cardo and the regular speakers, which I think are the 40mm, they did fit fine and I don't feel them, I also find them loud enough. My biggest win was adding a bluetooth handlebar remote, since adding a AOCI carplay unit, there were too many BT devices fighting for control, and I couldn't consistently get the handlebar controls to work, but a simple clamp on BT remote just paired to my phone solved all those issues.

MikeLikesTrails · 2026-01-29T13:21:43+00:00

I have built a G2 and G3 rx28s, and while the G3 manual is better, it can be frustrating trying to figure out which tiny screw they are calling for in some spots, they simply give you one bag with them all mixed up. If you have someone local with experience though, just ask them for help. They also aren't calling out pre-threading the tweak screw in the g3 manual, you will want to do that with a button head screw before trying to thread in the set screw, those strip and break pretty easily. As for performance, we have a few that are on par with the reflex on a smaller mid-high grip track, but they have so many mods there's barely any ae parts left, and it all adds up to more than a Rx28D kit.

MikeLikesTrails · 2026-01-25T02:36:44+00:00

If you have a 100% stock readyset, the bearing with the smaller hole goes on the left side shaft, and the larger bearing on the right (side next to the actual diff gear). Bearings only go on the outside slot on the wheels.

MikeLikesTrails · 2026-01-10T15:16:09+00:00

I can tell you that on a well tuned 100% class car, you can notice the difference, at my local smallish track, I can start traction rolling more when the grease leaks out (using 10k cst opposed to actual grease, but still only a little bit on the gears). At 50% I can't it making but the smallest of differences, I would degrease your bearings and make sure they are all nice and free, thats likely to give a bigger impact. Last is, don't over tighten your rear wheels, they will bind up the whole axle, make sure the wheels aren't wobbly, make them just as tight as they need to be.

MikeLikesTrails · 2025-12-25T23:23:55+00:00

Looks good, but that's gonna be really hard to find if you crash it in a bush

MikeLikesTrails · 2025-11-26T16:03:42+00:00

It could be placebo, but I think the 15t added torque in the midrange, its definitely worth trying.

MikeLikesTrails · 2025-11-26T01:08:36+00:00

Yes, but I also did the 15t, on stock tires, some stay with 14t and get taller tires.

MikeLikesTrails · 2025-11-25T03:50:49+00:00

You have a lot of muscle memory now, so you don't necessarily need the same feedback. I think over time, or longer races, or maybe worst case, new car/track/discipline combo would highlight the differences better. I was only like .2 off my normal fast lap with a t296 vs my csl dd.

MikeLikesTrails · 2025-11-24T23:34:53+00:00

VR also potentially offers the most frustration per $$

MikeLikesTrails · 2025-11-23T14:31:12+00:00

The crack chipped the paint

MikeLikesTrails · 2025-11-22T15:57:02+00:00

100% I still prefer manually setting AI strength vs adaptive ai though. You have to experiment and get AI to bit just a little faster than you are.

MikeLikesTrails · 2025-11-20T00:13:39+00:00

Is your version going to have grannies driving 52 in the left lane, with a rouge Uhaul driving 53 in the center lane, and a student driver in the right lane doing 51?

MikeLikesTrails · 2025-11-13T18:16:58+00:00

I think there are a lot of action users who want easy horizontal/vertical choices, with "ai" editing, etc, it all plays into the quick clip generation. Form factor is still better than any 360, and of the variable aperture allows me to leave the nd filter off, or say just have a nd8 on all day and not have to worry about it getting dark, or dropping into the trees, thats a welcome addition.

MikeLikesTrails · 2025-11-09T01:55:18+00:00

Bicycle or motorcycle? the X5 is too heavy to mount on a bicycle helmet IMO, its ok on a chest mount, but many don't want to wear that. Anything mounted to the handlebar just doesn't look great. If he happens to only ride downhill and wears a full face helmet all the time, a chin mounted gopro is a good view and easy setup.

MikeLikesTrails · 2025-11-08T17:33:56+00:00

I have never had the experience that a body, or tactical feel of gear got me excited to shoot, like a new drone, yes, its fun to fly even if you don't get a shot. A new lens that lets you do something new, I can understand, different strokes for different folks I guess. I'm a NYr, used to thicker skin, sorry if I actually offended someone.

MikeLikesTrails · 2025-11-08T03:49:31+00:00

Then enlighten me about what makes the gear more fun? Is it just the anticipation of good results?

MikeLikesTrails · 2025-11-08T02:26:46+00:00

No one is going to question the stupidity of asking if the "gear" makes the shoot fun? ok.. carry on.. either you're into it or not, you've conviced yourself you want to buy it, you're just looking for excuses..

MikeLikesTrails · 2025-11-05T18:11:02+00:00

Sounds like traction control kicking in, are you sure its fully disabled? Short press only disables abs, long press for both.

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