FunkMasterFlex
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Has anyone successfully put this upgrade on yet? I got mine decent but I had to put a spacer on the bottom panhard bar link. It doesn’t seem to achieve full flex
I've had them since summer as a beta tester. It did take a bit of fiddling, but they work pretty well.Has anyone successfully put this upgrade on yet? I got mine decent but I had to put a spacer on the bottom panhard bar link. It doesn’t seem to achieve full flex
Torque twistI've got the portals in my Gen7. I also now have a Gen8 to compare it to. The portals in the Gen7 don't have the bump-steer problem that the Gen8 has, but it's got a bind that I haven't been able to get rid of yet. The whole truck leans to the left under power. The left side compresses much easier than the right.
Torque twist
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It's not a bind in the sense that the suspension stops working entirely, but the arch that the suspension swings in makes the side that the panhard mounts to the axle much stiffer than the other side. I definitely need to spend some time getting it to work better or I'm going back to a 4 link. On the Gen8, torque steer aside, the front suspension works much better. I've heard from people who replaced the skid on their Gen7s with one that positions the links further in more like an SCX10 that this issue went away, but I'm stubborn and I want to get it to work with the stock skid, then I'll replace it.![]()
Does the portal axle upgrade solve the terrible steering angle issue? I just got a gen7 pro and im used to my trx-4 already.
I cant wrap my mind around how bad the steering is. I was either going to get the redcat high steer kit and I saw the portal axle kit. Figure maybe it solved the problem.
Or is it a matter of needing both?