MA-010 Knuckle question

[SkylineLvr]

I was driving my Mini-Z around the house yesterday and I drove it into the wall breaking the front driver side knuckle. I still had the stock one's, so it was expected with my driving skills (or lack of skills). I was wondering what company I should go with to get the aluminum knuckles. Is there any real difference?

[Dr. Kustom]

I personally like the ATM ones.



oh...and they comes with bearings.

[Skv012a]

3Racing- about 8$ a pair and your choice of regular MA bearings that are 9$ or so. Atomics, if I'm not mistaken, are 20$ a pair.

Just check reflexracing.net or toyeast.com

There's NO reason to overpay for parts that don't need to be "better" in order to perform well, like diffs for example.

[Action B]

I also concur with 3racing. That's all I use.

[Skv012a]

Last note- do NOT get PN ride height shims for anything but PN knuckles as they won't really fit stock/3racing style ones. I'd say get 3racing shims or atomic cheapies since they all do the same exact thing.

[SkylineLvr]

What do the shims do? HKShobby has the titanium Atomic Knuckles for $9 a pair. Should I get 2 pairs, 1 for the front and 1 for the rear, or should I leave the rears stock?

[Skv012a]

Get all because you're never really safe from people hitting your rear wheels. 9$ a pop actually sounds good. And like i said, ride height shims.

[SkylineLvr]

My bad. Thanks for the input

[Action B]

Are you still using that SAS rear? You wouldnt need rear knuckles in that case. Those that come with it are particularly strong.

[SkylineLvr]

I'm not using the SAS rear anymore. I didn't have a good feel for it. I ended up giving it to a guy at my base since he was starting to get into Mini-Z's. I figured since I don't use it, and it was given to me, I would pass it along. Sux though, he ended up getting orders to another base. We didn't even get a chance to race each other.