Here's a mini-review of the optional springs that Duratrax offers for the MiniQuake. Not much to them, hence why its a mini-review.

The springs out of the package, look really good. Nice finish, no chips, and the colors are nice; yellows are bright and the silvers are a good silver color, but dark enough that they stand out against the stock whites.

Each color of spring represents a weight/stiffness for tuning purposes. The silvers are soft, the whites are medium (stock springs), and the yellows are hard. Holding each spring and compressing them, you can easily tell what weight/stiffness is for them. This is nice because you'll have different enough rates that you can estimate what springs to use for each application (offroad track racing, street cruising, backyard bashing, etc). Of course you can also use a combination of springs to get a more tuned setting.




Here's the setup I'm using (I tested with this and a couple others). The yellows on the rear help give it a bit more spring when leaving the jumps and the front yellows lessened the truck from leaning in the corners. Sway bars would fix the corner rolling as well, but this works until sway bars are made (hint hint Duratrax). All silvers gave the truck a low stance and helped it soak up bumps a bit better, but without sway bars it wasn't as good in the turns and big jumps proved too much when it landed and bottomed out really fast. I'd say for racing, to use whites on the outer shocks, with silvers on the inner shocks.





Stay tuned for more reviews in the future

mines stock, have alot of bashing fun with it.