buggy torque issue
 

i have a kyosho mp777, aveox motor ,mamba monster , 4s zippy lipos for my set and it is very powerful, and since this is my first buggy i dont know much about set up

when i gas the hell out of it it darts off to the left very hard and my tires on the left show more wear than the right, i had a on road car that would torque the same way , is it the motor like causing it to gyro in its direction

nope, not the motor, poor setup

I'd check caster, camber and toe ins on all 4 corners. holding a ruler flat to the face of the tire gives you a good visual to approximate degrees.

A decent spot to start is 1 degree camber on all 4 tires (tops point in to chassis)

1 degree toe out up front and 1 degree toe in out back

and make sure caster is equal on both sides

On a direct-drive setup with a centerdiff the torque-steer gets kinda canceled out by the weight of the diff spinning in the opposite direction.

If you have a large heavy rotor I can imagine you may feel a bit of torque twist/steer, but nothing like you described.

On that note, I once had a setup with an idler between diff and motor (i.e. diff and motor spinning in the same direction) and the torque steer was noticeable on straight-line dragracing, or in mid-air.

I guess your issue is indeed setup related. Check all the settings. A slightly bad bearing somewhere might cause the same issue, btw.

Daf

thanks i will check al 4 corners, got it from e-bay so you never know what someone else had it dialed in for

I don't know if this is related or even true ?

I've read on a couple forums where fellas were having torque steer problems and they turned the diffs over in the case and reversed the motor, viola' problem sloved.

Yep, my Hyper 9e torqued to the right. Then I flipped the diffs and now it accelerates hard in a straight line.

well somebody let me borrow a set of foam tires and the car accelerated straight, i am thinking is was lack of traction from the tires on the left of the car, but further testing should be done, i will keep in mind reversing the diffs