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The kit of the Team Corally SBX-410 comes with one set of springs, claimed to have a "medium" spring rate. These work fine in many circumstances, but eventually you may want to try either softer or harder springs. Unfortunately, Corally does not have such springs in stock. So, which springs from other vendors may fit? You can use springs from various vendors, as long as they have the appropriate diameter, length and your desired spring rate. As an example, I recently tried the blue springs of the Team Associated B74, and they work very well for me on Astroturf. They are a bit softer than the springs from the kit. However, there is one thing to keep in mind. Especially in the rear, the spring length of the B74 springs is a few millimeters too short, to set higher ride-heights. Thus, you also need to buy some spring cups with a higher offset. I believe the offset of the stock cups is +5 mm. I bought some with +9 mm offset. As an example, you can get such spring cups in the foll

The time may come when you are no longer satisfied with the anti-roll bars that come with the Corally SBX-410 kit. According to the manual, the anti-roll bars in the kit are 1.4 mm in diameter. However, mine seem to be 1.2 mm in diameter. Possibly this is an error in the manual. Anyhow, if you would like to get other diameters, you face the problem that Corally has no other anti-roll bars for sale or at least in stock. After some searching, I found out that anti-roll bars for the current Xray XB4 fit the Corally SBX-410 well. The maximum diameter you can fit into the mounts on the arms is 1.8 mm. However, the space on the diff housing seems to be incorrectly designed. It does not allow free movement for diameters above 1.4 mm. You need to carefully widen the space, e.g. with a small drill. Once you did that, you should be able to fit Xray XB4 anti-roll bars of any size and they perform well.

When going to the track, chances are high that you crash and possibly break some part of your RC buggy. Thus, it is good to know from other drivers which parts break most frequently, so you can have spares in your bag and are prepared to replace them on site. In the following I have listed the parts that have broken so far on my Corally SBX-410 in the course of several months: part                                                                     count Front shock tower, carbon fiber           2 Front shock tower, aluminum                     1 Front chassis brace                                         1 Front diff box                                                   1 Wing                                                             3 Front wheel rim                                         2 ESC fan                                                             1 Front arm                                                   1 Servo saver, composite                    

 To be honest, this is a great kit. The manual of the SBX-410 is very good. If you follow all their instructions and get yourself the recommended tools, building the kit is very straight-forward. I had very few issues. Nevertheless, a few small problems did arise and I would like to briefly mention them: 1) It can be confusing, where to put which lower suspension holder. To make it clear: When going from the very front of the car to the very back, the order of holders is "FF" followed by "FR" followed by "RF" followed by "RR". This is shown correctly in most parts of the manual, with the exception of page 23. 2) There is a container with additional parts that is not mentioned in the manual. These seem to be parts that likely were found to be missing, when the kit parts were packaged in the factory. Thus, they added these missing items in a separately. Make sure to familiarize yourself with the items in this container, so that you know of them and

 Here you can see a first picture of my fully built Team Corally SBX-410. I will provide some more info about the building process and the electronics that I used in the next posts.