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Originally posted by PhillyB
a few things - for everyone who owns a xmod
the bearing kit is horrible, but i decided to take advantage of it. the bearings are full of grease (more like petrolium jelly or something nasty) and after a few runs my car was covered in the grease. so i took it apart and sprayed all the moving parts with electric motor cleaner. the bearings, when clean, work very very well - i added a small amount of machine oil and let them dry. now my car seems to have much more acceleration (like a spring in ones step) - and even with a stage 2 9 pinion i run longer than my friends stock xmod with 8 pinion stock motor.
i will have to clean the bearings often but its not that bad for such a decent increase in performance and runtime. with the engine disconnected it will roll several feet now - i can spin the rear assembly with my hands - nice and free rotation.
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I noticed this as well. I found that after intalling the bearing kit my car was actually slower than stock. I promptly removed the bearings, gave them a bath in Simple Green engine degreaser, rinsed them, dried them, then relubed them with some light weight oil that I've had really good experience with in inline skate bearings. Huge difference.