Wide Sliding Damper

* Front
* Rear

The **Wide Sliding Dampers** (Japanese: ワイドスライドダンパー, *Waido Suraido Danpā*) are the sets of Mini 4WD Grade-up Parts released by Tamiya on September 28, 2013.

## General info

Similar to the previous sliding damper sets, the main purpose of the these parts is to provide smooth cornering in circults with many S-style corners, as well as absorbing shocks while hitting the fences of the circuit. The sets supports 9mm, 13mm, 17mm and 19mm roller setups.

It is a well known effect that sliding dampers will causes speed loss during cornering (to make it stable), while being installed only onto the front bumper with the soft spring setting. As such, it has to be accompanied by either the Sliding Damper Roller Set, the Rear Sliding Damper and Brake Set, or install another similar sliding damper set on the rear to counteract this problem. The sliding damper installed onto the front bumper can causes the recoil effect on the wave sections and the lane-change sections of the circuit with the hard spring setting. This is the remedy to “Digital Curve” section of the Race Course.

With the soft spring, the sliding damper's plate will rebound smoothly with the fences. With the hard spring however, it rebounds abruptly with more force. Unless the car is push onto the fences very hard it will immediately recoil back to its originally state as soon as the car exits the corner curve, causing the recoil effect.

Similar to the Rear Sliding Damper and Brake Set, both sets are consists of the POM/PP-made plastic mount and the 2mm aluminum stay. However, aluminum stay proves to be too soft and tend to bend permanently on hard impacts. The only solutions to this problem is to either make a FRP/CFRP stay from the existing reinforced plates or use the HG Carbon Stay sets. The aluminum stay is the only parts that doesn't shared between the sets. Both sets come with the optional bowl rollers.

An adjustment screw is located on the convex side of the spring housing part of the Wide Sliding Damper that controls the tightness of the plates central part. This spring housing is made of POM plastic which allows the plate to glide smoothly and is interchangeable for both Front and Rear versions of the Wide Sliding Damper.

The set also comes with the regular grease, but the sliding damper's responsive rate can be adjust using the Sliding Damper Grease Set or the HG Sliding Damper Grease Set..

For the Clear/Red sets, they were instead comes with the the hard spring and super hard spring.

Compatibility-wise, while the Rear Wide Sliding Dampers will fit onto most recent chassis just fine, it is noted that the Front Wide Sliding Damper can interfere with certain chassis's front latch (AR Chassis and FM-A Chassis for example) and certain body cowls (i.e. those from the Fully Cowled Mini 4WD series). The Front Wide Sliding Damper is not compatible with the MS chassis.

## Gallery

### Parts variants

Front (White/Blue)Rear (White/Blue)Front (Clear/Red)Rear (Clear/Red)
## See also

* Sliding Damper Roller
* Front Sliding Damper Roller
* Rear Sliding Damper and Brake Set

## External links

### Tamiya Japan

* Wide Front Sliding Damper at Tamiya Japan
* Wide Rear Sliding Damper at Tamiya Japan
* Wide Front Sliding Damper (Blue) at Tamiya Japan
* Wide Rear Sliding Damper (Blue) at Tamiya Japan
* Wide Front Sliding Damper 2 (Red) at Tamiya Japan
* Wide Rear Sliding Damper 2 (Red) at Tamiya Japan

### Tamiya America

* Wide Front Sliding Damper at Tamiya America
* Wide Rear Sliding Damper at Tamiya America
* Wide Front Sliding Damper (Blue) at Tamiya America
* Wide Rear Sliding Damper (Blue) at Tamiya America
* Wide Front Sliding Damper 2 (Red) at Tamiya America
* Wide Rear Sliding Damper 2 (Red) at Tamiya America