Built the car today, which was fun, apart from sanding/glueing/sanding CF parts. That takes about as much time as actually building the car, if not more

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However during building I noticed some things, I've got some questions:
- The pivot brace is under an angle when adjusting it for for free lower rear pod plate movement. In the
pic you can see one side sitting to the front, while the other is sitting to the rear. I guess this is normal/intended.
- One of the holes in the left & right rear pod links binds slightly without even having inserted a M2 screw. Its not bad, but its not optimal either. It seems to be mold related, since its the same hole that slightly binds for both links. What is usually done to fix this? Polish the ball? This would remove the coating, wouldn't it? Enlarge the hole somehow?
- The pivot balls in the lower front suspension arms bind very badly, they don't move freely at all. Is this normal? Should I fix it somehow? Polish the ball? Enlarge the hole somehow?
- With default settings, the pod is sitting upwards. I hope it comes across on these pics:
pic 1,
pic 2. With the wheels from the ground, shouldn't the rear pod rest downwards (some droop), so one could adjust the center shock preload to make the pod aligned to the chassis under static load (car resting on its wheels with full mass)? I used the (default) center shock droop spacer. The center shock aluminum rod end is all the way onto the shaft. Shouldn't it be? Should I unscrew the ball cup a few millimeters?
- Which Ackermann servo spacers should I use by default? ( Ko Propo #30048 PDS-951ICS ICS 6.0V Digital FET Servo ). At the moment I used one thick spacer per side. In a top view with steering centered, the turnbuckles are sitting colinear.
- How am I supposed to use the tiny receiver antenna with the solid antenna mast?
pic. I'd prefer something like
this. Is that just a solid mast with shrink wrap around it and the antenna inside?
- Do people position LiPo's to the front or rear? My assumption with LiPo's being lighter than sub-C cells, people would move LiPo's to the front to retain some front end weight. However, pics from the worlds:
Marc Rheinard: LiPo to the front
Ronald Völker: LiPo to the back
Juho Levanen: LiPo to the front, note the ESC is turned 90 degrees to make room for the LiPo
Don't know if these pics were taken during similar track conditions. Or maybe it just comes down to driver preference. I guess I'll install electronics in a way so I can strap the LiPo either to the front or rear (or somewhere in between).
- Just have to install electronics now:
pic 
. So far so good, servo arrived, just waiting for LiPo's now

. I must say, its pretty tempting to trim all receiver channel wires to custom length as well. Not sure if that would void the warranty of the ESC/servo/transponder. Its a bit of a handfull to fit the standard length receiver wires into the car, it doesn't look very tidy either.
- Oh, how many guys replace some of the not-so-stressed steel screws with blue anodized aluminum ones? Seems a bit iffy to me, but i guess its doable for some screws.