Axial AX10 a.k.a Toxoplasma Condii

[Zarizi Tech]

Hello from the land of RC FOFF! Let me share the ultimate Finnish 2.2 foffer with you!





These are some old pics of it so you can get the idea. On down theres a video from last summer:



The rig is three times finnish champion in Modified class Formula Offroad.

Specs so far:
Chassis: Nordic Crawler Designs SuDu One
Axles: Axial AR60 in front, Axial AX10 in rear
Links: Crawlerkeller titanium
Tranny: AX-10
ESC: Castle Creations Sidewinder
Servo: Protek RC 170S
Motor: Castle Creations 5700kv
Tires: V Productions Pnesh F18
Wheels: Nordic Crawler Designs 1" CF beadlocks
Battery: Gens Ace 1000mAh 25-50C 3S LiPo
Radio: Spektrum DX3R
Body: Magazut II (Hacked Trail Ranger)

[M1tch]

That's cool looking truck. Do you have any photos with the body off, or a build thread somewhere?

[Zarizi Tech]

Originally Posted by M1tch

That's cool looking truck. Do you have any photos with the body off, or a build thread somewhere?

As a matter of fact, I dont have any body off photos. It was basically AX10 chassis with those extended sideplates.

I'll design a new chassis to foff with Nordic Crawler Designs. It's still on the drawing table though.

[Hacksaw707]

Truck looks good, I also run the Castle 5700kv; but with a MMP in my FOFF. It's A great power plant for these rigs. Dig the vid as well

[Zarizi Tech]

I've done something to the rig. Slowly but steady. Even the driver is waiting for me to finish. We have first comp at February, so I better hurry up...

[stelerzman]

Wow, looks like the COG will be on the high side, unless you plan on lowering the chassis.

[Zarizi Tech]

Originally Posted by stelerzman

Wow, looks like the COG will be on the high side, unless you plan on lowering the chassis.

I'm planning to drop it as much as I can, without messing good clearance that this chassis offers. It'll drop down from the pics. Tomorrow I'll try to make it a roller.

[douwe]

Originally Posted by Zarizi Tech

I'm planning to drop it as much as I can, without messing good clearance that this chassis offers. It'll drop down from the pics. Tomorrow I'll try to make it a roller.

Whats this Samu.. A sudu?? where are the ideas so i can draw you something specific!!!!!! ;)

[Zarizi Tech]

Originally Posted by douwe

Whats this Samu.. A sudu?? where are the ideas so i can draw you something specific!!!!!! ;)

Yes it's a sudu! I'll try with this first, I'll be having some test results later, when we have dry sand. So hold your horses


Roller status!


These are just test tires. I will make proper paddles by the start of our season in the end of March.


Plenty of room for electrical stuff as it needs to be.


We still have the Trail Ranger body, with "slight" modifications to fit.


Now the tire isn't grabbing on the body while it flexes.


Still way too much articulation. I'll have to limit it more.


RTR weight is still around 2kg, but my plan is to drop it to 1,9kg.


The steering got most of the improvements. Old steering was the original from AX10 axles, but now we have XR10 shafts, hubs and knuckles.

I'll continue this at some point. There's still lots to do before it will be on the hills.

[douwe]

You shaved teh tires just as strange as you shave yourself.... Big goaty :P

[Zarizi Tech]

Originally Posted by douwe

You shaved teh tires just as strange as you shave yourself.... Big goaty :P

ROFL

[evan03]

Ewwwwwww looks awesome.

I'm assuming its running hot on a 2-3 cell 2200 lipo.

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[stelerzman]

Could one of you, across the pond ers, post a link to your event and maybe the rules and or guideline for the competition? That would be fantastic.

[Zarizi Tech]

Originally Posted by evan03

Ewwwwwww looks awesome.

I'm assuming its running hot on a 2-3 cell 2200 lipo.

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Actually I'm running 1000mAh 3S LiPo.

Originally Posted by stelerzman

Could one of you, across the pond ers, post a link to your event and maybe the rules and or guideline for the competition? That would be fantastic.

I've been working on this for a quite while now. I can post the vehicle reguirements to there soon: FOFF rules?

[Zarizi Tech]

Sorry guys, I've been quite lazy to build up this thingy, but now I have to, because we are comping in the winter classic foff comp next saturday!


This is what I'm strating with.


The AX10 front axle was about to change to Wraith front axle due the slop of the crappy beef tubes, that I got in the AX10's.


Front axle is removed and I made room for the wraith one.


The Wraith front axle was stealed from my old TTC truck, and because of that, some repairs had to be done. And I wanted to change the front gear ratio.


This was the old AX10 axle with the XR steering mod.


Lower front links were good with this axle too, but I had to do a longer uppers for it.


Steering seems to be amazing even with these giant tires!


It almost steers that much when in drive.


With these wheels and tires the front end is too wide. It's almost 320mm wide. I have to make CF wheels for it, and then I can adjust the wideness with the VP hubs.


Aluminium hubs and knuckles will probably hold up for many comps.


The diff seemed to be in excellent condition keeping mind that, I've been mudding and doing TTC with it. It seems to be extremely tight from all the junk!


Titanium steering link searching it's place.


I had to put the body on there once in a while too.


I'll be driving the snow comp with these badass tires from V Productions. I'll be doing my own tires when we get some sand under the snow.


This is what the scale thought without the driver and his seat.


I will try with the 1000mAh 3S first, that how it'll be moving.


With the 2.2 Panthers it does look ridiculous!


It might well be, that those tires will never get a chance under this rig again. They are simply way too small.


I've done waterproofing to the electrics and fount their place on the rig. God it's stuffed...


Driver Jack Slayer and his seat are in place!


Well positioned!


This is how it looks before the comp on saturday.


Here we have my old Modified class wraith and the new one.


I got the steering links done quite nicely in the front side of the axle.


Here is the current RTR weight.


Here we have my 2.2 Pro rig compared to the foff rig.


I had to do a little test run. Allthough we had lots of snow outside. It really gives some boost already with the 1000mAh battery. Some torque twist was notified, but I was able to control that a little, with moving some of the links.


Quite much of the snow still gets indoors.

Will be fun to see how this rig manages to do in the winter comp. Last year I was second, this time I really would like to win. I'll keep you guys posted!

[stelerzman]

Interesting looking rig, can't wait to hear how you did. Go gettum' Zarizi.

Any chance someone will get some action on video?????

[Zarizi Tech]

Originally Posted by stelerzman

Interesting looking rig, can't wait to hear how you did. Go gettum' Zarizi.

Any chance someone will get some action on video?????

Thanks! If it's not too cold, we'll get some video.

[stelerzman]

Soo, how did it go??

[Zarizi Tech]

Originally Posted by stelerzman

Soo, how did it go??

I did go just ok.







First comp with the new setup behind. Lots of good things, but I would say, that the list of improvements will still be longer at this point. One thing though what I have to bear in mind is that this comp was on the snow. You cannot hardly even begin to compare sand and snow, so I have to take a better look on the first sand competition, which will be on late March. What I will do is get it little longer, probably to 13" wb, and get myself a better tires. Most likely Panther paddles on a 2,8" CF wheel. I'll update this, when I get something done. In the mean time, here are my performances from saturday:

[stelerzman]

Congrats on 2nd place with a new rig.