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12-08-2017, 08:17 AM | #1 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Nov 2017 Location: Ulaanbaatar
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| Recommended Mods and Upgrades for Barrage BTD
Greetings from Ulaanbaatar Crawler fans, I will soon build my first RC crawler, the ECX Barrage BTD kit. After reading around a bit, I see that the only essential upgrade seems to be going for a metal gear servo, which I will. For those of you with lots of crawler build experience, and especially those with experience making this specific kit perform better, what, if anything, would you do to it? My RC style tends to be to try to keep things stock and only upgrade things as they fail or break, but I would like a fun and capable crawler. Thank you very much for any thoughts you could offer. -MP |
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12-08-2017, 11:16 AM | #2 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: Streamwood, IL
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| Re: Recommended Mods and Upgrades for Barrage BTD
hillbillyrc is the local Barrage guru, and there is a 21 page thread that has all the upgrades, in the General Scale section, pg 3, started by Szczerba, titled "1.9 Barrage RTR 1/10 Crawler"
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12-08-2017, 07:09 PM | #3 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Nov 2017 Location: Ulaanbaatar
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| Re: Recommended Mods and Upgrades for Barrage BTD
Thanks Mike
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12-09-2017, 01:21 AM | #4 |
RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Vancouver
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| Re: Recommended Mods and Upgrades for Barrage BTD
Nice to get name dropped once in a while. Lol As for mods and upgrades read the bible on the barrage. Good stuff starts about page 3. Trim the spacers in half and the rear driveshaft male side needs trimmed as it binds before full compression. |
12-09-2017, 01:55 AM | #5 | |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Nov 2017 Location: Ulaanbaatar
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| Re: Recommended Mods and Upgrades for Barrage BTD Quote:
Are you referring to the 21 page thread here on this site, or is there another Barrage bible I should read? I'm looking forward to running this rig stock for a while, learning a bit about crawling, and maybe building it up a bit to make it better. Cheers, MP | |
12-09-2017, 09:51 AM | #6 |
RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Vancouver
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| Re: Recommended Mods and Upgrades for Barrage BTD
That's the one. There is excellent tech in there just got to read around the normal chatter.
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12-09-2017, 11:29 AM | #7 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: Streamwood, IL
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12-10-2017, 02:02 PM | #8 |
RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Vancouver
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| Re: Recommended Mods and Upgrades for Barrage BTD
Thanks really need to get back to building the rgt. Its been on the mind lately
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12-10-2017, 02:37 PM | #9 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Caldwell ID.
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| Re: Recommended Mods and Upgrades for Barrage BTD
The build to drive kit is very well thought out in my opinion. It did not come with bumpstops, and the shocks are outboarded. The other great news is the driveshafts do not bind. The only thing I can see going wrong are the electronics. But the esc apears to be a rebranded quickrun 1060, and a 4ch reciever. I havent tested yet to see if it will bind to my Spectrum radio. Edit: The servo binds on the front of the frame rails. This is how mine currently sits, Installing the lights in the body... Last edited by lonleycreeper; 12-10-2017 at 04:19 PM. |
12-11-2017, 04:53 AM | #10 |
RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Vancouver
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| Re: Recommended Mods and Upgrades for Barrage BTD
Frame rails or the cross member above the servo?
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12-11-2017, 11:39 AM | #11 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Caldwell ID.
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| Re: Recommended Mods and Upgrades for Barrage BTD
Frame rails themselfs.
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12-11-2017, 03:30 PM | #12 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: Melbourne
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| Re: Recommended Mods and Upgrades for Barrage BTD
I think you'll find in real world use it won't bind. Maybe on manual full compression it will hit the rails but real world you'll be unlikely to replicate that. Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk |
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