How much weight?

[pixelstick]

Hi, new to the crawler game and just got the newest version Capra 4WS RTR. So far I'm loving this thing but would like it to be able to climb steeper inclines a bit better without flipping. Wondering how much weight is really necessary in the front and was thinking of getting brass knuckles and portal covers. A few questions:

1) Is "the more weight the better" the general rule or is it more nuanced than that?
2) Extra weight front and back, or just front?
3) What hardware do you guys suggest (knuckles/portal cover)?

Also, the Capra has no overdrive so thought I'd handle that while I had the knuckles open. What percent overdrive do you guys suggest and why?

Thanks

 

[ferp420]

there are 2 schools of though 1 light as a feather
2 heavy as a pig

ether way your tires will need alot of tuning for your specific weight to light and theres not enuff pressure on the tire to much weight and you cant climb up
theres also temperature when jts hot out your tires get softer when its cold out they get hard you can change tires to differnt compounds and see what works best
when climbing you have to pull every ounce up the obstacle

the most important thing is weight distribution put the weight low and forward
usually the trick is to start with moving stuff around then run it add little bits of weight at a time

on a scaller things are a bit different top heavy hard bodys need added weight to keep it from flopping over at every turn how much depends on how top heavy it is

what ever way you decide to go you need to remeber that there is no 1 best tire and the more extreme you get the more tuning you need to do on the tires

the most important thing to upgrade is the driver that takes lots and lots of runtime you can have a wold class crawler but if ya dont know how to drive it than whats the point

personally if it were me i would go with some potmetal axles and heavy aluminum 2.2 wheels but thats just me it works for my terrain

 

[Col_Sanders]

As ferp said, people have different preferences on weight. Some like really heavy rigs with brass all over, others only want minimum brass up front only or none at all. A 60/40 front to rear bias is what people mostly shoot for. Maybe start with knuckles or portal covers up front and add more if needed.

Overdrive is also subjective. For a trail style truck I like ~20%, but for more serious rock crawling, I like 30-40%. The closer to 40 the better...I've got ~38% in my comp trucks. I ran ~44% briefly but it just felt like too much to me.

 

[pixelstick]

Thanks guys! That definitely gives me room for thought and places to start!