The working man's comp worthy rig

[Overkel]

I agree Mountain. I love tinkering with my Redcat. My feeling is that someday I'll feel like I have made all of my rookie mistakes, tried enough crazy theories, and learned every thing I wanted to learn.
AT that point I can transport most of the stuff that worked to a step up model, and have a head start on that one. I have been working on mine for 2 years now and adding a little piece here and there while having the rig always be up and running is quite the luxury for me.

 

[Master Basher]

$400 huh? Not possible.

 

[crawlhog]

$400 huh? Not possible.

agreed, sorry overkel your not the first to make the cat something its not.
good effort tho"thumbsup"

 

[Overkel]

You know it was Mountain that got me started. One time he said something to the effect that it is impossible to get it good with out spending $600(or something like that). I was thinking, well if you are the innovator that has to go make all of the trial and error mistakes it's probably true. Surely some one who already had some what of a road map could do it for cheaper....

I stand corrected.

Here is the good news. For (around) $400 you can get a pretty light weight rig with front and rear dig as well as a pretty decent turning radius. Coupled with good weight distribution it should massively out perform a stock model. The other good thing is that you can do most of this over time and always have a functional crawler at every step. So it's not like you have to just go out and plunk down a large chunk of change all at once or have nothing to drive while you wait for certain upgrades. If you ever decide to step up to more expensive axles, many of the pieces (and knowledge gained during your cheap tinkering phase) will transfer over.

The main thing stopping a cheap build from working is not necessarily the axles since there's no axles that I can think of that will come in any cheaper. The real hold up is that you're going to need nice motors, esc's, and servos if you really want to be competitive. Those are a large portion of what would be holding you back. By the time you're ready to start dropping loot on those, you should probably be ready to step up on your axle choice (theoretically).

 

[MountainStorm]

I just installed a $26 ESC that can theoretically handle 4S. It runs nice and cool on 3s. That's really cheap for an ESC in my opinion. And as I predicted the little cans woke up. Way more fun.

So put that on your list of things to make an RS10 more fun to play with

I've got an AX10, and XR10, and a CC01 to play with and what am I messing with today? An RS10. With crap tires. Why? Because I don't need a perfection to enjoy playing with a toy car. I love to change stuff and see what happens.

 

[Overkel]

Ummm you'll need to give up the ESC before I can add it. What is it?

I know what you mean about tinkering. I have mine in droop right now.
Not because I think droop is better, but because I spend entirely too much
time staring at it and wondering what I can eff with next.

 

[Overkel]

Oh I didn't see that you made a post about it.

As long as we are expanding the knowledge base, what do you think of these?
I can't find the measurements for them and am thinking they might be too small
because they say "Mini motors". I noticed that a lot of their nicer 540 size motors
were only 52.5mm long which would probably fit fine length wise at least.

I am hoping these are like 380ish in size but can't tell. Team Brood Racing :: Crawler Motors :: Mini Motors
If you guys think they'd be big enough I'd probably bite the bullet and grab a couple for the sake of science.

 

[chopfather]

I've noticed those motors also and wondered if they would work for the rs10. If they fit I may give them a shot for my son's rig because mine is already converted to 540 motors.