Looks great, Matt, too bad you couldn’t come to Michigan for the Great Lakes gauntlet at Walters RC Park that’s where I’m heading tomorrow morning 7 AM camping for three days and tiny trucking. Yeah always a great time there.
Yeah i gotta say this chassis seems awesome! great skid angle for good break over and and keeping all the weight way down low and the quality seems really good. Appreciate the video!
This is sweet! Was actually thinking of trying to design something similar for a flat chassis (for scx24’s/trx4m/ascent18/fcx18) where the front section comes up to under the hood of the body so no worries about servo clearances. But orange has done it and it looks great! Wish they made a carbon fiber version of it! I’m gonna wait for a carbon version for sure before I buy. I don’t want that extra weight of the titanium.
Looks super capable! My Ascent 18 plan doesn't involve turning it into a mega crawler, but if it did, I'd be eyeing this chassis. I see a couple comments on cost; I wonder if Mr. Orange would consider lower cost materials like G10 and aluminum rather than carbon fiber and titanium...
Damn I wish I lived closer to you. I'd love to do a side by side comparison with what I feel like is a dialed stock chassis A18, I don't run the stock body and I have stretched my WB to 155mm.
@@Steve_J81 I bet that stretch makes a huge difference! I had a stock chassis pretty dialed early on. Cut the front end off of it and it ran great. Swapped it for the scx24 chassis though lol
I still don't understand why companies don't capitalize on hardbody builds. A chassis kit, and body mounts, hardbody.. Sold as a kit. Leaf options with the kit. They are missing out.. everything is usually twice the cost buying this, buying that.. then buying this.. Ya it's fun but, I don't know.. just surprised no one has figured that out yet. 🤷♂️
That’s how several of my crawlers have ended up. Especially scx24s. But if I built the stock one back up, I’d have to start modding it too. Would be a circle of doom before long.
These mini crawlers are almost the same price as the 110s scale. It’s kind of getting ridiculous $100 for a chassis that’s as much as the car it’s not worth it unless you’re in comps
How are mounting those Louise tires on beadlock wheels? The set I have seems to have a huge beadlock ring like stock Trx4m tires and they just don’t seem to fit on any wheels I have and I have a lot of wheels
@@2fmrccorrect me if I’m wrong but injora shocks follow a traditional design which from my findings gives you more up travel (better stability) than the limited travel of the redcat shocks
@@zaydherrera yeah they do. I just normally end up limiting my shocks anyway so feel like I have plenty flex with these. They haven’t leaked on me yet either so I just haven’t bothered swapping them. The injoras are great shocks though! I think I have some nexx racing shocks on the way so I may check those out soon.
Mmm I don’t own one… yet but honestly I’m just not digging the 3 piece chassis tho. But it does look sick tho. It’s just that 3pice chassis Squirrel!! 🐿️
What else have they done are they approving company you got to understand take Mass designs cheat code he was like the first to do it you know in like he's been doing it for a long time so people don't have a problem with paying 80 bucks for his chassis we know it's very high-end stuff we know that it's very capable if you're just coming on the seen how the hell you going to offer a chassis for a hundred bucks
So many posts recently. Love it!!
@@24crawlin glad to know I’m not annoying you with them lol
@@2fmrcis this chassis direct swap over for the ascent 18?
@@Shaun0169 yep. Only thing you’ll have to mod is glueing magnets on the body or swapping to a new one.
Thats a really great looking chassis Im probably going to order one soon for mine!
Looks great, Matt, too bad you couldn’t come to Michigan for the Great Lakes gauntlet at Walters RC Park that’s where I’m heading tomorrow morning 7 AM camping for three days and tiny trucking. Yeah always a great time there.
Yeah i gotta say this chassis seems awesome! great skid angle for good break over and and keeping all the weight way down low and the quality seems really good. Appreciate the video!
This is sweet! Was actually thinking of trying to design something similar for a flat chassis (for scx24’s/trx4m/ascent18/fcx18) where the front section comes up to under the hood of the body so no worries about servo clearances. But orange has done it and it looks great! Wish they made a carbon fiber version of it! I’m gonna wait for a carbon version for sure before I buy. I don’t want that extra weight of the titanium.
I have that same chassis it’s great!! Great chassis
Looks super capable! My Ascent 18 plan doesn't involve turning it into a mega crawler, but if it did, I'd be eyeing this chassis.
I see a couple comments on cost; I wonder if Mr. Orange would consider lower cost materials like G10 and aluminum rather than carbon fiber and titanium...
Ordered mine the day they dropped on eBay definitely worth the price and it turns the ascent18 into a rock crawling animal
Great video. Thanks, Matt!
It runs just like my Lowered VRD Carbon.
Crazy!!
$100 😮 Ain't no way
For the more refined SCX enthusiast
Damn I wish I lived closer to you. I'd love to do a side by side comparison with what I feel like is a dialed stock chassis A18, I don't run the stock body and I have stretched my WB to 155mm.
@@Steve_J81 I bet that stretch makes a huge difference! I had a stock chassis pretty dialed early on. Cut the front end off of it and it ran great. Swapped it for the scx24 chassis though lol
@@2fmrc I think about cutting it everyday but can't bring myself to do it 🤣
What was needed to make the stretch?
The only thing left on mine that’s still original are the portal gears, axles, esc, and body. 😅
I still don't understand why companies don't capitalize on hardbody builds.
A chassis kit, and body mounts, hardbody..
Sold as a kit. Leaf options with the kit.
They are missing out.. everything is usually twice the cost buying this, buying that.. then buying this..
Ya it's fun but, I don't know.. just surprised no one has figured that out yet.
🤷♂️
@@archerash6695 I’d love to see a good hard body leaf truck in the micro world!
Can you lower the shocks, so it doesn't sit as low? Would help the belly and allow more dropout for breakover too.
I'm liking this!
Ship of Theseus stuff going on. Could almost build the stock one again.
That’s how several of my crawlers have ended up. Especially scx24s.
But if I built the stock one back up, I’d have to start modding it too.
Would be a circle of doom before long.
What other upgrades are on that A18?
These mini crawlers are almost the same price as the 110s scale. It’s kind of getting ridiculous $100 for a chassis that’s as much as the car it’s not worth it unless you’re in comps
@@TheLilhulk1111 totally agree! The prices on them have gone nuts!
How are mounting those Louise tires on beadlock wheels? The set I have seems to have a huge beadlock ring like stock Trx4m tires and they just don’t seem to fit on any wheels I have and I have a lot of wheels
I didn’t actually try but they just didn’t seem like they would
@@NFGRC I only mounted them on these wheels so far but they mounted up really well! No issues at all
@@2fmrcdo they have that super thick rubber bead like a stock Trx4m tire?
The ones I have do! I ordered a set of wheels off Ali express that hold stock 4m tires. I’ll let you know if that works
Upgrade those shocks 53 or 59 injora it makes a HUGE difference
@@Thegreatpnw_rc I actually really like the stock shocks on these! Mine have been great! These are the shocks from my original test unit lol
@@2fmrccorrect me if I’m wrong but injora shocks follow a traditional design which from my findings gives you more up travel (better stability) than the limited travel of the redcat shocks
@@zaydherrera yeah they do. I just normally end up limiting my shocks anyway so feel like I have plenty flex with these. They haven’t leaked on me yet either so I just haven’t bothered swapping them. The injoras are great shocks though! I think I have some nexx racing shocks on the way so I may check those out soon.
You gotta be smokin crack to drop a Benjamin on a handful of metal and plastic😵💫🤯
@@shuster1921 😆 you’d die if you seen my collection lol. $100 is nothing in this hobby
@@2fmrc Oh I know too well, I own about 50 different RC trucks and cars. I might move on to smokin crack, I hear it's cheaper,,, lol
@ it definitely would be! 😆
I wonder why manufacturers not release their cars like this so that you don't have to basically replace every single part.
Because that's the fun part!
looks good but 100usd...no thanks.
subliminal image! i saw it... who saw it?!
Oh I saw! paused right on it.
@@AnySumptionBanter haha! You got it!
Mmm I don’t own one… yet but honestly I’m just not digging the 3 piece chassis tho.
But it does look sick tho. It’s just that 3pice chassis
Squirrel!! 🐿️
What else have they done are they approving company you got to understand take Mass designs cheat code he was like the first to do it you know in like he's been doing it for a long time so people don't have a problem with paying 80 bucks for his chassis we know it's very high-end stuff we know that it's very capable if you're just coming on the seen how the hell you going to offer a chassis for a hundred bucks
Orange crawlers have been making scx24 and trx4m chassis’s for awhile and I can tell you a ton of r&d goes into all his products