Your mods really seemed to help a bunch. The pinched chassis rails seem to be a bad design choice given how bad the servo hits them. I handled one of them in the LHS the other day for the first time and it is a pretty obvious problem. Maybe cutting the rails off at the shock towers? Fabricate a couple new pieces out of alum or acrylic sheet. Mount those to the front two unused holes in the shock towers. Shape them like a downward facing dog leg so the body/bumper mount is in the same spot. Or leave off completely and have a different front body mount. Maybe magnets on a tray between the shock towers. Or new rails all together. I think Matt from 2FMRC did a video and put different chassis rails on. Anyway. You've definitely got some great performance upgrades for $0 and those are the best kind! :)
Thanks, i have mods planned but incorporating 'free' mods helped until then. There are shortfalls (like all) but it does work. Agree the pinched rails an issue, not really issue but do limit. IF i were to start from scratch I think id try to flatten the front frame rails a bit, have to mod shock mounts but I think 50% doable. I believe I seen an scx24 frame used. If I were to buy, trying to keep stock frame is to use second frame, cut so they over lap past shocks, bolt together, would place inside of rails where outside is now. But 20 bucks. Many ways this likely be done- depends on how much effort spent but thats half the hobby. I'm calling good for now, in process of trying to fit an old Parma 50's panel truck body.
@@-AnEv942 I guess if the whole suspension system(shocks and links) won't allow much more up travel anyway, then I guess it's not gonna do much mod'ding the rails. If you do try bending the stock rails, be very cautious. Depending on the series of aluminum they're made from and how it was heat treated, they might be quite hard and could snap on you with very little movement put in. I've definitely seen scx24 chassis used. If you've got an old stock one kicking around, it might make a good first trial one to play around with. Thanks for the videos anyway. They've helped with desiding on getting one as a no cost or cheap to upgrade guest rig for friends. And my LHS actually has them in and at a reasonable $180.
@@wingnutbert9685 ya one of those ideas need to accept possible total failure :) $180? um are you in Canada? Unless your looking at a 10th scale thats a bit high, typical retail is $119.
@@-AnEv942 Yep, Canadian. $180 (+ add 13% tax....) seems to be the usual price up here from what I can tell. Some companies seem to adjust prices for the Canadian market. Others just convert from USD and make stuff too expensive up here. And ordering from one of the cool boutique small companies down there would make ya cry. Stuff from someone like Mofo will be two and a half times the price by the time we convert USd to CDNd, shipping, boarder duties, then all the tax. Free trade ain't so free..... I don't even think we got the $99 deal Redcat offered when they first released the A18. (that be about $142 Cdn) $119US is about $171 Cdn. Then duties, shipping, etc. $180 is about expected. But adjusting for our market and economy, it really should be about $140. At least the weather is nice here on the Island! LOL!!!!
Your mods really seemed to help a bunch. The pinched chassis rails seem to be a bad design choice given how bad the servo hits them. I handled one of them in the LHS the other day for the first time and it is a pretty obvious problem.
Maybe cutting the rails off at the shock towers? Fabricate a couple new pieces out of alum or acrylic sheet. Mount those to the front two unused holes in the shock towers. Shape them like a downward facing dog leg so the body/bumper mount is in the same spot. Or leave off completely and have a different front body mount. Maybe magnets on a tray between the shock towers. Or new rails all together. I think Matt from 2FMRC did a video and put different chassis rails on.
Anyway. You've definitely got some great performance upgrades for $0 and those are the best kind! :)
Thanks, i have mods planned but incorporating 'free' mods helped until then. There are shortfalls (like all) but it does work.
Agree the pinched rails an issue, not really issue but do limit. IF i were to start from scratch I think id try to flatten the front frame rails a bit, have to mod shock mounts but I think 50% doable. I believe I seen an scx24 frame used. If I were to buy, trying to keep stock frame is to use second frame, cut so they over lap past shocks, bolt together, would place inside of rails where outside is now. But 20 bucks. Many ways this likely be done- depends on how much effort spent but thats half the hobby. I'm calling good for now, in process of trying to fit an old Parma 50's panel truck body.
@@-AnEv942 I guess if the whole suspension system(shocks and links) won't allow much more up travel anyway, then I guess it's not gonna do much mod'ding the rails.
If you do try bending the stock rails, be very cautious. Depending on the series of aluminum they're made from and how it was heat treated, they might be quite hard and could snap on you with very little movement put in.
I've definitely seen scx24 chassis used. If you've got an old stock one kicking around, it might make a good first trial one to play around with.
Thanks for the videos anyway. They've helped with desiding on getting one as a no cost or cheap to upgrade guest rig for friends. And my LHS actually has them in and at a reasonable $180.
@@wingnutbert9685 ya one of those ideas need to accept possible total failure :) $180? um are you in Canada? Unless your looking at a 10th scale thats a bit high, typical retail is $119.
@@-AnEv942 Yep, Canadian. $180 (+ add 13% tax....) seems to be the usual price up here from what I can tell. Some companies seem to adjust prices for the Canadian market. Others just convert from USD and make stuff too expensive up here. And ordering from one of the cool boutique small companies down there would make ya cry. Stuff from someone like Mofo will be two and a half times the price by the time we convert USd to CDNd, shipping, boarder duties, then all the tax. Free trade ain't so free.....
I don't even think we got the $99 deal Redcat offered when they first released the A18. (that be about $142 Cdn)
$119US is about $171 Cdn. Then duties, shipping, etc. $180 is about expected. But adjusting for our market and economy, it really should be about $140.
At least the weather is nice here on the Island! LOL!!!!