SC10 4x4 ...Finally - Page 2 - RC-Monster Forums

brainanator · 05.10.2011, 11:31 PM

I have my Rx antennae going right through my motor wires on my savage (holds the tube down a little extra). I was a little worried at first, but I've never had a problem with it. I can drive far enough away that it's hard to tell which way is forward.

E-Revonut · 05.11.2011, 03:18 AM

Waiting for photos to upload to photobucket, I'll post a couple and the link to the whole album. This is my first actual build from a kit. My RC8T was complete when I bought it but I had to tair it apart to convert it to brushless.

The build took me 6 hours, only thing that isn't done is the body. There where no major issues with the build, for that matter the only issues where my own! I do have a gripe about the instructions though. Although the build is in alpha order of the bags of parts it'd be nice for them to tell you what bag your working on. Also I wish there was a 1:1 referece in the of the screw size in the instructions. When you open a bag for a step and there are 5 different size screws and some are only 1mm apart it gets screwy! The only issue I had was that I accidentally did the shock towers in the wrong order, grabbed the wrong bag and didn't know it. The rear tower will almost work on the front and it took me about an extra 10 minutes of messing around to figure out that I messed up. Fit and finish is awesome and the truck look like a tank!!! This truck reminded me of a 1/8 buggy as I was building it. The parts are all pretty good size for 1/10 scale.

The shocks, diffs, and some of the front suspension all came pre-built. The diffs actually had silicone oil in them rather than grease. However they weren't very full so I added some 5k to the front and 3k to the rear.

The suspension arms are not side specific, a quick flip and they'll work on either side which is very nice for spares, they are different front and rear though.

There was some thinking ahead done with this truck. There are lower body mounts that look like they'll be used for an under tray and there are spots on the A-arms that look to be for a sway bar kit.

One question I was dying to find out was if the body was any different than a base 2wd SC10 for mounting purposes. A 2wd SC10 body does fit, it's not a perfect fit without a little trimming but easily workable, just a little trimming for the front bumper. The post holes are off just a touch but the body easily flexes enough to acomidate that and after trimming for the front bumper it may fit perfect. It's nice to be able to use the bodies I already have.

I took it out for a quick test drive and was pretty happy, not that I could do much at 2:45AM though.

Setup: MMPro esc, 1410 1y CC/Neu motor from the sidewinder SCT combo (I may even give the sidewinder esc a try and save the MMPro), Hitec 7955TG steering servo. Kit comes with two spur gears to give you the option of 48 or 32 pitch. I'm using 48 pitch for now because I have a wide selection of pinions to use and I know that with a properly setup gear mesh I'll be fine. My base gearing is the stock 93t spur and a 21t pinion and I'm using the optional gearing to give front overdrive.

Pictures to follow

josh9mille · 05.11.2011, 03:28 AM

sounds like a cool truck. Kind of a bummer that some of the stuff came pre built though. shocks and diffs are my favorite part to build!

E-Revonut · 05.11.2011, 04:14 AM

E-Revonut · 05.11.2011, 04:19 AM

E-Revonut · 05.11.2011, 12:32 PM

I'm aware of the weak bec, I put a Savox 1258 in my 2wd sc10 and te bec couldn't even power it up. I've only done a quick pass so far but the bec seems to have no problem. Not like there's much of a load on the servo

E-Revonut · 05.11.2011, 02:03 PM

Got to run the truck for awhile now, about 10 minutes of hard running on blacktop. I'm running a set if stock slash wheels so I don't destroy my new tires or race tires. I used the speed calculator and my gearing puts me about 35 mph, but the truck seemed like it was doing closer to 40. I need to play with the slipper and the front clicker to get it the way I want it but it wasn't a bad start, slipper is a little loose and the front clicker is a little tight. The truck handled great and was very stable. I like the slight over drive on the front as it allows it to pull out of a turn better. The truck wouldn't flip! I thought with a little higher cg it might flip on blacktop but nope, it spun out but wouldn't flip. The motor was 109* at the hottest point I could find, esc was 89*, and I didn't bother with the lipo cause it wasn't even warm. The bec didn't have any issues keeping it all powered up.

Overall I'm very happy with the truck, can't wait to see it on the track now. I can almost see myself selling my MT and getting another one to bash with.

Bondonutz · 05.11.2011, 02:17 PM

Do you have a scale, can you post RTR weight plz.

THX

E-Revonut · 05.24.2011, 12:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Bondonutz

Do you have a scale, can you post RTR weight plz.

THX

Sorry for the delay, had some personal issues to deal with. Weighed it today. SC10 4x4, CRC 5600mah 65C 2s, MMP, 1410 1Y, 7955TG, proline bowtie SC M4, and a SC10 RTR body, oh....and a Spektrum 3100 rx and PT weighed in at 6lbs 2oz

E-Revonut · 05.11.2011, 02:36 PM

Sorry, no scale but I will get it weighed tomorrow or this weekend

JoFreak · 05.11.2011, 07:08 PM

I guess it'll be somewhere arround 2.8kg.
Can't wait to get my RCM SCRT10 finished and see where it'll weigh in.

rootar · 05.12.2011, 12:37 AM

I got my last final tomorrow morning, then im picking up my sc10 4x4 tomorrow afternoon. Truck looks good! ill be running a tekin scx 4.5t with a rx8 and ds1015 servo.

Ill also be running 17mm hubs and DE racing 17mm sc wheels. Gonna be a long night tomorrow and should prolly be working on my crawler instead but hey new truck is new truck.

JoFreak · 05.12.2011, 01:37 AM

What 17mm hubs are you going to use?

rootar · 05.12.2011, 08:38 AM

since the axles are 6mm i figure the old maxx or revo adapters will fit with little to no mods.

JoFreak · 05.12.2011, 08:46 AM

Guess that could work, if you get to it take a picture of how far away from the bearing the hole for the drive pin is. Maybe the 17mm Tekno hexes for the Slash 4x4 M6 shafts fit, if the stock TRX hexes need too much grinding.
But I would be surprised if there won't be AKA adapters coming out in the near future, so we get a bolt on solution that has the propper offset as well.