RC Crawlers

[Justin]

Who out there in CCB-land is into RC crawling? I know there are a couple of you as mentioned in another thread, but curious to see how many. I've been into crawling about 3 years, but have been heavily into RC for about 25. I'll post up some pics of my crawler build in the near future. In the meantime here is a vid from the original set up. It is about 1000% more capable now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ZrnckreB8

rtreads, you mentioned that Dan may move Finishline to yet another location? Whats up?

[Entourage]

Very cool - never seen an RC rock crawl. Great video and Love the music too.

[Justin]

Search some more on youtube. The things they can drive up are amazing. Stupidly low CG and electric power (100% of torque at 1 RPM) make for a fun combination.

[crawlercreations]

I am into them, probably, way too much! I have been competing with them for about 4 months and am doing well! I mostly comp at finishline but I have been to a couple hobbyclown comps and some of the bigger colorado series comps. What does everyone else run? I have the new xr10 from axial. Running dual FXR speed controls, vanquish goodies, rovers and soon to be Holmes hobbies handwound motors. It works great! My old ax10 was built pretty sweet but I haven't used since I got the xr!

[Palmer72bronco]

i just bought one, Scx10 with a proline bronco body. of course i have it all tore apart and messed up painting body. now building my own suspension links.

[Palmer72bronco]

by the way i could use all the help on cheapest place to get parts and also whats good and whats not. i want it to be a scaler but make sure it kicks ass.

[crawlercreations]

Ok guys, ive been putting this off too long. When are we going shopping. Justin brang his over for me to play with and it was a kick in the pants. It drove right up his lil boys back with ease.

They are very incredible! What are you looking to do with it? I thought I would get one for just bashing around until I went to my first comp...Now I am hooked on competing! I have my old Ax10 I am thinking about selling if anyone is interested...it is nicely built!

I know quite a bit about them at this point so if anyone has any questions please let me know!

[crawlercreations]

by the way i could use all the help on cheapest place to get parts and also whats good and whats not. i want it to be a scaler but make sure it kicks ass.

I am not much into the scalers right now but they are sweet! The best places I have found is rpphobby.com and ckrccrawlers.com. CKRC have the cheapest stuff out there but not much for scalers besides electronics. Rpp seems to have more scaler stuff and they are very competitive with CKRC. If you want advise on electronics and such I would be happy to help!

[rtreads]

As for the reloation of Finish line RC, he was telling me that he had a buddy that owned a 12,000sqft shop and was huge into RC. The plan is to move into that new location. I think it is really close to his location now.

The new space will have a huge drifter track, with roll out carpet for indoor carpet based road racing, a tractor pull lane, and multiple man made crawler piles. I think he will also have the outdoor dirt track for 1/10th and 1/18th scale. Sould be a pretty sweet setup!

Jason, my brother may be interested in your old rig. Though he isn't planning to get into it hard core. Can you send me some pics and specs?
ryan

[sbolt19]

There is a couple of threads running around on CB.com about RC cars. I thought about pulling the trigger a couple of years ago, but I never did. I would love to buy one, but funds are a little tight right now. Every once in a while I will look at these sites and kinda ...

http://www.hpiracing.com/home/
http://www.rcrockcrawling.com/
http://www.rccrawler.com/
http://www.traxxas.com/

I know absolutely nothing about crawlers, but have always been intrigued by them. Do they actually "crawl" or is there the speed factor in it? I don't read any of the information, I just like to look at the pictures

[crawlercreations]

They definitely crawl. They will crawl stuff that 1:1 can't even think about doing. There are certain speed things starting to get involved with some of the bigger competitions but it is just short blips of full throttle. Still not much speed! Definitely no more than about 10 m.p.h. for a quick little "gate" or something. There is a lot of technology starting to get involved as well.

[Justin]

Zilla, just name your time and we'll go shopping. Crawler, I'm running an AX-10. I've wanted to upgrade to the XR-10 and convert my AX into a scaler, but have been putting too much money into the Bronco to make the affordable. Hope to do so later this year. I used to comp a decent amount (mostly the colorado series), but havent in the last year.

[ZOSO]

I have a pretty decent AX10. My dad just got a SCX10 honcho. I dont do any comps with mine. Just some bashing around. I also have a losi comp crawler sittin here thats my buddies. he left it here months ago and never said anything else about it.