SC10 4x4 Thread
#2794
I've been running 48p with a Castle 1410 with no issues. Nice and quiet too. Ran it that way to take 5th in 4x4 SC at the Hank Perry 240. Never even had to take the gear cover off that weekend. I have the brakes on the RX8 turned down to around 50 though, and I'm usually pretty smooth with the throttle. That 4 pole will bring it right up on its nose with full brakes, which is hard on the belt, pulleys, spur...body...
Spent a little time getting the mesh perfect though with full tooth engagement.
How narrow are your pinions? The ones I'm running are nearly identical width the the spur. The super skinny RR ones put a lot of torque on a small tooth face on the spur.
Spent a little time getting the mesh perfect though with full tooth engagement.How narrow are your pinions? The ones I'm running are nearly identical width the the spur. The super skinny RR ones put a lot of torque on a small tooth face on the spur.
#2795
Tech Adept
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 245
From: Hampstead, Md.
Finished 3rd my first time out with it. Much more steering then my hyper.
setup:
diffs 30K front/ 5K rear
shocks 35f/30r
clicker locked
castle 1410/mmp esc
14t/32p
motor was super smooth, easy to control
#2796
Dear AE,
Why didn't you include the swaybars in the kit? This truck is SO much better with swaybars front and rear.
yours truly,
Matt
Seriously though, I made some 2mm swaybars front and rear and went almost a lap faster this weekend compared to last weekend without swaybars. It was more consistant going into corners and coming out, it just felt more planted all over. My fast lap in the main was a 22.1, average of top 5 was 22.2, and average of top 10 was 22.3.
Last weekend I struggled to go 16 laps, this weekend I was on a 17 lap pace until I crashed with two laps to go
in one of my qualifiers
Why didn't you include the swaybars in the kit? This truck is SO much better with swaybars front and rear.
yours truly,
Matt
Seriously though, I made some 2mm swaybars front and rear and went almost a lap faster this weekend compared to last weekend without swaybars. It was more consistant going into corners and coming out, it just felt more planted all over. My fast lap in the main was a 22.1, average of top 5 was 22.2, and average of top 10 was 22.3.
Last weekend I struggled to go 16 laps, this weekend I was on a 17 lap pace until I crashed with two laps to go
in one of my qualifiers
#2797
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 2,974
From: Norwood, OH...and CCRCR and The OhioRCFactory
Hindsight being 20/20, ThunderbirdJunkie DOES remember the gear/belt cover being warm to the touch after the first heat.
Oh, that's a good call...ThunderbirdJunkie forgot to mention the extreme positive in contrast with the minor negatives!
The truck drove pretty OK...last night was the first race. There were some quick guys out there! Finished 3rd out of 9 in the main (Not sure, but ThunderbirdJunkie is fairly certain there were no SCTEs in front of him
)
Had the clicker loose, 32.5wt in all 4 corners, kit pistons, stock springs, pink Megagrids all around, and 5k in both diffs, geared 15/62 with the 1410 and MM (the OG one, not the Pro)
This is ThunderbirdJunkie's first time racing something 4wd EVER. He had no idea what to expect.
i had a rear bearing go out on me also. I'm going to get some avid bearings for mine.
Finished 3rd my first time out with it. Much more steering then my hyper.
setup:
diffs 30K front/ 5K rear
shocks 35f/30r
clicker locked
castle 1410/mmp esc
14t/32p
motor was super smooth, easy to control
Finished 3rd my first time out with it. Much more steering then my hyper.
setup:
diffs 30K front/ 5K rear
shocks 35f/30r
clicker locked
castle 1410/mmp esc
14t/32p
motor was super smooth, easy to control
The truck drove pretty OK...last night was the first race. There were some quick guys out there! Finished 3rd out of 9 in the main (Not sure, but ThunderbirdJunkie is fairly certain there were no SCTEs in front of him
)Had the clicker loose, 32.5wt in all 4 corners, kit pistons, stock springs, pink Megagrids all around, and 5k in both diffs, geared 15/62 with the 1410 and MM (the OG one, not the Pro)
This is ThunderbirdJunkie's first time racing something 4wd EVER. He had no idea what to expect.
#2798
If you are talking about CCRCR...there was one SCTE in front of you (black one). My SC10 4x4 felt pretty good all night and took TQ, but would do some funky things when I tried to push it hard. Need some work on the shocks I think. Is anyone replacing the kit shocks with something better?
#2799
Tech Fanatic
iTrader: (8)
Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 836
From: Calgary, AB CANADA
Hey all,
Just picked up my SC10 4x4 and have started putting it together. I've built the front and rear gearboxes, paying attention to the notes on the first page of the thread regarding not tightening the gearbox bolts too much but I still have a little bit of binding. It almost feels like it's in the gears as it is there even with the screws backed WAY out. Anybody else experience this? Is it a matter of simply running a few packs through the truck to get it to "bed in" or should I be looking for anything else?
Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
Mike
Just picked up my SC10 4x4 and have started putting it together. I've built the front and rear gearboxes, paying attention to the notes on the first page of the thread regarding not tightening the gearbox bolts too much but I still have a little bit of binding. It almost feels like it's in the gears as it is there even with the screws backed WAY out. Anybody else experience this? Is it a matter of simply running a few packs through the truck to get it to "bed in" or should I be looking for anything else?
Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
Mike
#2800
#2801
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 2,974
From: Norwood, OH...and CCRCR and The OhioRCFactory
If you are talking about CCRCR...there was one SCTE in front of you (black one). My SC10 4x4 felt pretty good all night and took TQ, but would do some funky things when I tried to push it hard. Need some work on the shocks I think. Is anyone replacing the kit shocks with something better?
Totally forgot about the black SCTE.The truck does act goofy when pushed hard, but again, not sure what to expect being the first 4 wheeler driven on a track. It definitely felt better at EN hobbies than it did at CCRCR with the heavy shock fluid compared to what everybody else is running.
Thanks for comin' down, BTW
It was good to see what a good driver can do with the SC10 4 wheeler, since ThunderbirdJunkie will never be that guy
#2802
Hey all,
Just picked up my SC10 4x4 and have started putting it together. I've built the front and rear gearboxes, paying attention to the notes on the first page of the thread regarding not tightening the gearbox bolts too much but I still have a little bit of binding. It almost feels like it's in the gears as it is there even with the screws backed WAY out. Anybody else experience this? Is it a matter of simply running a few packs through the truck to get it to "bed in" or should I be looking for anything else?
Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
Mike
Just picked up my SC10 4x4 and have started putting it together. I've built the front and rear gearboxes, paying attention to the notes on the first page of the thread regarding not tightening the gearbox bolts too much but I still have a little bit of binding. It almost feels like it's in the gears as it is there even with the screws backed WAY out. Anybody else experience this? Is it a matter of simply running a few packs through the truck to get it to "bed in" or should I be looking for anything else?
Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
Mike
I just built my gearboxes tonight and the same thing with the rear one, didn't matter how tight the screws were. I spun the gearbox with a dremel on high and the gears seated in after a minute or so. It seems to be a case of just breaking them in. It felt great after that. Try it, I am sure you will get the same result.
I was also able to put on a Racers edge aluminum servo arm and it seems really close to the stock servo arm.
#2805
+10000000000

I'm waiting for them to come out before I race again...I raced today against some guys who made their own sway bars...I was so discouraged because I couldn't keep up with them. I did notice that that I went 3 seconds faster than last time at was at my track...I went to the 19t pulley and took off the shock booties & limited the up travel...truck worked good but just couldn't push it at all w/o the sway bars



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