snapon boy
I wanna be Dave
The controller is actually very nice for the price I've seen some for about 25 online. , For the motor the 27t axial is ok but for 10 more dollars get the Holmes Hobbies 30t.
You'll want a lower turn motor than 27 in an ascender I think. I want to say the axles and transmission are geared higher than the typical axial so what is slow in axial is not slow in an ascender.
As for RTR, I wouldn't be able to model it after my cousin's truck unless I spent $50 more for another body-which I don't want to do. Yeah and RTR is cheaper, but I don't completely know my way around an Ascender and building one would fix that. An RTR scaler can sometimes be taking the easy way out IMO.
Gearing is higher in the axles and lower in the transmission so the overall ratio nets out to similar to the Axial.
...front grill is hard plastic with light buckets (do those include the turn signals?), so what sizes are they? I'm guessing the obvious answer is 5mm...
Gearing is higher in the axles and lower in the transmission so the overall ratio nets out to similar to the Axial.
A 35t is perfect for the Ascender, then you can run on 3s if you want some more wheel speed to help you get up and over stuff. I ran my kit build with the kit pinion, Holmes Hobbies Torque Master Expert 35t and a Dynamite ESC (the same one that comes in the RTR kit) and I've always run it on 3s. Now I'm running a Holmes Hobbies BR-XL ESC, couldn't be happier with this setup!
The rtr will serve you well remember that we all upgrade stuff over time so go rtr and Change and sell what you take off
Okay so I may have run into a bit of a problem....
I like the Vaterra Ascender a TON. But I also love the Axial Yeti SCORE TT... And I may only be able to get one truck. I know, there's a massive difference between them, but I'm dying to get my hands on both.
Problem is, I'm only in high school, and my parents may not allow me to buy two more trucks (they want me to save up for a REAL car). .
That is a no brainer. The amount of freedom you will have from a real car is worth every hour of work, and every dollar you save.
I'll give you another piece of advice. I worked two jobs one of which was in the service, 7days a week for 4 years before I went to school.
When my friends where working long hours, and going to class only to come home to eat mac and cheese, I lived off those savings(and the GI bill) and had the best time of my life.
Sometimes a little sacrifice now pays of huge down the road.
I typed up a long response to your questions then said f it, to wordy.
I have a scx10 kit and a scx10 rtr. I wish I didn't buy either of them, and just built the trucks from the ground up.
I suggest that you pick a couple rigs that are options and put them on a spreadsheet. Figure out all the thinks that you want to change and itemize the costs. Then in a separate column put the costs of building your dream truck and then a column with your realistic build.
Look at the costs and see which one gets you where you want to be. Then just buy it and get started.
I know what it took to get my rigs to where I want them, I also know that if I had the money up front it would have been cheaper to just do it right the first time and move on from there.
lol I did that with my d90. Bought all kinds of crap I never ended up using, or it was redundant.That's kind of funny when I got my first scx10 I didn't buy a kit or a rtr - I built it from the ground up because at the time I could afford all the parts at once. I spent hours and hours researching what I needed and what upgrades to get. I wish i had bought a rtr or kit and played with it a little before deciding on upgrades. I still have stuff sitting around from that original list that it turned out wasnt really what I had wanted. Later I got my son a rtr and although it cant really keep up with my truck. I was surprised at how well a honcho does out of the box.