Now that the lockdown has lifted, my main crawling spot has opened and I got an opportunity on Sunday to take the new SCX10iii out for it's maiden voyage. Overall I am happy with the truck, but there is work to do.
First of all, I knew that it would be top heavy, but this was more than I expected. There were several times when I rolled in places where none of my other trucks have a problem. I'm going to remove the cage from the interior and may end up removing the interior completely in order to remove some of that weight up high. I really don't want to have to add a bunch of brass My TRX4 has portals and doesn't need it and I don't want this truck to need it either.
Secondly, these mirrors suck ass. I wheel in some pretty tight spaces sometimes and was constantly getting hung up on the mirrors. 1:10 scale realism shouldn't cause 1:1 scale frustration. I'm taking them off before I end up ripping the lexan where they are mounted. They spent most of the day aimed in various different directions, so they won't be missed.
Third. The dig started out OK but as the day went on it seemed to be harder and harder to disengage. I was constantly having to back up to get the rear wheels spinning again. Hopefully, that's just something that I can better adjust.
Finally, I think this may be the tires more than the kit, but the steering left lots to be desired. I blame the tires because it seems like the rear axle was pushing the front straight ahead while the wheels were fully turned. It was like a bad case of understeeer all day. I have other tires that I use there with success and I'll be running those next time to make sure that it was just a traction issue. I am also going to overdrive the front, so that should help the steering too.
First of all, I knew that it would be top heavy, but this was more than I expected. There were several times when I rolled in places where none of my other trucks have a problem. I'm going to remove the cage from the interior and may end up removing the interior completely in order to remove some of that weight up high. I really don't want to have to add a bunch of brass My TRX4 has portals and doesn't need it and I don't want this truck to need it either.
Secondly, these mirrors suck ass. I wheel in some pretty tight spaces sometimes and was constantly getting hung up on the mirrors. 1:10 scale realism shouldn't cause 1:1 scale frustration. I'm taking them off before I end up ripping the lexan where they are mounted. They spent most of the day aimed in various different directions, so they won't be missed.
Third. The dig started out OK but as the day went on it seemed to be harder and harder to disengage. I was constantly having to back up to get the rear wheels spinning again. Hopefully, that's just something that I can better adjust.
Finally, I think this may be the tires more than the kit, but the steering left lots to be desired. I blame the tires because it seems like the rear axle was pushing the front straight ahead while the wheels were fully turned. It was like a bad case of understeeer all day. I have other tires that I use there with success and I'll be running those next time to make sure that it was just a traction issue. I am also going to overdrive the front, so that should help the steering too.
