Noob and first crawler/scaler

[rhquinn]

Well I've been looking at crawlers and scalers for a while now, finally bit the bullet and bought one today. I'm not new to RC as I have a ground up built 2wd lcg slash, jammin scrt10 with tekin r8/t8, 1/8 4x4 buggy and custom built 1/6 slash buggy....this is however my first crawler/scaler. I was really on the fence about which I wanted between the wraith and honcho. I've been creeping around the threads reading everyone's opinion on both. Finally found a hobby shop today that had both in stock, so after looking each over for at least an hour I decided to go with the honcho. I think I want to go more scale, at least with the first one, and might possibly get a wraith down the road...maybe even build a wroncho. I'm researching mods and upgrades I want to do so any suggestion I'm open to, she's bone stock right now. I did take it out this afternoon and I'm quite impressed with the performance of the honcho even though I have no experience crawling nor anything to compare it to. I was all over the yard climbing rocks, woods piles and anything else I could find. Acutally I only high sided it once, like I said I was quite impressed with it. I'm uploading a few pics now and I'll get them posted up.

 

[steveo 561]

i just got my self a few weeks ago and have done alot of reading way before i got the vehicle and one thing that stands out is to reverse the tranny i did it and it helped reduce torque twist and its easy and free, next i will be moving the servo to the frame there are several makers of this for me its just more scale

 

[rhquinn]

 

[drywallguy]

Welcome!
That Honcho is a great first scaler. Full of fun and endless tinkering. You'll enjoy it.
Happy Trails

 

[rhquinn]

i just got my self a few weeks ago and have done alot of reading way before i got the vehicle and one thing that stands out is to reverse the tranny i did it and it helped reduce torque twist and its easy and free, next i will be moving the servo to the frame there are several makers of this for me its just more scale

Well let's try this again, I already posted once and it didn't show up lol. I want to install a dig unit and wouldn't this unlock the rear instead of the front? I like the idea of being able to unlock the 4wd

 

[rhquinn]

Welcome!
That Honcho is a great first scaler. Full of fun and endless tinkering. You'll enjoy it.
Happy Trails

Thanks...uncle sam is sending me away for month so I'm hoping to get a few upgrades ordered and get them on when I get back in town

 

[rhquinn]

nice honcho i to just picked up one today

I had no intentions of picking one up today...but couldn't let it go when i finally got it in my hands haha

 

[BubbaEinstein]

I had basically the same RC background as you. Two things I noticed is that you CAN have fun going slow and it IS possible to drive full throttle for an hour and not have to replace A-Arms

 

[mahgninnuc1]

Also, it IS possible to drive full throttle for an hour and not change a battery pack.

 

[Devil Inc]

Also, it IS possible to drive full throttle for an hour and not change a battery pack.

That's what I'm saying, too. I get well over an hour in my rig.

 

[rhquinn]

I had basically the same RC background as you. Two things I noticed is that you CAN have fun going slow and it IS possible to drive full throttle for an hour and not have to replace A-Arms

That's what I told my wife...after running around for an hour I was getting ready to put everything up, she asked what was I laughing about. I told hey I couldn't remember three last time I put my RCs up and didn't have to make a parts list of parts to order before I could run them again haha:lmao:

 

[CRAWLER*KING*]

Very good truck!
I picked ine up 2 years ago thinking id like it and buy a little better model... nope still screwing around with this one truck i love it so much!

 

[rhquinn]

There was a brand new New Bright FJ on ebay the other day for $125. I would wait for another.

Yeah I'm not in a huge hurry...just looking around right now. I do think the nikko body has better details in it but I'm not dropping 200 bucks for it. Maybe I'll run across someone selling one