XJIrish4x4
Newbie
Good afternoon everyone!! I'm new here as you probably already know and very new to RC cars other than your basic $25 specials at your local retail stores. Once those broke we would just until we would just find another or wait on our parents to afford something else. I never took the interest in the more advanced level RC cars. Growing up in High School I had a good friend who was very into the indoor tracks with the high speed RC racers. Swapping motors, wheels, batteries, etc all looked cool but I took my interests elsewhere.
Recently though I have been building up my 1989 Cherokee XJ Pioneer to off road in the bigger scale of things. While doing so some how I stumbled across these great Axial SCX10 rigs and too my discovery came the Cherokee. I'm new to this stuff again, so I will first say that I did not buy the kit becuase #1 it was more expensive in the long run to get up and running and #2 I can't build them well I wouldn't say I can't build them I just never have and figured I would start with a built one first.
I just purchased the RTR SCX10 2 Cherokee rig yesterday and immediatly wanted to upgrade things for purpose as well as cosmetics. One being the transmission and not because I have any problems with mine but because I figured why not. I know before you flame me and say it cost too much and all that "BS" I should have bought the kit "BS" I will agree but at the same time I won't. Reason is I didn't buy my XJ in real life already built but I did buy it RTR and then I have to build it how I like it as I go along. Why? Because I wanted to drive it now and not have to wait and then figured I would just upgrade as I go. So that is my thinking processs with this toy/hobby truck too!
So my question after all that intro is: What would I need to upgrade my transmission and could someone give me the break down of the parts I will need and where from? Someone mentioned it could run me $150 for a complete rebuild of a better transmission so if that is the case then I'm willing to do it as long as it's supposedly better than this one. Again, I'm not having problems yet but I have wanted to upgrade other parts too and most the upgrades I find say they are for the kit only due to transmision.
Flame me if you want but I'm looking for some solid advice please even if you want to tell me it is not worth it you should have bought the kit instead then go for it. Who ever said custom or modifying is cheap?
While I'm at it a few other updates I would like to do:
Frame braces front and rear aluminim?
Shock towers aluminum?
Shocks?
Rock crawling tires besides the KO2's on the rig stock which are nice but I find them slippery at best up here in the wet PNW when playing around on the rocks.
Servo which I think the good one is the SAVOX SA1230SG for $69 not bad but does that require any modification or just a drop in?
Servo Horn I just need to figure out which tooth is mine think it is a 25T but I will have to check before I order. Some went with the gold color one seems to be popular but required some modification with the steering I think.
Lastly for now I will just add that I would like to replace everything that is basically plastic for aluminum. I have priced out a bunch of that stuff already and it is going to run me nearly $300 all from STRC.
No, I'm not going to buy this all tomorrow I don't have that kind of cash flow extra floating around but tax return is around the corner and I do have a budget each week maybe $40-50 to spend so I will piece it together little by little.
Once I'm done I will pass it over to my 13 year old son who is in love already so as I. I will then grab a kit and build one since I know that is going to a be a challenge I'm up for and want to do. Plus I will have learned a lot from this one to make it some what easier.
Recently though I have been building up my 1989 Cherokee XJ Pioneer to off road in the bigger scale of things. While doing so some how I stumbled across these great Axial SCX10 rigs and too my discovery came the Cherokee. I'm new to this stuff again, so I will first say that I did not buy the kit becuase #1 it was more expensive in the long run to get up and running and #2 I can't build them well I wouldn't say I can't build them I just never have and figured I would start with a built one first.
I just purchased the RTR SCX10 2 Cherokee rig yesterday and immediatly wanted to upgrade things for purpose as well as cosmetics. One being the transmission and not because I have any problems with mine but because I figured why not. I know before you flame me and say it cost too much and all that "BS" I should have bought the kit "BS" I will agree but at the same time I won't. Reason is I didn't buy my XJ in real life already built but I did buy it RTR and then I have to build it how I like it as I go along. Why? Because I wanted to drive it now and not have to wait and then figured I would just upgrade as I go. So that is my thinking processs with this toy/hobby truck too!
So my question after all that intro is: What would I need to upgrade my transmission and could someone give me the break down of the parts I will need and where from? Someone mentioned it could run me $150 for a complete rebuild of a better transmission so if that is the case then I'm willing to do it as long as it's supposedly better than this one. Again, I'm not having problems yet but I have wanted to upgrade other parts too and most the upgrades I find say they are for the kit only due to transmision.
Flame me if you want but I'm looking for some solid advice please even if you want to tell me it is not worth it you should have bought the kit instead then go for it. Who ever said custom or modifying is cheap?
While I'm at it a few other updates I would like to do:
Frame braces front and rear aluminim?
Shock towers aluminum?
Shocks?
Rock crawling tires besides the KO2's on the rig stock which are nice but I find them slippery at best up here in the wet PNW when playing around on the rocks.
Servo which I think the good one is the SAVOX SA1230SG for $69 not bad but does that require any modification or just a drop in?
Servo Horn I just need to figure out which tooth is mine think it is a 25T but I will have to check before I order. Some went with the gold color one seems to be popular but required some modification with the steering I think.
Lastly for now I will just add that I would like to replace everything that is basically plastic for aluminum. I have priced out a bunch of that stuff already and it is going to run me nearly $300 all from STRC.
No, I'm not going to buy this all tomorrow I don't have that kind of cash flow extra floating around but tax return is around the corner and I do have a budget each week maybe $40-50 to spend so I will piece it together little by little.
Once I'm done I will pass it over to my 13 year old son who is in love already so as I. I will then grab a kit and build one since I know that is going to a be a challenge I'm up for and want to do. Plus I will have learned a lot from this one to make it some what easier.
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