Lone-wolf Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 Been playing around modding a new rock racer, its really got me thinking about scale crawlers, in general tall narrow tyres, a big lump of weight lipo fairly high up (top heavy) Cant help thinking lower CG, much wider tyres/wheels to make the car more stable, lower weight mass, you look at the Traxxass summit 1/16, and that seems to have lots of grip, a wide track so more stable, a low CG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOFX Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 Shifting the Lipo up front helps with crawling. I've done this to my ftx outlaw recently. Weighting the wheels helps too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunny Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 The issue is most so called crawlers are not crawlers they are scale trucks so people put looks before function, true comp crawlers use very skinny tall wheels with carbon fibre wheels and no weights in them to reduce rotating mass and the weight is usually somehow attached to axles. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fly In My Soup Posted October 29, 2018 Share Posted October 29, 2018 Agreed with sunny there..... Comp Scale Both will crawl ...the mark of a good builder is seemingly enabling a scale rig to perform well at crawling....or so I think....although I've only owned 2 crawlers so....... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomzac66 Posted October 29, 2018 Share Posted October 29, 2018 I have most of the weight up front on my Unimog SCX 10ii the cab allows for the lipo to be mounted on its side the flat bed hides the canter-lever rear suspension which is quite weighted as it’s metal.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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