Carisma Scale Adventure SCA-1E Owners Thread

[Stormbringer]

Maybe but yours looks better 😆 

[Exe_RC28]

For those thinking of doing it I recently added some wheel weights to my rig. Went with 60/40 front bias and it is climbing up some harder runs at my local woods. Improved performance quite a bit I'd say. I understand the risks of rotating mass and added stress on drivetrain parts, but I crawl slow and don't race around full throttle. All good so far. 👌 

Edited May 12, 2022 by Exe_RC28

[tomr]

Bought myself a Coyote RTR 👍🏻
Had the original a few years ago but sold it on.

 

 

 

[Lone-wolf]

2 hours ago, tomr said:

Bought myself a Coyote RTR 👍🏻
Had the original a few years ago but sold it on.

 

 

 

Nice, take a few minutes to set the ARC 1 esc up, give the shocks the fettle and see how it compares, i see it as a pretty good rig

[tomr]

20 hours ago, Jack Reacher said:

Nice, take a few minutes to set the ARC 1 esc up, give the shocks the fettle and see how it compares, i see it as a pretty good rig

Will do mate 👍🏻 Not had a chance to unbox yet 

[Stormbringer]

Your spare room must be full of boxes by now 

[tomr]

46 minutes ago, Stormbringer said:

Your spare room must be full of boxes by now 

Fitted a new combi boiler at weekend and got rid off the old hot water tank so now I have an empty walk in airing cupboard to fill with RC’s  as well 😁

[Stormbringer]

And way your buying em it wont take long to fill it lol 

[tomr]

Picked up some new(other) alloy shocks for the Coyote from eBay, seller had fitted them but never ran them .

Don’t know what brand they are but they feel super smooth and look good quality . 
Might as well unbox it now then 😁

 

 

[tomr]

Axles had plenty of grease in but the gearbox is bone dry, 

RTR living up to its name 😁

 

 

[Stormbringer]

I just wonder how many out there have dry gearboxes 

Just as well you checked it 

[Fat Freddy]

Oops!

 

 

Edited May 26, 2022 by Fat Freddy
I’m an idiot

[Stormbringer]

That looks damm nice mate 

Are you keeping the decals ?

[Fat Freddy]

11 minutes ago, Stormbringer said:

That looks damm nice mate 

Are you keeping the decals ?

Yes, still not sure, but I can take them off anytime, while putting them back isn’t so easy., going to try and delete it from here and put it in “what did you do to your model today” which was where I meant to put it. 😂 

[Stormbringer]

Why not leave it here ?

It is pertinent to the model and you could also post in what you did to your model thread 

[Fat Freddy]

Just now, Stormbringer said:

Why not leave it here ?

It is pertinent to the model and you could also post in what you did to your model thread 

It’s not a Carisma, it’s an Element. Although I did make a similar one for my Stout a while back 😄👍

[Stormbringer]

You know what i never noticed lol 

Still a nice truck tho 

Edited May 26, 2022 by Stormbringer

[tomr]

Alloy shocks and new steering links fitted 👍🏻
Just got to fit the tyres to the wheels after fitting weights 

 

 

 

[tomr]

Finished for now 👍🏻
 

 

 

[Lone-wolf]

Nice, love those wheels

[Stormbringer]

Very nice mate 

[wombat]

Hi all,  according to the manual that came with my coyote if i put an uprated steering servo in it i have to fit a BEC as well

has anyone changed the servo and not done this? 😕

[tomr]

22 minutes ago, wombat said:

Hi all,  according to the manual that came with my coyote if i put an uprated steering servo in it i have to fit a BEC as well

has anyone changed the servo and not done this? 😕

You can do it but if you are using the stock arc-1 esc the BEC is only rated at 5.7v 1a so it will struggle to give a more powerful servo the juice it needs. 

[Fat Freddy]

On 23/07/2022 at 15:57, wombat said:

Hi all,  according to the manual that came with my coyote if i put an uprated steering servo in it i have to fit a BEC as well

has anyone changed the servo and not done this? 😕

Bit late to this, not been here much recently. Depending on the cost of a separate BEC you might want to consider swapping yr ESC for a Hobbywing 1080 which has the option of 7.4V BEC? Avoids the need for separate battery boxes etc.
 

[stretch]

So who's still running their Carisma's? mine's been in the cupboard for a few months, time to blow off the dust me thinks.