Axial SCX10 Pro LCG Comp Crawler Full Review - strengths, weakness and upgrades

[@nickmyers5036]

I would still buy a Vanquish over any other brand. They constantly produce a solid product.

[@simonkubacki9823]

The new VRD straight axel kit is its direct competitor now, which sells for much less

[@RCReviewChannel]

Yes, very true

[@rustysglass]

It was great meeting you at Pro-Line man!!!!!!!!!

[@RCReviewChannel]

Rusty and Rusty? So cool to meet ya.

[@DustinWoloschuk]

can't wait to see the next video with the upgrades!!!

[@jonk8916]

The reason the skid has a shorter angle than others is to allow a smooth transition from front to rear. If you weight the truck the same way Wyatt had it set up, then you should be able to draw a direct line from front to rear (across links, skid, and rear links) to the point the rear links are bent with no bumps, dips, or breaks until you reach the bend in the rear links. That's according to a podcast where he discusses the decision behind that. I know some are critical of this but there is a lot of armchair engineering going on, skids with higher degree skid angles aren't necessarily better and in some cases can be worse if you break over the skid plate but then immediately snag on other parts of the chassis. Having driven this truck fairly extensively, his design mentality works very well, but you have to drive it considering that the goal is sliding front to rear smoothly. If you took the flip side approach (e.g. put a Brazin chassis on) then you lose this and gain clearance, but this can cause problems on certain features where this design works. Raising the skid also poses problems with the link geometry and drive shaft angle, as well. The biggest downside to this truck IMO are the shape of the shock towers. The truck was designed prior to SORRCA 2023 rules being released and the large towers are too difficult to hide. I don't fault Wyatt or Axial for this, this was a dumb rule change on the part of SORRCA, but it's tricky if you comp with it. I also wish the slider siders were higher, but I like that he designed them modular, so I drew some up myself that raise the sliders up to capture the body better and bolt into the existing design, which also allows use of the Pro body they designed for C2 (again before the 2023 rules)

[@RCReviewChannel]

Great insight, thank you

[@jonk8916]

@@RCReviewChannel If you get a chance you should listen to some of the podcasts and YT content he put out after it was announced. There was a long dev cycle on the truck and a lot of things had a real clear intentional design justification behind them, I found it fascinating and he talks a lot about why certain things are the way they are. It's not perfect by any means, shock towers I mentioned, it's also heavy for a comp truck, there is a lot of excess material in places, and IMO the selectable overdrive was unnecessary (this was another pre-SORRCA 2023 decision that the rules changed the effectiveness of) weight and complication, but I comped last year with this and a GSpeed V4 and I consistently did better with the Pro. I have a VRD I'm building up now so we'll see how those two compare, but it's worth hearing what he has to say about why things are the way that they are with the design.

[@dezfan]

All SORRCA rules are dumb!

[@jonk8916]

@@dezfan Yea they really screwed up with the latest set of rules. I had 3 tickets to Fall Crawl that year and I just didn't have time to update all of my trucks for the changes so I didn't go. I know at least 2 or 3 others in the same boat. Most of my local comps abandoned them

[@small.and.even.smaller]

Looks good, performs good. Nice review.

[@RCReviewChannel]

Right on. Thanks for the comment

[@BroncoSteven69]

You need to check out the new negative g c2 kit coming out the 27th. All of his stuff is great.

[@iramirez95020]

I got the Zoku ZRD and it's bad ass! On my Stance.

[@RCReviewChannel]

So good to hear!!!!!!

[@bouncingnoise]

Totally agree, we’re comping with 2 ZRDs!

[@D.TH.87]

Hello, when is the Video with the carbon chassis out? I am cosidering to buy this aswell but wanna see your opinion about it first 😉

[@just.jose.youtube]

Thanks for the review!

[@RCReviewChannel]

My pleasure!

[@nicholasstephey8475]

You will live the Zoku

[@josephvital]

I missed you at plbtf

[@luisrey965]

linda vista love that place

[@RCReviewChannel]

It is a gift to us city slickers.

[@awretchedslug]

hopefully you can pit the element comp fox pro against this

[@dezfan]

The SCX10 Pro? Little late. Where is the Element Comp Fox?

[@RCReviewChannel]

Late to the party but needed it for my LCG shootout coming up. The Element Comp Fox does not look interesting at all. Expensive for what it is I'm hearing the manual is terrible.