Redcat Vigilante gets an UPGRADE! Is it enough to combat our issue with it being nose heavy???

Been dealing with some things we noticed on the Vigilante and trying to see if the motor is enough to solve it. Not sure if we have it figured out after this video but got some insight, at the least!

[@smoothwookienookie5912]

Did you put bigger tires on it? Bigger pinion? I would've tried both of those before a huge motor. Or even lowering the front shock springs so it's not dipping down on launch. Between that and the shallow angle on that little jump I'm not surprised it's not getting rotation.

[@NPCRC]

So we're comparing what we know the vehicle can do with what we also see other people being able to do online with the stock tires which is why we didn't go after the tires right away. The motor was done because the last one had an issue which I covered in one of the videos, so we wanted to put something bigger in from the get-go and it gave us a perfect opportunity. We've got a larger pinion for it but we wanted to go back to stock gearing for the first run on the new Castle. We've had it on bigger ramps and it is still nose heavy and doesn't want to get around and we've pulled back flips off with this truck before. The pinion and the tires are the next thing we address as we did get some improvement in our next video, which should post tomorrow. Maybe by the time we get to the next video we'll have the other tires and a larger pinion on as well.

[@rantsandreviews]

My Vigilante is a tad nose heavy but is super easy to control. The tiniest blip on the throttle keeps it nice and level. The big boys jump and handle different than the 1:8 and 1:10 stuff. From what I saw in this video whoever the "driver" was just needs some practice. Your never going to be able to properly diagnose any alleged defects without a competent driver.

[@NPCRC]

LOL.. So it LOOKS like that and some jumps were off the mark but we BOTH have driven it, hit the ramps GOOD and had the issue arise. The video after this, we actually get some wheelies back and the only thing we did was repair the diff that was already missing a tooth but got finished off in this video. I promise, the driver was not the issue for what we are seeing here, or at least the reason we are talking about it. There was something off but it is a little better now and now we can continue with tires and pinon change to get the most out of it. But I DO agree, the truck drives and handles just fine with stock set up, but we had a bad motor which led to an early upgrade... so we had to change it while waiting for replacement. Just ran into issues we were seeing when the motor was failing. Could have been the diff we were noticing all along... More to come.. TY for the feedback!!!

[@johnsorensen5758]

Where did you get the spike wheel nuts?

[@NPCRC]

FMFL or something like that... 24mm spiked nuts. I believe the threads were off and we had to order these as well! www.ebay.com/itm/154735870435?var=454828271998

[@rccarsandmusic2641]

How's your rear diff is it blowing up?

[@NPCRC]

It had a broken tooth when the devil for about three runs now... it got destroyed at the end of this video trying to land the truck and keeping the nose up. Justin landed with the throttle open and it didn't like that very much. It's up and running and there's another video that should be posting tomorrow afternoon

[@rccarsandmusic2641]

@@NPCRC I'm surprised they used cheap metal many are blowing rear diffs, rc car garage did, and the center diff case over heats and warps.

[@NPCRC]

@rccarsandmusic2641 we haven't had any issues with the center yet but the rear was damaged early on and did pretty well considering it had a broken tooth, through the next few runs. We will monitor it and keep an eye on it ourselves but we haven't seen anything to make us think it's a reoccurring issue. I did watch RC garage damages, but I never saw the follow-up to see if it happened back-to-back on him and if so, I doubt that it was all just the diff gears. I think maybe he put something on wrong or didn't get it cleaned out and something else got in there and ate up the gears.... possibly

[@teamcobrarcrccars6156]

Change the tires

[@NPCRC]

Yeah that's the next thing we try! SHould see how that goes by tomorrow. We definitely had issues... the video I have posting today, we swapped back to the new stock motor and part of our issue may have been the rear diff that was missing a tooth for a few runs. We had better results in it, but still not what we would like to have, but progress! Ty for the feedback!