Weird & Wonderful Misfit Barrage RC Crawler Back from the Dead to Tackle Killer Sections

#ecx #barrage #rccrawler
Making its first run with a transmission transplant is my ECX Barrage. After carrying the red truck out of the woods late last summer with the OEM gearbox stripped to oblivion, it went straight to the shelf, never to run again. However, this rig got me started in the crawler hobby, which means I have a soft spot for it. In a Hail Mary move I found a way to shoehorn in the transmission out of my beloved but run-into-the-ground SCX10ii -- wrong scale, wrong brand, wrong mounting holes, three times too big. I can't believe it worked.
0:00 Beauty Spring Day
0:14 Don Juan Elevated Causeway
1:40 Rockery
2:20 Side Slopes
2:40 Zombie Killer Comp Section
5:00 Difficult Gap
5:50 Saw Whet Comp Section
6:45 Six Sticks Comp Section
7:30 Job Well Done
ABOUT THE BARRAGE
A weird and wonderful misfit, The Barrage was the star of all my early videos. In 2016 Horizon Hobby threw together a dog's breakfast of parts from offshore brands like RGT/FTX and called it one-twelfth scale though it had 1.9 tires. Since it was only US150 bucks and eventually around 100 The Barrage got more than a few people hooked on the hobby. The electronics were ill-suited to crawling, the tires were atrocious, alternative bodies were impossible to find, the chassis was not bomb-proof by any stretch, and parts could be hard to source. Still, it had its charms. I bought the kit version in 2018: version II by then, the final version.
ECX Barrage Gen2 Kit
Customized airbrushed body (see my build video if you want)
Custom driver and dog
Hot Racing Air Shocks
Alloy Lockers
Associated Element 1.5 Plastic Beadlock Rims
Associated Element 1.5 General Grabber Tires
Homemade single-stage closed-cell foams up front, no rear foams
POWER
Axial AX10 3-gear transmission with hard grey LCX case
RC4WD 540 27T 3-slot motor
ELECTRICS
Sun Founder 20Kg Servo
Flysky GT5 Transmitter
Flysky A3 Receiver
HobbyWing 1080 ESC
2200mAh 3S Lipo

[@RCTeamAustria]

perfect location for this RC

[@NaturallyRC]

Thanks! We're very lucky here in Canada to have more forest than we know what to do with, and undiscovered crawling opportunities everywhere we look. This is something we do not take for granted. Cheers.

[@maxmixrc]

Great off-road crawling adventure bro 💯👍👍

[@NaturallyRC]

Thanks, Maxmix. I appreciate the comment. Cheers...

[@timewellspent9216]

Nice job! It did well 👏

[@NaturallyRC]

Thanks, yeah, and the mechanicals kept on going. Just gotta remember to take it easy on the gas, as those spindly little axle parts were meant for a tiny motor and weak ESC -- not a 540 can with a Hobbywing 1080. Cheers!

[@timewellspent9216]

@@NaturallyRC Definitely 👍💪

[@WebRC2023]

Nice work! I want to get back to the ravines, although my son vowed to never go back. I will return.

[@NaturallyRC]

Thanks. It would be good to have you both back. Btw the sketchy narrow wall trail is no longer part of our route. We don't go anywhere near that section anymore.