Drizzt Do'Urden

[Juuti]

Tähänkin luokkaan lähdetään ensikaudella kisaamaan.

Pitikin ottaa se ohjain kätöseen...
Kyllä nytten voi sanoa että lähti koko touhu käsistä ja jalkakin siinä samalla. :)

[Hadesbear]

Hyvä hyvä! Osanottoo ei koskaan ole liikaa ja nähtiinhän se jo lappeenrannas, että kuskissa on ajajanvikaa.. Hieno saada sut mukaan!   ;)

[Zarizi Tech]

Nää nimethän on pahempia kun mulla!   ;D Ens kaudesta tulee kyllä hieno! Muista, jollain kalustolla se on alotettava.   ;)

[Arttu Ahtiainen]

Nää nimethän on pahempia kun mulla!   ;D Ens kaudesta tulee kyllä hieno! Muista, jollain kalustolla se on alotettava.   ;)

Nyt on kyllä samu saanu haastajan nimikisassa ja ehkä muutenkin, päheen näkösiä vehkeitä on tiimikaveri hommannu mistähän tommosia on tullu ?   8)

[Juuti]

Laitetaas ihmeisilli ihmeteltäväksi ja mietittäväksi kuva autosta...
No ei laitetakkaan kun kuva häviää heti!
No kerrotaan pikkasen speksei.

Runkona Y-townin tekele
Aksulat XR10
Motteina Team broodin nexukset

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[Juuti]

I was "fortune" to test Zarizis and Arttus crawler last summer.
That started little thinking in my mind.
Hmm... should i build 2.2S??? Maybe even mod???
And then the sh*t hit the fan... I heard that there was 2 good crawlers 4 sale.
I didn't have any choise... Fire in my mind was 2 strong i couldn't say no.

New driver & renamed car(s) ;)





-Specs-
Chassie : Y-Town Double Agent
Wheels : Y-Town 7075 XL series machined Wheels
Weights : Y-Town holder for Thungstenslugs
Shocks : Axial Aluminium SCX Bodies with machined pistons
Springs : Losi Mini-T Silvers
Foams : C.I. 6" Compcut soft outer Front, C.I. 5.5" Compcut med Rear
Tires : Narrowed Voodoo golds
Axles: XR10
ESC : Castle Creation micro sidewinder
Servo : Hitec 7950TH
Motors : Team Brood Nexus...







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[Juuti]

So now i have four comps behind and little training.
I can say that the car is well trained "thumbsup"


I was fortune to go sweden nordics -16



Nice place and nice slippery rocks.
Sun was shining all day.   8)
My driving in the morning was good.
Here is run from the course 5.

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Course 5 was wery fun and i got the best score in that.   ;D
After the midday brake not so good driving...
Still 3rd in the nordics!!   :o
Here is video from the finals.

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Next trophy hunt in the worlds!   8)

[Juuti]

Time to update this topic...
Now i have driven 7 comps with this car. 8 total comps in my crawling career.
My driving is improving in every comp. Lot's of errors and mistakes still.
If i have the same time to train and go comps i hope in couple of years i can challenge constantly the top drivers in finland/world.

4 Finnish series comps behind now. The 5th and the last for this season is next weekend.   I'm very happy for my standing now.
I hope it stays that way



I had time to go two Rfot Crawl cup comps.
In first comp 7.5.2016 Vantaa i was 7th of 8.
In second comp in 30.7.2016 Pirkkala i was second out of ten.
Couple pictures from the Pirkkala comp.















Very happy men after fun day driving and challengin our cars :)
Samu was in league of him self




Hmmm... Nice box found in the post office! 8)8)8)8)
New wheels and foams...




And of course i need new shoes to go with new foams and wheels.




Narrowed Voodoo golds front and rear.
Foams are.
CI Comp cut 6.0 soft in the front
CI Comp cut 5.5 Med in the rear.
And to go with the coloring scheme i got 3d printed hubs.





And 3D printed motor covers for test. Got the 3d model from David Chan.
It weights 3,3g. Printed in PLA.









Ok. First i vented the wheels very easy with the drill.
There is hole places molded ready.



And of course i had to place them on the scale



Everything assembled.







With the Ci Wheels i was enable to lower the the weight.
I like those Y town weight holders. Easy to modify



And of course had to check how much weight i have in the front.



Original setup with the old wheels.



And now sitting way lower :)





Still room to roll freely



Hopefully i have time to test the new setup before saturdays comp.
I hope i can hold my 4th place in Finnish Series.

[Juuti]

Story continues

3 comps + something to update

Let's start from Finnish Nationals series comp 5/5 Rauma



U can see that not so good day for me... I didn't have any confidence that day.
No pics from the comp.
It was really thight fight for the championship
Samu & Laalaa was equal points before last comp 8)
And the winner...


Congratulations to Samu for winning Finnish national champion ship!!






Becouse the last comp bad driving i felldown 1 spot. 5th place still

Then the last RFOT Crawl Cup 6/6 Lappeenranta comp.


















1 course was a disappointment. Time out
Not so many people driving. That don't matter. Good training for france 8)
And planting the crawling seed to my friend
He drove my 2.2m & 2.2S







Seed planted

Now it was time to look that the car was ready for France worlds



Filled the shocks with 50wt oil. Before 30wt oil.



Now the suspension feels much nicer... By hand
I had problem with the shock spring cups. Springs would wonder off from them. So Quick 3d modeling and 1 day before leaving to france.



1st beta spring cups. not so pretty finish on the print no time to adjust just quick print and go.

Looks ok in the car. Need little tuning on the size...



Changed some rod ends.



Quick look to the gearbox...
Now the car is ready to fly to France

[Juuti]

Drizzt Do'Urden & [url=http://"http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/axial-ax-10-scorpion/558109-rainbow-dash-y-town-2-2s.html"]Rainbow Dash[/url] first time on the comp site.



France worlds over. Huh what an event! Big thanks to organizers.
U guys made amazing work
Beer, pizza & food service on the beach
Short walk to comp site from the comp village. Under 10min
Restaurant dinner in the evening was nice. Good food and good company.
Comp village offered brilliant place for meeting other ppl in crawling.
Weather was wat it was...
Weather on friday (1.9 / Super)
Weather on saturday (2.2M) 8)
Weather on sunday (2.2M Finals / 2.2S)
That don't matter. So much fun!!!

Modified day we had very good weather.
My driving didn't go so good. So much to learn how to drive on grippy rocks. I'm happy for the result
26/76 8)





I was fortune to meet Del Monte & Del Montess in France. (Owners of Y-town) And maybe he had something extra with him
Again hand in the pocket...

[Juuti]

Started to change the chassis.



rear axle was realy fast to take off.
I have these 2mm plugs on the motor wires.
6 screws and 2 plugs and off we go



Couple pics from the old chassis. I really like the look of the old chassis...





New Y-town Double Agent 2.0 chassis assembled. Looking good
Need to get some new aluminium screws & nuts.
Of course the list of things i need is much bigger
rear axle, white skidplate... and the list goes on









Old links worked nicely with the new chassis.
Of course it's not straight assembly.
I have to tinker with shocks and links position and maybe change some rod ends. Future shows what i have to do to get this work like the old car.







When i saw Del Montes & Un-bolts chassis in the worlds i got idea...
How to make the car look more to my liking.
Double agent & Double agent 2.0 united







I will change the roof braces to slimmer versions from the old chassis.
I have grind them little shorter to fit.



I will change the front and rear delrin wideners to 3d printed versions...
This was the first version. I will make it little different version when i have time.



I need new outside carbon plates. The old chassis plates works this far...
Link holes in the old chassis are about 0,5mm lover than the new chassis.
And need little trimming. Something like in the pic drawn.
Hopefully Y-town will make me new plates.



Good pics to show how the same side plate sits in the new and old chassis.



Ofcourse the chassis weight will go up with outside skid so it would be fun to get new inner plates. Here is my idea for weight loss



See u again in the next episode

[Juuti]

Laitellaas täälläkin topikkia ajan tasalle.... vähän jäänyt vaiheeseen.
Rallienglanilla jatketaan.

Old links work nicely. Here is couple pics.



The other upper link is little bit bend. It don't matter it works so no need for new one... Or do i?? Yes i need new uppers when i order the new rear axle from Y-town



Here is some measurement pics.
Full Droop



highest position.





Needs more tuning. There is this "little" problem for tuning.



Winter in finland :shock: Hopefully i have time to go indoor track for some testing. 3h of driving for closest and only indoor track :

Kuten näkyy vanha päivitys oli. Lumet kivasti maassa.

[Juuti]

Time to make some adjustment to the car.



It has been sitting like this in the carage for couple months.
Hard to get motivation to do anything becouse it's winter in Finland.
Now it's couple months to first comp so it's time to start build and maintaince the car.

Started with removing the chassis and weighting it with stock screws and parts.



Stock weight 75.9grams. (2,6773oz)
I think i have to shave some grams off.

First reduction was the roof pieces. (I don't know what they are called)



Stock pieces (0,2187oz)



New lighter version (0,1164oz)
Weight saving 2,9g (0,10229oz) from the highest position of the car.
I like that.

Then it was time to check the middle carbon piece weight.



(0,20459oz)

And then compared with these aluminum tubes.



Again couple grams of from the chassis -2,5g. (0,088185oz)

I think i went little overboard with these bad boys in the next pic.


(0,08113oz)
[LEFT]4X Grade 5, 6AL/4V Titanium M3 screws for the lower links.
Light and durable

[/LEFT]
Original screws.


(0,1411oz)
Again 1,7g (0,059966oz) weight saving in the chassis.

So here we had the individualized weights.

It was time to look how much weight in the original screws,nuts and roof pieces.


(0,9912oz)

And then the new Wine red aluminum hardware and couple titanium screws.



They are light! Only 12,7g (0,44798oz)
Weight reduction whopping 15,4g (0,54322oz)

New skidplate for the car... No weight saving here.



grey is the stock rasberry red is the new one.
Maybe change the color before comp season.
Ordered "wrong" color filament.

Here we have the new look 8)














I like how it turned out. Now it's time to get to open the axles and see what they have eaten. Still couple months before first comp so i have time to order parts for them.

Of course i have to tell how much weight overral was shaved off! 8)
Started from...

(2,6773oz)

Ended weighting

(2,0071oz)

Ended up saving 19g! (0,67021oz)
Now it's sitting under 60g 8)
From here it's nice to advance to next parts of the car.

[Juuti]

Damn whole crawling season 2017 is over and i haven't updated my build threads.
Ok i have been busy studying video editing and other stuff...
Now i have time so let's continue where we left the story.
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So the chassis is ready. It's time to do some maintaince to the axles.







Front axle on the table. I think i run over 200 batteries last (2016) summer
Nothing broke. I can say i'm happy for the quality xr10 provide.



Ok there was one broken screw. Not my doing. Old owner did this!
Luckly it's only plastic chub so...



Little bit of force and wire cutters and we are good to continue.



both axles dissembled. Gears in perfect condition and everything else also.



These inserts are the best. I have to get some more for the spare covers.



New bearing for front & rear. Do u guess where did i order them?
I didn't know that i had Vq motor plates and they have bigger bearing than original Xr10 plate. So i had to order few bigger bearing also.





The pin was bend so i had to dremel it so i could dissemble the knucle to get new bearings and clean the shafts.




Some WD40 love and they are shiny again.



Time to assemble the axles with new bearings and everything else is old stuff.





Grey battery tray and electronics tray didn't fit in the color theme anymore.
So had to do something to them...





BLOOD LIKE CREAM!





Weighted the nexus and some new socks to cover them from rocks.
Link for Team Brood nexus page go check them out.



Rear axle almost ready.



Vq grease inside.







Front & Rear axle ready to go under the car.





Rear finished... Can u say your crawler is finished?
There is allways something to do and tweak.



Front and rear in place. Time for some electronics job.



Can u find CC bec in the piture?



Hint. Under the servo XD

-Links and shocks spots-
Front





REAR




Car ready to go to scale.







RTR weight with y-town wheels. 1562g (55.09793oz)



RTR weight with Crawler innovations wheels. 1588g (56.01505oz)

Winter was over and it was time to go out.





First training session at the spring.
More later in the next chapter.

[Juuti]

Few training sessions and it was time to go seasons first comp :twisted:
Finnish RC Crawling series 2017 start now!

First comp out of five comps was held in Helsinki, Viikki.
New spot for everybody. It was nice place to hold comp.
Few pictures from the comp place.
Thanks to Zarizi Tech for pictures.
-Link to better quality and much more pictures-
https://zarizitech.nn.fi/kuvat/Finnish+ ... +Helsinki/







We had many ppl participating in season start. Not 100% sure was it record. That's the way to start season. "thumbsup"













There was good amount scale ppl also.
I like that we run Scale & Crawling comps together at the same time.
Good way to get scale ppl to the dark side XD



My driving was not so good. Out of time in two courses.
5th place overall.



Man needs more training!
Ok second season for me so there is time evolve.
More training with the new chassis.
Overall i'm very happy with the new chassis.
It works 10 times better in our training spot.
Where the old chassis would hang in the middle and turn the car around. New chassis goes nicely over :)
Here is video from the comp.
Course 4/4 -29pts

[Juuti]

It was time to make "little" changes before the Rc Crawling Nordics -17!

I bought used Team Brood stubbies!
Not cheapest buy these things keep their price even used.
Brood Stubbies 30t with crazy addons.





Made motor covers from old vial pottle and painted them black.
These pictures are taken after the season -17 was over so not anymore so black



Gained few grams more weight from Nexus motors.
First pic is with Brood Nexus motors and no roof.



Second one is with Brood Stubbys and roof on.



If i remember correct the roof + zipties was 5grams.
So gained 33grams from the Stubbies and vial covers.

It don't matter. The extra torque and speed fix that weight gain.
First training session i was so happy with the new motors.
I was over throttling all the time becouse the power gain was so good.
Of course i wanted to do that and enjoy the power!
Now the startup is much smoother and in bind situation it's more controllable.

Now the car is ready for Nordics -17 :flipoff:

[Juuti]

So it was time to go to nordics -17!

Second trip to nordics for me. This time nordics was held in Finland.
So it was short drive this time to comp. About 220KM trip one way.

It was fun to see old and new faces in the comp.
I like crawling ppl because. It's like one big family.
Everybody is willing to help each other.
I had all kind of spare parts and computer with cc link.
There was couple times i get to loan my computer and give some parts to help other ppl.

Look how happy everyone looks on sunday after the comp!



Few pictures from the comp. Not my pics. I don't have time to take comp pics becouse i'm filming them. :twisted:
Big thanks to Samu Sarka for pics. Down is link for more pics from Samu.
https://zarizitech.nn.fi/kuvat/Nordics+ ... +pictures/









Last year i was 3rd with my 2.2M so my goal was to get top 5 in this comp.
I knew that it was not going to be easy. There was Samu, LaaLaa, Arto and other very good drivers to beat to get to top places.

Last year i was so happy when i got this trophy.
So cool design from Tobias (DravTech)




When i saw this years trophys i had to get one to home.
Look at these viking bad ass trophys!



I was thinking that i would get one trophy from Super class.
I thought wrong. I don't have my own car and i was loaning Tobias super.
Only 1 course driven and then Tobias broke axle shaft on second course.
No spare parts for that and it was over. No trophy from super.

I have never gotten so bad point's in super!
I was thinking that i would be last. No i was second last!





Gongratulations to winners!

So i had some pressure after that. Only 2.2$ & 2.2M class left.
I was little disappointed becouse those classes had more competition to win trophy.

What happened with 2.2M?

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3rd place and cool viking trophy to take home!!!

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Samu and Laalaa was their own class.
I need much more training and comps before i can start to comp with their level.

It was very close battle for the 3rd place. Arto was only 2 points away!
Luckly i won!

Here is one video from the comp with my 2.2M.
Course 2/5 -30pts.



I bought new filming eguipment also. Gimball and 4k camera.

I bought Vegas pro editing software and i had problems with it.
The video audio and framerate is not so good. Some codex problems i think.
I could not get it fixed.

So i used some more money and bought Adobe premiere and all other programs that adobe provides. Now i have to pay every month to make videos. I don't like that because i'm at school and i don't have so much money. Now i don't have so much money to buy Rc stuff!
Hopefully it will pay it self back somehow.
Goods from manufactors or something like that.

Here is compilation that i made from the comp.
It would be fun if ppl would share it in Facebook and other medias.
Of course other videos 2.
If i get more views then it would be possible me to get some ad revenue from the videos.
Of course that would motivate me to do even more and better videos.



Until next time!