My second time watching this video. First time I watched it I thought, I don't need another small scale truck. I went to the hobby store today and they had about 20 of them and only one wasn't spoken for. The owner let me drive his with all the upgrades and needless to say I brought the last one home with me. I pulled the body off and was just looking at it. Wife says, what are you doing? I'm looking for things to change. She says, but you haven't even driven it yet. She wasn't wrong so i put a battery in it, drove it in a circle, picked it up, and started looking again. 😂

Hey Troy, TY for the great ideas! I took it a bit further and actually cut the front of the frame off! and that front plastic plate, I took off and cut in half then I mounted each half of that plate to the free top shock tower positions and glued magnets to those to give a double magnet mount to the truck! This gave me full front travel and took some of the higher weight away! :)

Great going troy as always your on top of it,keep em coming!!!

Thanks for the tips! Just ordered mine an hour ago!!!!! New to this channel and I appreciate you!

good vid troy! thanks for the tips!

The mods look like they are easy to do ! I can't wait to see it after you have all the other upgrades I know it's going to be a little beast !!!!

First time watching one of your vids and really enjoyed it. You did something I think a lot of guys skip and that's starting with the no or low cost mod's. Seems lots of reviewers on YT go from stock to full mod with $500+++ worth of parts in one leap. Not that it's not worth it and power to them if they have the cash. But I think it leaves a majority of us standing there, scratching or hanging our heads. So it was very nice, and much appreciated, to see you start in the no budget basement. I hope Redcat reads this because you've answered almost all my questions about the Ascent 18 and have pushed me towards getting one be cause it looks like it could run quite well out of the box with some DIY mod's. (I haven't got much to spare for things like this. And being in Canada, without companies adjusting prices for us, a lot of this stuff ends up double the price with the US exchange rate, shipping costs, taxes, and import fees. Really sucks for us) Only thing that would have been nice to see would have been weighing the rig with the batt and esc in some of the other positions, like batt on the tran/motor and esc on the skid, just to see the difference. BUT, I appreciate that's a bunch more work filming too. :) Again, thanks for thinking of us in the cheap seats! I'll go check out more of your 24th vids. Bert the Weldor

Gotta love free mods!

I bet the brass portal covers will put you right at that weigh bias sweet spot.

Awesome vid

I just purchased mine about an hour ago...should be a great rig.

Looks like my Ascent needs a little brother..lol ill be ordering one today. Thanks for the free mod video!

I cant wait to get one😁

Awe yeeeeah buddy great mods. I see lotta velcro in my future for that.

Something i did on my SCX24 was taking a 800mA 2S lipo, separate both cells, put longer wires and install one cell on each rockslider/side panel. Put the weight down low but still centered :)

Boy howdy, your quick on those free mods lol

I'm looking at using a pair of 1s lipos (one on each slider) and moving rx/esc to front plate. Just need to make an appropriate y-connector.

Great video. These a very helpful tips. I don't know a lot about crawling. With the battery move you now have more weight to one side. Could this effect side hill crawling? Would it be possible to take two of the smaller batteries and mount one each side with a "y" connector. Or just mount two of those smaller batteries and plug in one when the other runs down. I understand this defeats the goal of reduced weight, but it might give it more balance side-to-side. Just a thought.

You can actually turn the transmission around so that the motor is in the rear and mount the battery in front of the transmission.

Can you flip the skid on this so the motor is facing the rear, this way the battery can mount the same way but be at the front

Do you have a link to the batteries in this video. ? Mine is on the way and some great tips here

Went into a hobby shop not even thinking about this truck. I was thinking about getting different axles for my FMSK 10 and then the guy at the RC counter started talking about the Redcat Ascent 18 saying how crazy it was even right out of the box. He let me run the one that he had purchased and done some upgrades to and then I kind of just had to buy one and I’m very impressed with it. I put some aluminum rims on it which I believe lowered the center of gravity, even more and now I’m probably gonna do a few of these things that you’ve shown in this video today, in your opinion, are the brass axle housings a good idea

Great tips, ordering my redcat now! Do you have a link for that electric screwdriver ?? Thanks.

There are some lithium ion batteries that are the same size as an "AA" battery. I would get two of those, mounting one on each side of the motor, and wire them in series with a balance connector. They are also heavier and can help put the weight lower with a left right balance.

What if you turn around the motor to look backward and put the battery in the front where the motor used to be??? Im going to try it with mine

nice truck mod

Hey Troy little off topic on the 1/10 scale Ascent how well can you get it to run with nimh battery's it says you can run them and they seem to be safer and the chance of the danger and upkeep of lipo battery's just don't make sense with pets and people in our house or is the danger overstated whats your thoughts have you had any fires from lipo battery's thanks for all your knowledge and help it is very appreciated

Will trx-4m crawler transmision gears fit

They still haven't got their heads around lcg, we want the truck to sit low! This reminds me of the max smashers ride height. They are making good progress though and this entry into micro scale is welcome.

I know this was intended as a free nod video, but curious if you've given thought and planning to create a 3d printed battery tray. Where you put the battery obviously affected the side to side weight bias. If you could mount the battery on top of the motor, that would shift weight to the front, add weight of the printed part and keep the weight side to side as 50/50. Would also be something you could sell for those of us without 3d printers 😉

Still waiting for the temu rc drift car update lol

hey man i know this is an rc crawler video, but i saw your comment on one of the posts on reddit about the cheap rc drift electronics. do you have an updated one? i have the chassis already and its the yokomo rd 2.0 and i wanted to get a cheap but good electronics and also a transmitter and reciever to start this hobby and btw this is my first rc drift car this is my list right now - AGFRC 19KG Low-Profile Programmable-Digital-Servo - SURPASS HOBBY Rocket 540 V3 Sensored Brushless Motor 10.5T - Hobbywing Quicrun 10BL60 Sensored ESC - YOKOMO Steering Gyro Drift Performance DP-302 V4 - DUMBORC X6 2.4GHz 6CH RC Radio Transmitter and Receiver X6FG(Built-in Gyro) i hope you respond to me thanks!!!

Why even bother modifying the bumper at all once it has been cut down and recessed? It doesn't do anything anymore the tires are the point of impact front and back now. Just remove them.

always interesting to see your mods and hear the reasons why you do them *💯full view👀Au🦘👍like☑*