The Exocaged Drinking Game! Take a drink every time he complains about the tires.

Soak tires in simple green for a week and take the foams out...makes a huge difference! Love my RR!!!

That's the most madly satifiying looking place to rock crawl.

I bought a ridgerock for my 4 yr old this Christmas, new tires, larger 2s battery and it's a beast. Nothing has broke with lots of abuse

Before swapping tires, myself, I'd WD-40 all 4 for a week. WD softens & conditions the rubber & foam. U can take a hard compound tire & turn it into a softer competition tire in less than a week! ZERO cost! 👍

These stock servos are weak, 6kg. I swapped mine to 20kg with the horns. Helped a lot, swapped tires, used metal body links, and have 20mm wheel spacers. Oh yeah and went to 2 s lipo, this truck is so light it still hops a lot. So today I added weights to the rims on the front tires and put weights on each servo. I will test it again tomorrow.

A friend has one of these and on a whim, we swapped temporarily my 1.9 boggers. It was instantly climbing obstacles it wouldn't before. Not a bad rc for the money

Awesome out of comfort ending . You rock that tune. I'll listen and watch. . My son's one caused me some pane . But it lives to crawl another day

I think people forget .. sure a shafty is more scale in looks and performance and have become somewhat the stable for crawling these days but I remember a time when moa crawlers when built right couldn’t be touched they are absolutely monsters out on rocks this truck shares some of those ideas and with very little money I’d bet it can crawl with anything. Maybe even beat some high end crawlers on certain lines and obstacles..

I love this type of reconstructed frankenstien build. Yeayaah I'm inspired.

YYEEESSSS!!! I’ve had one of these for about 6 months and I’ve modified the crap out of it. I love this thing.

I just got one of these. I like it, pretty fun. Crazy capability.

It will be interesting to see what you come up with that I haven't done to mine. I even made my own LCG chassis to get the battery and body lower. I'm just over $300 total with finding some good deals and some luck. If you could get Vitavon to make metal gears that would be great.

Sweet. Can't wait to see your choice of upgrades and stay in budget. I purchased a Danchee a few months back and I'm ready to start upgrading with you!!!😁

Yesss I was looking at it to give it to my buddies when they come and crawl on my track

Can't wait to see what you have in mind. My daughter loves her Ridgerock. I've only done a couple mods on hers.

There are so many people this is going to help get into the hobby!!!!

Nice Joe this is a amazing truck I have a fully upgraded one it will out crawl lots of expensive rigs my 74 year old father rocks on to

Looks like it could be a sweet rig. Can’t wait to see what you do to it.

Yeeeeesssss, I started with this and still crawl it regularly. Links, servos, wheels/tires, cut the body down. Still one of my go to trucks

I have now changed my truck, costly now. I noticed it works as good as a capra if not better. Making changes to any rig can be better. Thanks!

Try running it without foam in the tires. Did it to my brother's and the tires get a quiet bit softer and it's free to do.

I have one for my 78 year old father. He loves it. Its a great entry level rig and quite capable for what it is. At just over 100$ i think its a good deal. Biggest complaint is the steering mode indicator light is not bright enough to see in the day light.

Love my MOA Danchee ridgerock. I mounted a scx10 frame and added a 1979 Ford F-150 body and HPI wheely king tire/wheel. Old skool monster truck Bigfoot replica.

I'm following this build for sure just got one for my nephew

Really nice stone parkour and great crawling 👏😊👍

It will be cool to see a budget truck hang with the expensive rigs 😎👍

Looking forward to seeing what you do with it. Seen a lot of upgrades on Facebook groups dedicated to it and the FTX.

Cool! My daughters friend has one and I like to do some really cheap mods for hers. Very interested to see what you do. This will be fun. Thanks!

I'm looking forward to this build. I been thinking about getting another rig to build dirt cheap

I like the budget build idea, it is aimed at a starter crawler, might as well keep it that way for a little while.

excited for this.

Gecko at 10:00 is having a strange day for sure.

Redcat going to look good in Upgrades! Nice testing, Needs new crawling comp tires, (B+)

They are fun but yes definitely need a little work. I’m having fun with mine.

ink pen springs inside the shock body lowers it nice and cheap!

I bought one used but was never even drove on carpet, so brand new, got for $100 only drove a couple minutes but seems like it will be OK, definitely could use some tires for sure. Got it for a extra R/C for someone who doesn't have a R/C and wants to come out with us...it's no TRX but for $100 it will be fine!!

I have a temper gen 2 that I’m about to start upgrading. For out of the box it does well..actually really decent.. I’m going to make it more like a Capra and put different tires and probably my stock Capra shocks on it.. I wanna see how crazy good it gets with a few upgrades... this looks like a fun build! I’m going to just use stuff I have.. it might get a lot of stuff off my Capra.. using what I have to make it better..

I just put deposit on traxxas 2021 bronco, this was my starter truck and its interesting to see how your going make it better. I did servos, took out foam and added weight on rims lol, if you can make it do what trx4 does I quit.🤣🤣🤣

Out of the box, this sub $150 crawler goes anywhere a stock $300 axial does. Cut the foams, add wheel weights, slap some mg996r servos on for $20 and it will go most anywhere anyone tries to drive them.

We've got that model in the UK, its called an Ftx Ravine. Some of my friends have got it and its not a back little rock crawler, though the stock tyres are crap. I got 3 Ftx cars, 2 of them are crawlers and perform really well

Big respect for it for what it was . Ha ha . My boys one is awesome now

I love my ridgerock! Built my own high clearance links, I am running cut tires from the redcat everest 10. I made them inflatable and removed the foams. New steering servo's and you definitely have to run a 3s battery.

I'm actually fairly impressed with it. It did a lot better than I ever thought it would.

Huge view count in a short time on this video for you! More than most of your recent videos! I’m excited to see what you do with this. I’ve built one with custom stuff from InTheWorksRC, ProLine tires, brass, 25kg servo, and nice wheels. Excited for where you take this (and what I can learn from you)!!!

That thing will do it

That's the exact controller on the HBX Devastator

Upgrade the servos, Drop the battery into the bottom compartment, move the electronics up top, Ditch the body and get a VW Bug body and chop it down, Add metal steering linkage, add some brass hub extensions, chop some links out of the springs in the rear, chop/sipe the tires, and you will have my daily driver :D

I think this just might be sucessful! The tires will be a HUGE factor. I don't really know what else to add though. Maybe some servos.

Should be a fun series 👍

Oh and put on 3s wakes it up too, run mine on spektrum 5000mah 50c 3s

Don't do 3 s. The gears can't hold it! I learned the hard way. Don't put anymore power to it. Other than that 2yrs and nothing else has broken. Most my rcs stay broken this is a great machine. Add wheel spacers and it will be a beast

If you will wire motors in Parallel it will help they must be wired in series now

Build 2 of them one cheap Build and your good build let's c what you got sounds good to me

you can do it!

I've always liked an MOA 👍🏾

Can’t wait till you go full vitavon on it lmao 😅

It looks a really capable rig for the price , Add Some good tyres and some weight it'll be a different animal

Cant wait to see this on the nasty

Next time try best in the same situation. Redcat👍

Here's a link to some damper mount extensions I designed and 3D printed. I did that as I wanted to stop the one damper fouling the motor case on each axle, as it restricts articulation one way. Articulation is crazy now! Link thangs.com/wordreet/Set-of-four-Ravine-Damper-Mount-Extensions-8mmstl-9615 Oops! Almost fergot to add that I've hacked off the lower 15 to 20mm of the chassis side plates and re-drilled a bunch of holes further up. The ESC now resides loose on top of the battery. Not nerdy perfect, but it still works and is further away from any wet stuff we might drive through!

Kind of funny its walking your course where your other hi dollar ones have fits! looks fun but I'm with you hard to separate the pro grade for close to grade. Maybe its fine just how it is.

Can't skip tires. That is the #1 up grade you can do to an rc crawler

1.9 90mm tires, a little weight on the diffs and voila it goes anywhere

Great video series. I just got one of these for xmas with a wheel wobble (any ideas what causes these), and I've been doing $0 cost changes based on some of your recommendations. However, I do see a need to weigh down the front and lower the center of gravity without lowering the truck. Any idea on how to flip the shocks so the heavy part is on the axel? they don't fit when you flip them; bushels and screws don't match.

I’m really interested to see how this budget build goes because I have the gen8 and I want a cage rock crawler like that

Ebay has metal replacement gears and portal axle upgrades for these.

You can improve speed by 3mph by putting the DYNS1208 in it.

Losi mini t springs than u basically got a in the world shock rite there✊🏽 Nice lil budget build 👊🏽

yay i was just going to ask you for a scx10 budget truck or a more pick your parts style build.

well good

Its cool that its different, sometimes a budget build can be more of a challenge. Pen spring mod for the shocks? you have to consider your crawler l course is probably harder than most people will ever use this. Curious to see what you do.

I would like to see you explain more how to set up dig 4ws and crab on a gt3b hacked flysky

This should be a good experiment for you making it a budget super crawler out of 💯 the tires with no foam and cutting some snips instead of changing? ESC and motors? Plastic gears? Yeppers gonna be hard not to throw a bunch at it Joe ✌🤠👍 HFLPRCing 👍😎👍 AOAH 🌟 RCF4L 🙏 Stay Safe and Play Healthy

If this series works out I'm hitting add to cart lol in need of a good project was gonna do a bully 2 build but 800 dollars isn't on the menu at the moment

Hi I just found this car and was interested in the radio. I have two ESX TEMPER gen 1 & 2, I have added 4wheel steering on the gen 1 but it's not independent, I was hoping that redcat had a crawler like mine I could use the same radio, but I might just get one and see witch one works best. Thanks again for the video

Can you get all the replaceable parts for it?

I want to see how you transform this Danchee

Yes 👍 happy 😊 thank you I have a high old school friend he happens to have one of these We have the best time with it he’s got a huge collection Rc from drag car crawlers slot cars construction equipment he can’t do KZfaq he lives too far back in the mountains i’ve had him on my channel couple times 🏞👌 Shared big like 🤙👉👌👉.

I was hoping for you to get the Redcat Gen 8 2

Hehe, for the price it's genius, lets be honest! 'Tis my first crawler by the way.But I began racing RC buggies in the lat '80s. Anyhoo. Do not run 3S batteries in it, it'll ruin the motors in fairly quick time. Remove the foams from the tires, and do what I have started to do. Which is to hole punch the tread blocks all round each tire. It takes HOURS and hours, and I've only done one tire so far, but it's making a big difference to the rigidity, and presumably, the grippity. 😉 And why are you talking about light weight? I've started adding weight to the axles and wheels! Loads of it. Haven't tried the fully weighted machine yet, but will do shortly. Ok, I have also spent an extra 60 on super soft crawler tires, and they are tops! Chassis mods are up there too. purchased some 4mm threaded ball pivots and made up some bent ally rod link arms, after drilling and tapping 4mm in each end. I made 'em 10mm 10 mm longer than stock, including the ball pivots. Unscrewed the center top pivot link near each motor and added a single m4 nut as a spacer and reassembled. More to follow below(above?).

Pen spring mod will bring that down

The original axial scx 10 links fit it or the ax10 links you can get on them on Amazon for like $11 a set put in a hobbywing 880 2.2 hyrax clones from Amazon $30 the 880 is $30 it will make that truck come to life on 4S that's all it's done to mine and it goes places none of my other crawlers will not even my four-wheel steer caged crawler that I have a lot of money into and has taken me two plus years to build

260 would be to the door here in Canada.

Do the wltoys 10248 1/10 buggy next after this one.

where did you drive? it looka like a good place to crawl!

Glue the servo saver together lol

Can you get replacement parts

Leftover queen

Put a creep body on it! 🤣

Why not keep the stock 2.2 wheels and spend more on the tires rather than spending on new wheels and tires?

I wouldn’t feel too disappointed if you aren’t able to keep it in budget. You know.

Poor little vanquish truck. It’s saying. A Danchee? You better not put that thing on the shelf above me dang it he put it on the shelf above me.

Yea man! Vitavon needs to make you a dang partner or something. This is very cool. Like to see the other side of the hobby too. I have family members who like rc, but don't need hobby grade stuff as gifts too. This is cool.

I wouldn’t go to 1.9s, the MOA axles have terrible clearance…

Are there any metal gears available for these?

Nitro rcx Max Volt 10 would have been easier and probably a less expensive upgrade.

If I had $130 I would buy a 1080, proline krawlers, and and element 1.9 beadlocks

I have 2 running videos of my modified one on my page/channel.

Your fuuunny…. But Entertaining!!! ~;+}>