beason
Bash, Fix, Repeat..
OK i got the summit from the lotto and i felt since its a newer rig i should post up my opinions and findings on the rig. (this is ONLY my opinion.)
first i will start with general looks. the truck looks bad A. the body is unlike anything ever i have seen, the tires are aggressive, the stance is aggressive, the lights make for a nice touch, and it just LOOKS all around mean!
under the body, it seems a bit cramped, but well laid out. all the major components are right where they should be, with all the extra stuff squeezed in around them. i like the battery holders down on the side, and the layout although complicated, looks nice. i don't really like the way the diff locking system is laid out. there are long linkages that go the length of the chassis for the diffs. they are run underneath the other stuff so they are out of the way and safe from damage, but if they do get damaged, your in for a few hours replacing them. the diffs and the trans are controlled by 3 of the micro servos, with no room for full sized units if need be.
general driving, is just that. general. the first gear is pretty low and gives the rig some grunt, but the wheel speed just isn't there. you can't even get the front end off the ground because you hit top rpm to fast. i climbed around on a couple of piles of dirt in the neighbors driveway, and i could tell the low gear helped. i drove over the same rocks i crawl on with the ax10 and it didn't have much trouble with them, but it is 3 times bigger then the ax10. it still got hung up and high centered on a spot or two. the high gear is decent, but to high for nice wheelies (if you like that) and even in "high" the rig was un-impressively slow. my e-savage and the boys pede would walk off and leave it with no problems. This was all done on 12 cells. The rig will handle more and in the near future i plan on buying 2 7 cell packs. hopefully this will wake up the beast.
the diffs, have three settings: all unlocked, front locked, and all locked. i did most of the driving in all unlocked like a "4w high" setup. i only used the locks when needed like for the dirt piles, or the rocks, or climbing over brush and curbs. even in unlocked setup it would drive over normal street curbs without even a tire spinning. although the locking is cool, its not best utilized in this rig. i would say novelty at best.
suspension, is wicked. its very plush and soaks up everything i threw at it, curbs, bumps, rocks, i even blasted over some 4x4 posts at speed. it has the LT rockers on the revo style on-board shocks. the shocks come stock hard coated and TI shafts. although i would have liked to see some shock covers on a rig designed to "go anywhere" (including water) like this one. I wasn't overly hard on the rig but i wasn't easy on it either and i didn't break anything yet. i traction rolled it once, but i was pushing it to see the limits. it normally just leans with it.
the tires, are very soft for an MT but don't balloon to bad (partly because it never got a lot of speed up). they have very good traction on everything I've driven on and seem to hold up well. they are very soft though and have almost a stickiness to them when clean. the wheels are not bead-locks, but just pretty rings that screw onto the wheel for looks.
waterproof?? YES IT IS! i made sure to test that claim thoroughly by driving it strait into waist deep standing water. I had planned on driving right across, but the big tires on this thing made it float. the lugs on the tires weren't enough to get it moving very fast in the water so i retreated back to semi dry land. i then blasted through puddles, and a "stream" that was forming from the water flowing out from behind my house. the only issue i saw was the LED's cut out a few times.
the radio, is a typical traxxas unit, modified with a 3 way switch up by the steering wheel (wtf) to shift the diffs to there 3 settings.
in short, the truck does a lot of things but none of them exceptionally well. for a general basher, your gonna need more power. For what i wanted the rig for, its perfect. I wanted a rig that could go almost anywhere. near crawling capabilities when needed, but decent speed when needed as well. When i build my boat trailer this will be my tow rig so the locking diffs will help with that as well.
first i will start with general looks. the truck looks bad A. the body is unlike anything ever i have seen, the tires are aggressive, the stance is aggressive, the lights make for a nice touch, and it just LOOKS all around mean!
under the body, it seems a bit cramped, but well laid out. all the major components are right where they should be, with all the extra stuff squeezed in around them. i like the battery holders down on the side, and the layout although complicated, looks nice. i don't really like the way the diff locking system is laid out. there are long linkages that go the length of the chassis for the diffs. they are run underneath the other stuff so they are out of the way and safe from damage, but if they do get damaged, your in for a few hours replacing them. the diffs and the trans are controlled by 3 of the micro servos, with no room for full sized units if need be.
general driving, is just that. general. the first gear is pretty low and gives the rig some grunt, but the wheel speed just isn't there. you can't even get the front end off the ground because you hit top rpm to fast. i climbed around on a couple of piles of dirt in the neighbors driveway, and i could tell the low gear helped. i drove over the same rocks i crawl on with the ax10 and it didn't have much trouble with them, but it is 3 times bigger then the ax10. it still got hung up and high centered on a spot or two. the high gear is decent, but to high for nice wheelies (if you like that) and even in "high" the rig was un-impressively slow. my e-savage and the boys pede would walk off and leave it with no problems. This was all done on 12 cells. The rig will handle more and in the near future i plan on buying 2 7 cell packs. hopefully this will wake up the beast.
the diffs, have three settings: all unlocked, front locked, and all locked. i did most of the driving in all unlocked like a "4w high" setup. i only used the locks when needed like for the dirt piles, or the rocks, or climbing over brush and curbs. even in unlocked setup it would drive over normal street curbs without even a tire spinning. although the locking is cool, its not best utilized in this rig. i would say novelty at best.
suspension, is wicked. its very plush and soaks up everything i threw at it, curbs, bumps, rocks, i even blasted over some 4x4 posts at speed. it has the LT rockers on the revo style on-board shocks. the shocks come stock hard coated and TI shafts. although i would have liked to see some shock covers on a rig designed to "go anywhere" (including water) like this one. I wasn't overly hard on the rig but i wasn't easy on it either and i didn't break anything yet. i traction rolled it once, but i was pushing it to see the limits. it normally just leans with it.
the tires, are very soft for an MT but don't balloon to bad (partly because it never got a lot of speed up). they have very good traction on everything I've driven on and seem to hold up well. they are very soft though and have almost a stickiness to them when clean. the wheels are not bead-locks, but just pretty rings that screw onto the wheel for looks.
waterproof?? YES IT IS! i made sure to test that claim thoroughly by driving it strait into waist deep standing water. I had planned on driving right across, but the big tires on this thing made it float. the lugs on the tires weren't enough to get it moving very fast in the water so i retreated back to semi dry land. i then blasted through puddles, and a "stream" that was forming from the water flowing out from behind my house. the only issue i saw was the LED's cut out a few times.
the radio, is a typical traxxas unit, modified with a 3 way switch up by the steering wheel (wtf) to shift the diffs to there 3 settings.
in short, the truck does a lot of things but none of them exceptionally well. for a general basher, your gonna need more power. For what i wanted the rig for, its perfect. I wanted a rig that could go almost anywhere. near crawling capabilities when needed, but decent speed when needed as well. When i build my boat trailer this will be my tow rig so the locking diffs will help with that as well.
