There was a total of 19 crawlers out with us today at stringer gap. Here is some pictures of some of them, the rest showed up after my battery died on my camera. It was nice to see all the people that came out and there toys they brought with them.
I can't remember the guys name who had the big trailer, but the chevy 4 door is Erin (Highlandcrawler). He custom built both of his trucks from the ground up and the trailer to.
The deuce belongs to Brian (nissan231) and the green Riddler buggy belonged to frenchblue here on the forum. Brian always has the coolest scalers and Luke is a tube buggy master.
Yes it was a ton of fun yesterday i got one last thing to do to my crawler that i forgot to do.... Add weight to the wheels!! lol had a heck of a time climbing anything yesterday!
move and distribute weight don't add it if you can. Comp crawlers we weighted the heck out o the front to a near 60-40 bias. All the best performing scalers I know have little to no weight added into the tires. I have a total of 4oz split equal between all 4. The more you add you lose wheels speed and pop you lose and the bigger strain on parts. The tire you were running is 100% for rocks only and has the trickiest foam tuning charteristics of any tire out there due to the ultra thin sidewall. When we ran those on the comp trucks years ago (before sedonas and rovers) and avoided dirt or sand on a course at all cost. In fact if we had to get into the dirt or sand we would try and find a puddle to drive through to clean them off before the next gate. The climb better bein soaking wet than with a speck of dirt. All things that don't make for a good scale tire. Get yourself a good set of actual scaler tires and you will be very happy and need no extra weight. Another down side of the panthers was we could only get a few good weekends/comps out of them before the tread was gone. At the time we didn't care because panthers are cheap and the were on all out competition trucks so new tires every month wasn't a big deal. Look at some of the new offerings from rc4wd in their new compounds of the proline swamped is very popular in both 1.9 and 2.2. A set of the 1.9 or 1.5 rc4wd irocks would look perfect and fit your truck well @frenchblue Yep it held out great. Not a single spot chipped off or had any problems. On the bottom of the sliders it scratched a little but just surface scratches no deep ones or chunks.
