You know you need to put the cheep tires on the Capra to see how that does that to should make interesting vid but all so it was a massive help having the portal axles that was what made the difference I believe fab video watched it all
Simple design, less parts to go wrong, lightweight, good low centre of gravity, good wheels size, simple small battery that lasts at leas 45min, 1/4th of the cost of most 1/10 scale crawlers and at least equally capable. What not to like? Mine has no foam inserts and a very small lightweight bycilce light on front of and rear axle(red on the rear). Not only effective at night but very cool and strangely adds a touch of scale realism.
Not surprised as the Capra tyres were only 1.9's whereas the Ravine's are 2.2's. The Capra can get away with the smaller rubber with it's portal axles but the Ravine was getting caught up on it chuncky axles and chassis centre plate
Would be interesting to see the same test done with the 2.2 Hyrax tires rather than the 1.9 that used in the video. It seemed to loose ground clearance vs the stock wheels. Agreed that the truck is too light though.
Yeah... Those tires don't seem soft enough... And the weight isn't there either. Yet! Anyway, keep trying, dude! Great job! Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Possibly changing out the ESC might give a bit better motor control to the rear axle,because that seems to be part of the problem....the rear wheels take a while to activate.
take it out of 4 wheel steering.... that seems to be everyones biggest problem with these. i guess everyone is different but i only use the other steering modes when necessary.
Exactly I don't get that I mainly use front steering every time you use rear steering it throws you off just like the game offroad Outlaws the rear steering screws you up when you try to climb something straight
Hi Phil your right about the weight, all I done to mine is put wheel weights , added abit to the front, put £40 wheels and Tyres on , upgraded the 2 Servos, 35kg in the front and 20 in the back and thats it, Made the electronics waterproof 👍 obviously made a jeep wrangler fit the Body, The Ravine also takes 3s 5000mah 30c lipo to and goes for hours 😁 , really enjoyed your test run Bro. That was some crazy hard rocks you tested on though lol 😆 fantastic Video as always 👍😁👍😎👍
Like everyone else says, looks like there isn't enough weight to make use of them. Still a great budget crawler though. A more sensible investment might be some extra weight and some *cough* "tribute" *cough* tyres from China. Some of them are super soft now and have "familiar" tread patterns. I was surprised just how soft they are now, Chinese crawler tyres used to be almost plastic but these days, a lot of them are as soft as the big brands.
I am also surprised like you, I imagined that just changing the tires would be a fair test, but I never thought about the weight, the servo, the explosive power of a more fit crawler. Thanks for share, greay a nice day Bro!!
Just brought this bag of shit trying steer it and all wheels get hung up on the lower bars can't steer the servos are so crap 6kg not strong enough to turn a fart the battery it comes with no power at all I hate it in the attic it goes
I thought the stock tires are horrible. I think a full set of stock tires and rims from Redcat were $18. $80 dollars for rims and tires is ridiculous.i can get 2 20x4" fat tires for my electric bike for less. I got free 1x9 mud terrains off a Gen 7 and wheels from a neighbor. Other than the body and tires I was really happy with the ridge rock , 6 months owner
Hail, good sir. I'm fairly new to RCs as I got into them during covid and I bought a Ravine a wee while ago as my first crawler because I saw your videos on this little beauty. This car takes a li-ion battery but does that mean it can also take a lipo? From what I've read it looks like li-ion has a lower low-voltage cut off point than lipo, so I guess that putting a lipo in this would be very bad? I'd like to go on long quarry crawls with a big lipo but not sure if I can't trust the controller to cut off at low voltage and will need my own low voltage alarm?
Don’t know if this is a daft question but with 2 motors, could you setup dig on the Ravine? I’m guessing it’d need different controller and esc but don’t know how it’d work 🤔
yup, lacking weight for the better tires to take a bite. I'd try wetting the stock tires with WD-40 about an hour to help open the pores of the rubber, and like I did with your Ravine's cheaper little brother the Danchee "Trail Hunter", 4 wraps 2 mm solder between the tire beads of its front rims. when climbing all the weight dumps to the rear tires anyway, a little extra weight up front lets them help pull the whole rig up. rims are near 2" diameter, so 4 wraps is 25-26" worth of the lead wire.. times two. with the Trail Hunter didn't want to add TOO much weight, the motors are probably a bit smaller than whats in the Ravine/RidgeRock. Trail Hunter's motors are almost 370 size but have flat sides, kinda like overgrown 130 motors. the weight definitely helped the Trail Hunter, runs on a 7.2v 800mah 6 cell AA size NiCad pack and is really light for its size.
Well! I am very surprised that the Prolines didn´t transform this crawler into something that could stand up to the Capra. Thank you for doing this video : )
sometimes better wheels on a cheap crawler really work, i put a set of Alloy beadlocks on my ECX temper gen 2 but used the stock tyres as they are good and it works real nice now, love the temper
Should've jus mounted proline hyrax super soft on the stock wheels and saved money! I trimmed the foam in the tires to simulate low air press and that was a huge difference! And please throw some hexfly 25kg servos on there !
@@TomleyRC glad to see someone posting vids on this awesome budget crawler! Mine is a danchee ridgerock but they are identical! After some servos better tires and bigger 5200mah 2 cell lipo battery itll go good and last a very long time!
Great video, done the same to my ridgerock as well as put some lead wrap on the hubs. Wondering what your thoughts are on putting the HW quicrun 880 esc in there with a set of 540 brushed motors?
ere, hold up, did you nick my bmx and its mags?? cus this opening sounds almost exactly like what i have done with my bmx? no really, i bought genuine mag wheels for my bmx...left me skint for ages
also, i do wonder how it would do on axial 2.2 ripsaws? well i'll find out soon enough...if im not completely skint, 2.2 ripsaws are almost £50 a pair, no rims
Dude, you really need to learn to drive that's the problem. I have one, and it does great, but then again i have, and wheel a real jeep wrangler and have for 20 yrs now. It helps to know what real vehicles do in real life road situations. Capra my arss.
What's the weight difference between the Capra and Ravine? If Ravine is a lot lighter..... Its might be why the tyres are not gripping as much? What size are the motors in the Ravine?
Huh was this with open diffs ? Kind of looked like it was slipping on the rear in some places. Maybe it was the tires spinning inside the rims or something... Another thing worth trying is venting the stock tires, adding lead weight front & rear in the rims or axles, I'd say 150 - 250 grams if possible on both axles & check over the linkage on the suspension if it moves smoothly without the shocks in place along with adding some longer screws & shims behind the mounting points on the axles so the linkages & shocks are pushed outwards slightly. & ofc servos, metal linkages instead of plastic & perhaps see if you can shave down the steering knuckle slightly too get more steering angle out of it.
