The Perfect C1 Comp Truck? Carisma SCA-1E Coyote 2.1 Rocks!
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- čas přidán 13. 07. 2024
- The Carisma SCA-1E Coyote 2.1 is a 1/10 RC crawler with 110mm tires, straight axles and a no-nonsense drive-train. The four-link geometry and chassis-mounted servo are an interesting combination, and yet, this little rig could just be a discount, big-name gem!
This is our review of the new version of the Carisma Coyote 2.1 and we can't wait to get into it! Join us for a closer look at what makes this one special, where it may be lacking, and how it goes on the rocks.
Let's test!
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Notes & Corrections:
- Problem 1 incorrectly labelled as Problem 2. Couldn't fix without re-uploading, sorry!
- Apologies for the wind noise and software filtering. Having tech issues here; need to replace wireless mic. Thanks for bearing with me!!
- Rock test was performed with 2S 2200mAh LiPO battery.
- Per 18:01, we did Problems 1 AND 2 successfully.
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Chapters:
0:00 SCA-1E Coyote 2.1
0:20 What's In The Box
1:09 Scale Accessories
2:05 Radio Transmitter
2:54 Chassis & Body
5:43 Gearing & Steering
7:49 Suspension & Skid
8:52 Driving Experience
9:38 6-Problem Rock Test
18:01 Rock Test Debrief
19:30 What's Next
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I usually pass on these videos straight away because of the vehicle-just not my cup of tea- 20 minutes later, ( after watching the video) and seeing that sucker climb those rocks, I'm off to the Hobby shop today to check these things out! Thanks!! 👍👍🦾🦾
Whoa! There's a 180 if ever I saw one! Nice, thanks for letting me know. I hope you really enjoy this thing - I am!! Cheers :)
You did another very thorough review. I always learn something. Carisma, as you probably know, has been making r/c cars for years. That may account for the smooth drive train.
Thanks. They know what they're doing, yes! Thanks Michael :)
8:15 an old school trick to those body mounts to keep the body from rattling? small O rings. If you get them small enough when you stretch it over the post they get really thin and don't affect the body mounting position too much. In this case, it would keep those rings in place as well.
Nice trick!
- Your reviews of RC CRAWLERS, "is the best" !!!! 👌😁 👍 - Thank you !!!
Thanks Paul!
The car has some nice details... none of which I would've picked up had it not been for your amazingly throrough review! No wonder you draw your viewers to get them. If I had an RC company I'd just send you all my products. No better fair, detailed review I could ever get than yours!
It's been a while now since I've noticed, but your style of filming and talking is really coming to its own! Congrats, Craig!!
Aw thanks :)
Very cool crawler
It is! I owe it more rock time!
This looks like a really nice affordable option. This style of truck body is spot on for a trail rig/light crawler. Definitely looking forward to seeing more of it. Oh and another CZcamsr put out a video on the Boom Racing BRX02 and it made me wonder when you’ll start to release your build series. Great video as always Craig!
Thanks, Scott! I do like this thing and am looking forward to seeing it become a Class 1 monster!
BRX02 coming soon! Have had to pause that one over July but this month I'm back into it. We'll get there eventually!
Nice and honest reviews as always. And great video Craig. I've always like Carisma's bodyshell. But this is a great video to showcase its capabilities. 👍🏾
Thank you :)
HéHéHé!!! Naice 2 Vid!!! The sound are good :-D
Cool Truck and great Review!
Thanks a lot!
Hey there!
You are doing a great job! I asked folks on my channel which other channel they thought was under-rated, and they suggested yours!
Keep up the good work!
Subscribed!
What a great idea! Thanks for your encouragement and thanks for the work you do, too! Cheers
Fun review, thank you! After your awesome and detailed deep-dive I learned that a good amount of thought has gone not only into your video but also this particular Carisma truck.
Great you point out all the 'tidbits' so to say. Looks smart. Not to many people I know drive a Carisma, I know them mainly from their factory driver videos, Mad Mike Worthington :)
Much enjoyed RC-TNT video and naturally, a like left 👆
Wow, awesome. Thank you for such a thoughtful comment. Glad you got so much out of it :) Cheers!
Thanks for the review. Been considering this, or the Rover, in either RTR or kit form, because I have a Carisma Lynx body I'd like to easily mount on something. Plus, I like how Carisma engages the community on social media, keeping them informed of their business productivity (i.e. recent shipping dilemma), and general inspiration. I guess I feel like it's something I want to be a part of.
I don't know a lot about their social media engagement (I'm really only here on CZcams, I can barely work Instagram!) but the vehicle itself has clearly been lovingly designed!
Very cool. I quite like the look of the body, too.
Thanks! Me too, it's like a little bit of various different pickups.
Oh Craig, what have you done! For the third time now, I find myself having ordered a truck you’ve reviewed to have a play with! 😂 One of my first 1/10 RC cars was the Carisma M40S VW Touareg rally raider, it’s taken all kinds of punishment over the years and is still going strong. 👍 This Coyote will join two of your other reviewed cars, the Element Sendero HD and Gatekeeper. You nearly had me reaching for my card with the Ecto as well, but I was strong that time! 🤣 Another great review, keep going!
Haha sorry not sorry, that's funny as! My condolences to your bank account, from mine. It's a great truck though, you're going to love it :)
Nice Review!
Thanks!
I was going to post "I wonder why no one has come up with an axle mounted steering rack" for R/Cs" so I went to see what the real crawlers use. Many use a rack mounted to the chassis but "real" rock crawlers do just that: mount the steering rack to the axle. That would eliminate all the issues with body/chassis movement during articulation.
Oh if I only had access to a machine shop! haha...
There are a bunch for older crawlers, but the trend has been for cms in recent years. In building this as a class 1 it'll have to stay on the chassis, but I'm definitely going to go SOA on the Remo 10275!
It's really not bad, given what I'm doing with my enduro trailwalker element, I should have taken this one, it would have cost less.
Of course I'm super happy with my trailwalker but they say that if I had seen your test before I would have saved 100 euro!!!
I'm glad you like your Trailwalker, even if you would have done it differently in hindsight! Thank you :)
great video but this is definitely not to hot Midwest US states side. kits are 300$+ & every rtr is 400$+ and or shipping $50+ american & next to none available. the carisma VAN seems to be in abundance though. lol. Great Job & run through Greg 🤜🤛🤟🤙👍!
Thanks, the van does look pretty cool!
thanks for the great vid! I always like to see other alternatives to the bigger names. I think this rig has potential!
Oh me too, me too! Thanks Brian!
The Range Rover version of this is found all over the internet.
I've got the first release one.
The box will still be waterproof as there's a rubber seal, the silicone is just to block up the hole the aerial sticks out of, just smear some more on.
They're solid rigs eh
@@RCTNT yeh definitely, I've had mine since 2019.
I modified the steering, swapped the plastic servo horn and steering linkage for aluminium, however then crashed it head on into a log in July, the aluminium steering linkage was so strong that it absorbed the crash but one of the steering knuckles snapped. Which gave me the excuse to upgrade the steering knuckles to aluminium too.
Just had another Range Rover shell delivered today, with the wide body n snorkel kit, metallic blue paint and slightly smaller Carisma tyres with bigger heavier alloy wheels, so gonna have fun over Christmas personalising it.
I bet you are! That sounds like a great time and it's really coming together. Enjoy that!
@@RCTNT I just saw your mixed bag review on the mst cfx-ws dc1.
I was thinking of getting another rig, would the MST be worth getting or should I just get another Carisma SCA-1E rig?
MST make great cars. Variety is a good thing, consider other ones too. Check out my 1 year anniversary video, that's a bit of a Best-Of highlight reel. I have a lot of crawlers here and depending on what brands you can get in your area, you may benefit from looking into something you haven't considered yet. Element RC have some rippers, RGT/FTX also. Gmade have interesting, high performance models and even cross rc have some real bangers. Look around, see what you think.
MST stuff is quality, in short. Nothing is perfect and the DC1 was a bit odd, but they're generally good cars.
- The "best axle/diff-housings", as far as "smoothness"/flat - w/bevels !!!!
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They're lovely, yes!
Another person I like to watch (Crawler Canyon) got the Carisma van. He's totally reengineered it at this point, but out of the box he had similar feedback on the low speed control and steering. His was changed to SOA, maybe with parts that were included. It really performed quite well after his revisions and the body is absurdly delightful. I like the look of this truck, it's reminiscent of a 60s pickup with elements from each maker. Familiar, but also pretty unique... or I just can't figure out the truck for which it's modeled 😂. This one only made problem 1, but it looked like it's nearly there on the others. I know it's rotating mass, but I have to wonder what some heavy wheels with a good tire would do for this🤙
It'll be a beast with better wheels and SOA. That's coming next, I think. Their van does look cool, I may check it out at some point. Thanks Andy!
I am also a follower of his channel and was going to make the same comments.
Twist my arm! I'd better check it out!
It's a Toyota Stout body. A small pick-up predecessor of the Hilux built for the japanese and american market if I remember correctly. Love the looks of my V1 in matt black and clear windows
@@rofufoja Thank you! I should have known I think I just saw one of those at a car show last weekend. The wife had a rare (for the US) Toyota Tiara and the husband was driving the Scout
Love the carisma sca-1e coyote 2.1 I've replaced the shocks with Trx4 shocks and the plastic steering link I replaced with original scx10 link from hot racing. The electronics I run are the Carisma Arc-2 & Holmeshobbies crawlmaster sport 16t 5slot
That all sounds perfect! Nice choice of balanced upgrades there!
There's a 3d file for duel servo mount that puts battery sideways behind front tires also
Thanks Mark.
I have one coming in the mail. I’m thinking of getting the brass diff covers and half cab/rear cage conversion for it. I haven’t looked into the other offerings for it but I’m just a bit concerned about the play of the front axle for aesthetic reasons
That's a fair concern. I also wonder how much the ball ends in the front links may wear over time, too. It's a weak point to the design - but overall it doesn't weigh a great deal so it probably will be fine. Time will tell.
Nice. So maybe I have some valuable info. I’ve had mine for about a year & the first time I used it within 30 min. the rear driveshaft end pin & spring came of & the rear driveshaft was hanging down. That is not a good start obviously & I found that because the brand is Korean I believe parts where not available as other brands I contacted them same day& my new Crawler sat for 3weeks or so. They told me that it’s been an issue & people were putting shrink wrap over it so the spring doesn’t pop off & of course the pin falls out. They did send me a set of pins & springs & I used a dab of hot glue on each. So now it’s been holding up. I used the original wheels & tires from a Element Sendero which are plastic wheels & General tires that are way bigger & especially taller. Also I ordered mine with the ESC 2 which came with a programmer it’s super nice & I’ve programmed the drag brake etc. & it holds very well. I run it on 3S with no issues & it will out Crawl some of my more expensive RC’s after the changes. Those wheels changed it into a climbing beast. I think it’s the weight to strength ratio that makes it such a good climber. It’s one of my favorite Crawlers to take out watching it just brings a smile to your face. On sandstone type rock formations steeeep ones it just kills it. Adding weight down low would definitely do it some good as you stated.I paid about 300$ US & it was worth every penny. It’s just like almost all RC’s you just have to work the bugs out & then add the things that make it yours. Definitely for anyone thinking about getting one do it! You can make it into whatever you want. I was stoked to see you got one hours of fun are coming your way & anyone else that gets one.
Thanks for all that! I'll have to look closely at the drive shafts - but I'm pretty sure they've addressed it now. Could be part of the second generation changes I've heard about - but nothing's published that I can refer to here for confirmation. We'll work it out eventually!
I'm going to try to build this into a Class 1 competitor and we'll see how far we get. I have my middle of the field C1 truck I used at the 2019 nationals so that'll be something to compare to! Looking forward to seeing how far we can take it.
I'm glad you like yours. It's unsurprising given what I've seen of it!
Nice review of this truck. I'm not sure how much difference there is between the V1, and the 2.1, but they appear to be pretty similar.
Mines the V1, and running an axial motor and belt drive, and is whisper quiet. It's set up more as a trail truck at the moment, but does crawl quite well.
I'm interested to see if you mod it for better crawling performance, and the idea of painting the inside of the shell is a good one. Mine must have 6 coats of paint in the outside (one of them, pink!!) And changes every time it rolls over!! 😆👍🏻
Thanks Rob. Gee yours must be incredibly quiet as I've found the stock config to be impressively smooth already. It reminds me of the Vaterra Ascender - the only other truck I've had that was like this out of the box.
Will be improving its performance, yes. Thinking of trying to build it into a Class 1 comp rig. We'll see how far we get!
@@RCTNT can't wait. 👍🏻
5:19 I bet lacquer thinners will remove that paint right quick and it won't affect the lexan at all. I'm not 100% on this but I am sure that only methalyne chloride or cyanoacrylate will affect the lexan.
Thanks for the tip!
@@RCTNT Yeah I'd take some q tips and dip them into a small tub of lacquer thinners and wipe off the paint inside and out. Even a small model paint brush would work.
Oddly enough the order I placed with banggood is due to arrive monday so when I do this to it, I'll report on the results. I'm kinda of shocked, it's only been 2 weeks and it'll be here monday. it's usually 4 minimum!
@@muskokamike127 thanks for the info, Mike.
Shipping seems to be speeding up recently again, maybe as logistics catch up after the 2 year slow down with covid changes etc.
Hello from southeast alaska how's your day going bro
G'day from south east Australia :) It's a beautiful morning here. I'm grateful for the day. Hope you are well too, RC brother!
@@RCTNT yeah it's been a great few weeks I've helped alot of families with salmon that is why I haven't been on much lately.
@@hellofromsoutheastalaskarc7517 nice! Glad you're having a good run.
Is there any chance to get the Tamiya CC-02 on the channel?
A 100% chance. Bronco is already built, just need to get the body finished and I'll have that one up :)
@@RCTNT That sounds wonderful! :)
Hay mate have you done any mods two this truck since you did this video
No videos ready for this one yet but they are coming!
@@RCTNT ok sweet
Any video on up grades yet
Sorry Nathan, I know you're keen. Hasn't happened yet. Possibly may be another 6 of 8 weeks before I fit that one in at this point, though it's in my 'variable timeframe' pile for now. It is coming, just don't have a date slot planned for it quite yet. Thanks for bearing with me!
All good mate I have been looking at an upgrade you can do two the cab two turn it into like a comp truck you can get inert gaurds for them as well so looking at that as well
- Opposing driveshafts are "the way to go", I don't know why companies like Axial & Element have not implemented this, into their designs !!!? 🙄
Agreed. Traxxas too. There is slight extra cost with more housing and another gear and bearing pair, and I guess it's slightly weaker than having both out drives off the same spool, but it seems like the obvious design choice regardless. One day, hopefully!