New Bright 1:6 Scale Dodge Ram

[naX]

Hey all,

Been a while since I've visited (I'm an R/C aircraft guy), but I'm back with a new toy (literally, a kids toy). Yesterday was my birthday and my wife showed up with a HUGE R/C truck. It's a New Bright 1:6 scale Dodge Ram. I've cycled the battery on it about 4 times now and must say I'm fairly impressed for what it is. It's only a 2WD, but has decent suspension, with independent front end and single/joint rear end. The motor seems to supply plenty of power and runs for about 20 usable minutes (will run for another 10 minutes or so, but with a large decline in power).

I'm just wondering if anyone knows about the quality of these toys or if there's any room for improvement. It has a large 19.2V NiCd battery pack and from what I can tell, all electronics are proprietary. I took it all apart last night to try and get to the motor to see what it had, but I put it all back together and went to bed before I could get the rear casing apart.

I'm hoping that the quality is decent enough to warrant replacing the components for something better. The stock speed is good, but I would like a bit more torque to help with crawling up curbs and what-not. The tires are also decent, but lack the grip in the rear for crawling. All I know about the tire size is that they're held on with 5/16th "lug" nuts.

So, anyone have thoughts/ideas/suggestions?

[Growf911]

I don't know, I you plan on getting serious, new bright is not the way to go.

[naX]

Agreed, but it was a gift and will be something fun to play with while I work into the hobby a bit more.

I've read a ton of negative stuff about the New Bright 1:6 RC's, but I can't find anything about my particular model. I don't have the one with sound or multi-speed tranny. Just a big 1:6 19.2V Dodge Ram. Maybe it's a new revision, I dunno. It's fast (need to figure out how to clock it) and powerfull (can pull wheely from stand-still... but I had to make a weight mod for that). It still feels much like a toy, but nowhere near as negative as everything I've read thus-far about their 1:6's.

I'm going to throw some [temporary] clay in my rear diff to lock it up and see if it helps any for getting over the curbs. Perhaps putting my weight back on the front end and put a little more weight in the rear will help as well. My main goal tonight, though, is to figure out what sort of power plant they are using and how much power it's pulling... try and gauge if I can pop a more powerful motor in.

[mtfly2000]

I would appreciate it for what it's worth and only do minor mods to it. If the tires aren't rubbery enough you can coat them with liquid electrical tape. I wouldn't try to mess with the powerplant.

[turbored21]

actually their pretty good my son has the 6th scale new bright international cxt... its decent.. the power plant isnt sufficient in the fact that its a higher voltage motor running on less voltage "its actually a 24V motor".. makes it efficient and run cool... you could easily swap in a lathe motor for more power and not affect the stock speed controller/RX board... lathe motors can deal with 12v no issues but im not sure about 19.2 ... they can probably do it.. but itll cost you 20$ to find out.. lol

as for upgrading.. no need really if you go with the right motor that wont destroy the stock board and such.. locking the diff might help

as for the motor i would suggest a 45T lathe it would probably keep near the same speed you have "might slow up just a bit" but itll have rock crushing tq and be able to climb quite well..