Vanquish Products VRD Carbon - Kit

User's manual located here - Revision 1 (Page 20 screw lengths upgraded)

VRD CARBON KIT
The Vanquish Products VRD Carbon Set is our extremely first competition level platform brought to life by some of the market's most experienced designers in the RC rock crawling sector.  Making use of an all new Lightweight Specification VFD Transmission and upgraded F10 competition motivated portal axles the VRD Carbon Set is an extremely competitive, foreseeable and versatile platform.  The heart of the VRD Carbon Set is a matte finish 3mm thick set of carbon fiber frame rails mated to the 6 degree flat skid plate.  The molded chassis parts and skid plate place the lightweight specification VFD transmission as low as possible into the VRD chassis.  For the first time the front F10 Website axle is geared up with a servo on axle and 4-link.  Front and rear axles consist of weighted brass tube inserts in addition to the front alloy knuckle weights to keep the center of mass as low as possible, equating to a high efficiency driving experience.  

Light-weight Specification VFD Transmission

3mm Matte Carbon Fiber Frame Rails - 6 degree flat skid plate

37% Overdrive 

F10 Website Axles

Brass weight tubes in axles

Alloy heavy portal knuckle weights

Front Axle Overdrive Website equipments

Rear Axle Standard Website Gears

Light-weight Machined Chromoly VFD Transmission Gears

Machined Spool, Ring Equipment, Pinion equipment in axles

Chromoly Universal axle shafts

Tough Anodized Shock Bodies

Stainless Steel Hyperlinks with HD Bent rear links

Cut Pro M4 Rod Ends

Stamped Aluminum Rock Sliders

Adjustable multi point body mounting system

Chassis

The Vanquish Products VRD Carbon chassis is geared up with all new molded chassis parts that supply a tunable platform to adapt to the most demanding terrain.  Several shock and body mounting positions integrated with minimalistic front/rear interchangeable bumpers make body mounting and fitment simple.  Stamped aluminum rock sliders supply a flat area for electronics and/or battery mounting and are able to support and safeguard your body.  

Drivetrain

The center of the VRD Carbon Set is the new lightweight specification VFD transmission.  Geared up with a lightweight machined aluminum motor plate, aluminum motor plate standoffs, while omitting the cosmetic VFD tunnel for a high efficiency look.  Internally the VFD is geared up with machined aluminum bearing plates and machined lightweight chromoly equipments.  Each internal equipment has actually been re-designed to be as lightweight as possible dropping the weight of the general transmission but preserving a high level of resilience.  The T-Case has actually a built in 21% overdrive.  

The Front F10 Website axle has overdrive portal equipments while the Rear F10 portal axle has the standard ratio equipments, integrated with the VFD overdrive the last overdrive portion is 37%.  Both axles consist of brass weighted tubes inside in addition to the alloy portal knuckle covers on the front axle.  This is the heaviest spec F10 axle yet keeping the center of mass as low as possible and the weight bias forward.  

Suspension

The VRD Carbon Set consists of the Cut S8E shocks with difficult anodized shock bodies and multiple length tuning rod ends for a final length variety of 85-95mm.  Sturdy stainless-steel lower suspension links and lightweight upper links link the chassis to the axles with the new Cut Pro M4 rod ends.  The rear lower links are bent for optimum breakover clearance.  Several shock mounting locations and tunable shock length permit a high variety of ride height and breakover modification.  

Specifications

1/10th Scale

Front Axle Ratio 5.25:1

Rear Axle Ratio 6.25:1

Pinion 15T 32P

Stimulate 52T 32P

Total Width Hex to Hex - 200mm (7.87”)

Wheelbase - 322mm (12.67”)

Total Front Ratio 46.5:1

Total Back Ratio 68:1

Last Overdrive 37%

Needed Items to Complete:

Tools

Paint

Compensation Style Body

1.9 x 4.75” Tires (recommended)

1.9 Wheels (Vanquish Products or SLW Hub Compatible wheels needed)

Transmitter / Receiver

Steering servo (25 spline 20mm Servo Horn consisted of)

540 Motor

ESC

Battery (35mm x 35mm x 100mm Maximum)

Battery charger