Guys you know I get really excited when new vehicles show up here at the RC
driver workshop but I am super excited about this one this is a new Redcat gen8
Scout - and there is a lot of people talking about this truck on the internet
right now it is an awesome ready to run scale crawler and is just loaded with
features Redcat is on a new direction they are on a mission and this is one of
the first vehicles from that camp to come out fully designed here in the US
and so far by what I've seen they've done it right so what we're gonna do
here is we're gonna go into a fully detailed review yeah I'm gonna do a lot
of talking in this one so I'm gonna put a key in the description below to let
you know what times talk about different parts of the review so if you just want
to see action you could of course check out the time key down there and skip
ahead and you know what hey while you're there hit that subscribe button alright
it's time to take this over the regular workbench dip into the box and show you
guys what it's all about so are you guys ready to get into the new gen 8 I am but
first I want to show you guys some details on the box just to make sure we
don't miss it later on down the road and first up I got to talk to you guys about
the body this is a licensed international body it is a awesome look
about it wait till I take it out but this particular kit here is obviously
ready to run four-wheel drive comes with 2.4 gigahertz radio system waterproof
electronics and it goes for about $2.99 from what I saw on the web right now but
let's get to those details that I want to show you on the box and starting off
right here is the electronics so again waterproof electronics 17 turn 550 motor
40 amp speed controller by a hobby wing it's got some really cool-looking
bumpers on there and the front bumper is actually already drilled out for a winch
so that is very cool we've got license into go super swampers on here I love
the look of those tires it is really cool to see it on here I've got some
rock sliders on the side and it's got a low CG battery chain we'll take a closer
look at that pretty neat looking receiver box - I got to show you guys
there is extension wires that come out of the receiver box which makes taking
things apart later on down the road nice and easy it's got steel rings on
the bead lock wheels and then over here a couple of other things we'll get will
get through those guys I promise but I did want to call ally it has 32 rubber
seal bearings throughout this kit it has a pretty unique slipper clutch setup on
there mod one gears on the inside of the transmission the steering angle this is
this is the one thing that I wanted to show you guys I didn't want to forget
about later it's got a 47 degrees steering angle on there and it actually
has five degrees of caster in there as well so this thing you know by looks of
it the steering is on point alright the other thing I wanted to
point out we've got seventy three point five millimeters of ground clearance in
the center there it is an adjustable wheel base so you could go and adjust
this from 312 millimeters all the way up to 336 millimeters and then another
important feature is the approach angle and descent angle here so on the
approach we've got 61 degrees in the front departure angle we've got a tad
over 39 degrees so that really helps out with clearance on the trail there's some
neat stuff going on the body will see that later
it is also LED ready so you go throu five-millimeter LED lights in there but
you know what let's get into the box and I've actually already had this open so
this thing is ready to come out I've gone and checked everything I could I
couldn't wait to unbox in front of you guys I had to check it out myself but
obviously we've got the instruction manual there we've got some plastic
parts to talk about here is the truck guys check this machine out super cool
and then down in the bottom of the box I was surprised to see this it's got a
spare tire in there and then over here is the radio system let me just grab
this out of here there's the red cat radio alright so let
me get set up here we'll give you guys a nice angle to check this thing out while
I talk about the radio system so the radio is a basic radio system it is a
obviously 2.4 gigahertz radio system it's got a nice feel to it but it has
the basic trim functions in here you know you're steering reverse your
throttle overs steering dual rate trims and that's where your on/off switch is
underneath this top panel but it's got a really nice look to the radio I like the
graphics that they put on here the decals and of course it runs on four
double a's which you're going to need to pick up now let's talk about
the instruction manual really quick obviously if you're new to RC go through
this I've actually been through this manual already and they did a great job
of laying out what you need to know about this vehicle and it actually
answered some of my questions like why is there a spare tire in here and let me
show you what's in this bag so in the accessory bag are a number of different
things to finish off the details of this truck if you want to these are the LED
clips so if you do good LED lights for this particular truck they give you the
backing and the hardware to install that and then there are body mount
accessories here so there are some long body posts and there's actually front
body posts as well so we've got those and then there's even a cross member to
help stiffen up the body mounts and these are some pretty thick body mounts
and you're probably going why aren't there body mounts on the car well I'm
gonna show you in just a minute but again there are some other little
plastic pieces along with it but this is what I really wanted to show you guys
this is the spare tire mount how cool is that in the back body area there's a
cross bracing in there and you can mount this in there and you could just drill a
small hole and you could put a spare tire on the back of the truck if you
want to how cool is that all right now last of the details of basically a pine
plug and a antenna tube and then some ESC instructions so Redcats got you
covered on everything that you're gonna need the only other thing you're gonna
need obviously is a battery for 2s lipo 3s lipo 7 cell nickel metal hydride if
you want to and then of course charger already talked to you guys about double
a's for the radio system now we can get into this truck here and I think red cat
did an awesome job with this buy check this thing out I mean this just looks so
awesome sitting here on the workbench and I can't imagine what its gonna look
like on the trails actually I've seen a few videos of it it looks super cool out
there just driving through rocks and dirt and stuff like that but there are a
number of things that have really caught my eye with this body starting off with
the front grille this is a molded front grille so there is a decal behind there
for the radiator so you can see through it see the radiator that's very cool the
headlights here there are buckets behind there so you go through the LED lights
in there and obviously there is clear lens over the
front moving on there are these really nice-looking fenders now I noticed a
couple people say well those aren't exact you know replicas of what a a
scout had you know guys it's open to a little bit of interpretation in my book
I mean I think they were just looking to give you guys something really really
cool looking you know obviously they want the Scout name on there but I think
you know with these style of fender flares and everything you know they were
just building a really cool-looking truck for you guys and you know what I
really think they nailed it now the only thing that I would actually give it a
point deduction for would be you know it's got window decals it doesn't have
clear windows on there but you know what it still looks really cool is it looks
like a really nice tinted window but here here's one thing I wanted to show
you guys check out these mirrors the mirror actually swivels it's screwed on
so when you're driving there is less likely of a chance for this thing to
break off you know if you roll it over I think that mirror is just gonna fold
over you don't have to worry about those breaking off I thought that was pretty
cool now let's take a look at the truck out back here as you can see there are
rear tale lenses on this so again there are light buckets you could put five
millimeter LED lights in there and it will shine through these clear lenses
there's just two screws that hold on the lens and that looks really really nice
then we'll talk about the bumpers in a minute but the one thing that really
caught my eye when I took this out of the box was there are no body Clips none
none whatsoever they do give you the body post but you know what holds on the
body velcro check the head out just four pads of velcro and that secures it to
the body and from what I've read they actually have an optional magnet system
that you can put in there rare earth magnets where you go and two-side tapes
of magnets down and you can use that if you don't want to use the velcro but
check this out underneath here check out this inner body system so it's kind of
like an inner fender well and then here's another inner fender well and
what these do is they basically help just guide the body down onto the fender
well so it secures the body in the proper location so that is pretty neat
there and obviously that's what these fender flares both two up front here
there are those LED light buckets same with the rear three LED lights could go
into the rear buckets now on each side and here's that crossmember that is
where the spare tire so there is a lot going on inside this
body but it's just really cool how this just drops down and it kind of guides
itself in place and you push it down and it's secure
so obviously I got to pull this back off because we have to see what's inside
here now let's check out this new truck again this is all new from red cat
design here in the US and this is a first for them and I think they did an
awesome job from what I've seen I've gone ahead actually and taken a few
things apart and I love the way this thing goes together the size of the
screws are all you know similar in size so when I was taking the transmission
apart pretty much all of those two millimeter button head screws were the
same length when I was working with the 1.5 s they were all the same in length
so I think this thing is really easy to work on when I was pulling apart it was
really easy to take apart I actually didn't want to take it apart because you
know it could be very time-consuming but this wasn't I had an apartment back
together in no time so I think this is gonna be really easy for people to work
on all right so let's start going over some of the features itself and let's
start off with the front bumper here got that nice approach angle to it it's
already drilled so you can put a winch on the front and it has really thick
mounts so hopefully you know that bumper won't snap off if you're you know
trailing out there really hard and hit something it's got some really thick
posts and the bumper mount so a nice composite crossmember that attaches to
the frame rails on here and these frame rails are huge they seem like they're
much thicker frame rail than some of the others that are out there you know the
box of it is much larger and at first I was like well you know how is that scale
wise but you know what I've bent frame rails on other vehicles out there and so
I'm actually really excited to see the size of the frame rails on here I think
they did a great job on those of course or steel they're stamped and you know
they flowed nicely through there it seems like it has really good clearance
in the front and rear for the axles so I think they did their homework there
alright moving back to the shock towers these are composite shock towers on here
but they are super thick guys and they are very very strong I mean there is
just no flex in those but is what's really nice is they have a number of
different holes that you can move the shock position
they're depending on you know when you go and change wheelbase or if you want
to change the shot gang a little bit that option is there if you want it and
now if you look in the center between the two shocks you'll notice that's
where the body posts are so you go put in body post if you do want to go and
swap out bodies maybe you know something besides the International Scout here
they do give you those body posts and they slip in right there
nice little cross member going on and it's time to talk about the I guess
we'll talk about the steering servo next because it mounted up front here chassis
mount steering servo and it is a metal geared servo high torque servo and most
importantly it is waterproof but what's even better is it comes with a metal
Cirro arm how cool is that really excited to see that in the land of you
know plastic servo horns I think it's just a great job when I company includes
a metal one obviously they did that here and then of course metal links we've got
you know a metal steering link here metal link that spans between the
steering knuckles and then on the end here is a turnbuckle so you go and
adjust the toe if you want to you don't have to go and slip spacer in there
anymore you can just go and turn the turbo go that is very cool I do like the
rod ends on here there they are plastic but you know metal ball studs in there
so that is done really well I like the steering on here the steering servo
bolts right into some brackets here right in the front really easy to access
and just an overall nice setup all right next thing up that's really you know
popping out that I need to talk to you guys fender wells check this out guys
friend Darrell's front and rear and when the bodies on here you know you really
don't see much of the inside of the vehicle we've got these floor pans in
the center so that helps you know just seal up this vehicle and you know gives
it that more realistic look you know out there crawling up on rocks and you're
looking up at the vehicle you're not looking inside at wires and stuff like
that I think that's pretty neat and it's really what manufacturers have to do
that's what we want and that's what Red Cat gave us why don't we move on to the
transmission next and the transmission is loaded with some pretty neat stuff so
bolted to it first is a 550 17 turn motor so we've got a lot of torque here
a lot of power to it and then it is mounted to a metal motor plate which is
really neat we've seen some plastic motor plates out
there not here definitely like that red cat
didn't go and save a few pennies there they gave us the metal motor plate that
we wanted and as you can notice the motor has melted towards the front so we
get some more weight over the front wheels now inside it is a 32 pitch metal
pinion gear and that goes to a 32 pitch spur gear and what's neat about the spur
gear is it's fitted with slipper path but what's really neat about the slipper
pads is they are crushed by hexagon plates and what you could do is is if
you don't want a slipper clutch in there you can remove the pads and put those
plates in to the spur gear and then lock everything up so you could just go and
run a lock transmission versus having that slipper clutch in there
and that's just a really nice option to have right out of the box now inside of
this Senate transmission here are plastic gears supported by ball bearings
but they are mod1 gears guys so they have really big teeth on them so I don't
even though it's plastic I don't really see any problems they just look like
really stout gears in there and then the transmission actually has a slider drive
shaft that goes down to a transfer case so it is separate from the transmission
itself it's got the transfer case over here under the battery tray and of
course we have slider drive shafts that go down to the front rear but the yokes
on here are metal so the slider shaft is plastic but the yokes are metal so
that's really cool you're not gonna have to worry about the yokes popping apart
while you're out there on the trail but everything just has a really nice smooth
feel to it and yeah I think everything's gonna work out really well here guys it
just looks like Redcat did their homework on everything here so that's
the transmission let's talk about the receiver in the in the speed controller
while we're up here so the receiver box is over here and it's actually really
well done what they have is the receiver is tucked away inside waterproof
receiver and they have a little extension wires that come out that allow
you to go and access your servo wire your ESC wire without having to take
that box apart I think that's pretty neat there's actually two extra ports
here that allow you to do the same thing with some accessory wire so that is
pretty cool the way that setup does have a little antenna wire sticking out and
they do give you that antenna tube but over here is the hex fly 40 amp speed
controller this is done by hobby wing you know it's fitted with a Deans plug
rubber boot on the switch here nice big heatsink and then of course it has the
little adjustment pills in here so you could adjust the drag break on here if
you want to or you could switch the pill over if you're running nickel metal or
lipo so definitely keep that in mind depending on what batter you buy
speaking of the battery here's the battery tray right here obviously uses
velcro straps it's even got the red cat logo on there and you know it takes a
number of ten different sized batteries you know nickel metal all the way up to
a three s lipo and they notice it even has this little drop down here so I
don't know if that is a you know a little accessory tray or maybe if you
run smaller packs but I just did want to point that out because that did jump out
at me when I was looking over the truck alright so let's talk about we've we
basically talked about the shock towers let's talk about the shocks now actually
so the shocks are aluminum body shock aluminum top cap aluminum lower cap and
they are a threaded body so it is a really nice looking shock a bit larger
than some of the other scale vehicles out there and it has a really nice
smooth feel to it and again you know lots of adjustability there and I think
overall they did a nice job on this particular shock it feels really really
good now while we're talking about suspension let's talk about the
suspension links so up front is obviously a three link suspension by the
look of it with the panhard bar on there which is extremely popular right now for
the scale crawlers and then a four link in the rear and those links are aluminum
links again really heavy-duty looking stuff going on and there's some
adjustability here as well here in the center skid plate there is a number of
different holes to move the position of the links but the suspension on here it
just feels really good now let's talk about another big deal of this vehicle
the portal axles what's really nice about portal axles is it gives you the
ground clearance that you need also gives you that torque without the twist
which is what a lot of people are looking for when they're looking for a
competent crawler you know I think it's really cool that they went with this
style of setup and it looks like they did a really good job on designing these
axles I mean it's kind of a minimalist design here so if you are you know
crawling over stuff and it does scrape on here there's not that much to really
hang up on it is a composite axle case and then the end caps obviously are all
posit but in there are metal ball bearings throughout and those bearings
are rubber shielded but all the gears inside the axles are actually all steel
so we've got steel ring and pinion gears we've got steel gears and the portals
we've got steel axles obviously that wrote that drive from the ring and
pinion all the way out to the the portal axle so really nice setup and when I
took it apart I was really surprised on how good everything looks even the spool
it is a really large aluminum spool in this that supports that ring gears so
really neat stuff going on and then what really just blew me away when I was
looking at it is these covers here these are metal guys this isn't just plated
plastic these are actually metal really neat that they went and did that just
really puts that axial up and over the top of course the front is a steering
knuckle style so we can get that turning radius again 47 degrees of steering just
check that out guys I mean that is a lot of steering and just really well done
alright let's talk about now the rear bumper pretty much the same as the front
we've got the shackles hanging out the back here it's got a little bit of red
cat logo in the top it's even got the cat logo out here in the trailer hitch
this hitch cap is held in with a scale looking pin nice details on this truck I
really like here are those Rock sliders help protect that body and and the body
actually tucks nicely into those sliders so hopefully nothing happens to the side
of those and I think that finally leaves the tires on this thing and the wheels
so the tires again they are integral super Swamper tires and you know really
nice compound on here a nice soft compound and it's got this firm like
memory foam in here so you push it down and you could kind of feel it slowly
rise back up and there it filled out the tire again so these tires mount on B
lock wheels these are a steel ring on here from what I've read so it is a true
bead lock and again this spare tire here as well is a true bead lock so if for
some reason you needed to you can go and use this as well so I think I've covered
pretty much everything on this new red catagen a again I am really excited that
they sent one over to us I haven't had a red cap machine and I've never had one
of their scale crawlers and you know this is an awesome introduction into
what Redcat has to offer I am super-impressed now it just leaves
what's it gonna do out there on the trails I gotta go find a good spot to
show you guys what this could do
you
all right guys time to wrap up this review and talk to you about the
performance on the Redcat gen8 and for testing I took it over to one of my
favorite spots it's called lover's leap in New Milford Connecticut and it's a
spot where I take a number of vehicle so if you're a frequent watcher of the
channel you've probably seen that scenery before it's a super cool place
to crawl lots of dirt routes rocks and just you know really neat stuff to crawl
over so it was a perfect spot to test this and the other reason is is I was
able to kind of compare it to some of the other vehicles that I've driven over
there so let's start off with the steering of this and when I first
started turning the wheel on this I noticed that the steering servo on this
is pretty loud however it's got a lot of torque to it it actually holds the
wheels really well while you're crawling through a lot of the rocks and stuff
what I like to do to test the steering on a stock truck such as this is I like
to kind of jam the wheels into crevices of the rocks and see if you know it
could break the plane of the tire you know break traction of the tire and move
the front of the vehicle and this servo was capable of doing that so you know
when I jammed it in there I cranked the wheel and it just shifted the truck over
so it's got some power to it it's actually got some torque really nice to
see and they ready to run usually the servo will stall out but it did really
well here and it's got a nice tight turning radius you know I was able to
get this truck turned around in a nice tight turn which really helps when
you're just crawling and navigating through rocks and stuff like that and
just out for fun when you're you know ripping around the backyard or something
like that it turns really really well so I was definitely impressed with the
steering of this truck now let's move on to handling and well again this truck
impressed me because it was doing some stuff that other trucks I've tested
there have not been able to do you know I've got pretty much the layout of that
scene there I know what rocks I like to go and crawl up what dirt banks I like
to go and crawl up and stuff like that and you know as far as pulling itself up
and over rocks it did that really well in a number of areas you know it grabs
traction these tires have some great traction to them they were able to pull
the truck up and over it had Tork it had the wheel speed that I
needed in a number of different areas so that ability to crawl in like a scale
type fashion and get up and over what you need is totally there what was
really nice was the clearance of those portal axles I was able to span over
some jagged rock and and just clear it it to get hung up a few times that front
diff cover it does kind of have a you know to sharp edges on the bottom and
that will catch once in a while but you know you're just rock the steering back
and forth it shifts the vehicle over and gets around what you needed to get over
but having that extra clearance there came in handy a number of different
times the truck itself was able to get up over a number of roots and stuff that
I wasn't able to with some other trucks that I've tested but overall the
handling is totally there there is one instance where I was on an angle and I
knew from previous experience driving other vehicles on this the side ledge
that you know it was probably gonna roll over and I had my camera right next to
the truck and I'm like alright just in case this thing does roll got to stick
my camera out so I don't destroy the body just yet well don't you know
testing it and you know what it made it through between the body weight and the
CG of it it didn't actually roll over so you know you could push this thing
pretty far I think you know a lot farther than a few other rigs that are
out there you know with more weight up on the roof so this is a very capable
truck I was really impressed with some of the things it was able to do alright
now let's talk let's talk a little bit about speed again it's actually kind of
slow and you know the torque is there the speed is there when you need it the
wheel speed is there when you need it but you know if you are out walking on a
straight trailer flat trail you know it's probably about just walking pace
but you know where it counts obviously is is the torque and wheel speed you
know when you're crawling stuff and for that you know it definitely has that now
as far as durability guys I really you know I was out there for about total of
three hours and it was a 39 degree day so I was cold but the truck seemed to do
pretty well there's no durability issues to really speak of at this point you
know no slop in any of the links or anything like that but the one thing I
did notice that I that I do want to point out and maybe
you already picked up on this already is this thing is pretty loud
those mod one gears in there it is a pretty loud truck that it's got a loud
steering servo it's got the loud gears and so I just want to kind of throw that
out there that you know be aware of that do you have a truck already it's quiet
this thing is on the opposite end of the spectrum there so it's pretty loud the
other thing I noticed is even though it was cold out the the velcro started to
peel up off of those wheel wells so just something to watch out for you know
maybe you do want to go upgrade to those rare earth magnets later on down the
road but those are really the only two things that you know popped up so far I
mean other than that this is a very cool-looking truck you know I I like the
Thunder flares on it you know it's not completely scale it's getting you know
it's got that 79 tech grille on there and you know the stock fenders were
rolled from the factory but you know they had to put the fender flares on
here because it's got that body mounting system that kind of integrates in it so
that's that's why they did it I give them a pass on it it looks pretty cool I
like the way they look you know the fact that they give you a spare tire for the
back that's also very cool the fact that you could put the thing I kind of like
14 LED lights in two four six eight and another six out back so that's that's 14
I mean that's a lot of light that you could throw on this thing and then if
you go get a light bar as well I mean you could really light this thing up for
dusk but you know overall very cool the you know the side mirrors they did fold
over I did run into a few branches so they are still intact and you know like
dad's had some other trucks where those have completely broken off radio system
works really well overall guys really easy truck to drive
it's a lot of fun and I think wherever you're gonna drive it you're gonna have
a blast with it too red cap really has stepped things up here I am interested
checking out more of the stuff that they have to offer I know they had a number
of new vehicles come out this year 2018 but going forward 2019 I think red cat
is really gonna make a splash in the RC industry if you've been looking at the
red cat gen8 to maybe get into crawling or add another crawler to your
collection I think you should definitely pull the trigger on it this truck is
definitely going to be in the talk of 2019
so I know one question I'm gonna get asked
is what does it look like size-wise in comparison to other vehicles well here
you go guys
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