Show Off Your S104 EK1
 

Here is mine before it gets dirty.

One little tip as pictured below, if you cut a small gap into the ESC shelf it gives you a little channel to run the power cap wires and sensor lead.

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When I saw the per production car it was full of carbon and looked the business ! The released car looks a bit cheap and plasticky IMO. No doubt it still goes well though.

the carbon top decks are available as option,

might be plasticy but then so are Durango, Losi, even yokomo has plastic top decks. The difference is its 8th plastic, not the brittle rubbish everyone else uses for 10th.

It is also a scaled down 8th car effectively so is going to have different flex characteristics to a more conventional 10th.

Presumably it will take saddle lipo's as well?

yes, it takes both saddles and shorties. With the saddles you get a near 50% front/rear weight ratio, with plenty of space left in the back to add some more weight if needed. Talking about weight, it's kinda heavy, it puts more than 1800grams on the scales, that is ready to race of course.

I have spend an afternoon with it on a dirt track, I must say, it has potential.

Yep runs both saddle or shorty.

Please pay attention whilst inserting the diffs in the gearbox, the manual is not correct, just visit the Sworkz FB page for the corrected version.

Darn it how do you embed youtube clips??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...Lbr5_PI4Y#t=63

Now thats one ugly looking body shell.
At least you will not mistake it for another buggy:woot:

Looks good going around there.
Any astro videos?

Prototype bury
 

I saw the prototype run at bury in the north west reg it was untouchable

Driven by?

Stuart mahon

my new build
 

easy to build really nice bit of kit

Looks like it has the bling factor,how was the build? When are you going to give its first run?

I've seen the buggy go myself i was pitting next to stu at bury when he ran it. I've just built a brandnew 410 v3 and to compare the to is easy the sworkz is that easy to build my little girl could do it you get 2 bodyshells and stick and saddle set up with the kit, when you are building for example the front end everything you need from a screw to shock tower is i the same bag you don't have look around for the bits which saves loads of time.. The only thing i would say after seeing it run that well and seeing his sent up running stick shorty isn't the way as stu ran with abit of weight on rear so i have already used some spares i have and making it myself.. Iam hoping get the elecs in it when speedo comes and then run it indoors Tuesday night i think... Getting used to all the adjustment you can make wont be easy at 1st as you even can adjust the travel on the wishbones it's just a really well put together bit of kit in my view and building it was a joy just over 3 half hours with coffee breaks upto now

Anyone know where there's a link to the manual for this car yet? I havent found one and wouldnt mind having a look at it.

not seen an online version yet. just look at the s350 manual, its pretty much the same LOL

I tried it today for the free practice of our last national round, the track was a very rough, bumpy clay track with medium grip and I must say...wow what a car, tough, stable, very planted, tons of steer. Very impressed and easily as fast, if not faster than anything else out there...so far I like it ... a lot!

There only on there 1st batch at min there was only 15 bought into uk so would thought prob be next few months i really do think they going to be the in 4wd car this year if you can get one that is

I saw one in action this weekend on clay. It looked awesome! :thumbsup: Really smooth, the front end really seemed to work more and respond quite differently from the other 4WDs.

Yes, the car works very smoothly, even the transmission doesn't sound loud at all. More info to come, meanwhile some pics attached. I used Kyosho shocks, because I didn't have enough time to work on the standard shocks/pistons as I received the car only a couple of days ago. However the standard shocks will do their work very well, once set up correctly.

Motor and gearing
 

What motor and gearing were you running???

Tekin Gen2 6.5 with a 22T pinion, coupled to a HW v3.1 esc

Today I ran the car for the first time on a high grip astro track.
It was a regional race with 2 of the National top 3 drivers present. I TQ'ed and won all 3 A-main finals. Car performed flawless all weekend... After the race 3 other drivers drove the car and they were all impressed by the handling: pretty sharp and really planted. it's a whole lot of car for the money!

what setup were you running in the end?

I am playing around alot with roll centres at the moment

I haven't unlocked the the car's full potential yet, but the car was easy to drive and very, very consistent. It gives a lot of confidence.
The setup attached was okay, but not yet the golden ticket. The dampening in the front was still too soft. I am now working on the kit shocks again. I have already cut the bladders as I personally prefer emulsion type shocks over bladder ones. The shocks used in this setup were Kyosho small bores with big bore springs(I used to drive this combo on my Lazer with great succes).

At first I thought the weight of the car(1820gr ready to race) would be a handicap on astro, but to be honest, it drove so nimble I hardly noticed, even with a 6.5 motor. Up till now I have only driven it with saddles. I might try a shorty as well as this will shave of some weight (about 30-50grams).

To be continued.

BTW: the more you drive it, the more you like it, really!

I have some concerns about the slipper pads. It looks to me they are pretty rough. Do you use them as they are, do you make them smoother or do you change them for alternative supplier parts ?

I just ordered Orange BB springs from Kyosho as well, hope they will better fit than the out-of-box one.

10K/7K looks to be a nice option for the diff as the car has tons of steering.

Any opinion about making this car less responsive (or more secure) on an astro track is welcome.
I do believe his car has a great potentiel. I would love being a better driver to take advantage of its agressive behavior.

The stock springs fit of course, however a 1mm larger inner diameter would have been better. They can rub on the threaded shock bodies yes.
The Kyosho BB springs don't fit nice accross the alu spring load collar. The diameter of the spring is just a little too big. It's the same effect if you want to run BB springs on smaller bore shocks. I took some old, big washers and drilled the inside out until I had a perfect fit. If you watch very closely you can see it in the pictures in the post above.

There is no problem with the stock slipper pads however. They work just fine!

I've been building this thing up and tried to make something nice

my bodie is not exactly what i wanted but it will do for now

springs
 

Losi BB springs are a much better fit than the Kyosho ones, and they are cheaper as well. You can even use them without the need for an adapter on the spring collar.

Cut some rows on your tires. If you are using MiniSpikes you can do the following:
front tires: cut 1 inner row and 2 outer rows
rear tires: cut 1 inner row and 1,5 outer row(or 2 rows if you are on Mega Grip.
You could also make use of the swaybars or eventually try some negative expo on your steering servo.

cool decals! where did you get them?

how's everyone finding the shocks ????? I've herd that you need to leave a spacer out...:confused: any tips....

Don't know about that, I have build them as per the manual and they work fine. I however have cut the bladders.

All finshed
 

Well heres mine all finished and ready for the weekend Paint work by jon miller thanks very much jon

john miller (rcs)

Spacer in or out, you may find the orings too tight.

Solution is to use the yokomi high grade blue orings. No need to remove the space then and super smooth

my first s-workz paint job,,,,,:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

slipper pads and shockers
 

the slipper with the pads as per kit new just doesn't slip which is a issue a chadderton indoors with front grip and power I also found the shockers very poor and have replaced them with team associated big bores I have also sanded the slipper pads down alittle which I hope will make a diff