MFM Black Widow Chassis with Scorpion Parts

I made the swap over of gear from my ARTR Axial Scorpion to the MFM Black Widow chassis today and I am impressed with the rig so far. It went together very easily and the quality of the chassis is very good.

I took it out to the rocks we used last week for our comp in Milwaukee and ran both courses that I used my somewhat modded ARTR on last week and had a much easier time clearing sections that I had trouble with last week. I know part of the ARTR’s problem was that it was too stiff so when I made the switch I removed the external springs from the Losi shocks and just went with the internal springs. It seems to be working well.

I have the Losi shocks set up with internal springs and the chassis sits at about 2.75 inches but there is about another .75 inches of travel available when a wheel drops.

The wheelbase as currently set up is just over 12.25 inches.

Here is how my rig is currently set up:

• MFM Black Widow Chassis
• Axial transmission
• Axial Comp Universal Joints
• STRS Steering Knuckles
• HR C-Hubs
• JR 8711 bad boy steering servo
• TCS 4 link front and rear
• Losi shocks all around with internal springs and 80 wt oil
• Revo lower links on the Delrin links.
• Proline 8 Shooter wheels
• Losi Rock Claws
• 7-cell NiMh battery
• Integy 60t Lathe Motor
• Novak Goat Crawler ESC
• KO Propo EX-1UR 2.4 GHz Tx & Rx
• JConcepts “Stage Killah” body is on the way! Using the XC-1 for now