There are many reasons that I love my Tamiya XV-01.  My top 2 are the cool, front motor design and that is is based on my real Subaru XV-01 Crosstrek.  A while back I did a complete review on a …

Serving Up Some Action in Snow! Words: Dean Berry You have to give it to Traxxas, when they design a platform they know how to use it and use it well, across a wide variety of vehicles. Take the Slash …

1 Remove pins that secure the front bumper. 2 Remove the stock bumper mount. 3 The chassis brace is not needed so it comes off. 4 The shocks can then be mounted to the new towers. 5 Remove the rear …

Words: David Harrington Photos: David Harrington When Parma released the Fifty-Five Baja, I wasn’t sure what to think of a classic car body for short a course chassis. I did a Google search for a “55 baja” and found pictures …

Not all projects have to require a major overhaul or rebuild to create a dramatically different vehicle than the one you start with. What you are reading about is one such project. My Traxxas Telluride actually saw a lot of action before I started to think about how I could change it.

Okay, we all know suspension is a key component in making our vehicles perform, but it’s probably one of the most overwhelming areas we are confronted with. One specific area is the effect of where the shocks are mounted. For simplicity, we are going to limit this article to vehicles with shocks mounted on the shock tower and a-arms in an “upright” style (pan cars and vehicles with inboard suspension or other unusual configuration are going to be skipped for now).

RRP has steel spur gears for many of the hot cars on the market. Installation is simple but the benefits are great. Here you will see the process for swapping out the plastic spur gear in a Traxxas Revo for a Gen 3 RRP gear and slipper unit. the process begins after removal of the engine and pipe. Refer to your vehicle's manual if you need help with that part.

Everything is a compromise in the world of scale crawlers. It starts with scale vs. performance. Some build their vehicles to be scale to the point where it’s hard to distinguish them from full size vehicles, but the performance is …

Rally cars have always appealed to me, but in the past many RC rally cars have been little more than touring sedans with off-road style tires. Recently, companies such as Traxxas, Losi and Kyosho have released rally cars based off …

We wet your appetite with a Team Durango DESC10 kit unboxing photo gallery a little while back where we showed you how nicely the DESC10 comes packaged with many of its components partially assembled. Well we’ve been busy since then …

We all love racing. It gets your blood flowing and pulse going like a hummingbird. The feeling of pushing the limits is something we crave, but with that comes something we all dread…crashing. The fact is, we all crash. Yep, pros, amateurs, club rats and new racers all crash.

Without a doubt Tamiya has a huge following in the RC world. Tamiya has helped introduce this hobby to so many people over the years and if you ask any RCer to rattle of a few names of popular Tamiya …

Set the Right Height Words: Carl Hyndman Most of us take our ride height for granted. We read the manual, or take the even lazier route and follow someone else’s setup and forget it. We check it now and again …

In today’s kits and RTR’s, you will find two different styles of shocks; emulsion and bladder shocks. Most kits come with one or the other while some will give you both options.

The Axial SCX10 platform comes with a variety of bodies to suit the tastes of trail truck adventurers. But the ability for drivers to customize and make the machines their own doesn’t stop there.