The Build – Part 7 We’re now on to the suspension links of the Vaterra Ascender. This part is a bit tricky so pay CLOSE attention to both the manual and my notes. Some of the steps in the early …
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The Build – Part 6 We’ll be working on the shocks in Part 6 of our Vaterra Ascender build. First thing we’ll do is assemble the shafts. Small e-clip, piston, small e-clip. Easy peasy. Slide the 2 red o-rings into …
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The Build – Part 5 The electronics install is next; servo in the front, ESC/receiver in the rear. We’ll also install the floating battery tray in this step to help gauge how long our battery wires need to be. Before …
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From September 18 – 27 the 1/8 off road nitro IFMAR World Championships took place over in beautiful Italy. One of the favorites going into the event, Ty Tessmann who wheels a HB D812, took home his first (probably of …
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The Build – Part 4 The chassis is the next step in the Vaterra Ascender build. It’s a bit more tricky than a standard scale truck chassis so a little more care needs to be taken when building. The first …
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The Build – Part 3 The rear axle is very similar to the front. We’ll just give a brief overview of the build. Build the rear center driveshaft like you did the front. Don’t forget to add a little bit …
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The Build – Part 2 Part 2 of our Vaterra K5 build has us assembling the front axle. The first step is the center driveshaft. Since you’ve already assembled shafts in Part 1 of this build we won’t go into …
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A few weekends ago, during open practice on a Sunday race, everything came to an alarming halt. Engines shut down, cars stopped on the track, the pits fell silent and a crowd of shocked and concerned drivers made their way …
Read More » Building the Transmission In the first part of our build we’re going to focus on the Ascender’s transmission. We start off the build with a basic overview of the bag layouts that Vaterra has put in place. I found this …
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We need your help to test all of these Duratrax 1/8 Off-Road Buggy Tires. Duratrax offers a wide range of tires and compounds great for all types of buggy use. Go over to duratrax.com and find your favorite style of …
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It’s about time! Those big, beautiful, beefy Chevys from the mid 1950’s have always been and will always be some of the coolest “hot rods” to ever cruise the malt shoppe on a Friday night. It is high time someone immortalized these amazing muscle machines in Lexan…. even if they can’t call it a Chevy.
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In RC Short Course Driver Volume 2, I had the opportunity to compare a stock Traxxas Slash against a fully-modified, race-prepped Slash. As you would expect, while the stock Slash put down some pretty good laps, the modified version was quite a bit faster around our test track.
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The HPI Racing Super 5SC Flux is big, it’s fast, it’s a ton of fun to drive, and it’s unfortunate that HPI decided to put this kit into the discontinued folder, but many owners are still having fun with …
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It’s happened to all of us at least once in our RC careers; you pull your ESC (or servo, or transponder or whatever) from the chassis and BAM…the tape rips or shreds and leaves some ghastly remnants behind. Sure, there …
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