Robinson racing just released their Gen3 Slipper Unit with hardened black steel spur for the Axial Yeti. This kit comes with everything you need to swap out the stock plastic spur and slipper parts. Like Robinson’s other Gen3 units, this …
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When I started painting RC bodies, I just wanted to do a nice flame job. If it was up to me I would just paint every body blue with flames, but it wasn’t long before friends started wanting paint jobs …
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One of the Axial SCX10’s in the RC Driver fleet actually started life as an AX10 before we converted it. While it was an AX10, we upgraded the spur with a Robinson Racing machined nylon gear. Now Robinson offers a …
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Go All-Terrain With Your Trail Truck! It is not often that a completely unique upgrade part comes across our desk that is a drastic departure from the original part it is designed to replace. When I saw the RC4WD Predator …
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So let’s say you’ve just entered the RC car world and you’re ready to start tuning your ride, but you haven’t the first clue on where to start. you’re a backyard warrior, skate park smasher or track loyalist, there are enough tuning options on even the simplest of vehicles to make your head spin.
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Add performance and durability to your truck The Traxxas Slash is arguably one of the most popular radio control vehicles of all time. Being so popular, it has lent itself to countless hop-ups and upgrades with some being more flashy …
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The best time to add the body post holes to your Lexan shell is before it is painted. However, sometimes we might not know what chassis a body will be used on or maybe we will buy a pre-painted body …
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While many engines always have a home in the vehicles that they are used in, a lot of drivers have a spare engine waiting to go, either for racing or as a back-up for a basher vehicle. For those that do, …
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One of the most underrated tuning options on any off-road vehicle is the slipper clutch. This system helps protect the drivetrain from damage due to sudden jolts or excessive loads. The process of setting the slipper clutch to work …
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Carbon fiber is used on many RC cars for all types of things, from chassis to shock towers. The key benefit to carbon fiber is an excellent strength to weight ratio that makes it an ideal material for race …
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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 (or never), and just keep running the …
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The major manufacturers have done us a great service by molding the shock piston hole size on the pistons to help identify them when building (or tuning) our shocks. The problem is, especially for us old guys, that it’s really …
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It may not be a favorite RC task for most of us but we will all need to glue up some new tires at some point in our RC careers. Zap has introduced rubberized CA glue that won’t become brittle …
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Have you ever seen someone on the driver’s stand yell down to their pit guy and tell them to adjust shock collar height? If you are a hardcore racer, you probably noticed it happen. But then you may have …
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Mounting tires is nothing new; mounting them the correct way is a whole different story. While there is, I’m sure, hundreds of different tire mounting articles out there, this subject is always safe to revisit with all the new easy-to-use technology out there to get the job done. I’ve put together a short How To regarding the mounting of 1/10th scale Short Course tires.
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