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Everything you need to learn off-road RC racing, on one piece of paper. From roll center to camber gain to axle height, learn what your RC car's settings do, how to set up your car for low or high grip, and how to troubleshoot common setup problems.

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What is "Diffing Out" on RC cars?

The Hall Brothers break down "diffing out" - what it is, and how to fix it!

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RC Shock Rebound and Compression Tuning

The Hall Bros are back, this time explaining how to tune your shock damping both in compression and rebound, a must-watch for racers who want to be ready for any and all track conditions!

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Beginner's Guide to Lipo Batteries for RC

RC Vitals put together a great video in interview format with everything you need to know about LiPos. It's long, but covers a LOT of ground, and is perfect for someone getting into the hobby!

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How Anti-roll Bars Affect Handling in RC Cars

The Hall Brothers are back with a deep dive on anti-roll bars and how they help the handling of off-road RC cars. As usual, a must-watch from them!

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Moving the Entire Camber Link on Off-road Cars

The Hall Bros explore a topic rarely covered - what happens when you move the entire camber link (inside and outside positions) either up or down, or inside-outside? How does the handling change?

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Settings Throttle Rate Control on an ESC

The Drake explains how to set the throttle rate control (aka throttle strength) on your ESC. His example is a Hobbywing 1/.8 speed control, but rate control applies to all modern ESCs at all scales.

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Tuning with Anti-Squat for 1/8 Off-road Racing

The Drake continues his great series of setup tips with this explainer of anti-squat, and how to use it to tune off-road RC vehicles.

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How to Solder Like a Pro

Team Corally shared a detailed explanation of how to create clean, strong solder joints, a core skill a racers need.

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Rear Toe-in Tuning for Off-Road RC Cars

Rear toe is a critical tuning tool to help lock in the rear end of your off-roader. Continuing his excellent series of setup tips, the Drake walks us through his approach to tuning with rear toe.

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How to Make Your Off-road RC Car Handle Bumps

Yet another great explainer from the Hall Bros, this time with 10 great tips on how to improve your car's setup so it'll handle bumps better.

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When to Add Weight to an RC Car

The Hall Bros give a great explainer about adding weight to an RC car. Learn why you might want to add weight and how the placement of the weight and the front-rear weight balance will affect the handling of the car.

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RC Car Shock Spring Overview with the Hall Bros

You gotta love RC pros who are happy to share their knowledge. The Hall Bros are back with their latest great explainer vid, this one called "Literally Everything I Know About Springs," and since almost all RC rely on spring-based dampers, it's useful for almost all types of racing!