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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.
Adam Drake, master of dirt nitro, explains how to use your pipe and manifold to get the most out of your nitro engine.
Learn how all of the settings on your RC drift car affect its understeer or oversteer. This was floating around the Internet without attribution - if you know who created it, please let us know so we can credit them appropriately!
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!
The Drake provides another great build video, this time explaining in detail how to build a set of shocks the right way for off-road use, either 1/10 or 1/8 scale.
Boomslang Suspension provides this fantastic explainer of how the angle of your shocks affects the actual damping characteristics they provide. If you really want to understand shock angles, this one is a must-watch.
The Hall Bros give a great overview of how to think about shock tuning for 1/10 off-road cars, covering oil, springs, and pistons, and paying particular attention to the balance between low-speed and high-speed damper setup.
The Hall Bros continue their excellent series of explainers with this video covering all the details of 1/10 off-road cars. From diffs and o-rings to bearings and shocks, they pretty much cover all the bits you need to keep fresh, clean, and working properly. They focus on their car, the Associated RC10 B7, but the information applies to any 1/10 off-roader.
Associated Pro driver Spencer Rivkin shares his deep knowledge of the B7 platform in this 6-part series as he builds an entire car.
XRAY and Anthony Atack provide this great overview guide to setting up on-road RC touring cars. It's a little old, but the setup info is just as relevant now.