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6 Ways to Make Your RC Car Faster Now

6 Ways to Make Your RC Car Faster Now

The Hall Bros explain a few ways you can squeeze a little extra speed out of your car without any upgrades or equipment changes!

How to Use a Setup Station with Buggies

How to Use a Setup Station with Buggies

Mayako/Invisible Speed ace Pekko Iivonen walks us through how to use a setup station properly.

RC Off-road Droop Tuning

RC Off-road Droop Tuning

Drake on droop! How to set it properly on your 1/8 off-roader, so you get consistent, meaningful readings you can use to tune your car's handling.

How Anti-roll Bars Affect Handling in RC Cars

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!

When To Replace RC Parts

When To Replace RC Parts

Schumacher's Michal Orlowski explains in this video how to tell when you should replace parts, so you don't end up with the dreaded DNF.

Pillow Ball Suspension Maintenance with XRAY's Ty Tessman

Pillow Ball Suspension Maintenance with XRAY's Ty Tessman

Ty provides a quick explainer on how to know when your pillow ball suspension needs to be cleaned out, and how to do the actual maintenance to ensure the uprights move freely.

Moving the Entire Camber Link on Off-road Cars

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?

How to Make Your Off-road RC Car Handle Bumps

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.

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

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.

X12 '25 Pod Angle Setting

X12 '25 Pod Angle Setting

XRAY's Alex Hagberg explains how to set up your X12 '25's rear pod, and what the anti-squat or pro-squat angles will do to affect your handling.

Rear Toe-in Tuning for Off-Road RC Cars

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.

How to Get More Rear Traction

How to Get More Rear Traction

The Hall Bros provide another excellent explainer video, this time with a focus on increasing rear traction, primarily for 1/10th scale off-roaders. They go through several options and explain how each is useful on different parts of the track.

RC Drift Setup Guide

RC Drift Setup Guide

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!

RC Car Shock Spring Overview with the Hall Bros

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!

What is Kingpin Inclination?

What is Kingpin Inclination?

The Hall Brothers walk us through kingpin inclination (KPI), and how it affects the handling of an RC car. KPI has long been an adjustment available on 1/8 scale off-roaders, but it is now also available on the new Team Associated RC10 B7.

Adam Drake on Ride Height & Camber

Adam Drake on Ride Height & Camber

The Drake explains how to properly set ride height and camber for 1/8 off-road racing, and he explains how they affect your handling.

How to Measure Droop on Off-road RC Cars

How to Measure Droop on Off-road RC Cars

Mayako's David Ronnenfalk demonstrates two different ways of measuring droop on off-road RC race cars, so you can choose which works best for you.

How to Check Chassis Tweak on a Touring Car

How to Check Chassis Tweak on a Touring Car

Infinity's Viktor Wilck demonstrates how to check the tweak on a 1/10 touring car without the use of a tweak station in a few useful, easy-to-follow steps. A great guide for between-race maintenance.

Scrub Radius Tuning for Off-road RC Cars

Scrub Radius Tuning for Off-road RC Cars

JQ gives an in-depth explainer of scrub radius and how it affects your RC car's handling.

Jacking Forces & Roll Center with JQ

Jacking Forces & Roll Center with JQ

The inimitable Joseph Quagraine explains jacking forces, roll center, and what it means to drive "in the track" vs "on the track."

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