RC Differentials understand them in less than 8 minutes

Differentials, after your clutch are what distributes your engines power to the race track through you tires.

 

Above a Xray RC differential, Picture Source redrc.net

We all know in order to setup your RC car your tires are the most important factor.  But I ask you this.  Don’t you want to get all your engines power delivered to the ground efficiently?  Delivering your engines power to the ground is what RC differentials do and when you set they up correctly you will see a great difference in your vehicles handling.

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RC Car Driving and Exceptional Fair play

RC Car Driving at its finest.

Now this is RC racing at its finest.  This is one of my favorite RC driving videos, I don’t even know how many times I’ve watched it.  The driving precision and consistency Marc Rheinard, Barry Baker and Atsushi Hara displayed is such an inspiration to make us all better and faster RC car drivers.  I believe consistency is a key element in decreasing lap times, I mean how far up in the final ranking can you end up if you have the fastest lap of the race and at some point you flip over and have to me marshaled?

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RC car cleaning and basic maintenance

RC car cleaning basics, how to Clean you RC car

RC car cleaning is essential if you RC is spinning out when braking, out of control when accelerating, and if your engine is overheat? Most of the time this happens because the car doesn’t roll freely or some part of your RC car suspension is stuck.

I will show you RC car cleaning basics, how to clean and perform basic maintenance to your RC car to avoid these problems before they occur so you can enjoy your time at the track or just bashing around in the back yard or parking lot.

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