Missed out on another RC event? Don't worry RCCars.com has you covered. With their coverage of the recent 2009 Hobbyrama. They took heaps of video and pics of RC and full size cars. To feed your need for RC.
Enjoy!
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Driving on-road cars can be boring and easy. In my opinion. Sure they are usually faster than the off-road cousins. But you still can't bash them like you can an off-road one.
But one thing that takes some skill is drifting a RC car. With movies like To Fast to Furious and the like bringing a underground form of racing to the masses. It wasn't long before RC car drifting also came to the masses and become a serious form of RC fun.
Here's a video showing behind the doors of RC car company, Team Associated. Plus you also get a glimpse of their very own top secret Area 51!
Big or small male or female everyone loved Knight Rider. If it was the Hoff man himself that attracted you to the show or that fully sick car that did it. You either wanted be like the Hoff man or have that car.
Well, now you can. The RC equivalent that is. It has all the bells and whistles like the real Knight Rider. The only downside to this perfectly scaled RC car is you can't get in it.
Check out this modified one!!!
Want the latest news,pics and video for the 2009 ROAR fuel Nationals? Look no farther than RCCarAction.
Check this out!
A steam powered RC robot that feeds on plants and dead people. (pretty much anything organic). To fuel it's need for speed. Talk about mixing up technology.
In times like this. The first things to go, is the stuff you spend you disposable income on. Like RC cars.
I have come up with a list of money saving ways, to hopefully keep your RC car on the road.
Please add to the list any other tips or tricks you may have.
- Switch from 33% nitro to 22%. - it's cheaper and the loss in performance is minor. ( or buy a HPI Baja 5B SS, they use regular unleaded mixed with 2 stroke oil. Also your lawn mower uses the same mix. So you save even more )
- Use rechargeable batteries - bite the bullet and get yourself a descent set of batteries and charger.
- Go brushless - brushless motors should last forever ( in theory ) Which means no more replacing brushes.
- Get a Lipo balancer - you should always charge Lipos with a balancer for safety sake and keeps them in top condition.
- Use harder compound tyres - if you are the casual basher, you won't even notice the difference.
- Use servo savers - servos can be very expensive.
- Don't skip on quality - you get what you pay for, so if that expensive cover protects your performance exhaust from rollovers. It's worth the extra buck.
- Be brand loyal - nine times outta ten the manufactures use the same parts between buggy's and truggy's. Like suspension towers. Check out who's who in the industry.
- Buy the popular RC cars at your local hobby shop - this means you have a better chance they will stock spares and know what they are talking about.
- Most important one is Maintenance - cleaning,oiling and doing a once over every know and then will help stop a chain reaction in spare parts. For example, your wheel hub cracked, you didn't notice. Two minutes into the next bash session, bang. The wheel hub split open. Expensive bearings lost and bent turnbuckle is the result. Time and big dollars down the drain. Good maintenance equals good performance and less head and heart ache!
Hope these money saving tips helped, let us know if you have anymore. Happy bashing!
I think I may have a possible addiction towards RC. Like these guy's. Not any RC, but HPI Baja 5B RC cars.
You wouldn't believe it, but I got other RC car off eBay. A local pick-up this time, which meant instant bashing!! That's it on the right! Still looking clean, but not for long....
My brother really enjoyed the first Baja I got. So he brought that one off me. Which resulted in me getting a HPI Baja 5B SS!!! The SS at the end, really means bigger motor. A 26cc compared to the 5B's little 23cc. Doesn't sound much in capacity but man, it sure sounds and go's faster than my brother's 5B and that's all that counts!!!!
Will get some video up soon......
I have just come back from my first bash session with my eBay special, HPI Baja 5B RC car. All I can say is......fully sick,dude.
First off, it is quite intimidating at first. Big car and big speed coming at you fast, makes you hope you don't get a glitch and take your legs off with it.
What I like even better about this RC car is there are no batteries to charge ( besides the one that powers the servos and stuff ). That means 40 plus minutes of run time. It lasts forever, and that can result in getting a bit bored.... But that what inspires you to come up with ramps and put the natural environment to good use. It's amazing what a good shovel will do!
Stay tuned for my next bashing session!!!
I have just received the long awaited package from the postman. Containing my HPI Baja 5B RC car. That I won off ebay.
So...first impressions. This thing is big,heavy and tough looking with all those aluminum parts showing themselves under the body. The previous owner seemed to have done a fair amount of bashing with it. Let's just say it has plenty of "character markings" in all the usual places.
I got my RC car late in the day so I could not take it for a burn. But I did manage to start it up after a couple of pulls. Sounds fully sick, especially with the massive after market exhaust strapped to it.
So know I just gotta charge up the receiver battery that powers the servos. Mix some fuel. Then it's time for a serious bashing session!
My new RC car, the fully sick HPI Baja 5B is not really brand new. I won it on eBay and I should have it by next week sometime. According to the eBay listing it has a race ported 23cc and a jetpro exhaust. I just hope it hasn't been bashed too hard, because I want to do the hardcore bashing to it.
These things are fully sick and have a huge devout following that take this 1/5 scale RC car seriously and to other level in customization and performance. It seems you need/have too, take out a second mortgage to put on the nice shiny aluminum parts and race ported engines just to be a true hardcore Baja basher.
First thing I am going to do though, is get a pair of sand paddle tires so I can rip up my local beach and sand dunes then a nice chrome exhaust, then a ..... and a ...... The Baja bug has bitten me already!!! Need to refinance my house!!!
Can't wait for mine!!!
Want to get into really big RC cars? Not those little 1/10 scale or those micro 1/18 scale but 1/5 scale. That probably have more torque and speed (and probably more street cred) than GM's new Volt.
Well this guy, squirrelod has started a video series on how to tune your motor, costs involved, upgrades and general tips and advice to get into the world of big RC cars. Enjoy!
In the world of RC rock crawling, its all about torque,maneuverability and a steady hand. Its not about speed or nice paint jobs. Its about crawling over some of the toughest terrain known to a RC'er.
RC rock crawling is a very new area in a very popular market of RC. RC rock crawling only used to be open to the enthusiast that could custom make their rig using the axles from a Tamiya Clod Buster, then find the biggest suspension coils and then build a tubular frame around that.
But know thanks to the growing popularity of RC rock crawling, heaps of the big name RC car manufacturers have come up with some pretty good setups straight out of the box. Some big, such as this Ready To Run crawler
Some small, such as this one and this one. No matter what you budget or experience in RC cars. RC rock crawling is both affordable and drivable. Remember, its all about torque, no bull.
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