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To many racers, tuning your vehicle can often feel overwhelming. The suspension components consist of many parts and often have a wide range of duties that react differently as the car goes through acceleration, braking, coasting and rolling in and out of turns.

1 Remove pins that secure the front bumper. 2 Remove the stock bumper mount. 3 The chassis brace is not needed so it comes off. 4 The shocks can then be mounted to the new towers. 5 Remove the rear …

Words: David Harrington Photos: David Harrington When Parma released the Fifty-Five Baja, I wasn’t sure what to think of a classic car body for short a course chassis. I did a Google search for a “55 baja” and found pictures …

Okay, we all know suspension is a key component in making our vehicles perform, but it’s probably one of the most overwhelming areas we are confronted with. One specific area is the effect of where the shocks are mounted. For simplicity, we are going to limit this article to vehicles with shocks mounted on the shock tower and a-arms in an “upright” style (pan cars and vehicles with inboard suspension or other unusual configuration are going to be skipped for now).

RRP has steel spur gears for many of the hot cars on the market. Installation is simple but the benefits are great. Here you will see the process for swapping out the plastic spur gear in a Traxxas Revo for a Gen 3 RRP gear and slipper unit. the process begins after removal of the engine and pipe. Refer to your vehicle's manual if you need help with that part.

Everything is a compromise in the world of scale crawlers. It starts with scale vs. performance. Some build their vehicles to be scale to the point where it’s hard to distinguish them from full size vehicles, but the performance is …

Rally cars have always appealed to me, but in the past many RC rally cars have been little more than touring sedans with off-road style tires. Recently, companies such as Traxxas, Losi and Kyosho have released rally cars based off …

We all love racing. It gets your blood flowing and pulse going like a hummingbird. The feeling of pushing the limits is something we crave, but with that comes something we all dread…crashing. The fact is, we all crash. Yep, pros, amateurs, club rats and new racers all crash.

Set the Right Height Words: Carl Hyndman Most of us take our ride height for granted. We read the manual, or take the even lazier route and follow someone else’s setup and forget it. We check it now and again …

In today’s kits and RTR’s, you will find two different styles of shocks; emulsion and bladder shocks. Most kits come with one or the other while some will give you both options.

The Axial SCX10 platform comes with a variety of bodies to suit the tastes of trail truck adventurers. But the ability for drivers to customize and make the machines their own doesn’t stop there.

Sometimes the simplest looking parts can be difficult to install correctly. Take for example the aluminum servo horn shown above. For many off-roaders, upgrading to an aluminum servo horn is mandatory, but if installed incorrectly you may find yourself back …

As we finished up our Project Jallopy build (you did follow it right?) it was time to lay down some paint on the Parma Fifty Five Baja Body we selected for the machine. The question in our minds was how …

The Traxxas Slash 4×4 and Stampede 4×4 are popular off-road machines to customize. Many opt to installed more powerful brushless systems with big power LiPo batteries to extend the fun factor, but this can also play havoc to drive-lines. To …

Robinson Racing has a large offering of pinion gears, spur and slipper options for many of today’s popular vehicles. One popular gear upgrade is for the Stampede/ Slash 4×4 spur with slipper unit. The stock Traxxas gear is plastic so …