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Off-road RC Setup Cheatsheet

Everything you need to learn off-road RC racing, on one piece of paper. From roll center to camber gain to axle height, learn what your RC car's settings do, how to set up your car for low or high grip, and how to troubleshoot common setup problems.

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Setup guide

Beginner's Guide to Lipo Batteries for RC

RC Vitals put together a great video in interview format with everything you need to know about LiPos. It's long, but covers a LOT of ground, and is perfect for someone getting into the hobby!

Setup guide

Settings Throttle Rate Control on an ESC

The Drake explains how to set the throttle rate control (aka throttle strength) on your ESC. His example is a Hobbywing 1/.8 speed control, but rate control applies to all modern ESCs at all scales.

Setup guide

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.

Reference

How to Solder Like a Pro

Team Corally shared a detailed explanation of how to create clean, strong solder joints, a core skill a racers need.

Setup guide

When to Add Weight to an RC Car

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.

Setup guide

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!

Build guide

How to Build Shocks for an Off-road RC Car

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.

Setup guide

Shock Angle Setup for RC Cars

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.