rc car setup

Exclusive summary about Remote Control Car Setup Tips by Gregory Alexander

Setting up a remote control car is as much a science as it is an art. If you know how rc car setup changes in a race car work, you already know how to setup a remote control car.

Over steer / under steer Tuning tips

There are a lot of ways to tune the handling or your radio controlled car, the easiest is to adjust the front and rear shocks. While there are a lot of options with springs, different oils and all sorts we are just going to concentrate on the basics, most decent shocks have adjustments, either with spacers or bolts that let you adjust how hard or soft the shocks are.

As far as maximum and minimum stiffness goes, make sure that the bottom of your car doesn’t scrape the ground, and on the other end make sure it doesn’t bounce and leave the asphalt, apart from that you need to find the setup that matches your driving style, most people get winning setups off the internet and try to learn to drive them, mind you this is a great starting point, and most championship winners post their setup sheets.

Shock Stiffness guide

Stiffen in front = increasing under steer or reducing over steer
Stiffen in rear = increasing over steer or reducing under steer

Building the Fastest Remote Controlled Car – Some Amazing Tips

Exclusive summary about Building Fastest RC Car by Abhishek Agarwal

There are various qualities of the components that are available for building a remote controlled car. Hobby stores provide simple components that can be used to build a simple car. However, if you want to build the most amazing or the fastest remote controlled car, you may need to spend some money on quality car components. Nitro methane is an alternative fuel to gasoline and works well for remote controlled cars. A nitro engine is a good choice for fast engine speeds.

The other components of a car are also important for the performance of a remote controlled car, especially when you aim for absolute speed. The wheels for a remote controlled car should be extremely light, yet firm. A single part that does not perform well will affect the overall performance and speed of the remote controlled car. Select the best parts to get the best performance from your remote controlled car.

Drifting RC Cars

Exclusive summary about Drifting RC Cars by Gregory Alexander and Samuel K

I assume that you have got your RC car setup to drift, if not check out the website at the end for modifying your RC car to drift.

RC Drifting and drifting in general follows the same line as if you were racing, at least one set of tires follows this line. On the exit you would let your rear sliding towards the opposite side, possibly setting up your next drift.

Okay so we are in mid drift and clip the apex while holding a huge angle, we exit the right turn, turn slightly to the right and floor it to keep the drift going, over rotating slightly to induce a good angle on the exit.

About 2-3 car lengths before the next corner back off the throttle ( now the weight transfers to the front, pushing the front tires into the asphalt and lifting the rear slightly, this give good grip on the front and makes the rear slide like mad ) Turn to the left, the rear will respond by swinging around, as it’s doing this turn into the drift and give throttle. Hold the drift, adjusting it with throttle and steering until the next corner.

Rc Cars Drifting Techniques

Basic Drifting Techniques
Here is a list of basic car drifting techniques widely used by drivers world wide.

Power Over
In this type of rc cars drifting full throttle is used to produce over steering of significant magnitude through the turn.

Faint Drift
In this type first you need to steer the car outwards of the track. Then suddenly turn the head of the car in inward direction by using steering traction.

Swaying Drift
In this style you replicate faint drift in short slow bursts where in the back or rear of the car keeps oscillating about the longitudinal direction giving a swaying view of the car rear.

Kansei Drift
This happens at high racing speeds. When you are approaching corners at high speed for a moment reduce supply of gas. This will cause a little over steering in the car. Balance this by adjusting the steering and gas.

Jump Drift
This is caused by allowing one of the tires to loose contact with the track. Here the inside tire at the rear end bounces to loose contact with the track and in the process generates over steer.

Long Side Drift
In this kind of drifting reverse and steering is used to put the car side ways. The car enters into the turn in this position.

Hope you enjoyed this article on rc cars drifting. Now get out of your chair and start practising these techniques.