There are two motor shaft sizes used within our hobby; 1/8” and 5mm, with 1/8” being the most common. It really comes down to a strength issue, if your vehicle has massive power and torque and is run in abusive environments...
SC10GT Ready-To-Run – For many people in the RC world, nothing beats a 2-stroke nitro-breathing engine. From the sound, to the smoke, to the brutal power, nitro delivers an experience in an RC truck like nothing else can....
Like’em real big and juicy? The 1/5 scale race scene has been growing every year and the 2012 West Coast Large Scale Nationals (We’ll ignore the oxymoron of being West Coast and National) is set to go down on Novemb...
The Traxxas Hoss 4X4 is here, and Velocity has it first! Pete takes an in-depth look at the “monster truck version of the Rustler 4X4,” which has a bunch of extra tricks up its sleeve besides the new body, wheel, and tire c...
So here we are again. Just you, me and about everybody on the planet online reading about RC Cars again. Over the past year the world has been pretty interesting. We’ve had natural disasters, wars, terrorist’s being...
Since LIPOs came to be the battery soldering hasn’t been such a big deal. No longer do you see 111 soldering irons heating up the local track and wasting electricity. But soldering is still a big part of electric racing a...
One of the more baffling trends is something that never took off. With 1/8-scale electric, and nitro, topping the “cool and trendy” bits of the hobby and Short Course being hugely popular the obvious mixed-breed of ...
Hot Bodies has posted the press release on the D812 with perfect timing; as many of these very cars are qualifying (and rather well) at the 2012 IFMAR World Championships in Argentina. We looked closely at Ty Tessmann’s R...