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All About Rc Cars

What are RC cars?
They are only a small version of real cars. These remote controlled or radio controlled masterpieces are a huge example of the gaming world. Whether you are an adult or a small kid, this hobby can literally fascinate your enthusiasm and excitement by bringing it to use. Normally, the remote controlled cars are operated through a remote which controls all the actions. While the radio controlled cars are a new invention. These cars are wireless and work through radio frequencies.

What are the types of RC cars?
There are basically two types of RC cars Electric and Nitro powered. Electric RC cars are perfect for beginners and children. They are comparatively easier to learn and handle. Nitro powered consists of higher speed and are have more powerful engines. As you become habitual, you can buy this version. The other factor about types of RC cars also consists of on road and off road cars. The on road cars work well on the roads, but cannot be worked on soil, grass or hills. For that purpose, you will have to buy off road RC cars.

Who can develop this as a hobby?
Literally anyone, Age is no limit. RC cars are good at influencing the kid inside you. This hobby is very useful as it will keep you active and passionate. It is easy to learn and fun to explore.

Is it expensive?
Well, not actually. If you are a beginner, it is certainly not. You can start with the electric RC cars as they are not expensive and any damage to it wouldnt hurt you too. However, if you go for nitro powered or custom made RC cars, it definitely is expensive. Due to higher powered engines and structure, the prices become more. But, with high prices, comes better and advanced designs as these RC cars are huge in size too.

How to select the best RC car for you?
Its easy. Do not get carried away with the structure or looks as, later you have to deal with its functions. So, concentrate on that while purchasing and RC car. They are available in huge number of designs. Buy the one that perfectly fulfills your purpose. If you do not want to invest a lot of money, you can simply buy the electric versions to begin with.

What is the difference between RC cars and real cars?
The new advancements in technology used for the production and designing of RC cars is commendable. You can run your RC car on the road, grass, hillside or anywhere else. There are few models which can literally perform stunts and can easily move forward, backward, or round. So practically, the only difference between real cars and RC cars is the size for that matter.

Remote Control Car Setup Tips

Setting up a remote control car is as much a science as it is an art, the physics behind rc cars is exactly the same as the physics that governs real cars, if you know how setup changes in a race car work, you already know how to setup a remote control car.

The problem that most people have with setting up RC cars is that when you make a change in one area it always has a knock-on effect on the rest of your settings, setups are very much a balancing act

To start with I’ll concentrate on the basics of handling, over steer and under steer. The physics behind this is pretty simple, if you turn into a corner the center of gravity will move in what ever direction you were initially travelling. Your tires via friction push back with (hopefully) an equal amount of force. When your wheels lose traction and start to slide the energy that was being turned into heat in your tires gets released as inertial energy in the original direction of travel. With cars, both back and front don’t break traction equally, this creates either under steer or over steer, which is how we describe the experience the driver has under these conditions.

Under steer

Under steer is when the front of the car loses traction while the rear of the car still has grip on the tar, the effect is that the nose of the car drifts away from the direction you are turning, turning harder makes it worse, the only thing you can really do is back off the throttle and bleed off speed.

Over Steer

Over steer is the opposite of under steer, and in most cases it’s best to have a little of this. The front of the car keeps traction while the rear lets go. One of the key benefits is that you can typically corner much faster in a car that has some over steer

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

You may be wondering why one setting makes two changes, this is because it’s all about balance, you could for example setup your rc car by only every changing the rear stiffness, but you would find that when you got the perfect amount of over steer under braking the car would then be uncontrollable during the exit of the corner. It’s all about balance,

Another thing to keep in mind is that when you change the shocks you also change the roll of the car, this the the chassis of the car moving with the inertia, in effect pushing the front tires into the road during breaking and the rear during acceleration. If your shocks are too soft then the transfer might dig your front wheels in and lift the rear enough to make you car spin out, or lose steering under throttle, you have to find the right balance

More to come…