This coming week’s 14th annual 1/8 IFMAR Worlds in Argentina stands to be the hottest single week of 1/8 racing for the entire year. Two years ago, Cody King took the championship in Thailand, passing teammate Jared Tebo and holding off the late race charge of defending champ Atsushi Hara to seal King’s first major [...]
If you ask me, there’s nothing better than a shiny new subscription to RC Car Action. I’ve had my own personal subscription since 1992 and I don’t know what I would do if I ever missed an issue. While the old printed magazines are some of my favorite things in my RC collection, the digital [...]
We’ve all had it happen to us; your wife, girlfriend or someone you love calls you with “I got you a present” but when you finally get it, it’s something horrendous! Normally you could just thank Aunt Verna for the “present” and toss it in the bottom of your closet or under your bed; but [...]
Many of us start our paths in RC racing to enjoy a sunny weekend afternoon with our buddies and experience the thrill of competition. Tuning and wrenching, getting your car set up to go faster than ever before in hopes of taking home… well nothing. Yes there’s the bragging rights, possibly a little bit of [...]
Check out this video of a prototype electric powered, yes I said electric Bigfoot monster truck sent to us by the Bigfoot team. The truck was debuted at this year’s SEMA show in Las Vegas through a partnership with Odyssey Batteries who provide Bigfoot 20 with 360 volts and 1400 amps of cranking power from [...]
Check out Axial Racing’s new Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon. The good folks at Axial worked with Jeep, Maxxis, Wilwood, Poison Spyder and other full-size companies to come up with the officially licensed, Jeep JK body that sits atop Axial’s proven SCX10 platform. A few of the hottest features on the Jeep include a Poison Spyder [...]
This is the third and final part of the Schumacher Cougar SVR. In the last part, we covered the final assembly of the transmission and front and rear suspension pieces. The buggy was coming together quicker than I’d expected and I couldn’t wait to get it out on the track. Designed as an along-side version [...]
At last, the long awaited Part 2 of our Schumacher Cougar SVR build. My apologies in the delay but I got a little… ok WAY ahead of myself and build the whole thing. Honestly after Part 1 it started going together so quickly that before I knew it I was closing the manual. In Part [...]
