How To Paint Injection Moulded (Hard Plastic) Bodyshells Although lexan shells are by far the most common in RC cars due to their strength and light weight, there are still plenty of kits around that use injection moulded hard plastic bodies. More...

  How To Accelerate Accurately Race tracks always have plenty of corners to tame, but it is important to ensure your touring car is equally adept at handling the straight bits. The race is about to start. The countdown has begun, the tension is More...

How To Gear It Right Gearing means making a compromise between acceleration, top speed and duration. How do you find the right combination?It is probably fair to say that finding the correct gearing for your radio control touring car requires More...

How To Mount A Fuel Tank A fuel tank on a nitro powered RC car can affect the performance dramatically, which in competition, can easily affect the result. Nearly all of the nitro kits we test at Racer rely on the engine being fed fuel from the More...

How To Look After A Nitro Engine Modern nitro engines are much more reliable and easier to tune compared to those of a decade ago or so but to make them last as long as possible and with maximum performance there are some things you have to take More...

How To Run RC Cars In Winter Bashing around in snow and ice can be a lot of fun if you take care of some important precautions. Unfortunately not every RC Car is designed to run in 'difficult' conditions like ice, snow and a mixture of both. It More...

How To Adjust Ride Height Many drivers spend loads of money for new motors, speedos, cars and other stuff but money alone wouldn’t buy you race victories. You also need to know how to set-up your ride as even the most expensive components and the More...

How To Eliminate On/Off Switches Have you taken a closer look at the 1:8 scale nitro chassis of pro drivers lately? If so you might have noticed that the majority of them uses high current plugs over conventional on/off switches. Why is that? The More...

How To Prevent Radio Glitches Every radio, a £50 Ready-to-run item as well as that £300 high-tech offering has one similarity: a receiver that is hidden somewhere in the chassis. And what's the most important part of every receiver? Its More...

  How To Match Shocks A proper balance between the front and the rear of a car is something we want to achieve every time we are on the track. The traction or site-bite of the suspension is adjustable via the geometry like castor, camber, More...

How To Mount Brushless Systems Affordable brushless motors and electronic speed controls have been around for quite a while now. This makes more and more drivers upgrade from conventional brushed motors to the brush and commutator-less motors. More...

How To Cut Fuel Tank Openings Have you ever tried to refuel a nitro buggy or truck with the body on? Nearly impossible if the body hasn't been cut out in the side window or windscreen to access the fuel tank cap. We show you an easy and accurate More...

How To Use Fuel Tube Silicone fuel line tube is as versatile as fibre reinforced tape. You don't think so? In this How-To feature we show you eight ways to make use of fuel tube. You know of any more? Then send us an email with a short description More...

How To Replace Tamiya-style Connectors Although not powerful enough to handle today’s high performance brushless motors and LiPo batteries you will find the good ol’ white Tamiya-style connectors on almost any ‘sports’ battery pack out More...

How To Belt Truck Tyres Whether you like to bash your truck around a gravel pit or race your off-road buggy or truggy around a race track you may have noticed that under a certain load your car’s or truck’s tyres tend to expand with increasing More...

How To Maintain Brushless Motors Brushless motors are a very cool thing and thanks to the lack of delicate brushed and commutators virtually a fit and forget item. But although brushless motors seem maintenance free in fact they only need LESS More...

How To Adjust Your Radio   So you just bought that brand new Ready-to-Run nitro buggy, had your first go with it and you instantly noticed that something is completely wrong? What ever you do it just won't go straight. And it starts to move More...

How To Paint Bodyshells (Basic) Painting bodyshells is seen by some as a bit of a black art. In reality it is relatively easy although some still manage to screw up just painting a simple kit colour scheme. In this guide we will take a Tamiya More...

Sticking Together Gluing on tyres may sound easy, but plenty of races have been lost by drivers not making sure their tyres were properly attached. So here’s our guide to the best way of ensuring your valuable rubber stays stuck to your More...

Make It Air Tight! Eliminating air leaks is a sure way to reduce the chances of a temperamental engine. Here is our simple, step-by-step guide to sealing a modern 21-size competition unit. We must first of all start by stating that this More...

Keep it Clean Graham Creasey dons his ‘Kim and Aggie gloves’ and gets into what he loves most – cleaning! While RC trucks are notorious dirt gatherers, the cleaning techniques used here could equally be applied to any other type of More...

Engine Torque Jon Dell offers his extensive experience on how he runs in a nitro powered IC model car engine to get the maximum performance and the best longevity. In being asked to write about how to run-in nitro powered IC (internal More...

Clean Up Your Act Air filters are very simple in design but do a very important job. You need to take care of your air filter so follow our guide to filters, cleaning and ensuring you get the best engine performance If you race three times on More...

Easy Starter Six easy steps to getting rid of your mechanical pull-start arrangement and fitting a simple, hassle free, starting system. The Hot Bodies Roto Start concept is one of the best innovations we have seen here at Racer in recent years More...

The Two-Stroke Principle The IC classes in RC have certainly made a big mark in the market place in recent times. The IC actually stands for Internal Combustion but for those that can’t get them set up, Infernal Combustion engine. Here is More...

Body Beautiful Racer runs through the process of cutting out and fitting a bodyshell to your touring car for the best performance and durability. Correctly fitting a bodyshell is very important for your touring car handling and the way it More...

Set Yourself Free Whatever level you compete at, experiencing intermittent radio interference is a sure way to ruin your race day Making a mistake in your fastest qualifying run might be annoying; being bundled off the circuit by a More...