July 2020

RC Car Action

The Model Motorsports Authority

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Starting Line
This issue is being produced in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. We can only hope that we are now on the downward slope of the curve and everyone and everything will begin to get better soon. Our thoughts are with everyone as we all deal with this
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Editorial Director Jerry Tsai Associate Editor Matt Boyd | mattb@airage.com Features Editor Lauren Short Kevin Hetmanski, James York Production Director David Pandy Art Director Jeff Chen Web Producer Holly Hansen Online News Editor Trevor “Chilly” D
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Gearbox
Pro-Line’s Pro-Spec Scaler Shocks feature CNC machined aluminum shock caps, collars, bodies, bottom caps and hard chrome coated steel shock shafts all made to exacting tolerances. P/N: 6316-02 MSRP: $63 prolineracing.com Looking for a true scale-look
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Monster Energy Cr12
We now have an easy new way to submit your Readers Rides to RC Car Action online. Just go to Rccaraction.com/readers-ride-entry-form/ to fill in your vehicle’s info and upload your pix directly to us! As a bonus, it will generate a shareable link tha
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Trail Honcho Backyard Hero
- Chassis: Axial SCX 10 II - Body: Axial Trail Honcho - Power System: Stock Axial 35T motor and ESC - Battery: Gens Ace 5000mah 7.4V 50C 2S - Wheels and Tires: Proline Hyrax 1.9 tires on silver - Method NV replica wheels - Shocks: Pro-Line Pro Spec 9
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Wu-wagon Sendero
Dave started with a basic Element RC Sendero, but decided he needed to make it more of a crawler. He kept the stock Reedy motor and speed control power system but upgrades include Element high-clearance links and some shock keys he fashioned out of a
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Rc4wd Heavy Chevy
From the outset Jeffery wanted his project to look like a proper ‘80s-era big Chevy truck and he worked on it for a year to bring it about. The fundamentals are RC4WD’s longwheelbase chassis and Chevy K10 cab with a mix of Traxxas and other electroni
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Klean K5
Pedar’s Blazer started out as an Axial Dingo years ago, but almost nothing but the frame rails remain. Power comes from an RC4WD 35T motor controlled by an Axial AE2 and powered by a Turnigy 3S Lipo. He went with SSD axles, rear hubs, and scale trans
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Retro Toyota Trophy Truck
Richard told us very little about his Toyota Trophy Truck, preferring to let photos do the talking for him. Underneath the pretty retro-themed Toyota sits an Element RC Enduro chassis bowered by a Holmes Hobbies 3000kv motors managed by Castle’s Mamb
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NASA Chevy C10
Jade’s truck started its life as an RTR Element RC Enduro Sendero. He always liked the look of vintage pre-runner trucks so he decided to use the Element IFS kit to recreate one. For some extra wheel-speed and acceleration a Reedy 12T 5-slot motor wa
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A Young Enthusiast's Scale Monster
The year was 2009 when, while watching Monster Jam, a young Drue first saw a commercial for Traxxas’ Grave Digger. He bugged his family for it every year at Christmas with no luck. Traxxas and Monster Jam parted ways but when Traxxas released the Sku
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Trail Day Carry
It’s not often that we get to look at the workbench of an RC insider. In this edition of TDC, we examine the workbench of Reef of Reefs RC. Reef is known for his high-powered servos and other scale crawler accessories. As a result of his work, he is
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Purpose Driven
Magnetic Hex Drivers MSRP: $23 reefsrc.com Features: Working with speed and precision can save not only time but your bolt’s heads and wrist too. Coupling these magnetic hex driver wrenchs to a powered screwdriver will get your hardware secured in a
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Trail X Scale Special Issue
Like in the full-scale world, the off road and overlanding craze has taken the RC world by storm as well. Scale builds can be addicting for sure and what’s not to like? There’s plenty to love about scaled-down off road crawlers. You can drive them ju
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All G’d Up
The Traxxas line of TRX-4 trail and scale crawlers have become a mainstay on rugged trails across the world. These high performing ready to run trucks are capable of black diamond runs right out of the box and coupled with their realistic bodies, the
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Ready To Rock
Rock racing can be a tricky business usually involving speed-driven technical crawling obstacles mixed with high-speed dirt bombing all against the countdown of the ever-diminishing clock. This type of racing can be brutal and requires high performan
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Pocket Crawler
The first generation Toyota 4Runner is a truck made of legends. Its uncompromising performance, storied reliability and utilitarian good looks has made it an off road vehicle that is still sought after by enthusiasts and longed for by collectors. Kyo
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Gen3
Axial’s SCX10 series has been at the forefront of the RC crawler movement since even before the genre became a big time thing in the RC world and we’re excited that its highly anticipated third iteration has just hit the trails. Let’s take a look at
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A Solid Foundation
Those who are looking for a solid foundation to base their custom crawler build on can take note of Gmade’s GS02 TA Pro Chassis Kit. The kit is a groundup builder’s kit that allows you to choose all of your own aftermarket parts to help create your c
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Scaled down
What makes the Trail and Scale movement so different from other trends that we have seen come and go in RC? We’d venture to say that it’s the scale part of it that really helps off road RC enthusiasts dig in deep into the hobby. It’s fun to recreate
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Special Project: down The By Lake
When you think Trail and Scale, what type of terrain do you usually think of? For most of us, it will certainly be rocky, mountainous trails with plenty of obstacles to overcome. In a departure from the typical mountain pass, we decided to take a det
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CASTLE CREATIONS MAMBA X & 1406-1900KV SENSORED COMBO
Say the name Castle Creations to any RC person and the first thing that will come to mind is speed. Well, in this case we’re going to slow things down to a crawl (get it?) and review the Castle Mamba X Crawler Edition speed control combo. This combin
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Reef’s Rc Raw 500hd Servo
This Raw 500HD servo from Reef’s RC is a beefy unit that’s perfect for trail trucks and crawlers but it would also be great in a ⅛-scale buggy, monster truck or other similar vehicles. As you can tell by its name, this servo produces 500 oz. in. of t
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Send It
Team Associated is well known for their racing exploits the world over. The domination of their RC vehicles in national as well as international world championships is what the company’s reputation is built on. That said, the company has turned their
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Reef
Spending time behind the wheel of an RC crawler will invariably lead to you wanting to upgrade its performance characteristics, especially in the steering department. When you look up the go to name in crawler specific servos, you’ll find Reefs RC at
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Earth crusher
Every so often a manufacturer will release a kit that comes straight out of left field. You know what we’re talking about; we’re sure you’ve seen them before. Whether its an RC blimp, a remote controlled forklift… or even a trash dumpster, these aren
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One tenth
You’ve seen them online, on Instagram and even in the pages of RCCA. We’re talking about scale garages. If your ride is fully scaled, why not create a scale place to park it? If you are just getting into the scale garage scene, prepare to be blown aw
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3d Printed
You may have noticed our heavy use of 3D printed scale props throughout this issue. As cool as they look, they’re even more fun to play with. If you haven’t jumped into the 3D printing world yet, never fear, your scale accessories are just a click aw

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