Jonathan Maynard's Tips:
1.Use a body clip on some gear covers if you want fast and easy gear maintenance.
2.If you want to pop some great wheelies put your electronics in the back. But also make sure your E.S.C is getting enough air.
3.If your body scraps the ground when you pop a wheely try putting some tape on the body where it scraps.
4. If you have any left over antenna wire try using heat shrink tubing to hold it neatly to your antenna tube.
5.Always run your gas engine rich or you may overheat it.
6.Always run your slipper clutch very loose so you won't strip any gears.
7.If you run your car or truck in the mud or snow put you batteries and receiver in a balloon.
8.If you run your gas truck in the snow change air filter after every tank of gas so no melted snow will get into the engine.
9.Let your nitro car or truck cool down between each run.
10.Be resourceful, and be creative. You can try to fix a part if you can't replace it. I use tacky glue, Elmer's glue, super glue, wood glue, hot glue, electrical tape, duck tape and just about anything I can find.
11.If you get duratrax batteries with shotgun tubes and your batteries get hot cut some of it away also cut some of the shrink wrap off too.
12. To make your electric car/truck faster turn you end bell on your motor to about 15 degrees. Anymore will greatly decrease your runtimes. This is very easy to do if you have timing marks on your can. If you don't know what your doing E-mail me because if you mess up and go the wrong way you could never find were it was before so you could have short runtimes and decreased speed all at the same time. Make a mark on both the end bell and can with a marker to know how to get it back how it was so if there is no performance increase you can put it back where it was. Here is some pictures below to help you. Look closely and look at the arrows and lines I made.
13. If you don't have any body clips or don't want to spend money on them, Make your own out of a paper clip. Just bend it a little and cut the access wire. Just enough to hold the clip on your car.
PERFORMANCE UPGRADES
1. If you can get ball bearings get them, they are a low cost upgrade that will greatly reduce friction..
2.Get a tuned pipe for your nitro engine so it can breath well and if you don't like the noise there are special pipes to keep the noise down.
3.Get a fuel filter for any off-road gas truck so no dirt gets in the engine.
4.A lower turn motor in your electric car will greatly increase speed but be careful because it also reduces run times.
5.Get a peak charger so you will not over charge your batteries.
6.If you don't have an E.S.C {Electronic Speed Control} for your electric car get one because it increases run time,power and speed.
7.Get some high quality 2000mah or higher batteries.
8.To get better steering get a better servo. Some thing with 70 oz. of torque or more and also make sure it will work in your car/truck because there are different servos with different applications.
THERE ARE MANY MORE BUT THESE ARE THE BASIC UPGRADES TO GET IF YOU WANT SPEED AND PERFORMANCE.
NOW THIS IS A TUNED PIPE STAY HERE!!!
If you do not have foam inserts then drill a hole in the wheel like this, even
if you do have foam inserts its still a good idea.
Use a Temp. Gun To measure the temp of your Nitro Engine. You never want to overheat your engine. This is a good one with a laser:
Ryan's Tips:
Have you ever tried to balance a screw on the end of a driver, so you could install it in a spot on your car that's inaccessible to your fingers? Everybody has--and everybody drops the screw on the first 10 attempts! You can make the job a lot easier if you slip a piece of fuel tubing over the driver and jam the screw into the tubing. Now you can hold the driver and the car at a convenient angle, and the screw won't fall into the wasteland underneath your bench.
Other's Tips
- AT SEARS THEY SELL A MAGNETIC STAINLESS STEAL BOWL WHICH IS GREAT FOR KEEPING YOUR METAL PARTS FROM GETTING LOST. ($9.95) BUT, YOU CAN LAY YOUR SCREW DRIVER ON THE EDGE AND IT WILL BECOME MAGNETIZED SO YOU CAN HOLD A SCREW WITHOUT LOSING IT.
__________________________________
- balloons over battery pack and reciever
- secure batterys w/ zipp ties
- foam pad under reciever
__________________________________
Please E-mail us with any tips, tricks or advice that you may have
because we are always wanting them. Don't worry, we will give you credit.
