RC Cheat Sheets
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Now you can quickly understand how to adjust your RC car, buggy, or truck settings for optimum tuning!
Within a range of tuning options, which is better, a higher number or lower? Thicker or thinner? How will a longer or shorter adjustment change the handling? If you keep scratching your head trying to remember -- RC Cheat Sheets to the rescue!
This contains the same Team Associated RC Cheat Sheets text as sold in the app version, but without the Calculators section.
For those of us who haven’t yet grasped the theory and physics of the tuning possibilities behind the many setup options, RC Cheat Sheets with its 90 cheat sheets accompanied by many full-color photos will give you shortcuts to the information you need to make changes intelligently and quickly.
RC Cheat Sheets puts valuable information at your fingertips for offroad, onroad, and oval styles, and electric and nitro vehicles. These cheat sheets -- quick-lookup mini tuning guides -- are useful for a wide range of RC brands, not just Team Associated vehicles.
Sections include:
General
Electrical
Nitro
Pan Cars
ListMania
Comparisons
At your fingertips are helpful checklists and charts:
Maintenance Checklist
Transmission Ratios, offroad and onroad for AE vehicles
RC Toolbox: must-have items for electric and nitro vehicles
Fraction Equivalents
Drill Chart
Frequencies
How to Go Faster Checklist
Common Beginner Mistakes Checklist
Team Associated
Team Associated has been in the forefront of hobby-car racing since 1965. From its humble beginnings with a few slot-car parts to today, Team Associated has grown to designing and shipping thousands of radio-control cars and parts to hobby shops around the world. Team Associated is the industry leader in race-level competition vehicles in a variety of sizes, ranging from diminutive 1:18 scale to serious nitro-thundering 1:8 scale machines. Our vehicles ride on road and off road, and are powered by electric motors and nitro engines. Our race-winning offerings include buggies, touring cars, monster trucks, and realistic-looking Short Course trucks. Team Associated manages an in-house staff to research and develop our own race-related radio-control car products. Our talented engineers - many accomplished racers themselves - bring their years of solid racing experience to design cars that will compete at the highest levels of competition. Team Associated fields a worldwide race team of unparalleled talent. Our stable of drivers are responsible for the many championship-caliber awards amassed since our first products in the early 1970s. We race what we sell. And we win big! Team Associated creates its own packaging, manuals, and catalogs with its experienced in-house design department. A dedicated staff continually updates the web site at RC10.com and the online store right here in our Lake Forest office building. The in-house shipping department fulfills orders and ships products worldwide. Our sales department handles the needs of distributors around the world.
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RC Cheat Sheets - Team Associated
RC Cheat Sheets
Set Up Your Radio-Control Car to Win!
by
Team Associated
SMASHWORDS EDITION
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PUBLISHED BY:
Team Associated on Smashwords
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RC Cheat Sheets
Set up Your Radio-Control Car to Win!
Copyright © 2011 by Team Associated
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Table of Contents
RC Cheat Sheets, general
RC Cheat Sheets, electrical
RC Cheat Sheets, nitro
RC Cheat Sheets, pan car
ListMania
Comparisons
Appendix
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GENERAL
Ackermann
Anti-dive (on road)
Anti-roll Bars, Sway Bars
Anti-squat, off road
Anti-squat, on road
Axle Height, off road
Bump Steer
Camber, front
Camber Link, front
Camber Link, rear
Camber, rear
Caster, front
Chassis Length
Diff Fluid, Center Diff, offroad
Diff Fluid, Front Diff, offroad
Diff Fluid, Front Diff, onroad
Diff Fluid, Rear Diff, offroad
Diff Fluid, Rear Diff, onroad
Droop (on road)
Final Drive Ratio
Gear Pitch
Gear Ratio
Kickup
Pinion Gear
Ride Height, front
Ride Height, rear
Roll Center
Shock Mounting, front A-arm
Shock Mounting, front tower
Shock Mounting, rear A-arm
Shock Mounting, rear shock tower
Shock Fluid
Shock Pistons
Shock Springs
Shock Travel Limiters
Slipper Clutch
Spur Gear
Tire Compound
Tire Inserts, foam
Tire Profile
Tire Sauce, Tire Additive
Toe-in, toe-out, front
Weight Distribution, adding weights
Wheelbase
Wing
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Ackermann
less Ackermann
more aggressive steering
harder to drive
more Ackermann
less aggressive steering
easier to drive
Ackermann is a term describing the effect of the inside front wheel turning tighter than the outside front wheel. More Ackermann means the inside wheel is turning in a tighter arc.
You change Ackermann settings in the RC10B4.1 buggy by moving the connection from the current holes (standard Ackermann) to the lower holes.
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Anti-dive (onroad)
lower angle
decreasing anti-dive
adding anti-dive
larger angle
increases corner entry steering
increases caster at the wheel
This setting refers to the angle of the front arm mount when the rear arm mount is higher than the front arm mount. The dive
refers to the tendency of the front end to dive, or lower, when braking.
Anti-roll bars can also help balance the pressure between the front and rear. If your car is oversteering, consider adding a front anti-roll bar only (or making the front bar thicker than the rear). If your car is understeering, consider adding a rear anti-roll bar only (or making the rear bar thicker than the front).
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Anti-roll Bars, Sway Bars
softer or thinner bars
for low and med. bite tracks
stiffer or thicker bars
for high traction tracks
Anti-roll bars are used to stabilize a vehicle from excessive chassis roll (such as when a buggy leans through the turns by centrifugal force).
On a high-traction surface, a vehicle not using anti-roll bars will tend to have a lot of chassis roll, which results in the vehicle being less responsive.
Adding anti-roll bars (or making them thicker if you already have them on) will help minimize the chassis roll, making the vehicle more responsive in cornering, and at the same time making it more stable.
Roll bar on the front of the #30106 Factory Team TC6 1:10 scale electric touring car.
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Anti-squat, offroad
less anti-squat
more side traction in corners
more rear traction for slick or bumpy surfaces
more anti-squat
less side traction in corners
more rear lift in jumps
Anti-squat denotes the angle of the rear arms relative to the chassis, when looked at from the side.
0 deg. anti-squat means that the rear arms are flat, parallel with the chassis. 2 deg. anti-squat means the front of the