Which RC Car Is Right For You

RC Cars offer all the excitement of motor racing at a fraction
of the cost. They also offer a safe form of motor sport and
allow youngsters to begin to understand car control at a very
young age.

There are various types of RC cars that are suitable for racing,
but the two main types are the gas-powered cars and the electric
powered cars.

They both offer different benefits, and there will always be
those who believe one form of motivation is better than the
other.

The gas-powered cars are generally a lot more powerful and offer
the ultimate in performance but they are a lot noisier and the
motors do require tuning. Gas powered cars can sometimes be
quite temperamental to tune and require some degree of knowledge
to extract their ultimate performance.

The electric powered cars on the other hand are relatively
simple to race and maintain, but they are limited by the charge
in their batteries.

Electric powered RC cars are a lot quieter than gas powered cars
and this might affect your decision if you are planning on using
them in the local neighbourhood and want to keep your neighbours
as friends.

Most of the top end RC cars offer all the suspension, gearbox
and differential tuning as a full size race car, so the beginner
RC car racer might feel a little overwhelmed by the amount of
tuning that is required to get the best out of their race car.

Like anything else, it is a process of learning and RC car
owners will soon find that trying different race settings can
make a huge difference to the performance of the racing car.
Once familiar with the changes that can be made to the car, the
owner will be happy that these variables have been built into
the race car, offering those with the most testing and knowledge
to have a decided advantage come race day.

It would be wise to look at the race facilities in your local
area and talk to those who are racing to determine what type of
vehicle you can race before making your purchase.

If everyone is racing gas-powered cars you won't want to buy an
electric RC car.

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Hello From Toronto - Part 1- A First Little Driving Tour -The City Viewed Through The Eyes Of First-Time Visitors

by Susanne Pacher

So my brother is in town, together with his wife and 2 friends from my little home town in Austria. It is everybody's first time in North America and their initiation to Toronto. Just to give you ideas of dimensions: Austria has a population of about 9 million and the country extends about 900 km from east to west while the Greater Toronto area nowadays probably has about 4 to 5 million people and Lake Ontario alone is over 300 km long. The first thing my visitors noticed was the difference in size: the size of the city, the size of the lake, the size of cars, the size of supermarkets, and even of refrigerators.

On Sunday we started off with a little driving tour of Toronto where I first took my visitors down to the lakefront by the historic Art Deco style R.C. Harris Filtration Plant. All of them love water and to have a lake as big as an ocean so close by fascinated them. After a leisurely drive on Queen Street through the quaint Beaches neighbourhood we parked the car close to the St. Lawrence Market and started our walk around.

Since my brother is a chef and always loves to purchase market-fresh food, I initially took him to the St. Lawrence Market which always has an antique sale on Sunday. The food market is actually closed on Sunday. We checked out the wares from old furniture to cameras to various knick-knacks.

Our exploration continued westwards along Front Street past historic 19th century houses and of course past the famous triangular-shaped Flatiron Building which has a mural on its west side. Approaching Yonge Street we walked past the Hockey Hall of Fame, a historic Beaux-Arts former bank building, the magnificent Royal York Hotel, built in 1929, once the largest hotel in the British Commonwealth.

One of the things that fascinated my visitors most was how old and new can coexist right next to each other: shiny skyscrapers are located right beside historic sandstone churches. Our walking tour continued past Union Station, Toronto's impressive central railway station, built between 1914 and 1927 as a joint construction project by the Canadian Pacific Railway and Grand Trunk Railway (now the Canadian National Railway). Its monumental scale, classical detail and rational, ordered planning were hallmarks of the style. The station is massive and takes up an entire block on Front Street between York Street and Bay Street. The Great Hall of the Station is 250 ft. long and 84 ft. wide.

Our walk continued further west on Front Street past the Convention Centre to the base of the CN Tower and the entrance to the Skydome, Toronto's multi-purpose stadium with a retractable roof, now called the Rogers Centre. We then snaked our way up through the Entertainment District to Queen Street where we admired Osgoode Hall, built in the 1830s, and now an oasis of green in the city. An ornate iron fence, built in 1867, renowned for its peculiar "cow gates," surrounds the property and its beautiful gardens. The cow gates in particular fascinated my visitors.

Our next stop was at New City Hall and Old City Hall, opened in 1899, which racked up construction costs of more than $2.5 million at the time which caused great controversy in those days. Continuing past the Bay Department Store on Queen we passed the Metropolitan United Church, an English style cathedral dating from 1872, whose churchyard was filled with people enjoying the warm day.

Once back in the car we drove through the U of T campus, my Alma Mater and we stopped briefly to check out Hart House and Kings College. Then we headed down to Chinatown at Spadina and Dundas and my visitors marvelled at this exotic, busy market area. Our last stop on the tour was Kensington Market, a lively little neighbourhood full of food and clothing stores and restaurants where we ended up picking up fresh vegetables, dry beans, and a variety of cheeses for some of the scrumptious meals to come. My brother, the chef, marvelled at the variety of food available here, combined with the inexpensive prices a food lover's dream.

We took our loot home where my husband was waiting for us with a big brunch to strengthen ourselves for attending a birthday party of one of my friends that had the motto of "let out your inner child". The party was unique in that it involved such time-honoured Toronto traditions as hitting a piñada while a bunch of adults were playing with water guns, chasing one another around the house with buckets of water dropping on the combatants from the second floor.

I think our visitors had a full day, from getting a first taste of Toronto, to participating in a rather eventful birthday party, their first impressions were very positive and they were looking forward to exploring more of this exciting city.

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Methanol On Nitro Fueled Rc Cars

When you have RC cars, the degree of taking care of it and the importance of regular maintenance is high. There are a lot of things needed to take note of and still many things to learn about owning a remote controlled car. Also, the difference between electronic powered cars between a nitro fueled ones has to be mastered accordingly.

Of the several important things needed in running nitro-fueled RC cars, there are three important facts you need to know about nitro fuel and what it does for your car. The basic components of a nitro fuel have three blends. First, there is the methyl alcohol or otherwise known as the methanol, then there is the nitro-methane or simply called nitro, and then of course oil. Although these components may sound so technical (especially the first one), finding nitro fuel for your car isn t that difficult since you can purchase these blended fuel with no problems via online or straight from your local hobby shops.

Now, we go back to methanol or the other names it has such as methyl alcohol, carbinol, wood alcohol, wood naptha or wood spirits. What it does is it provides power for the engine and it s the primary power to be provided to RC cars running on nitro. An ideal fuel this is, mainly because it s not as flammable and it tends to release more energy per pound compared to gasoline.

A disadvantage in using methanol is that it can intoxicate you but not directly kill you since it isn t poisonous. Once exposed to it, the toxic breakdown in the body caused by the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase forms formic acid in the liver which eventually leads to blindness. Be careful not to inhale this fuel or to have your skin absorb it. Be sure you contact a medicine expert for any suspicious central nervous system depression that occurs.

But going back to methanol s main purpose to RC cars, it is an important component to boost your RC car s energy and overall performance. It is, also affordable compared to gas so expenses shouldn t be of any issue with this type of fuel.

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