Unfortunately, with the vast combinations of cars and chassis and hop-up parts, learning about Mini-Zs can be confusing for beginners. This site is an attempt to put all that together into a definitive guide a …

The PN racing one I have works quite well. For the cheap method, use very fine emery paper to polish the stock king pin. You will loose the corrosion protection, but have a smooth king pin. One thing that …

The 94mm version is the street going car, and the 98mm is the highly modified racing version with air splitter and rear wing. The 98mm version is suppose to have 2mm offset in front and rear.

Back in January 09, the KO Propo Mini-Z race opened a new 90mm class for all chassis shorter than 90mm. Phil approached me about designing a mid motor mount for 90mm chassis.

Just as Kyosho is wrapping itself around the axel with new radio system after radio systems that are not compatible, PN Racing came up with a universal board for the Mini-Z. It uses the popular Spektrum …

The problem with the mini-z pot is that it only use 2 wires instead of 3 wires in a normal servo. 3 wire pot creates a voltage divider circuit. The two wires at both ends of the pot are the reference voltage, and …

Comparison of Mini-z to rally is probably more relistic than comparison to road racing because mini-z chassis only have rear wheel braking, and therefore tend to drift thru corner more than road racing.

Mini-z tires seems to behave like a full size racing car tire in terms of slip angle characteristics. With the GPM tires, I don't find any better traction going from 8 deg to 25 deg tire.

R/C Car handling - Tons of info on R/C car chassis - However, still doesn't seem to apply too much to mini-z Physics of Racing - Interesting articles - Some relevance to mini-z

If you want a professional lap timer software, go to GiroZ Lap timer http://www.giro-z.com/ Here is the latest version of GiroZ lap timer software at RC Kenon for download. It comes with a track designer. …