In the year XII – Xray XII 1/12th scale

Rear
The rear end of the XII is equipped with a friction damper to control the chassis roll. Stiffness of the assembly can be controlled by different greases or different amounts of greases as they lock up the movement of the carbon plate that is sandwiched by the two plastic friction plates. Both of the plates show a groove in their contact surface where the grease can be filled in. Xray advises to use differential grease but we opted for hard Corally damper syrup.

The power pod consists of two alloy side plates that are screwed to a carbon plate that attaches to the fibreglass T-bar. An alloy rod stiffens up the whole assembly. Xray was wise enough to separate the side plates as far as possible to allow for enough room for the protruding brushless motors and the often needed sensor cables.

Ride height up rear can be adjusted via five different ride height adjusters with 0 to 2mm offset. Worth mentioning is that the rear track wide can be adjusted by shims of different thicknesses to compensate the different offset rims or tweak the rear end grip.

The ball differential of the XII sports 12 carbide balls a carbide thrust bearing and is one of the smoothest differentials we have ever seen in a 1/12 scale car!

Finish
A high performance car needs high performance equipment so we used a GM-Racing Genius 95 1/12 Spec speedo, 5.5T GM-Racing Evo III motor and Orcan VTEC 4600 cells to power the XII. In charge steering duties is a JR/Graupner DS3781 servo connected to a Spektrum SR-3500 receiver. Sidebite and traction are provided by Xceed purple/lilac tryes up front, pinks up rear treated with odourless Corally ‘Jack the gripper’ traction compound. Downforce is generated by a BlackArt Audi R10 body that is out of production now and replaced by the new BlackArt Pacemaker (#BA003).