Friday, November 10, 2006
Team Losi officially release the 8ight Truggy Categories - Team Losi, Gas Off Road, Cars, Products - comments closed
Team Losi have officially released their new 1/8th scale truggy to the eagerly awaiting masses of off road nuts enthusiasts. Based on the recently released, and already successful, 8ight buggy, this chassis has had the standard buggy to truggy conversion; longer wheelbase, longer chassis, longer wishbones etc. With the truggy class blowing up all across the globe and considering this cars pedigree on dirt we’re sure that the 8ight truggy will be at the sharp end of the grid come race day.
Created with passion and perfected by obsession, the 8IGHT-T will redefine Truggy racing with what might be called an unfair advantage. The 8IGHT-T Race Roller is the first competition-level, performance-built truggy based on Team Losi’s ground-breaking 4WD nitro platform.
You can check out the Team Losi 8ight truggy here.
Thursday, November 9, 2006
Serpent release drive calculator Categories - Serpent, Gas On Road, Accessories, Products - comments closed
Belgian racer Christophe De Vocht has developed a Drive Calculator program to work out drive ratios for all of Serpents current, and some older, models. The user can input all the pulley sizes as well as the tyre diameters for it to work out the ratio, it will also suggest a tyre size to get a user determined front to rear drive ratio too. As far as we are aware Christophe has also made versions for other manufacturers too.
You can download the drive calculator here or from the 960, 835 and 720 download pages on Serpent’s site.
Source: Serpent [mytsn.com]
You may remember back from the iHobby show, we wrote about the new Team Magic E4 electric touring car. We were quite harsh about its 3 belt system and centrally mounted batteries and likened to a 1/10th 200mm gas car with an electric motor in it. Well that opinon hasn’t changed but these studio pictures from the Taiwanese manufacturer definitely show this car in a new light and i’m starting to like the look of it, look at how low it is….nice.
Looking at the pictures though also highlights a few issues with the E4, like the fact that the speed controller position looks like an after thought, mounted on the pinion side of the motor.
Check out the pictures for yourself here… (more…)
Like we reported a while back, the Xray T2007 has a problem with the bearings not lasting the distance. This was originally thought to be the not enough lubrication applied by the bearing manufacturer, well the scientists over in Xray did some more research and found that:
The situation is in fact due to the increased precision and higher tolerances of these ball-bearings; when dust or carpet fibres enter into the ball-bearing it becomes trapped and the ball-bearing locks up and unfortunately, this tends to happen sooner than the previous batch of ball-bearings.
Nice way to put a positive spin on it there guys. Anyway click here to find out what you should do to stop this and maintain your bearings.
Team Vertex have now shipped their new RTR VTX buggy and truggy. These cars, that were announced back in October, seem pretty rugged and definitely look the part, far superior to what you would normally expect from a ready to run. Expect to pay $370 for the truggy and $300 for the buggy.
Hit the jump for more pictures… (more…)
Saturday, November 4, 2006
HoBao Hyper ST Truggy Categories - HoBao, Gas Off Road, Cars, Products - comments closed
HoBao have entered the Truggy market with this rather nice RTR, the Hyper ST. According to Philip over at Neo-Buggy - “The Hyper ST is a mix of the best of the Hyper 7 coupled with new parts from the Hyper 8″. So there you have it, head on over to Neo-Buggy for more images.
Source: Neo-Buggy [neo-buggy.net]
CRC dominate 1/12th at the Halloween Classic Categories - CRC, Events, Electric On Road, Cars, Products - comments closed
Something that seemed to slip our radar, mainly due to my lack of knowledge with regards 1/12th scale, is the fact that the all new CRC (Calandra Racing Concepts) Carpet Knife Generation X kicked ass at the Halloween Classic in Cleveland. While we only brought you the Touring modified results, it seemed that the real racing at this event was happening in the comeback class, 1/12th. Mark Smyka TQ’d and won in the 19T class, whilst in modified it was Mike Blackstock who took the TQ and the win.
Head on over to CRC for the full report.
Friday, November 3, 2006
Xray bring the Micro Nitro RTR Categories - Xray, Electric Off Road, Cars, Products - comments closed
Xray have just announced the RTR version of their popular little 1/18th scale Micro Nitro Monster and Stadium trucks. These are pretty wicked little cars and of course come with the usual Xray quality feel.
RTR Features
- There are two versions available: truck (#380740) and monster truck
(#380840)
- RTR is fully assembled by XRAY in Europe and is the most premium and luxury RTR in the market with a very affordable price
- RTR features all the premium equipment and electronics: 2x metal gear servo, receiver battery pack, XT1 Transmitter + XR1 Receiver, all cables and switch.
- RTR comes with nicely painted and trimmed body with all the stickers applied.
- There are 4 different colors available from every paint scheme.
- There is FREE Hudy Start-box for every RTR kit
Check out the brochure images here.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]Â
