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June 27, 2012

Kyosho Evolva M3 options & gear diff oils

New from Kyosho for the Evolva M3 Evo are these aluminium front upper suspension mount, front shock tower and rear shock tower. Designed and tested by factory driver Takaaki Shimo and made from gold anodized high grade aluminium, the new parts improve the overall handling of the car that result in faster lap times. Also new from Kyosho is the new flex diff. gear oil which is the perfect choice to lube and control the traction of your gear differential. The 35ml bottles are available in 3 different types. The diff. gear seal grease gives a perfect seal between case and differential cap. The high viscosity airtight sealing fluid allows longer maintenance cycles and prevents oil leaks.

View the other new parts here

June 27, 2012

Arrowmax MBX-6 centre shafts

Arrowmax have released new centre drive shafts for the Mugen MBX-6 buggy. The 78.5mm and 103mm shafts are similar in design but are made from spring steel material for increased durability.

Source: Arrowmax [arrowmax-rc.com]

June 27, 2012

Serpent brake lever & body support washers

More new items from Serpent, first up is this machined aluminum brake lever for use on the 966 and 733 / 747 cars. Strong, light and flex free its a direct replacement part. Serpent also introduced new body-support washers to fine-tune the height of the body-posts your 1/10th scale cars gas and electric cars. The standard position in the kits is low, so they now offer a medium and high version, 5 of each type. This allows for changes with smaller increments without having to modify anything else.

View the body-support washers here

June 27, 2012

Speed Power competition LiPo packs

Speed Power have released 3 new competition hard case LiPo packs. First up is a 6800mAh 70C 7.4v stick pack, then there is the new 4400mAh 50C 7.4v shorty pack and finally there is a 6500mAh 70C 3.7V pack. All packs feature standard 4mm bullet connectors and in the case of the two 2S packs a 2mm bullet type balancer port.

View the other new packs here

June 27, 2012

Daniele Sieber wins Rd3 in East Germany

Last weekend the 3rd round of the East German Championship took place in Mühlau. Shepherd racer Daniele Sieber was attending the event and found a good setup for his Sonic powered Velox V8 “eleven” resulting in excellent laptimes during Saturdays practice. On Sunday morning three qualifiers were held. With a big gap Daniel secured himself the pole-position followed by young Toni Gruber and Benjamin Schumann. In the 20 minutes main final he had a huge lead after 8 minutes giving him the chance to relax a little bit. He cruised to the victory 3 laps in front of Toni Gruber with Michael Kammer finishing 3rd.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

June 26, 2012

JQ Products THECar ready to race buggy

JQ Products have announced the release of THECar in RTR (Ready to Race) form. They wanted to create a new standard of performance for 1:8th RTR Buggies and by clever design and production arrangements have been able to keep the specification of this vehicle high, and as close to the Pro version as possible. The servos and engine have been chosen based on their performance as well as their affordability. They wanted to make sure that the servos are strong and fast enough to be able to control the car, in a similar fashion to actual race cars with top of the line servos. Many RTRs have so slow and weak servos, that they are hard to drive for even experienced racers. This is not the case with this RTR, as the Savöx servos are strong and fast enough for the task. The engine is a standard pullstart RTR unit, and it has more than enough power for this super lightweight RTR, that only weights 3300g.

View more details and images here

June 26, 2012

Shepherd Velox V10 ‘twelve’ kits

Shepherd have announced that their new Velox V10 ‘twelve’ kits are now available. The kit inlcudes the new rear end for a ball-raced rear anti-roll bar as well as stronger body posts for the front and the rear. The ball-raced anti-roll bar has a much better response leading to improved traction when accelerating while the new stronger body posts feature adjustable plates to fine tune the height of the body in 3 steps. Of course the Velox V10 ‘twelve’ relies on many established features like the ‘Direct-V-Brake System’, easy differential maintenance, adjustable servo saver and many others.

View the full feature list here

June 26, 2012

Xceed ZX-12 & ZX-21 DS5 engines

Xceed have introduced their onroad line of engines for 2012. The ZX-12 line features an improved carburetor with nicely anodised green aluminium inserts, new head design and color and updated porting and crankshaft timing for more high end power. The ZX-12 DS5 is available in regular and EM version and both types also in a Powerpack version too, complete with polished inline pipe-set. The EM version has hand selected ABC-sets, aligned conrods, and light shafts with silicone. The ZX-21 line also has the newly styled and colored heads, improved carburetor with nicely anodised green alu inserts. The DS4 was already setting new standards in racing in 2011, and the same quality and performance is carried into 2012 as well, combined with good fuel-consumption. The ZX-21 DS5 is available in regular and EM version and both types in Powerpack version too, complete with polished inline pipe-set. The EM version has hand selected ABC-sets, aligned conrods, an extra 8.5mm alu venturi and light crankshaft with silicone.

View the ZX-21 engines here