Team-Powers have released a new 6200mAh 7.4V LiPo battery for Touring Cars and Offroad applications. Featuring a continuous discharge capacity of 60C, this competition pack features a hard case for impact protection and is supplied with bullet connectors.
Source: Team-Powers [team-powers.com]
The 4th and final round of the 2010 South African On Road Gas Nationals took place at the TRAP facility just outside the city of Pretoria recently. Taking TQ in the 1/8th scale class, the only driver to run 18 laps in the qualifiers, was current SA Champion Wayne Joelson driving his Novarossi powered Mugen Seiki MRX4X. The final, which had to be shortened to 40 minutes due to threatening weather, saw Wayne take victory by 5 laps ahead of team mate Faizel Salie in 2nd and Serpent driver Dave Wiseman in 3rd, a lap further back. This results sees Wayne retained his drivers’ title, with Steve Munslow taking 2nd spot in the Championship.
Thanks to Wayne Joelson for the update.
With just days to go before the World Championships, Sweep Racing have released the Square Armor, a tire that would last longer and work better in various conditions. Taking on board what they have learnt in testing and listening to team drivers, they developed this tire which would fill that void in their tire line up. The tread size is the same as the Exagon but is 0.5mm thicker to prevent unexpected tire expansion under high revs. Supplied with the new V2 GRVD molded foam insert it fits on 81~83mm size wheels. Sweep have also released a new truggy dish wheel. Featuring an oversized diameter (100mm) for superior performance, it has a special cavity design that prevents the wheel nuts backing off and a rougher finish on the gluing surfaces for easier assembly. A gloss finish on the inside of the wheels for less mud build up and zero off-set, they are available in black, white and yellow.
Having shown you photos of Adam Drakes Losi 8ight yesterday, team mate and top qualifier at the 2008 Worlds Mike Truhe has posted photos of his WC ride on Facebook. We can’t see but presume he is running the new chassis with the steel tips, but more interestingly is the car’s rear chassis brace that has been replaced by a shock absorber from one of their 1/10th scale cars. Its travel has been limited as you would expect and is an interesting option giving a mid way point between a stiff chassis with brace installed and a flexy chassis without the brace.
Team Associated is proud to bring to you the RC18T2 Brushless, a 1:18 scale RTR electric 4WD off road truck. Picking up where the original RC18T2 left off, the RC18T2 Brushless comes loaded with awesome new features including the XP3-SS 3-channel 2.4GHz radio system and Reedy brushless system. The RC18T2 Brushless chassis has a fully enclosed, 2-belt drive train system with adjustable slipper clutch that is capable of handling the extreme amount of power that today’s brushless motors and LiPo batteries can dish out. The RC18T2 Brushless comes fully assembled including a painted and decaled truck body, white dish style wheels with aggressive mini pin race tires, and factory installed Reedy brushless electronic speed controller and powerful 5000kV brushless motor.
With the Losi team finished all their pre event testing for next week’s World Championships in Thailand, Adam Drake sent us these photos of his race ready 8ight chassis. An interesting feature of the car is the strengthened chassis plate which sports steel tips set flush into the front and rear ends of the chassis to protect it from the highly abrasive and damaging Pattaya track. By only replacing the extremities of the chassis plate, the additional weight is kept to a minimum, but durability is increased dramatically.
View more images of Adam’s car here
More new tools from Arrowmax with the introduction of this flywheel wrench. The flywheel grabber is similar to that on the flywheel & wheel nut multi-tool released last month but the rest of the tool is different. Made from purple anodised aluminium, the centre of the handle features a clutch gap measuring tool, while the end has a 9mm ‘wrench’.
Source: Free Max [freemaxmp.com]
TOP Racing was recently present at the All Japan Model and Hobby show in Tokyo and showed of an number of new exciting parts. Firstly was the announcement of the Rebel 10 & Rebel 10SS, which are the next in the Rebel pan car series following the earlier release of the Rebel 12. The Rebel 10 is a 1/10 World GT class car while the Rebel 10SS is a 1/10 Oval Class chassis, both are due for a December release. Also on display for the Photon was their new Alloy/Graphite Hybrid Steering Crank. Due for a release in November, this is a stronger optional replacement of the original steering crank. Not only is it more durable, it also gives more accurate steering than the original counterpart. This new alloy/graphite hybrid design simplifies the machining process and is therefore more cost effective, without sacrificing performance and strength.
View the new items and other show photos here
