Bittydesign, famous for their quality painted bodies, have released their own Liquid Mask. Developed over the past year by the Italian company on thousands of their own bodies, it was until now a really hard type of product to find in Europe. This Liquid Mask is water based, non toxic and can be easily used by anyone. Bittydesign have produced a video explaining the product and how best to use it, which can be seen below.
View the introduction video here
The Team Grid drop-in camber tuning kit enables vertical camber link tuning on the Associated TC6 and TC6.1 touring cars. This kit utilizes the existing holes on the front and rear shock towers for infinite vertical camber link ball tuning. Since most racers are using the #1, #3 and #7 camber locations on the stock towers, the Team Grid camber kit allows for the exact use of these camber holes along with the flexibility of the inverted ball link system, which provides added positive and negative vertical adjustments from these locations. The camber kit also includes an extra tuning hole between #1 and #7 for even more tuning capabilities. Any 3mm spacer from 0.1 up to 6mm can be used for all the tuning.
View an image of the kit mounted here
Durango have released full details on their all new DNX408T 1/8th scale truggy. Based heavily on their successful DNX408, the truggy features heavy duty machined alloy suspension hangers front and rear, as well as bulkheads to hold the gearboxes securely in position. The machined alloy parts as standard continue to the brake bulkheads and shock towers, perfect for supporting the 15mm big bore shock absorbers. The all-new, spiral design, machine-cut gears for the DNX408T, have been extensively tested for performance and reliability. Full details can be found on the car’s product page (link below).
View more images of the truggy here
Danish Nationals round 1 was held in the very nice track in Glostrup, host for the 2005 Euros. The classes in the Danish nationals are Pro stock, modified and Funny Racing where they drive with Tamiya M05/M06 2wd cars. In this outdoor season, the nationals has chosen 13.5T blinky mode and that was the right speed and all drivers had the same speed around the track. The tires was Sorex 36R with yellow insert, and that was perfect for the weather in Denmark.
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Round 4 of the 2012 JBRL electric series is in the books and so is another TQ and 1st place finish for the new Tekno RC EB48 1/8th Electric Buggy. The event held at Pegasus Hobbies in southern California drew nearly 240 entries. In the 1/8th Electric class Tekno RC driver Lucas Sanford was dialed in from the beginning. He TQ’d both rounds of qualifying and went on to finish the main in 1st place with ease. Using his indoor setup from SDRC and only changing out the shock fluid when the sun went down to accommodate for temperature proved the new Tekno RC EB48 platform is a consistent performer in many conditions.
Source: Tekno RC [teknorc.com]
Sonic Engines have released their new team wear starting with this classic grey Super Premium T-Shirt which is made using 100% high-quality cotton and sports the Sonic Logo on the front across the chest. The rear shows the website on the lower edge along with a huge Sonic symbol, the T-shirts are available in the usual range of sizes.
Source: Sonic [sonic-engines.com]
New for the Durango DEX210 from Tresrey is this ultra hard heatsink motor plate. Machined from 7075 aluminum it helps reduce trouble with the gear box and gives more cooling for all four types of motor/gear layouts. Made in Japan it comes anodized in ‘Tresrey-Red’.
Source: Tresrey [tresrey.com]
The fourth round of the Belgian TC Nationals was held at RCR in Roeselare last weekend. There was heavy rain expected but the weather turned out dry. This tear’s Efra class is turning out to be a battle between Thomas Stockman and Olivier Bultynck for the title. Thomas, always strong on the track of RCR, drove two strong qualifications but in the last run Olivier put himself on the pole. Thomas was on the second spot and a surprising Rico Claeys on third place.
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