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May 17, 2025

Avid B7 & LD3 Forged Carbon Shock Towers

New from Avid Racing Concepts come these Forged Carbon Front Shock Towers for the Team Associated RC10B7 and Schumacher LD3 2WD buggies. Made from 4mm forged carbon fibre, with lightly chamfered edges to help prevent splitting, they towers are designed for carpet/turf, and maintains the kit profile so the stock shock guards still work. To do this, Avid removed the outside hole on the tower because we found we never use it. The B7 tower is -3mm front and while the LD3 towers are -4mm on the front and -3mm on the rear.

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May 14, 2025

Avid B7 Adjustable Front Titanium Axle System

New from Avid come these Adjustable Front Axles for the RC10B7 1:10 2WD Buggy from Team Associated. The system allow you to finally adjust your track width without needing different axles, hexes, or carbon shims. You you can adjust your track width from 4mm up to 7.5mm with the included shims. The axles are made from 6AL-4V titanium and the hexes/shims are 6061-T6. With wheels getting so thin at the hex depth, using a carbon track width spacer is now maxed out at 1mm which isn’t a lot of adjustment and this solves that. You can now narrow the car down to 4mm which can be helpful on very tight dirt tracks with quick transitions. With the system including (2) 0.5, (2) 1.0, and (2) 2.0mm shims, you can adjust easily down to the 0.5mm without having to have several hexes and track width spacers. To adjust the width, just take the hex off and change the shims!

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April 18, 2025

Avid RC RC10B7 72T Direct Drive Pro Kit

US racing upgrade parts producer Avid Racing Concepts has released this 72T Direct Drive Pro Kit for Team Associated’s RC10B7 1:10 2WD buggy. The kit allows stock racers to remove the entire clutch assembly for conditions where the driver feels having less rotating mass and zero slip except from the differential is beneficial. This system is the lightest direct drive unit available today coming in at 6.45-grams with a 72T (2.62-grams with no spur). It includes two machined delrin 72T spurs that are lightweight at 3.32-grams and quiet due to the true teeth. The Spurs gears are also sold separately to upgrade the standard Triad Direct Drive.

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March 31, 2025

Avid 13mm Precision Carpet Springs

New from Avid Racing Concepts comes their 13mm Precision Carpet Springs specifically designed for offroad carpet racing. The new springs have stiffer rates and shorter lengths so you can get to your low ride heights easily. Made from raw, uncoated ASTM-spec spring wire for consistency and factory-like polish potential. The springs are left raw so the spring rate and action of the spring is not compromised from any extra chemical processes, just like our truly infamous springs that we released in 2013! Measuring 40mm front and 56mm rear, allowing ultra-low ride heights, the springs are available individually or as complete sets. The Front springs are intentionally short and can’t be accurately tested at 1″ compression due to coil bind. Modern cars run under 23mm stroke in the front, which aligns with our design to push the spring right to very edge but not go over it. Each batch is labeled with the average spring rate (lb/in) after passing in-house testing using a precision $3k Chatillon digital spring rate tester. For easy identification they are laser etched on the side of one of the wire ends: large dash = 5 dots, small dash = 1 dot.

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March 25, 2025

Avid Flat & Curved Bill Hats

US RC accessories brand Avid Racing Concepts has released a black hat featuring an “AV” rubber patch to commemorate being in business 22-years and their 11 IFMAR World Championship successes in that time. The One size fits all Yupoong Snap Back cap is offered in both a flat and a curved bill.

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March 20, 2025

Avid B7 Triad Direct Drive Kit

New from Avid Racing Concepts is this Triad Direct Drive Kit which allows stock racers to remove the entire clutch assembly for conditions where the driver feels having less rotating mass and zero slip except from the differential is beneficial. Avid claim this system is the lightest direct drive unit available today coming in at 6.45g with a 72t or 2.62g with no spur. Also available as a Basics Version, which does not include any spurs, this is for the racers who already have Triad spurs. The full kit includes the most popular gears for stock racing.

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February 6, 2025

Avid B7 Titanium Ball Studs | Magnesium Idler Shafts

Avid Racing Concepts has added more aftermarket parts for the Team Associated RC10B7 2WD Buggy with the release of 5.5x6mm titanium -1mm Ball Studs and magnesium Idler Shafts. The Ball Studs lower the ball 1mm to offer racers some fine tuning adjustability in all modern AE 1:10 offroad vehicles. 40% lighter than the kit and optional TiN coated steel ball studs, on the B7 you can run these in three key locations – steering plate to adjust bump steer, steering rack to adjust Ackermann, and front inner camber link on the outside to adjust roll center/camber gain. The Idler Shafts are machined from magnesium, which is 33% lighter than 6061-T6 aluminium, and then hollowed out to lose the most weight possible. Each shaft comes in at 0.33 grams compared to the kit aluminium shafts which are 0.88grams a piece. These shafts are raw material and will create a thin oxidation layer when taken out of the bag if they don’t already have one, making it look slightly like Damascus steel. The oxidation layer does not change the performance of the product and it is a natural way for the metal to protect itself.

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October 23, 2024

Avid XB2 ’24/25 Arm Mounts | Rear Roll Center Holder

Avid Racing Concepts is testing the market with a limited release of a number of new aftermarket parts for the Xray XB2 ’24/25 1:10 2WD Buggy. The -2° C Arm Mount was first innovated by the US company for the B6.3 and has turned into a must-have if you are racing on high bite surfaces such as carpet or turf. This mount frees up the vehicle in the turns and when landing jumps sideways such as corner tabletops. Typically, to get to the low rear toe settings that you need on carpet, you have to start narrowing the pills through the D Mount which is increasing side bite by decreasing your track-width. Their C Arm mount prevents that from happening by widening the C pivot block, thus starting you at 1 deg of rear toe with centered pills on the C and D mount instead of 3.

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