Another new product from Diggity Designs for Academy cars, this time for the company’s 2wd buggy, the GV2. This motor mount plate is super lightweight and has been made from 2.5mm thick carbon fibre and is a direct replacement for the standard version that comes with the car.
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Diggity Designs have added another car to their range of LiPo mounts, following the previous release of the option for the TC5. This new set is suitable for the Academy SBV2 4wd buggy and enables the car to be fitted with a range of modern hard cased LiPo packs like the Team Orion 3200 & 4800, Peak Racing 3200 & 4800, Team Checkpoint 5400 pack as well as a packs from Core RC and SMC Racing. Made from carbon fibre, the set is extremely easy to install.
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A while ago we wrote about the new SpeedLine touring car racing tyres from RB Products, now RB have released images of their 1/8th scale tyres too. Developed to extract every once of grip from any Touring car or 1/8 on-road car, the RB R&D team got together with the fastest pro drivers to find the best tyres/rims combination. SpeedLine tyres are made with Japanese foam and come mounted on new FDW rims and are available for all types of car and in a large range of shores.
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Sirio Engines have announced that their new S12 T3 EVO4 STI engines will include ceramic ball bearings in both the front and rear of crankcase. The use of ceramic balls is said to provide better reliability and performance of the engine and these bearings use only the ceramic balls, which makes them also extremely light. Available seperately, they can also be used in all of the company’s S12 T3 engines that have a 12mm crankshaft.
GRP have announced their new line up of air filters for use on both on road and off road cars. First thing you will notice is that each air filter set is supplied in an orange plastic box, with the on road version supplied with 5 foam air filters and oil, while the buggy filter is supplied with 12 filters and 2 bottles of special oil. Made from high quality material, these parts are low priced as they are meant to be replaced often.
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The 16th installment in the Xray column from Xray owner and chief designer Juraj Hudy is now online. In this months column, Juraj talks about the development of the company’s new XB808 1/8th scale buggy, which was shown for the first time at the toy fair in Germany a few weeks ago.
To improve steering and handling in bumpy conditions, I decided to use the suspension concept that has been used for ages in 1/10 electric off-road cars… the “zero kingpin” design. This design seems to work in the 1/8 buggy scale as well and the first prototypes were created for testing. Zero kingpin suspension gives more precise steering and handling in the corners as the steering keeps the same angle no matter if the suspension is up or down, and as such when running through bumps in corner the steering will not change as much as on regular C-hub suspension used previously and the handling of the car will improve significantly.
Read the full column here.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Serpent are reporting on last weekends Corally Thunderdays that took place at Geilenkirchen in Germany where it was brothers Yannic and Bjorn Prumper driving Serpent S400s that took a 1-2 in the Modified class. On Saturday Björn set the fastest time of the weekend and also set a new track-record, however Yannic could not at first match his brother’s times but the reason for this was later discovered, a broken front end of his chassis plate. After replacing the damaged chassis Yannic’s lap times improved dramatically and this allowed him to join his brother in the final. Overtaking Corally driver Lars Treder for 2nd position early in the final, Yannic followed his brother for the rest of the race, which saw Bjorn take the win from Yannic in 2nd and Treder in 3rd.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Edit have released this hard coated 48-pitch aluminium pinion gear, set to reduce rotating weight from your drive train. Hard coated for long wear, this 18-tooth pinion gear weighs just 1.1g, 72% lighter than a standard pinion gear. Includes an M3 grub screw for attaching to your motor, plus a small Edit logo decal sheet for customizing your bodyshell and gear.
Source: Edit [rc-edit.com]
