Yaiba Racing announce the soon release of this 4-piece set of wheel spacers. Made from aluminium and coming red anodised the shims are designed to increase the track width of 1/10th cars by 0.75mm per shim. They are ideal to bring the cars to the maximum allowed overall width and sport an outer diameter of 11.5mm with a 5mm hole for the wheel axle.
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Much More Racing introduce their new Allen wrenches with HISS tool tips. The tools come with a dark anodised and highly ripped handle for easy and effortless handling while the HISS tool tips reduce the change of stripping screw heads. Available in all popular metrical and imperial sizes as single tool or 4-piece sets with the metrical wrenches also being available as ball tip variant.
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ZZRacing expand their range of titanium screw sets for some of the latest on-road and off-road cars available. The screws are light of weight, hard, strong and significantly reduce the change of stripping the hex head due to the material used. For the moment ZZRacing adds sets for the ARC R10’2013, KM HK-1, VBC WildFire, VBC FF Twelve, VBC Flash04, Spec-R R1 and S1, Tamiya F104, Schumacher Mi5, TLR 22SCT and 22T, AE SC104x4 and Yokomo YRF001W.
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KM Racing announce the second KM World Cup & ZAC Cup. The race will take place on this year’s IFMAR 1/8th nitro on-road track in Japan from the 30th of August to the 1st of September and is the last chance for competitors to hit the track before it will be closed until the World Championships. The race is run in 1/8th and 1/10th 200mm and open to any chassis brand. International stars such as Adrien Bertin, Meen V., Dario Balestri and Keisuke Fukuda already signed in. More information can be found here very soon.
Kyosho Germany announce the release of several new option parts for the Mini-Z line of cars and buggies, the Scorpion XXL and the RB6 buggy. Starting with the Mini-Z parts, new is the Audi R8 LMS body set for the AWD line of cars. The limited edition item comes chrome plated and is specially made to celebrate Kyosho’s 50th anniversary. It fits all Mini-Z AWD cars. Made for the Mini-Z MB-010 buggies is an anti-roll bar set. Designed for the use on the front and the rear of the vehicle the option part reduces the chassis roll on high grip surfaces in order to improve corner speed and handling. Included are three pairs of front and rear anti-roll bars and mounting hardware.
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The Diggity Designs DC4 conversion kit for Team Associated’s ‘near vintage’ TC4 optimises the use of LiPo batteries and brushless motors by relocating and centralising the battery and electronics closely to the centreline. A new suspension geometry via redesigned shock towers and a lower centre of gravity helps to improve traction and handling as does the tweak free floating servo mount. Narrower and thinner chassis and top plate provides maximum traction on low traction conditions as well as maintaining stability under high traction conditions. The kit targets VTA and USGT racers with the car also being useable in today’s sedan mod and stock classes. Hard and soft chassis and top plates are available as tuning options. The kits is limited to 50 pieces with labelled chassis and kit boxes.
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Sprint RC from Italy introduce new option parts for the Serpent S977 and several other nitro on-road cars. First up is the C08 gear box set for the S977 that allows the use of smaller 0.8 module gears from Serpent 1/10th kits. Included in the set, that also moves the engine 1.5mm further back, is a new middle layshaft, gear and one-way housings, a 3-bearing clutch housing, clutch shoes and 17/22T pinions. The set is rounded out by updated engines mounts and will make for better acceleration and bottom to mid-range response. Also new are carbon fibre quick change levers for the front and rear axles. They are made from 4mm carbon material and weight only 3g in total, minimising vibrations and improving tyre wear over conventional metal levers. Last but not least come 20 micron hard coated drive shafts. They offer a super low weight and best possible durability and are usable on virtually every 1/8th on-road car.
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SkyRC introduce the Cheetah 60A sensored brushless motor and speed controller combo set. Based around a 60A speedo the set targets cost oriented 1/10th and 1/12th scale stock racers. The controller is useable with 2S to 3S LiPo batter packs, offers a 6V/3A BEC system, optional fan unit, direct solder tabs, an integrated on/off switch and easy programming via the included programming card that allows the adjustment of parameters such as cut-off voltage, brake and punch settings. Part of the set is also a rebuildable sensored brushless motor with 12.5mm rotor, vented can design and pre-soldered connector tubes. The combo set is available with your choice of a 8.5T or 10.5T to 21.5T stock motor.
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