Xpress have introduced their new Sonic 190mm touring car body shell. Sporting an aggressive front end design the body will provide enhances steering characteristics while large front and rear wheel arch sections ensure the body can be shifted forth and back by several millimetres in order to fine-tune the available steering and rear end stability. Produced from high-quality polycarbonate material the lid includes window masks and a decal sheet.
Coming from Blaze Racing are new option parts for Roche and CRC 1/12th scale pan cars. First up is a quad link conversion for the Roche P12 2018 that was designed to offer bind-free power pod movement and increased rear end traction. The conversion includes a new lower pod plate in either high-quality carbon or 7075-T6 aluminium specification, new link mounts, link ball studs as well as a 3mm carbon fibre tube brace.
Yeah Racing have introduced their new track day tool set for 1/10th on-road cars. Including virtually every tool needed to setup or maintain a 1/10th on-road car, the set includes four 1.5mm to 3.0mm hex wrenches, 5.5mm and 7.0mm socket wrenches, as well as setup tool such as ride height, camber and droop gauges, droop blocks, a body reamer, curved scissors, as well as two LiPo bags.
Source: Yeah Racing [yeahracing.com]
Coming from T-Works and made for the Yokomo BD9 touring car is a 2mm carbon fibre upper deck. Of an updated shape, the full-face top deck comes without cut-outs, meaning it will offer greater flex resistance for an overall harder chassis setting compared to the stock upper deck. Using the part will come in handy especially when running the carbon fibre chassis in higher grip conditions.
Source: T-Works [rc-tworks.com]
Coming from Merlin Depta’s Merlin McFly brand is the Golden Boy limited edition setup board. The board is produced using advanced techniques and real gold leaf and thus it is limited to only ten pieces world wide. Measuring 430x350x10mm and being made of highest grade US sandwich carbon material, the board comes engraved and personalised with your choice of name or sponsor logos.
Kyosho have introduced an aluminium chassis brace set for the Mini-Z FWD cars. The machined alloy braces eliminate unwanted chassis flex by connecting the front sections, which results in improved handling characteristics. In addition, the weight balance is optimised for better traction. The alloy braces come blue anodised and they include mounting hardware.
Source: Kyosho [kyosho.com]
Vigor RC have introduced a centre balance weight and floating ESC mount for the Xray T4 line of touring cars. The set contains a 2-piece brass centre balance weight that consists of a 25g bottom and an additional 10g top weight whose design ensures a symmetrical weight distribution. In addition the kit includes a carbon fibre ESC mounting plate that is attached to the lower centre weight, making the speed controller, capacitor, receiver, and transponder all float above the main chassis plate, ensuring a more natural chassis flex. The centre balance weight set is usable with Xray’s centre carbon fibre chassis stiffener brace.
Coming from Kyosho and made for the V-One R4 Evo 2 1/10th 200mm kit are two new optional springs. Available in pink 1.5x4x23/3.3 and green 1.6x4x23/4.2 specification the springs were developed for the use with foam tyres and they come colour-coded for easy identification.
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