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February 5, 2020

RC Maker T4’20 GeoCarbon HD bumper stopper brace

RC Maker have announced the release of their new GeoCarbon heavy duty bumper stopper brace for the Xray T4 2020 touring car. Designed to be used as either a replacement on RC Maker’s standard bumper stopper, or inserted under any other brands carbon bumper mount, the increased 5mm thickness makes the brace incredibly strong and more impact prone in heavy crashes. This allows the carbon stopper to reach lower, leaving carbon above and below the central impact zone, making it less prone to any de-lamination in big hits, preventing damage to the chassis. The part comes machined from high-quality 5mm carbon fibre and it integrates under any carbon bumper on the market.

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February 4, 2020

RC Maker 3D Pro mid-motor wire organiser

Coming from RC Maker is their new 3D Pro wire organiser for mid-motor touring cars. Designed to neaten up mid-motor wiring and suitable for most mid-motor touring cars the accessory provides a route for the fan wire heading to the ESC, or the ESC RX wire heading to the receiver. The organiser does away with exposed wires dangling free over the top of the motor, or jamming them under the motor. The simplistic solution gives the wires a route to follow over the motor, ensuring they stay in place and hidden. The item is designed to suit all mid-motor cars and motor – except the Awesomatix MMX due to its motor mount design. The organiser screws directly to the front shield of the motor and features a slotted screw design to fit all different diameter motors.

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February 3, 2020

RC Maker GeoCarbon V2 A800 MMX series steering arms

Coming from RC Maker and made for the Awesomatix A800 MMX and MMXA are new GeoCarbon V2 front and rear steering arms. Starting with the front arms, the V2 variants provide more flex than the standard AM14LS arms, providing more traction on asphalt, ETS carpet and CRC Black carpet. They are 3mm thick, and are designed with only the outer AM14LS hole for the new SB1 single bellcrank steering on the latest evolution of Awesomatix MMX/MMXA chassis. As for the rear arms, these provide more flex than the standard AM23-1 arms, again providing more traction on asphalt, ETS carpet and CRC Black carpet. They arms from as separate sets for the front and rear and they required the owner to either use long screws with AT21ST-A, or ST24M/ST24L with a nut for installation, as the holes have no thread.

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January 31, 2020

RC Maker A800 series front centre weight

RC Maker have introduced their latest brass option part for the Awesomatix A800 mid motor range in the form of a front centre weight. With the ultimate place to add weight to basically any car being the centre of the chassis, this weight locates in the dead centre in-front of the motor mount, extending to under the steering rack. Designed to be used with all the Awesomatix A800 mid motor variations, including the MMX, MMXA and MMCX, it is the perfect way of adding 10g in the centre and nice and low on the chassis. The weight also includes a 0.5mm carbon shim for spacing the weight off the chassis to minimise any flex impedance.

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January 30, 2020

RC Maker A800MMX SlimFlex top deck set

RC Maker have introduced their new SlimFlex top deck set for the A800MMX and MMXA. The MMX/MMXA top deck features two separate short top decks, drastically reducing the leverage on the carbon. This means the top decks need to be narrower and thinner than normal to achieve similar flex. Also the flex of the top decks front and rear is entirely symmetrical, so in order to achieve the optimum flex point, the car needs different flex settings front and rear to achieve optimum balance, which is to shift the flex point forward of centre. RC Maker’s SlimFlex top deck has this built in. The designers have optimised the profile of the top deck such that with the same ST019 flex setting, the flex point is shifted forward to provide the forward bias flex point that was achieved in their MMCX top deck.

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January 26, 2020

RC Maker CentraFlex BD10 top deck & post set

RC Maker have introduced their new CentraFlex top deck and post set for the Yokomo BD10 mid motor touring car. Conventionally in mid motor setups as seen on the BD10, the front of the top deck is entirely split in order to be able to slide the top deck over the front belt. This provides a significant amount of flex to the front of the car only, creating quite an imbalance in the top deck’s flex characteristics. The CentraFlex has been developed to slide in from the side under the belts, and due to the single sided design, can be joined in front of the spur gear to prevent excessive front top deck and bulkhead flex, bringing back the balance of front to rear flex provided by the top deck. As well as this, RC Maker have also added an additional post in front of the spur, to add more options when tuning the chassis’ flex. By installing or removing the flanged bearings either side of the spur gear, owners can change the flex point of the car instantly, either moving it forwards or backwards to adjust the balance of the car.

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January 23, 2020

RC Maker T4’20 carbon fibre floating electronics plate

RC Maker have introduced their Xray T4 2020 floating electronics weight plate in a carbon fibre variant. Weighing in at 12g for the set, 10g of that being close to the centre of the chassis with 2g being the carbon plate, the set is adding minimal weight to the motor side of the chassis. The plate attaches to the often unused antenna mount hole but if owners still want to use this antenna mount, they can use an extra long screw through the lower weight, and thread the antenna mount on-top. Another added bonus is that the construction makes it easy to change chassis or clean the car as the receiver, transponder and fan are simply extracted by undoing one screw.

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January 20, 2020

RC Maker T4’20 GeoCarbon shock towers

Coming from RC Maker are new GeoCarbon series shock towers for the Xray T4 2020 mid-motor touring car. Available for the front and rear of the car, the shock towers feature a dual-sided GeoCarbon finish and they are 3mm thick with a re-designed profile to introduce a marginal amount of flex, giving the car more traction, which is very often highly favourable for all asphalt racing, as well as low-medium traction carpet tracks. The towers are available mimicking the standard shock geometry and they also come as -3mm variant, allowing to access the new lower A-arm shock mounting position that can be an advantage in higher grip track conditions.

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