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February 14, 2018

VBC Racing Ghost18 sportsman class touring car kit

VBC Racing have introduced their new Ghost18 1/10th electric touring car kit for sportsman classes. Despite its somewhat low retail price the kit is stacked with high performance parts such as 7075 aluminium goods and composite graphite and racing quality parts, making this car is ideal for club, GT, and vintage races. Other features include TBBS-P progressive shock absorbers with diamond-trued internals, a 38T rear gear differential, a sliding rack steering system as well as Yaiba Racing double joint front CVDs. Suspension mounts with inserts and front and rear swaybars round out the package.

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February 13, 2018

VBC Racing FF18 belt drive FWD touring car kit

Coming soon from VBC Racing is the new FF18 FWD 1/10th touring car kit. The car features a belt-drive gearbox with a new 7075-T6 motor mount that can accommodate larger pinion gears while an updated 38T gear differential and gearbox design give a lowered internal gear ration. Newly designed front bulkheads allow for easier maintenance and the new steering system incorporates an adjustable steering angle stopper. Other features include TBBS-P progressive shock absorbers with diamond-trued internals for smoother shock action, a floating servo mount ensures equal left/right chassis flex characteristics and the car also uses new suspension mounts with inserts for easy suspension geometry changes. The kit, that adapts many design aspects of VBC Racing’s 4WD line, is rounded off by new rear bulkheads, new rear camber link mounts and carbon composite silver dot suspension plastics.

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January 11, 2018

Techra T4 & Wildfire rear roller universal joint set

Coming from Techra and made for the use with the Xray T4 and VBC Racing Wildfire range of touring cars is a rear roller universal joint set. Designed to provide long-lasting performance with a minimum of maintenance the driveshafts are made of spring steel with chromoly rollers and carbon steel roller diff cups for durability. The design also offers other advantages over the standard drive pin construction such as improved handling through bumpy sections.

Source: Techra [facebook.com/techrarc]

January 2, 2018

VBC Racing FX18 Lightning formula car kit

VBC Racing have introduced their all-new FX18 Lightning 1/10th scale formula pan car kit. The vehicle utilises a new carbon fibre chassis with an updated design and a very narrow lower plate to prevent the chassis from scrubbing during hard cornering. New upper side plates build the base for the body mounts, side links and the tweak-free transverse battery mount. Adjustable battery stoppers allow for a front or rear battery position while a redesigned floating servo mount ensures equal left-right chassis flex. Other features include new composite upper link and steering link ball cups, front aluminium steering knuckles, the TBBS-P progressive centre shock as well as 7075-T6 aluminium body height adjusters. Also new are an updated power pod design that allows the use of an optional motor cooling fan, a new rear pivot and the kit is rounded out by Mon-Tech Racing front and rear wings.

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October 2, 2017

VBC Racing WildFire D10 touring car

After many many months of development, VBC Racing have introduced their next generation competition touring car, the WildFire D10. The D10 is a fully re-engineered new car with many revolutionary designs including all new designed carbon composites parts, 80% of the parts are new. Expected to ship in October, due to the fact it is the company’s 10th version of their touring car they will include a lot of options parts in the kit for the same price.

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July 20, 2017

VBC Racing functional active wear T-shirts

VBC Racing have introduced their new functional active wear T-shirt with digital sublimation print. Made using Torey Japan’s Fieldsensor fabric, the shirt is ultra-fast drying, lightweight, smooth and machine washable. It comes in VBC’s signature black and grey colours and is available in adult M to XXL sizes.

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June 5, 2017

VBC Racing introduce new Wildfire D09 option parts

VBC Racing have introduced a range of new option parts for the Wildfire D09 electric touring car kit. First up is the Dynamics upper deck that provides refined flex areas and increased hardness compared to the standard part. Also new is the Dynamics rear shock tower that utilises redesigned shock mounting locations for an overall lower centre of gravity and thus quicker vehicle response. Next up are hardened 7075-T6 aluminium front spool outdrives. The lightweight parts are Type III hard anodised for wear, they are suitable for both stock and modified racing and fit all Wildfire front spools. Last but not least are new aluminium spring retainers for VBC’s TBB and TBBS shock systems. Machined from aluminium and offering a lightweight design and gun metal anodised surface, the spring cups are also usable on the standard shock absorbers and they make for precisely fitted shock springs. All parts are available separately to bring older VBC Wildfire D09’s to the latest Dynamics Edition specification.

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June 2, 2017

VBC Racing Wildfire D09 Dynamics Edition kit

Available now from VBC Racing is the Wildfire D09 Dynamics Edition 1/10th electric touring car kit. As usual with VBC’s Dynamic Editions, the car includes a range of option parts with the D09 DE making no exception as the kit boasts with both a carbon fibre and aluminium main chassis, a new Dynamics upper deck makes for improved roll characteristics and durability, the vertical upper deck set is also included as is a new rear shock tower for a lowered centre of gravity. Also included are universal lightweight spring retainers, LCG 12.5g and 18.5g centre weights, the anti-tweak battery mounts, the chassis mounted steering post set as well as the 8.6g front suspension mount. Other features include -0.5mm offset wheel hex adapters and the kit is rounded out by a full set of Composite X high carbon red dot suspension parts.

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