Xray have introduced a brass chassis stiffener for the T4’18 touring car. Designed to replace the carbon fibre brace, the stiffener adds 5g of weight to the most central part of the chassis, it eliminates pitch flex and holes for the multi-flex screws allow to fine-tune the chassis’ torsional flex characteristics.
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Coming from 7075.it is a brass chassis weight for 1/10th electric touring cars. Machined from 1.5mm material and weighing in at 29g the weight was designed to be placed in the electronics area in order to add weight, and maintain the proper left-to-right balance, when running the new generation of lighter speed controllers. The weight is attached to the chassis using thin double sided tape and it is compatible with cars such as the Xray T4’17/18, Mugen MTC1 and Infinity IF14.
Xray have introduced the 2018 variant of their EFRA European Championship and ETS winning X1 formula car kit. The vehicle is based on the 2017 variant and features some subtle updates compared to the previous car. First up and most visible is an all-new chassis design with the ’18 main plate being 24mm narrower compared to the ’17 car in order to eliminate chassis scrub in high speed corners and when running on high-bite surfaces.
Coming from Xray and made for the T4 2018 touring car is a brass motor mount plate. Designed to replace the standard aluminium item with a heavier part, the plate is cut from high-quality brass and it weighs in at 5.6g. It offers T4’18-specific mounting positions and due to sitting on the centreline of the chassis it does not incidence flex while adding weight in one of the most central parts of the car.
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Xray have introduced their new C=2.0-2.5 progressive centre shock spring for 1/10th and 1/12th pan cars such as the X10 and X12. Marked with two dots the spring complements the softer one dot C=1.4-1.9 offering with the new, stiffer one making for increased traction, off-power steering and steering response.
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Xray have introduced an aluminium flex chassis for the X10’18 200mm pan car kit. Machined from high-quality 7075-T6 aluminium and coming black anodised and with machined edge details, the 2mm chassis was developed to improve traction and car control on low, medium and high-bite tracks. Additional machining makes the chassis more flexible that full-face alloy main plates while also saving some weight. In addition to the chassis, Xray offers a suitable 2mm lower pod plate.
Xray have announced the soon release of the X1 2018 1/10th formula kit. The highly popular car is understood to having received some subtle updates and all information and images should become available very soon.
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Italian company Mon-Tech Racing has introduced the new Space Deck top deck spacers for the Xray T4 touring car. The ultra-flexible spacers are made from 0.4mm material and they can be used alone or stacked to heights of up to 1.2mm in order to lift the top deck to the preferred height. Doing so is understood to ultrafine-tune the flex characteristics of the car. The pack includes eight spacers and it is available soon.
