Made for Xray’s High-Torque 1/8th nitro off-road clutch is a set of hard springs. The “hard” silver colour springs let the clutch engage later than the already available medium and soft springs for harder acceleration at higher RPMs. The springs come in 3-piece sets.
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Sweep introduce the Muzzle bodyshell for Xray’s XB8 1/8th scale nitro off-road buggy. Designed in cooperation with Sweep factory drivers Reno Savoya and Jason Nugroho the body provide an easy and predictable driving feeling that allows an aggressive driving style. It sports a pretty hefty cab forward design with a highly angled windscreen, a roof-top shark fin and sculptured side pods. The body is made from 0.8mm polycarbonate material and comes including window masks and decals.
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Xray introduce the latest incarnation of their European Championship winning XB4 buggy. The 2015 Spec car builds on the successful platform and features a new 2-in-1 concept that allows to run the buggy with a conventional saddle pack or modern shorty LiPo battery layout right out of the box. Like the previous XB4’s the ’15 Spec car uses an aluminium main chassis that received some subtle updates to allow the use of both saddle and shorty LiPo batteries.
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Italian Xray factory team driver Francesco Martini, Alessio Menicucci and Mattia Collina will hold the Xray Work.Shop Italy at the RCLandia track in Scandino. The event takes place on the 15th on November and cover in-depth technical and setup support for all Xray T4’15 drivers. The free workshop starts at 10 a.m. and all you have to do to participate is to e-mail Francesco Martini with your interest to take part at f.martini@mac.com.
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In a week that lets Formula 1’s “silly season” look like a kindergarden Xray announce that the Slovakian company and French factory team driver Renaud Savoya are ending their professional relationship. Xray’s Juray Hudy states that both parties split in a friendly way.
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Xray have new graphite compound front suspension parts for the X12 and X10 pan car kit available. The extra strong material makes the car more stable in high grip and high temperature conditions while being light of weight at the same time. Available will be front lower arms as well as upper arm mounts with all parts being up for grabs individually.
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Radtec RC introduce a carbon fibre bumper support for the Xray T4 as well as several aluminium spacer sets of different colours. Starting with the bumper support, the part is made for the use with Xray’s T4 line of touring cars, it is cut from 2mm carbon sheet and designed to improve the rigidity of the bumper section while adding some visual impact at the same time. Also new are several aluminium spacer sets in dimensions of 3×5.5mm and heights of 0.5mm, 1mm, 1.5mm and 2mm. They are best used to adjust suspension settings such as wheelbase, bumpsteer or camberlink height and they come in three different colours of orange, black and titanium in packs of 10 shims.
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Xray now have a brass adjusting nut for the steering knuckles of the XB8 buggy available. Made to capture the pivot balls of the steering assembly the nut is three times heavier than the stock part and made to fine-tune the handling characteristic of the buggy.
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