Xray have announced that their 1/8th buggy platform, the XB8, will be joining the rest of the Slovakian’s product line in getting an update for 2022. No official details about the latest incarnation of the company’s popular buggy platform are available yet but we bring you more information about the 2022 variant once they surface.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Blaze Racing have released some updated parts for their GT10 Battle Sword kit. After a long period of testing and racing with various prototype parts and different chassis configurations they came up with a significantly redesigned chassis and all new braces, decks, rear pod etc. First off the all new chassis offers much more forgiving and versatile handling due to more flex, reduced width, lower weight and accommodates the longer 65mm side links. They also came up with some design changes that make the car even more resistant to crashes without additional weight. Updated parts are now offered as a complete kit, an upgrade set for the previous Battle Sword and a conversion kit for any 1:10 CRC based 200mm kit as shown above. If you have a CRC 1:12 scale kit they also offer the necessary IRS rear axle and hubs.
View the IRS rear axle and hub set here
Introducing the limited edition Hannya 1/10th scale high performance drift car from Onisiki. Featuring several design features which increases performance and also increase quality of life whilst building, each individual car will have its own unique number marked on the chassis. Flippable suspension mounts allows the suspension pin to be lower than the chassis plate to further tune the roll centre of the car and there is also multiple camber link mounting holes on the rear hubs that allow you to further fine tune how your car reacts in the corners.
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Mugen Seiki have released the MBX8R buggy, the result of extensive testing and development by some of the best drivers in the world. The team spent a lot of time testing and developing the MBX8R geometry in race conditions throughout 2021, which lead to many major victories, with Ryan Maifield winning The Dirt Nitro Challenge, Silver State Nitro Challenge and ROAR 1/8th Fuel Nationals all in the same year. The MBX8R has many new parts to increase stability, rear traction, improved jumping, and have a wide tuning range. The buggy uses new narrow RF (C) and RR (D) pivot blocks with new pivot inserts for increased tune-ability. Further updates include longer box-shaped suspension arms and arm stiffeners, with the rear arm using an impact resistant material for increased durability. Adjusting the hardness of the lower suspension arms is possible with optional CFRP plates. The rear uprights are also new, the moulded uprights have CFRP plates to adjust rear roll centre. New front shock tower and upper front arm mount use new pivot inserts for increased tune-ability.
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Xray have presented their new for 2022 XB4 1/10th electric 4wd buggy. Featuring a new chassis layout with centre slipper/diff, motor and battery moved significantly forward makes the car faster and easier to drive on any surface. It sports a unique one-way centre slipper with precisely adjustable slipper for more forward traction, less diving under braking and easier landings. The side guards have now symmetrical mounting to the chassis left and right and the chassis features multiple battery mounting positions with various O-ring diameters for every battery size. Sporting centre dogbones for better performance and less maintenance, their new front & rear diff outdrives with inner O-rings help eliminate damage in high impacts. There is also a redesigned servo holder and shorter radio plate that is fitted directly on chassis so it has no negative effect on chassis flex. The new aluminium centre bulkhead is designed to fit the new one-way centre slipper (carpet version) and the arm lengths for both carpet and dirt versions have been standardised with both kits coming with short length hard front arms and long hard rear arms in the hard composite. There is a new front graphite chassis T-Brace (carpet edition) to increase front stability on high traction tracks, making the car more predictable and easier to drive. The T-Brace is mounted via included aluminium posts to the chassis and to the front lower brace. And finally there is different centre upper top decks included in the Carpet and Dirt versions due to the dimensions of the one-way slipper vs gear diff
View the full XB4 2022 presentation here.
Xpress have released the latest iteration of their popular Execute XQ10 touring car, the XQ10R. Using the same basis, with mod motor configuration, split bulkheads and an economical price, the new ‘R’ now comes with a ton of options now as standard. The car now comes with a king pin set, composite spool titanium 3.5mm outdrive adaptor, 2.0mm graphite upper deck and upper deck collar, a composite anti tweak battery holder and 0.5mm lower suspension mount spacer. There is also the adjustable ackermann steering plate, hard strong composite C-Hub 4 Degree Ver.2, graphite 2.25mm high flex main chassis plate, body support brace, hard strong composite rear upright Ver.2, graphite 3.0mm front and rear high flex shock tower, hard strong front & rear composite suspension arms Ver.2 (2 packs) and finally the long travel short shock set (2 sets).
View more images of the XQ10R here
Serpent now offers the SRX8 1/8 scale Buggy also in a Ready To Race version, so also Hobby racers can now join in for the action. This SRX8 RTR version includes it all. To top off an already awesome package, it includes the powerful .21 Serpent 3-port pull start engine, high end racing chassis with top quality parts and the impressive Dragon RC 2.4Ghz pistol grip transmitter.
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Fenix Racing have released a massive conversion kit to update the existing Mistral 2.0 to their newest F1, the Mistral 3.3. This is a massive conversion kit comprising of what is almost an entire car itself and also includes all the wearable parts in order to have a real new model.
View the rest of the conversion here
