Multiple Japanese National 1/8th scale Champion Masao Tanaka has announced his new brand, called Sirius. The company with begin with a complete range of foam tires for on road racing. The line-up includes tires for 1/8GP racing, 1/10GP touring, 1/10GP wide touring, WGT, 1/12EP and F1. Available in a complete range of shores, for the gas onroad classes there is also a choice of standard, carbon and lightweight wheels.
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Reds Racing is always developing high performance and low fuel consumption products and the latest development is the Team Edition 2. It is derived from the well-known R5T and used by most of Reds Team drivers such as King, Vega, Magi, Candel, Tanaka and others. The new Team Edition 2 is the most advanced Reds off road engine and is the 3rd step of development of R5T booster version. It has been designed for reducing fuel consumption and increasing performance and features a highly efficient cooling system, improvements to the sleeve and crankshaft timing and some adjustments to the tuning. The new cooling system guarantees more efficiency in extreme working conditions thanks to a wider cooling head and combustion chamber. Furthermore the cooling system has a lower gravity center in order to improve vehicle dynamics.
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Serpent now offers 3 types of anti-roll bars for the front and 3 for the rear of the 977 Viper. The medium one is standard in the kit, while the soft and hard one are optional. Made from top quality spring steel wire they feature easy to read markings. Available now.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Much More have updated their popular touring car tire sander. The Power Truer 2 now features the ability to rotate the tire in both directions through the newly positioned switch. The new truer is still powered by 6 to 12V (7.4v recommended) and comes in a choice of anodised black or blue.
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PSM introduce their VX3 brake discs for the TLR 8ight 3.0 buggy. The new design makes for improved brake action, no fading and a light weight. Precision machined in Germany the discs are cut from 3mm material, weight 4.0g each and come as pairs dyed in a bright white colour.
Source: PSM [psm-rc.com]
Team Associated introduce the updated RC8.2 RS RTR 1/8th nitro buggy. Based on the ROAR nationals winning RC8.2 full spec competition buggy the RS offers a black anodised 7075 alloy chassis, low centre of gravity 3mm 7075 alloy shock towers and the updated RC8.2 racing suspension geometry. Included in the set also come aluminium steering knuckles, an upgraded dual bellcrank steering and 16mm 6061 alloy big bore shock absorbers. The buggy comes factory-assembled and including a Reedy .21VS engine with 2-chamber tuned exhaust, DS1510MG metal gear steering servo and XP 2.4GHz radio system.
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Traxxas announce aluminium 12mm hex wheel adapters for the 1/10th rally, Slash 4×4 and Stampede 4×4. Originally designed for the XO-1 Supercar, steel-splined driveshafts with 6mm axles can now be added to Traxxas’ Slash 4×4 based off-road vehicles. The adapters feature a 6mm inner diameter to accept the beefier axles, they are easy to install and compatible with Traxxas short course and rally as well as most standard 12mm hex-style wheels. The machined aluminium construction provides maximum performance while included screw pins replace the standard axle pins. The kit comes with a 6mm drill pit to modify the wheels.
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Schumacher Racing have just released a teaser image of their upcoming Mi5 electric touring car. The car made a first appearance at the Gran Canarian round of the Euro Touring Series with full information on specs as well as official pictures will become available soon.
Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]
