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August 14, 2011

Mugen MTX-5 of Robert Pietsch

With World Champion on road racer Robert Pietsch visiting the offroad Euros last week in Germany, he brought along with him the all new MTX-5 1/10th 200mm chassis for us to take a look at. Having written about the car previously there is no need to go into details about its unique features other than to say that the whole package looks pretty good in the flesh. We are told that the car is close to hitting the shops and for next week’s European Championships in Ettlingen, Germany the car will make its international race debut in the hands of Pietsch, the car in the photos is his race car, Rick V and Francesco Tironi. You can follow our coverage of this race and follow the progress of the new car on our Events page from Wednesday the 17th onwards.

View lots more images of the car here

August 13, 2011

Speedtech RC MobGums 1/12 scale tyres

Speedtech RC from Germany now have an extended line of MobGum tyres for 1/12 scale on-road cars available. Additionally to the existing line of tyres the company now offers Jaco Magenta and Double-Pink front as well as Pink and Magenta rear foam on Yokomo R12 wheels. Also, MobGums tyres on grey Prism wheels will be shipped in a race ready size now. The rears feature 45 mm diameter with the front tyres being 43 mm in size. This does away with the often unwanted need to trim and true the tyres before use.

Source: Speedtech RC [speedtechrc.de]

August 13, 2011

Tekin Pro4 brushless motors

Tekin introduce the new Pro4 electric brushless motor for 4WD 1/10 scale Short Course trucks. Utilising the design of the T8 1/8th scale motor, the Pro4 produces high torque and smooth power with especially chosen KV ranges to complement 2S and 3S LiPo batteries. The motors feature a 4 pole 12 slot hi-torque design, neodymium sintered magnets, high purity copper windings, CNC-machined 6061 T6 Billet aluminium heatsink can, front 5x13x4mm and rear 5x10x5mm ABEC5 bearings and dual-plug sensor wire harness for use with all sensored and sensorless controllers. The Pro4 with a diameter of 35.8mm and a length of 52.9mm are available with 3300kv, 4000kv and 4600kv ratings.

Click here to view a video of the Pro4 motor in action

August 12, 2011

Video – JConcepts Hi-Flow Short Course body

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JConcepts introduce the new Hi-Flow Short Course body shell for most of today’s 1/10 scale SC trucks. The design goal of the body, that is introduced in time for this week’s 2011 ROAR electric off-road nationals, was to eliminate the so called parachute effect often associated with SC trucks. With big air escape areas that are easily cut out using an x-acto knife and newly designed number and name panel on the sides the body provides the best possible jumping characteristics and straight-line ability.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

August 12, 2011

Yeah Racing lightweight flywheel & locknut wrench

The lightweight flywheel & locknut wrench from Yeah Racing is made from tough plastic material and ideal to securely hold 2-shoe or 3-shoe flywheels during clutch assembly. The tool also incorporates a 17mm hex wrench for standard 1/8 scale wheel nuts.

Source: Yeah Racing [yeahracing.com]

August 12, 2011

KM H-K1 carbon belt tensioner mount

KM Racing release an updated version of their carbon belt tensioner mount for the H-K1 1/10 scale 200mm on-road chassis. The new design provides a more precise belt tensioning and increased tightening range on the short chassis version with the 384mm belt. The mount is cut from high-quality carbon and available now.

Source: KM [km-rc.com]

August 12, 2011

Team Associated B4.1 12mm hex drive

Team Associated is pleased to introduce a 12mm hex drive front wheels for the RC10B4 and RC10B4.1 buggies. Available soon or already are plastic wheel hex adapters including shims and drive pins, B4 front axles for hex use, SC10 steering blocks to go with the hex axles as well as white and yellow 12mm hex disc front wheels. The rear hex adapter allows the TLR22 rear wheel offset to be used and the front wheels also fit the Kyosho RB5 buggy.

Click here to view the other new parts

August 11, 2011

RB 1/8th off-road tyres

Seen for the first time at the recent 1/8 scale nitro off-road European Championship in Sand/Germany, the new line of RB buggy tyres becomes available very soon. Coming in the form of three different medium to fine threads and in supersoft, soft and medium compound the tyres already showed their performance, with the only 11 lap run of the event was done using the RB Dragon thread. The tyres come either pre-glued on dish rims or as rubber only including a multi-purpose insert.

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