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February 26, 2019

Xray XB4 low height front & rear springs

Xray have announced the release of new low height front and rear springs for the XB4 off-road buggies. The 42mm front and 57mm rear springs are 3mm shorter compared to the previous 45mm and 60mm variants, allowing for lower read heights when running in high grip track conditions. The springs are available as softer “2 dot” to harder “4 dot” variants and they are manually measured, selected and matched into pairs to guarantee precisely equal length and damping characteristics.

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February 26, 2019

HPI Racing Jumpshot ST & MT wheelie bar set

HPI Racing have introduced a wheelie bar set for the Jumpshot ST and MT 1/10th scale 2WD trucks. This wheelie bar will stop the Jumpshot truck from flipping over when using full throttle, and it features adjustable mounting that will allow to alter the wheelie angle so drivers can pull perfect wheelies every time. The set includes everything needed to assemble and install a unique wheelie bar on the rear of the Jumpshot MT or ST and it will also fit the Jumpshot SC with the removal of the rear bumper.

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February 26, 2019

Capricorn TE04 split brass suspension mounts

Coming from Capricorn and made for their TE04 touring car are new split suspension mounts cut from heavy brass material. The inner mounts help to add weight to the front, the rear or both locations at the same time, helping to shift the weight balance forth or back or add overall weight when running lightweight components. The mounts sport machined markings for easy identification and they are available now.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

February 26, 2019

Kyosho Mini-Z Evo Futaba receiver unit

Kyosho have released their new Futaba-compatible receiver unit for the Mini-Z Evo car. The new replaceable receiver unit supports the 7XC and 7PX transmitters and allows to use the Mini-Z Evo cars with these popular transmitters, rather than just Kyosho and KO Propo radios.

Source: Kyosho [kyosho.com]

February 26, 2019

Lucas Fischer wins at Erzgebirgs Cup Rd4

Round 4 of the Erzgebirgs Cup was held in Gelenau, Germany this past weekend. The event is held in several electric on-road classes and in Touring Stock it was VBC Racing driver Lucas Fischer with the win from Xray’s Stefan Schulz on the 2 spot, who also set a new lap record. ARC’s Martin Henschel would round out the top 3 podium result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com] / Thanks to Stefan Schulz for the additional information.

February 25, 2019

CTS4 Rd2 – Report

History went down this past weekend at TQ RC Racing Hobbies in Chino, California as a young rising star at 10 years old and a recently sponsored team Xray driver named Jacob Cruz showed a dominating performance by being the first ever Triple Crown Winner to compete in CTS. The youngster won concourse, TQ honors and overall triple main capturing the first two mains while sitting out the third. In the Touring Modified division, Brandon Clements, factory team Xray driver, showed he had the car to beat turning the fastest lap times in practice. Factory team Yokomo driver Randy Caster and Xray driver Jacob Cruz also showed fast lap times but Clements would hold hot lap. In Saturday’s qualifying, Randy secured the top spot for Q1 and Q2 leaving the opportunity open for more improvement as the traction came up. In Q3 the pace was faster than TQ as three racers threatened to beat the time. Early in the run Caster’s BD9 came out leading the qualifier. A minute into it Eric Albano took the lead producing the fastest lap during the run with his Awesomatix mid motor car. But as the race went on Jacob Cruz would then takes his T4’19 to the lead completing a perfect run to secure TQ honors.

Continue reading the report here

February 25, 2019

Hudy 1/8th on-road aluminium setup wheels

Hudy’s popular aluminium setup wheels are now also available in a variant specific to 1/8th on-road vehicles. Ideal for setup and tweak correction duties, the wheels bolt on just like normal wheels, however due to their high precision they help when adjusting suspension camber or toe setting. The wheels are machined from aluminium, they come black anodised and with white, laser-etched markings and they fit all of today’s nitro and electric-powered 1/8th on-road cars.

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February 25, 2019

Yokomo SP-02D RWD drift car servo

Yokomo have introduced the SP-02D, a specialised servo for RWD drift cars. Designed especially for the use with gyroscope units and thoroughly tested by Yokomo’s team drivers, the servo does away with issues such as humming, shaking and general inaccurate performance, problems that are associated with different servo and gyro combinations and settings. The standard voltage low-profile servo pulls up to 12kg-cm of torque at speeds of down to 0.093s, it utilises a coreless motor, offers smooth steering characteristics ideal for RWD cars and it will hit stores by the end of March.

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]