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October 4, 2018

Trinity Monster Horsepower even turn mod motors

Available now from Trinity are their new even turn 3.0T and 4.0T Monster Horsepower modified brushless motors. Designed for all-out power and speed the motors feature a new stator design, an aluminium-based sensor board, 2mm copper solder tabs, thermal stator coating and more vents for improved motor cooling. Other features include new 220°C wire coating, a new short stack stator design and grade 5 ball bearings. The motors are usable with all D3.5, D4 and 24K rotors.

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October 4, 2018

ARC R11 2019 – Coming soon

Coming mid-October is ARC’s latest incarnation of the popular R11 electric touring car kit. The 2019 variant will features several improvements such as all-new lower bulkheads, a new front bumper, new composite 20T centre pulleys, revised steering blocks, new rear uprights, new ultra short shock absorbers and floating receiver and ESC mounting. More details and full images are expected to surface soon.

Source: ARC [arc-rc.com.tw]

October 4, 2018

Belgian Electric On-road Nationals Rd6 – Report

The HRT Houthalen track hosted round 6 of the Belgian Electric On-road Nationals recently with the event promising exciting races on this small and technical track. Saturday was sunny with a lot of grip. Everyone was looking for the right setup because the championship was absent for a couple of years from this track. In the Efra class newly-crowned champion Olivier Bultynck set the pace in the qualifying heats. Mitchel van Es put his car on the 2nd spot and youngster Athan De Witte was really fast to take the 3rd spot.

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October 4, 2018

Tamiya TT-02B First Try Neo Scorcher kit

Tamiya USA have introduced the TT-02B First Try 1/10th scale 4WD buggy with Neo Scorcher body shell. The kit is based on the TT-02B chassis off-road assembly model and is intended for absolute beginners. It provides an informative and a rewarding process of building a Tamiya chassis, but with some of the trickier sections pre-assembled. The TT-02B is a highly adaptable and beginner-friendly chassis itself, with 4-wheel double wishbone suspension and shaft-driven 4WD giving great performance on- and off-road. The TT-02B uses the TT-02 as its base, adding longer suspension arms, CVA shock units, and buggy bumpers to give it great off-road performance. Of course, it retains the TT-02’s excellent drivability and ease of assembly and maintenance, while motor cooling ducts and receiver case add to the model’s durability. The included, pre-assembled components include lower deck and gearboxes, motor and mount, front bumper and lower arms, front upper arms, uprights, rear upper arms, dampers, motor cover, wheels and tyres. The kit will hit stores at the beginning of December.

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October 4, 2018

Samix TRX-4 aluminium front bumper mount

Samix have introduced their new aluminium front bumper mount for the Traxxas TRX-4 truck. Machined from high-quality alloy the parts adds strength for improved chassis rigidity while adding visual impact at the same time. The laser-engraved bumper mount comes in silver, black or hard-anodised finish and with machined silver edge details.

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October 4, 2018

Exotek TRF103 upper arm set & bearing adapter

Coming from Exotek and made for the Tamiya TRF103 formula kit are and adjustable upper arm set and metric to 1/4” axle adapter set. Starting with the upper arm set, the new multi-adjustable and heavy duty CNC-machined arms allow to make quick and precise camber and caster adjustments on the fly and even without taking off the body shell. The arm set is precision machined for the smoothest arm movement and offers incrementally more adjustment abilities than the stock arms and also there will be six less stock O-rings to possibly lose and fall apart. The set includes two 7075 alloy caster adjusters, two smooth action machined delrin camber adjusters, two alloy swivel balls for upper nylon arms, four 3mm roll centre spacers, four alloy 4.8mm pivot balls, four hardened steel 3mm turnbuckles and hardware as well as four heavy duty nylon ball cups.

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October 4, 2018

Lefebvre & Hooks wins at the Texas Two Step

The Gulf Coast Raceways in Porter, Texas and the Thornhill Racing Circuit in Hutto, Texas recently played host to the first ever Texas Two Step race. It was setup like the Pro-Line duel race in California. The scoring would be combining your results from Saturday and Sunday to make an overall. Friday was practice at either track with Saturday being raced at the Gulf Coast Raceway and Sunday things would decide at the Thornhill track. When the dust had settled, Ethan Lefebvre would take the overall in Nitro Buggy in front of Dillon Caldwell and Tyler Hooks. Over in Electric Buggy it was Tyler Hooks with the overall from Brandon Rose and Ethan Lefebvre.

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October 4, 2018

Tamiya Toyota Hilux CC-01 truck kit

Tamiya have introduced their new Toyota Hilux CC-01 truck kit. The truck depicts the 8th generation of the Hilux vehicle, released back in 2015, specifically a special full-size version of the Extra Cab which Toyota’s British division had made in the colours of Tamiya’s legendary Bruiser as a tribute to their model. It also appeared in some high-profile PR activities in Great Britain. The CC-01 chassis’ ground-hugging, long-stroke suspension system consists of front double wishbone and rear 4-link rigid setups and is equipped with four oil dampers. The highly reliable and efficient full-time 4WD system features a front-mounted motor, which transmits power to the front wheels via the gearbox and to the rear wheels via the propeller shaft with universal joints. Front and rear differentials enable smooth cornering. For even greater off-road performance on rough terrain, the rear differential may be locked during assembly. Realistic block-pattern tires are mounted on metal-plated wheels and the kit also includes the Tamiya TBLE-02S electronic speed control that is capable of running sensor brushless motors and brushed motors alike.

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