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June 6, 2013

Avid TD Triad upgrade pack & big bore shock springs

Avid now offers a special upgrade kit to run the company’s Triad slipper clutch in Team Durango 210 series vehicles and also release the springs out of their big bore springs sets as individual sets. Starting with the upgrade kit, the set is designed for the Team Durango DEX210, DESC210 and DEST 210 and includes a custom topshaft, drive plate and gear cover to allow for simple and flawless usage of the Avid’s multi-plate slipper clutch. Also new are individual springs sets for 12mm 1/10th buggy big bore shock absorbers. Originally only available as 4-pair front and 3-pair rear set the items now also come separately. Like with the sets the single springs come in handy semitransparent tubes and are marked with coloured shrink tube for easy identification. Currently available are 2.95lb to 3.63lb front and 1.94lb to 2.24lb rear springs.

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June 6, 2013

JQ Products THEeCar released

After showing the buggy in prototype stages and after many podium finishes in the U.S. and race wins in Russia and Germany JQ Products finally release THEeCAR. The company’s first 1/8th electric buggy kit, something that JQ Products’ mastermind Joseph Quagraine once called as ‘stupid’, is based on the Yellow Edition nitro buggy and uses the same front and rear gearbox assemblies as the noisy & smelly version, with only the chassis, left sideguard, centre diff/motor mount and dogbones being different. The body is also different, but the same one is now used on the wide chassis for the nitro. The buggy is meant to hit the stores as we type.

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June 6, 2013

PSM B4.2 front brass weights

PSM introduce a front weight kit for the Team Associated B4.2 and all vehicles that make use of the respective front setup. The weight kit is designed for the use with PSM’s recently released carbon fibre shock tower and adds 17g of weight to the front of the buggy. The parts are made in Germany from 6mm brass and come with engraved PSM logos.

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June 5, 2013

Kyosho Masters 2013 – Announcement

Kyosho France announce the 15th running of the Kyosho Masters. The race will take place at Sucy en Brie in France from the 14th to the 16th of June this year. It will be your typical Masters with top racing, lots of fun and giveaways. For more information you can contact the organisers at kyoshomasters@kyoshoeurope.com

June 5, 2013

Avid RB5/6 HD long rear axle conversion

New from Avid comes the HD long Kyosho rear axle conversion for RB5/6 2WD and ZX-5 4WD buggies. The set is designed to place the stock short type rear shafts with a longer and more rigid solution in order to improve the overall durability. An extended thread section makes fitting aftermarket rear wheels much easier and does away with the need to run serrated low profile nuts. Included with the kit, that also fits the Ultima SC truck, comes a pair of rear axles, two clamping hex adapters, solid axle pins and hardware.

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June 5, 2013

Team C T8 V3 buggy kit

After releasing the T8 V3 conversion kit Team C now also introduce the full T8 V3 pro buggy kit. The buggy will include all of the latest option parts such as a new chassis plate, an updated radio box with a forward positioned receiver battery, rear aluminium suspension mounts with plastic inserts for easy toe and anti-squat adjustments as well as a new cab forward body shell along a redesigned Hi-Force rear wing.

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June 4, 2013

Willetts & Embling win BRCA E8 & Truggy Nats Rd3

Last weekend 64 drivers descended on the sunny Dirt track in the Midlands and Coventry Model Car club. Upon arriving at the track it was immediately visible that the club members had been hard at work to present the track in the best possible shape after 3/4 days of rain and a full calendar of racing on the track the previous weekend for charity. As the car park started to fill it was nice to see a nice mix of top national drivers and club racers. The E8 buggy started the meeting off. The qualifying was to be 3 rounds with the best 2 to count with the first round having a 4 min warm up bolted on. At the end of the first qualifying run Elliott Boots set the pace with him being the only person to complete 9 laps. At the end of the second qualifying run Simon Willetts had joined Elliott in the 9 lap club. This was then extended to Jack Embling joining them at the end of qualifying 3.

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June 4, 2013

JConcepts SC10B Hazard wheels & Rips front tire

JConcepts have introduced the Hazard 12mm hex wheel for the front of the SC10B. A powerful new look that combines the winning combination of a 10 spoke design, bead-lock appearance and center lug nut detail with a hint of inspiration from yesteryear. The Hazard will make an immediate impact on the performance of the SC10B by widening the stance by 6mm in overall width bringing it up to the SCT ROAR maximum legal limits in dimensional width. By nature, Short Course vehicles have a high center of gravity and tend to feel light or tippy in high-speed sections so there is no better way to improve on-track stability than to add width, and with the Hazard wheels, sweeping through the high-speed corners gets a little easier. Also new for the SC10B the Rips front tire has optimized a 5 rib front tire design by altering the rib depth, attack angle and multiple radius corners to give 2wd SCB racers a smooth new option. Tiny ribbing has been added on the upper sidewall to provide a fresh edge during hard and high impact corners.

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